The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-19
Hall of Saline Pays His Respects
to Senator Whaley in Indig
nant Language.
KIND WORDS FOR THE SPEAKER.
Four Senate Bills Pass the House
Lieutenant Governor Com
plimented-PrOceedings
in the Senate.

BY 4 STAFF CORRESPONDENT.
jefferson City March 1S.-The House of
Representatives of the Forty-first General
Assembly continued the hard work which
has characterized its sessions until the mo
| ment Of adjournment. 1t changed four Sem
ate bills into laws during its closing hours.
noorlseeper Thomas gave the timepece
which has pointed out the hour of begin
ming sessions swift shove with a window
stick about II o'clock which threw 1t out
of plumb. so that the pendulum rested
against the side CT the case. and the As
sembiy worked long past the noon hour.
The bills passed by the House in its
death throes We're the following:
To allow an insurance company. author
ized to do an accident insurance business.
to do also life insurance business on COM
pliance with the life insurance laws of the
State.
Changing the time at which the Governor
Is to appoint the "Junketing Committee"
or Committee to Visit State Institutions.
from December l to September l.
Providing that incorporators may state
when they apply for articles of incorpora-
ton that some of the stock shall be Hre-
ferred and to state also the preferences
priorities. classification and character" #
the stock At present companies can issue
preferred stock only as result of elections
of stockholders held some time after incor-
poration. John F. Lee and c. A. Finkeln-
burg of ST Louis wer in Jefferson City IN
an effort to push this measure through be-
fore adjournment.
Providing that the Auditing Committee.
bienrnlly appointed by the Governor TO
audit the accounts of State officers. shall
begin its services on or before September
10 instead of as now. November 90
The closing hours of the Houses session
good work of the House and with censure
of two Senate committee chairmen for fail
Ing to report desired measures
Mischief of St. Louis presented the follow
ing resolution which was adopted:
Whereas. House bill S. passed this House
early in the session and is still held by the
chairman of the, Senate Committee on
Criminal Jurisprudence:
Whereas. For the next two years every
family in the State will be compelled to buy
high price trust baking powder and every
merchant handling other than trust goods
will be liable to criminal prosecution; there
fore,
tatives has done all in its power to relieve
the people OF the State of this monopoly and
that the people must hold the chairman of
the Senate Committee on Criminal Jurs-
prudence responsible for the failure Of this
proposed legislation
Hall Replies to Whaley.
The resolutions named no names. and
when they had been read De!zell of Webster
rose and. obtaining recognition. remarked:
Il want to add that the name of the COM
I'VE inow. we know" shouted several
the floor. that for $500 a report
can be obtained on this measure"
Il will contribute my share Of this
$50 Will l." shouted a member.
And l." came from a dozen throats In
various parts of the hall.
Senator Whaley, in whose Committee On
Railroads the Hall maximum freight rate
bill met its end, also came in for further
He had made statement In
the Senate and had supplied the press with
written copies, in which he retaliated on
Senator's Biggs and Martin. who tried to OBJ
tain report from the committee by reso-
luton on the floor of the senate: Il nave AYE
Capitol sticking my nose into the affairs
Of committees of which l am not MEM
ber" said Whaley.
Regarding Hall of Saline. who introduced
the maximum freight rate bill. Whaley
said:
Five meetings of the Railroad Commit
tee have been held in its usual place Of
and Mr.. Hall has never appeared
before this committee to be heard in sup
port of this bill"
ion of Whaleys he rose to a question OF
personal privilege in the House:
Il am informed" he said, that senator
Whaley has made statement in the Sen,
ate declaring that earlier In the session
had refused to appear before the Senate
Committee, and that later he mad
II want to say here that the statement
that l refused at any time to appear before
he Senate Railroad Committee in support OF
my bill is absolutely and unequivocally
false from top to bottom, and that no man
whose soul Is not as black as the hinges of
lell would make such statement"
Beyond these indignant outbreaks the
closing hours of the House were a love
feast.
A number of benefices which had been re-
fused earlier in the session were granted.
NJ Il -hn h,I
tested for a seat to represent Il Springfield
district. were allowed SIS each to defray the
expenses of their contest. A number of
Jerks who had begun work before their |
oay had begun We're allowed to draw for |
he time in which their pay was In ar
ears. |
Newspaper correspondents and members |
elicitated each other in resolutions. |
thanked Speaker Whitecotten for his con-
presented by Doris of Oregon thanked the
for their considerate treat |
nent of the members.
he amount of work still remaining for the
Journal forces reported that twenty seS-
;fons were still to be written up and that |
thirteen clerks in addition to the chief clerk
De allowed five days in which to complete
hat work.
Custodian Of the Capitol Buckner was on
notion of Judge Hawkins allowed four men
or two days to clean up the halls and COM
McCollum presented the following resolu-
ion:
Whereas the Honorable Speaker. James
4. Whitecotton. of this House has by his
Uniform courtesy and conscientious devo-
ion to duty earned the gratitude and
hanks of all members regardless of party,
therefore,
BE it resolved. That we now on the eve
f sine die adjournment. tender the Speaker
ur most hearty thanks and sincere good
wishes and express our hope that his course
I usefulness may extend to broader fields
f legislation
a host of members. Republicans as we'll
s Democrats. clamored for the floor to
oice their approval of this resolution
Imons those who gained the floor were
Boutwell, Lane. Hawthorne McIane. Del
ell. Pareira. Dickinson. Todd. Hamilton.
,randell. Lightholder and Lehr. Chaplain
'laude L. Hill also spoke from the four on
he resolution. 1t was adopted with whirl.
duncan of Buchanan occupied the chair
uring these proceedings
The session of the House closed with
rayer by Tandy of Gentry. one Of the
1embers.
All the bills passed at the morning ses-
ion had been engrossed in advance, and
'ere signed by the Speaker and President
.ee. Most of the members took the first