The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-18
FCrtyFirst General Assembly of
Missouri Considered One of the
Most Creditable in History.
GOVERNOR KEEPS HIS PLEDGES.
Some Laws He Has Worked Hard
to Secare-Bills That Have
Died in Committee Speak
er's Coed Record.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL
Jefferson City. No. March 17.-"For a
while 1 thought that this General Assent
bly, would die with It's boots on said an
old Capitol habitue Sunday afternoon. In
stead. all the family is at the bedside
watching the last struggles and remarkins
upon the excellent record that has been
made during the sevent:-six days of It's
existence. The proverbiaI tlreescore and
ten days have been exceeded by six days
We are glad that ii is over. but are tfank-
ful, on the whole. for what has been ac-
compiished OF course, some are sorry and
a bit aG2rieved that certain pet measures
did not go through. Perhaps they are
right. But the number of bad bills and
VICIOUS measures that successfully ran the
gauntlet of the alert House and the de-
hberate Senate are few-very few"
St Louis has Jared particularly well at
the hands of this General Assembly, Pub
lie sentiment In that city cente, ed around
Worlds Fair matters. as was natural
Infee amendments 10 the Constitution We're
asked for as well as a law TO make posi-
BILE smoke abatement in that city. The
constitutional amendments. i: a6opted. will
give st. Louis the power to get the money
which 1t needs for the public improvements.
KANSAS City supports st. Louis.
In connection with the ADDITION of the
resolution submitting to the people the
amendment whereby st. Louis and Kansas
lily VIII have the privilege OF exemptlng
Waterworks bonds from the total OF in.
1ebtednesS Is the pleasing Information that
Kansas City viii fight for all the amend
ments asked for by st. Louis. For a long
tabiish a system of fine parks. line ard
again have efforts been made to have the
Waterworks bonds exempted, bur, until St.
!-'oui LOUIS came 70 tie front. Kansas City had
worked in vain. ' .''N
Now it is said that Kansas City is duly
graf grateful fer the aid which has been 10
respond by advocating the other two CON. on
Stitutional amendments suggested bv the
FVp,e When we,tare ,sa Commission Of that city
for ana, ~. ! sinohe abatement bill came up
tempts were made to flibuster. However.
,,nnn, mmem .he vote was finally taken. the op-
Who % wanted 9 'he Il measure measnse or. rather those
band wagon with such good erace that
every one Is good humored over the result
1T fouS yoss oes are telling the story that the
cast by Tom Cannon, Colonel Mscb"Iae Wfas
Bel Bel: Tom ON Rixey and H. Martin Wiiams' ls
di,iaps VINO mo, nave kept informed on the con-
DockerS Redeems His Every pI.dge
fnenos are pointing out that Governor
pockery has redeemed every pledge which
heunasd he made in. IN the campaign last fall He an
sage OF just franchise law. The interest
Ing night which marked the passapa NJ the
Oh oiii ona aaxing ~ franchises will be remembered
many bills as there were @ mem members bnsar'y Go@s as
to- him seeed na1atly r1aby picked on one which
posed to this Senate measure. Rnt ne
story Is an Q!d one. and however Interest,"
e to saw W' bat nSt Gaep pear repeating here Suffice it
In signing the bill for which he stood
sponsor. e s'o"u
IT Then: too. he pleaded for larger appro-
Ihe bill carrying the appropriations for
these Institutions passed both branches of
the tfe,,A Assembly ay Saturday. Two years ago the
for these institutions aggregated ssaa s1n
The present Assembly set aside for th;s
purpose {l.ON. .5S0 an increase of nearly go,
900. His actions certainly have a cnnvinc-
ing tone.
saSs Now: Governors can't so. out into the
aas helds and and pfs pick, money off the bushes any
probability that the franchise tax will pr6-
dnce much money for the State. no finan-
cisr on either side of the political fence has
attem-'ed to name even the approximate
amount. As matter of fact. no Oh.
knows. ~
So. to meet these increased approximations
the beer inspection has been changed so
that all parties are satisfied It is expected
that within the month. about s2eOONO will
be paid into the Treasury. the appeal from
the decision Of the State Supreme Court
dismissed. and the State put into the wny
of receiving about s20O.0Oo annually from the
beer inspection fees.
Other Bills That Were Not Passed.
This IS aside from about 100000 which 4
is thought the whisky inspection law will
produce. An understanding is prevalent
that the new whisky inspection law will
not be contested as was the beer inspection
law.
Other measures of political nature have
passed. Satisfactory amendments to the
Nesbit law have been adopted. Boutwell, of
Pettis. Republican leader in the House an
nounced on the floor of the House that he
was satisfied with the amendments. Owing
to the fact that Missouri secures new
Congressman by the last census. redstrict-
ing of the State was made necessary. This
was accomplished with little friction. The
senatorial reapportionment bill had a
stormier passage.
As usual. the nonpassage of pet measures
has caused more noise than the passage of
other bills. Halls House bill fixing maxi
mum charges on freight in carload lots. and
Speer's House bill fixing maximum charges
on less than carload lots, have died In SEN
ate committees. Those who have studied
the symptoms and diagnosed the upper
branch expected the denise. L,ghtholder's
alum bill. upon which It is claimed the Bak-
ing Powder Trust had views" shared
similar fate. Jim" Orchard. chairman OF
the Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence.
is now called. iokingly. ..Jim Alum" There
goes my alum BILL" said Lightholder pen-