Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-03-12
MISSOURI LEGISLATURE.

amendment 10 the constitution providing
text books. Other bills passed were
Walkers bill providing that husbands
may notify saloon keepers not to sell
liquor to their wives, and BuchanaE's bill,
permitting councils in cities operated un-
der a special charter to regulate the price
OF gas, electricity, water and other public
utilities. The report of the senate turf
Investigating committee was presented.
Most of the companies investigated are
condemned, and a bill prohibiting discre-
tionary dealing in grain was introduced.
LIN the house a resolution providing for
an investigation of members who use
passes and of the bribery stories circu-
lated about the lower branch Of the as
sembly was defeated. The house passed
the joint and concurrent resolution pro-
viding for the election of United States
senator's by direct ballot of the people.
By a vote of SO to IL the bill introduced
by Mr.. Hayden, of Howell, was passed. 1t
relates to fees for the collection of the
collateral inheritance tax.
The senate, on the 4th, passed the Far
ris baggage bill without a dissenting vote.
The measure was championed by travel
Ing men and provides that 1t shall be I'M
lawful for any railroad in this state over
five miles in length to charge more than
l2h2 per cent. of the cost of a first-class
fare per 100 pounds for excess of baggage
over $50 pounds. Senat Dickinson pre-
ment of United States Senator George
Graham Vest. The resolution was adopt
ell unanimously in both branches of the
general assembly, commencing the sena-
tors career as a public servant. The
senate adopted a substitute offered by
Lee, of Carter, for the Bradley freight
rate bill. The substitute empowers the
railway and warehouse commissioners to
fix railroad rates in all parts of the
state. enato Nelson introduced a bill
legalizing boxing matches and creating q
state athletic commission of three men,
bers to supervise the sport. ..... The house
~ cSn1 q hill fntpn1ItDa1 htr M ntnap-
nell, of st. Louis, providing for a COM
mission to sell the st. Louis school for
the blind and purchase a more desirable
site somewhere in the city of st. Louis,
Other bills were passed finally as fol-
lows: Authorizing fire insurance com
panies to also insure against loss by wa
ter s~prinklers; authorizing the construc-
ton of railroads over levees; requiring in
spectors of coal oil to inspect gasoline;
amending the banking law with relation
to bank statements, so as to obviate the
necessity of making separate statements
of different kinds of currency; prohibiting
pawnbrokers and junk dealers from buy
ing or receiving personal property from
minors without consent of the parents or
guardian; appropriating 1912, 275.95 of the
foreign insurance tax fund among the
different counties of the state and the
city of st. Louis. The general appropria-
ton bill was also passed.
The senate, on the 9Th, killed the bill
bill which provides that the superintend-
ent of insurance may fix and adj
Just fire Insurance rates in any
Ra vote ot Of Re q to S Is the B iii cd Passsdi. az az
state, printing, to bear the union label,
was killed. The binding Irvine plant bill,
which was vigorously opposed by Gov.
Dockery, but which passed both branches
ate to that official for his signature. The
Stubs anti-cigarette bill was amended to
prohibit selling or giving to minors under
Is years of age cigarettes or cigarette pa
pers. 1t will probably pass the senate in
this form......In the house the majority
report on the Boll1nser county contest
was adopted and a recount of the ballots
cast for representative was ordered. Cald-
well, rep, now holds the seat. Two st.
Louis measures were passed. One of them
was a constitutional amendment permit
ting the police of st. Louis. Kansas City
and st. Joseph to have a mutual benefit
organization and use the credit of the
city therefor. The other was an amend
ment to the tiremen's law permitting de-
pendeneies of single men to enjoy .bene,
tax lists was ordered engrossed, n Col.
denis bill giving the state board of arbi-
tration and mediation more power was
passed.
In the senate, on the 9Th, Senator Zeve-
ly's bill to require insurance companies
doing business in the state to publish an
nually in two papers in each county a
statement of their policies in force,
amount, etc, was defeated. One of the
eating. committee, which looked into the
ge~t-rich-quick companies in st. Louis,
was sent to engrossment. 1t applies al
most wholly to newspapers and prevents
chance or scheme of betting of any kind
or character, in any newspaper or other
publication. lin the house. bills were
passed as follows: Giving trial judge in
anV criminal case thn nnttpn of p1anipr
the entire panel of jurors under the GUS
tody of the sheriff until after the chal-
lenges have teen made and the trial jury
drawn; providing that when a convict
who has served %two-thirds of his SEN
tence becomes insane, and is sent to the
he should be discharged instead
of being returned to the pen%itentiary to
serve out the unexpired period of the
prison term; providing that any person
now or hereafter holding a Judgment
against another who is about to leave the
state may have an execution issued
the property and effects of such
with no exemptions; regulating
excess baggage charges; providing that
all persons or corporations employing
more than twenty-five. men at one time to
furnish judges of elections with the
names of the. men who have been in
their employ less than sixty days pre-
an election; providing that in case
a majority Of the voters of any county
vote favorably upon township organiza-
ton such county shall be so governed on
and after. the last Tuesday in March sue
the election; compelling saloons
to keep closed from midnight Until S a.
m. The law compelling teachers to at
tend county institutes each summer was
In the senate, on the 7th, no business
transacted. In the house consider
debate arose over a resolution Of
fered by a republican, Gardner, of st.
Louis County, to authorize the speaker to
a calendar comnHttee of Is mem
bers. In introducing the resolution Gard
ner explained that the calendar was
provided, and that ony a calendar commit
tee, could clear it effectively. O'Fallon, of
Holt, offered a substitute fixing consider
of the question for Monday at 3
m. On a roll call the O'Fallon sub
was defeated by a vote of 50 to 50,
no majority being given. The vote on the
resolution was g. ayes and II
noes. Before taking a recess the house
'econsidered the vote by which the cal
endar resolution had been adopted, and
the motion was laid on the table. Tho
textbook bill will be considered
tuesday at 2 p. m.
SuffOcated in u Street Car.