Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-11-01

Globe Democrat are in deserved tribu-
lation and their souls filed with con-
sternation. First, the whiskey-ring
organ asserted that the State school
fund had been ''looted'' by the Demo
Gratis; that the money therein had been
spent in current State expenditures.
No figures were given as to when and
where it was so misappropriated, but
that didn't matter with the lying SPELL
binders and their faithful clacquers
who applauded the lie until it was
shown by the assertion of the Repub-
lican platform of 1895-only two year
ago enunciated-that the money had
been used to call in current State bonds,
and certificates of Indebtedness issued
to the school fund to the amount SO
used. Then the certificates of indebted
ness were by these sticklers for fund
amental law declared '~'unconstitu-
tional." But again they are knocked
out by their own testimony. Liars
should have good memories, and here
is where the average Republican spell
binder and organ fail. In last Sum
days Republic Chauncey Ives Filley
printed a few pages from the record,
and his article leaves the CD. and
it's echoes not a.leg to stand on. We
reproduce as follows:
Inow Jump the intermediate School
Fund legislation and action down to
the session of 1895, when the Repub-
licans, by the election of 1894, gained
the House and organized it. o. jan
uary %, Bittinger (Rep.) introduced
House bill No. 52S, entitled ian act
to restore to the seminary fund the
expenses incurred in the superintend-
ence and sales of land disposed OF for
the benefit of said fund, and all and
every expense incurred in the dis
tribution of the proceeds of said sales.
OPP. 209 and 210 of Session Acts OF
1895, regular session.) This covered
disbursements made on account there
of from 1876 down to 1895. The act
reads. s'Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Missouri as
follows:
ssSection 1. That upon the passage
of this act the Board of Fund Commits
sioners of the State shall issue a GER
tificate of Indebtedness in the sum of
$22, S81.19, payable fifty years after
date, bearing interest at the a of 8
per cent. per annum, payable semi
annually on the first day of July and
January of each year, said certificate
of Indebtedness to be signed by the
Secretary of State and sealed with the
great seal of the State, and shall be
nonnegotiable, u~nconvertible and nom
transferable, and shall be sacredly held
and preserved in the State Treasury
as a part of the seminary fund arising
from the sale of lands donated to the
State by the United States for the
benefit of the College OF Agriculture
and Mechanic Arts.
.'Sec. 2. All interest accruing from
said certificate herein provided for
shall be paid over to the treasurer of
the Board of Curators of the State
University, and o~ne-fourth of the in
terest thus collected shall go to the
School of Mines, at Rolla, as provided
by law.
This act was proved April 2, 1895.
The urpose as is well known to me,
entertained by the majority of the
members of the 1865 convention and
enacted into law was to anchor and
safeguard the School Fund beyond any
accident or intention of use other than
for the schools. The same kind of
legislation and provision for strictly
school funds has also been provided
for as in the act of 1895 for a Seminary
Fund.
The history of this last bill is as
follows: House bill No. 52S, January
90. 1895; introduced by John L. Bit
finger, House journal, p. 23S; referred
by Speaker Ben Russell to Committee
on Education, John L. Swanger, chair
man, p. 1862; reported favorably by
Swanger, p. 511, and passed, p. 1104,
81 ayes, 6 noes, the negatives being
Best, Hart, Jones of Hickory, Spencer
of Douglas, Mahan, and Sturgeon.
Among the ayes were, Republicans:
Grubb, Bittinger, Quincy, Watson,
Martin, Murray, Phipps, Sailor, Best,
Calhoun, LIE Favor, Jones. Higbee Da-
Wis, Baugher, Harrison. Brett, Moran,
Sawyer, Speaker Russell. Drum, Smith,
Jones, STEEL, Pettijohn. O'Neal, Mil
Ter, Tubbs, Cherrington, Moore, Young,
Davis, Sartin, Dawson, Edgar, Dyer,
Denslow, GAY, Stickney, Tartar,
Grlffiths, w. p. Freeman, femme,
Short, Johnston, Swanger, Schoppen-
horst, Atkins; Tatum, Wetzel Jr.,
Schumacher, Rhone, Walton, Selden
P. Spencer, city of ST. Louis.
The reader will observe that Rev.
Geo. Steel-then representative from
Jefferson county, now q. S. Register of
Lands and Pastor of the First Baptist
Church at Ironton-and w. 7. Gay of
Iron, voted for the bill along with the
other Republicans. If the act of 81 au-
thorizing the issuance of certificates of
Indebtedness was unconstitutional, how
about the act of 1882 Was 1t a case
of ''the villainy thou hast taught me l
will ~execute''P Go to, brethreni Mend
your ways, assume the truth and es-
chew evil speaking where no EVIL is,
and see If the sun will not shine the
brighter on the morrow.
Famous Paintings of New England
Life.