The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-04-26

| suggestion Of the Governor on May 6. Ht
| is Il very competent man and has a host
| of warm friends in Egypt who Will resent
the Governors action.
Speaker Sherman was in a happy MOOD
Thursday. whether on account of the pas
| sage of the bottle bill the probable
asrsement as on apportionment is hard to
| determine. He called Represent alive John
| ston Dem) of Pike to the chair and ca
| vorted around the House like school boy
playing hockey" Finally he mounted thu
sage of a bill Mr.. Johnston resembles the
| Speaker in physique and played his part ir
the the, chair to perfection The Speakers chail
considered, The Speaker declared tn,
House could run automatically
The bill of Farrelly was practically killed
IN the Senate Committee Thursday. sub
stitute being ordered.
The House passed Mr.. Crafts bill to pro
vide for the referendum
Speaker Sherman announced that an even.
| ing session of the House would be held Fri
] day. at which time all pending matters rel
| ative to constitutional amendments will bt
taken from the Speakers table and present
ed to the House for its consideration
| The Senate confirmed the appointments
| sent in yesterday.
The House bill to consolidate township
governments in Cook County and provide
that their functions shall be exercised by
the city government passed
Senator Humphreys bill to provide that
the Board of Review shall alter assess
| ments only when complaints are made and
hearings are had was defeated
Antt-Haxing Bill Passed.
senator Fowler's anti-hazing bill. amend
ed so as to make the offense a misde-
, meanor instead of felony, passed-2S to r.
=. Ihe House bill to revise the law in rela-
| tion 10 special assessments passed.
Mckenzie's bill to provide that township
representation on county boards of Su-
! pervisors shall be based only on the Fed
! eral census passed.
Inc ne, compromise garnishment bill was re-
ported from the House, and Senator Nc
| Cloud asked that 1t be sent to the order of
second reading. without reference Senator
humphrey objected and said the bill should
/ go to the Committee on Judiciary His oh
f, !ection was oVerruled and the bill made a
| special order "' q
House appropriations bills passed without
bbpiip,oslhon III, until the Senate reached the
workshop and laboratory at the Tniyersitv
OF liiino1s The Democratic Senators de-
tha ttinea 10 vote for it. and 1t failed, having
| "iSnout the emergency clause
1,iine,s ne OILS to make appropriations for the
1,.iRois nrdinnr,, tIreman,s Association: for the
te,ntiary: for the Industrial Home for rhe
Sind; for the expenses of the Live Stock
hssSaers sen.,c, ass ASSOCIATION, passed
Tor the inspection of sweatshops by making
! IT mfsdemeanor to interfere with factorT
inspectors in the discharge of their duties
| passed.
Senator Mckenzie's bill to prevent fraud
ulent sales and transfers Of stocks Of mer.
| chandise.. passed.
IS; Senator Dunlap introduced the ia. lev,
! OH. which provides levy of 81, O00OOO Del
annum for school purposes. and s.. 500 ODi
per per an annum for general expenses. This is
s.oWo per annum in excess of the levy
Iownsend's bill to prohibit fraternal in.
surance companies from using their NOR
'uary M FUNDS & for expenses. passed.
permanent surveys, passed
Alden's bill to permit farm drainage dis
tricts to sell land for drainage taxes
9rsi,e 99assea: 90 Aiden.s dt BIZ revising the farm
The House bill which would require cor.
porations 10 make reports to the Secretary
of State. passed.
| Bundy Measure Went Through.
The House passed the Bundy garnismen
bill. 50 to Is. Mr.. Eignus said that it hat
bee been as asserted that this was compromis'
sociation. He said he did not believe tina
there was a retail merchant in the Stat,
in favor of the bill. Mr.. Drew said the bill
| was not drawn in the interest of great ben
eft to the merchants or any other class. bu
that IT would prove of great benefit to tn,
merchants and all other people. Mr.. Bund.
said that it had been drawn as a compro
mise. IAN interests affected" said he, ''hat
a hearing before the judiciary Committe,
and the aim in drafting the bill was to har
auires that the General Assembly enact lib
eral exemption laws. We have tried t
| make liberal exemption without iniurins
the retail merchant. We also want to i'm
press the public that it is not the object o
an exemption law to create a collection
agency. but to protect the weak and unfor
| tunate who are so frequently imposed upOl
by inscriptions merchants
Among those who voted aye were: Adler
ton. Barnes. BEEN. Brown Of Randolph
Gray. Groves. Hammond. Howell. Huggins
Hughes Of Fulton. Kerr. 10y. Miller OF. al
exander. Minor. Petrie. Purdunn, Rice
1lr1~ ca nlnNy, oh 1hn, M
Sheppard. Skaggs. Walter. Warder. Wheele
Among the nays were: Bryant. Busse
Grigsby. Johnston. Lamb. Louden McClen-
athan. Murphy. Onion. Partridge. Robinson
Smith of Franklin. wyand and Young.
Among the absent and not voting: Buck suss
Farris. Funk Hanna. Heffernan. Hunter
of Christian. Johnson Of Rock Island; John
son of Fulton. Jones OF Sangamon. McCor-
mel. Mcculloch. Merrill Miller Of Hamilton
Ridgely. Scrogin. Swigart. Taylor. Tippit
Trautmann. Uppendahl. Vaughn and Wom-
bacher.
The following bills were passed by the
House:
Appropriation for the hospital at Barton.
vile. as follows:
For Indebtedness incurred in erection OF
buildings and for completing buildings, sl99
5S9: for ordinary and contingent expenses
for two years. $214, 800. Fifty-seven thousand
dollars for two years for repairs and i'm
provements at the Hospital for the Insane
at Jacksonville: appropriating $4,000 to pay
the officers and men Of the Naval Militia Of
Illinois from the time they commenced drill
ing until they were accepted by the United
States Government in the Spanish-Americar
War: $4,000 for an Illinois exhibit at the
Charleston. s. G.. Exposition: $500 per an
mum for the ordinary expenses Of the East
ern Normal School; $4,000 for the Illinois
and Michigan Canal-yeas 81. nays II.
The latter bill was the subject Of som
debate. Mr.. Purdunn Dem) opposed tn
bill, saying that 1t was the largest appro
priation ever asked for the canal, and MI
Tippit Oem.) also opposed it. MI
Browne of Lasalle favored the appropria
tion and criticised Tippit and Purdunn 70
alleged Inconsistency in favoring an ap
preparation of $250.000 for the st. Louis Elk
position.
Mr.. Rankin Of Warren introduced a bi
have charge OF all the State charitable in
stitutions, and bill to direct the paymen
to the University Of Illinois Of none
| granted by acts Of the House.
The House Education Committee bill, 70
the consolidation of school districts an
the tree transportation Of pupils to an
! from school. pasSed-78 to "a.
| Crangle's bill to provide method for In
creasing territory Of mutual wind. cyclone
| tornado or fire insurance companies passed
The Senate bill Uuul's), known as tn
b-per-cent-tax-levy-limi bill, was called u
by the Speaker. Mr.. Howell offered a
amendment excluding from the 5-per-cen
limit all taxes levied pursuant to a man
on any bonded Indebtedness. This amend
vr,snf fo~afhAr nth thonA Offered YeatAI