The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-11
Fortv-FirSt General Assembly Has
Been Productive of Much
General Legislation.
PARTY PLEDGES REDEEMED.
Several Measures That Apply Spe-
cifically to st. Louis Still
on the Calendar-Com-
parisons Made.

| BY A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.
| Jefferson City. March 10.-The important
bills which the Forty-nrst General Assem-
bly, has passed during the sixty-eight days
which 1t has been in session are as follows:
| Franchise tax bill, signed by the Governor
! and now law.
| Medical practice bill. not yet signed.
Resolution resubmitting the constitutional
| amendment for the taxation Of mortgages.
Measure making the operation OF gambling
| slot-machines n felony.
Measure. recommended by Governor Dock
| cry, forbidding Boards of Managers of State
| institutions to be interested in contracts for
| work or supplies for those institutions.
Drabelle primary law. revising the rri-
mary election system of ST. Louis.
Law making kidnapping for ransom a cap
ital offense, signed by the Governor and
now 4 law.
Bill increasing the Worlds Fair Board OF
Directors from Is to 1oO signed by the Gov
ernor and now law.
Bill appropriating $4,000 for Missouri
exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition at
Buffalo and at the South Carolina and
West Indian Exposition at Charleston.
Bill including telephone companies with
telegraph companies for purposes Of taxa
tion.
Bill executing the constitutional amend
ment providing for the prosecution Of
felonies by Information as well as indict-
ment.
The larger number of important measures
are on the ways in various stages of in
completion, most Of them requiring only
the final vote in one branch or concurrence
of the other branch in amendments to send
them to the Governor.
Progress of Appropriation Bills.
. The principal business Of each General
Assembly is the passage of the appropria-
tion bills. There are ten of these bills.
which. In the order in which they must by
law pass the Assembly. are as follows:
/. To pay interest on bonded debt.
2. To pay an annual portion Of s25ocoo OF
the bonded debt.
J. To appropriate one-third of the total
revenue TOR the support of the public
4. 70 pay for assessing and collecting
the revenue.
.. To pay the civil list.
6. For the support of eleemosynary and
penal institutions.
TO pay the General Assembly.
S. For the support of the States educa-
uonal institutions.
9. The general or miscellaneous appropri-
alton bill.
10. The deficiencies BILL to pay expenses
incurred during the past two years not
provided for by the previous General AS
sembly.
The first four of these bills. which are
to great extent of a routine nature. have
been passed by the Assembly and signed
have been passed by the House, where the
Constitution provides such bills must origi
nate. The civil list bill and the eleemosy-
between the two bodies The bill for the
pay Of the General Assembly is ready to
pass as soon as the others are cleared
away. The eighth, ninth and tenth bills
named above have passed the House and
are now in the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee.
present Assembly has appropriated s1144ls
more than the last.
comparison of the appropriations of the
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