The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-12
TO MAKE INVESTMENT
A Permanent ONE.
House Discusses Senate Res0lu-
ton Providing for the Invest
plent of State School Fund.
FOR WATERWcRKS BONDS.
Legislation Asked For by st.
Louis Amended to Include Kan
sas City-Proceedipgs
in Assembly.
FOR wA7ERwcRKs BONDS.

BY a STAFF CORRESPONDENT.
Jefferson City. Mo. March 1.-THE House
| to-day debated at length the Senate resolu
| ton for a constitutional amendment making
| the present investment of the State school
fund In school fund certificates permanent.
| Under the law at present these school fund
| certificates will have to be paid when the
| rest OF the State bonds have been paid,
| which will be within the next two years.
| The resolution is as folows
BE 1t resolved by the Senate the Houre of Rep
resentattves concurrlng thertn as follows:
That at the general election TO be held on the
Tuesday next following the first Monday in No
| vember. 1902 the following amendment to the Con-
stitution or Missouri shall be submitted to the
qualified voters of said State, witt That article
| Of the Constitution of the State OF Missouri be
amended by adding thereto new section. to be
known as section twenty-six (0) follows:
Sec. %. All certificates of Indebtedness Of the
State to the Public School Fund and to the
Seminary Fund are hereby confirmed sacred
shall be renewed as they mature for period Of
| time expiring fifty years from the adoption Of
after be fixed by constitutional provision, with
interest payable thereon as before renewal The
certificates of indebtedness maturing in like time
with said renewals and bearing interest at the
the Pubic scSeo Fund and ho Seminary Ds Fund
for such purposes under the provisions OF tho
standing n W bonded indebtedness Sc. has been ex-
tinguished, ali money accommodating in the State
vested IN registered county. municipal or school
district bonds of this State Of not less than par
tingushed or a sum sufficient therefor has been
~, there shall be sse s and IN
provided for by Tho statutes an annual tax not not
exceed cents on the @ to 9, the
edness. the proceeds OF which tax shall be paid
nS a 5 ss the spseo a%4
tioned. tea" out ''' '''' e''>'a' 'a' 'Sss -. - :.
warren presented substitute. that the
reinvested rehDHs led in United States bonds or the
bonds Of counties and municipalities.
He had scarcely taken the floor when Smith
Rep1 of franklin. rising to interrogate him
speaGh te a aa STOOD a
waiting during Smiths speech. and when
the latter had finished remarked: MIR
Speaker. had not intended to consume Sc
gentleman from Franklin
Hackney of Jasper opposed the substitute
fund certificates draw and s per cent In
terest,' he said. Under the substitute
they will draw about per cent. We should
make the present investment permanent.
"lf wished to carry out the plan pro-
posed in the substitute we could do it with
out a constitutional amendment. No con-
:ze the State to pay its just obligations. The
school fund certificates are as binding on
the State as State bonds This substitute is
in the empty issue they raised during the
last campaign. The present treatment OF
the fund. keeping it in its present status is
made during the last campaign that the
school fund had been looted;
The substitute was voted down by party
vote, Blair of Dekalb being the only Demo-
Crat to vote for 1t,
The further discussion of the amendment
was made u special order for tomorrow
morning.
A meeting OF House Democratic leaders
was held in the Governors office tonight.
should support the Senate school fund reso-
luton, providing that the present invest
ment Of the school fund shall be made
made in the resolution when it comes up to-
morrow. The time the certificates are
to be extended is to be thirty years instead
of fifty as in the Senate resolution, and
| each Legislature is to be authorized to re-
new the certificates for any time they Sc
lect.
For Issuing of Waterworks Bonds.
The House to-day passed the resolution
| for the third of the constitutional amend
ments asked for by St Louis. Lightholder der
amendment and Hawthorne of Kansas City
seconded 1t.
The constitutional amendment provides
| that the bonds issued for the construction
Of waterworks in St. Louis and Kansas
City, and for the separation of st. Louis
city from St; Louis Count, ,y, shall moi no, be Be
| 8 per cent bond limit set by the Constitu-
tion has been exceeded. The resolution was
amended in the House, to include Kansas
| back to the Senate for concurrence. The
Senate concurred at once in the House
amendment and the resolution, when en-
| signature.
lutions. declares he will remain in Jefferson
City until they have been signed by the
Governor.
Senator Drabelle made a concurrence this
| afternoon and as an extra precaution roll
| calls were recorded on both amendments
as we'll as on the resolution as amended.
The vote was 25 for and against. Senator
Drabelle moved a reconsideration and SEN
ator Thomas of Jasper moved that the mo-
ton be laid on the table. This was rnani-
mously carried. thus effectually estopping
any possibility OF the Senate taking any
further action.
Report of Auditing Committee.
The Auditing Committee appointed two
years ago by Governor Stephens. consisting
glair Of De kaib and Lindsey. the laateT a
the General Assembly to-day. Senator
Whalcy made the report in the Senate,
Blair of De Kalb In the House.
The committee examined every office in
the State government except the Governors
and that Of the clerk of the Supreme Court.
The closing sentence Of the report tells
the story of the investigation:
I'm no department OF the State Govern
nent hove We been able to find any dis
honesty or derelotion Of duty"
The committee makes number Of I'm
portart recommendations 1t recommends
hat more power be given the Railroad and
Warehouse Commissioners under a single
law to replace the great number of minor
laws now before the Assembly.
The. committee attracts attention to tbs
record made by the Adjutant Generals
office of all volunteers who served from
Missouri during the war with Spain. 1t
recommends that a number of wooden
boxes In the basement containing the rec
ords of Missouri in the Civil War should be
Tut into a more secure place, and the doc
uments be classified and filed for permanent
preservation.
The House to-day passed the fish and
game bill. The measure Is substitute
formed by the House Committee on Fish
and Game. 1t provides for the appointment
for four years by the Governor at a salary
Of 81 500 year of a game and fish warden.
He is to enforce the game laws and to
prosecute violations The bill fixes the
closed and open season for all classes of
game in Missouri, and prohibits the "hound-
ing" OF deer. the dynamiting of fish or the
use of seines with small meshes.
The section of the statute relating to the
seasons for hunting small game is as fol-
lows:
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