The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-04-23
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East st. Louis bill Favored.

East st. Louis bill Favored.
Begole's bill for the removal of the Appel
Louis was reported favorably by the Com
tnittce on judicial Department.
Among others. the following bills were adj
vanced 10 third reading:
Funderburk's To make appropriations
for the State Board of Agriculture and for
the county fairs OF the State.
OF unshelled corn shall weigh sixty-eight
POUNDS.
Fowler's: To punish hazing. was made a
special order for tomorrow.
Senator Chapman introduced a bill to
leSalize corporations where the corporate
authorities have failed to record the corpo-
rations with the Secretary of State.
| Senator Fort introduced two military bills.
one 10 make amendments to the military
and naval code and the other appropriating
Ss5.oW for the purpose of establishing and
equipping rifle ranges for the use of such
companies as cannot shoot on the Chicago
and Springfield ranges.
Senator Fowler introduced n bill to pro-
vide that a library tax in cities of over 1000
inhabitants shall not be included in the az
gregate of the tax limit.
The House met at 5 o'clock and devoted
two hours to the advancement Of bills on
the calendar. among others the following
bills We're advanced to second reading:
Pemberton.s Senate: To give the minor
ity party in boards of supervisors the right
to name minority election judges.
Crafts: To provide for a uniform system
Of public accounting.
- IL give W SIlOpi
organized under a special law and being CO.
extensive with the limits of a city the right
TO issue bonds as districts organized under
the general law.
Hunts (Senate): To regulate the fees of re-
ceivers OF building and loan associations.
Cummings's: To prohibit the practice OF
Farrelrs: To prohibit the assignment Of
salary, or wages not earned.
shephard's: To add two terms to the Cir
Purdunn's: To revise the pharmacy law
to comply with recent decisions OF the SUI
preme Court.
be maintained in State Institutions for con-
sumptive patients.
Partridge's: To require District Collectors
to return their books by April 1.
Bills Advanced.
The following were advanced to third
Kerr's: To prohibit the changing of text
books in public schools oftener than once in
Stringer's Senate): For the consecutive
numbering of school districts in each
county.
Rankin of Iroquo!s: To prohibit terminal
charges at stock yards.
Crangle's: To provide that judgments
against foreign administrators shall be evi.
dence against ancilliary administrators.
B%undy's: To require the Board of Equal
iZation to complete its work by December /.
Elections Committee: Making the first
registration day in cities having boards of
Election Commissioners Saturday instead of
Tuesday.
McCulloch's: To require telegraph, tele-
phone. electric and other wires over tracks
to be twenty-five and one-half feet above
the rails unless n less height is agreed upon
by the presidents Of the interested COM
panies.
Bundy's: To change the classification of
in this State so as to place several
counties in the second class which show a
sufficient population by the last census.
Rankin of Warren: Eighty thousand dol
lars for the location and erection of a State
sanitarium for persons afflicted by tuber-
culosis.
Tippit's: To appropriate $500 for repairs
at the Appellate Court building in Mount
Vernon.
Eignus: To extend the privileges Of the
Illinois Soldiers and Sailors Home to the
wives of soldiers and sailors who are In
mates Of that institution and who were
married prior to 1880. ,