Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-03-05
MISSOURI LEGISLATURE.

for re-engrossment a bill by Zevely CON.
polling ali insurance TO puonsI
in two papers of each county statements
OF their business. Several senators made
speeches against the measure......Ths
house passed a bill establishing a bind
ing wine factory at the penitentiary 10
compete with the trust Only i've mem.
bers voted against it. 1t now goes to the
governor. Representative Carr. over an
unfavorable report from the committee,
succeeded In having put on the calendar
the joint and concurrent resolution SUD-
hitting a constitutional amendment pro-
viding for a police benefit fund. tn Fill
pinos procured a temporary respite from
a probable roll call by the refusal of the
COMMITTEES on rules to report the David
son amendment providing for an increase
of the membership of the text book COM
mittee. 1t is probable that the matter
will not come up until after the text
book commission has acted. Gov. Dockery
sent a special message to the general as
sembly protesting against the disposition
to appropriate larger amounts TOT lnstitu-
lions and outside enterprises than the
revenues could stand. Already $3Oe:OU has
been incorporated in bills for which there
Is no money in sight.
In the senate, on the 24th, most OF tne
day was spent In wrestling with the hsn
and game bill. Thirty amendments. wers
offered, after which the bill was referred
back to the committee for further delib-
Grafton. The initiative and referendum
was on the programme for two o'clock,
but the senators talked so long on the
amendments to the game bill that the
constitutional amendment was not
touched. The freight-rate bill was made
a special order for Wednesday morning,
having been forced off to-day's calendar
by the fish and game debate. senator
Rubey's Joint and concurrent resolution
providing for the submission of a consti.
t~utional amendment levying a ~seven-cent
tax for free text books will also be taken
up. A house bill relating to the trim
ming of hedges passed the senate this
morning. Representative Weaver's house
bill creating an eight-hour work day In
lead and zinc reduction works and stone
a~uarries was passed......ln the house the
bill introduced by Mr.. Ing, Of Wayne
providing that county surveyors, shall re.
port the destruction of landmarks to the
prosecuting attorney, was passed. An
error was discovered In the house Dili re-
ducing the contract rate of interest, now
eight per cent, which was put in one
place in the bill at six per cent. and In
another at seven. The discovery OF this
the order for its engrossment was re,
called. The bill for county supervisors Of
public schools was passed after a lively
fight, so, also, was the bill prohibiting
the wearing of an emblem of a secret
society by persons not entitled to wear
them.
The senate after a lengthy debate, or
the 25th, postponed without action untl
bill. The text book resolution of Senator
Rubey, providing for a levy of seven
cents on the 500 valuation. of the aggre-
gated wealth of the state, after amend
ment reducing the rate to five per cent.
was ordered engrossed n printed. Sen
ator Walked introduced a bill creating q
board of telegraph operators who shall
examine all. telegraphers before they ac-
cept a position on any railroad......ln the
house another school book bill was intro
duced. Mr.. Boutwell,, of Pettis. is the
author. A bill by the same author, pro-
viding for the creation OF the statute re re-
Murphy, of st. Louis, introduced. a bill
providing that all licenses required to be
procured by peddlers be issued free to
ali ex-Union and ex-confederate soldiers:
The bill introduced by Mr.. Dunklin, OF
st. Francois, providing that upon the dis
charge of any employe of any corpora
ton doing business In Missouri It Is the
duty of such corporation to- provide such
employe with a statement giving the rea-
son for his discharge, was passed.
The senate, on the 18th, defeated the IN.
law and allowing insurance agents in
cities to fix the rates to be charged for
insurance. Bills passed We're: To pre-
vent railroads from confiscating any
freight in its possession for its W use;
repeating the excise commissioner law as
applying to Kansas City; requiring road
overseers and commissioners to clear pub
lie highways and bridges of brush, weeds
and debris; joint and concurrent resolu-
ton No. 4, increasing the term of of.
flee of sheriffs to four years; joint and
concurrent resolution No. 5, providing for
the submission of q constitutional amend.
FUND for the St. Louis department, on
the same order as the firemen's pension
and relief fund; fixing terms Of court IN
certain districts, and Senate Matthews
bill giving st. Louis county an additional
judge......In the house there was a tie
vote on a motion to make the Bollinger
county contest case a special order for
-~..A .,r-IoHr ThA nnnftnn yrn hntlu
debated and at adjournment there were
still two motions pending, one of these
being that the majority report. be adopt
ed and the other that the minority re-
port be substituted therefor. A resolu-
ton calling Upon Gov. Dockery to inter-
cede with Minnesota authorities in order
to procure the pardon of Thomas r. Sen.
ter, confined in the penitentiary, was
Gov. Dockery recommending a new build
Ing for the asylum for the blind.
The senate, on the 9th, passed bills al
lowing sheriffs mileage in criminal cases
in civil suits by the attorney introducing
the witness, or new matter brought out
by the examination of the witness by OPP
posing counsel; to transfer $4,000 from
the insurance department to the general
fund of the state; creating the Springfield
court of appeals district and providing for
the election of judges thereof; regulat'
ing the publication of legal notices in st
LOUIS anu hdllSdS, WV VI oeildlol Il
bills, relating to private corporations, one
requiring foreign corporations applying
for admission to the state to specify, the
particular character Of business in which
it Is to engage, and the other depriving
foreign corporations of standing in court
until all the laws of the state have been
complied with-eXempting, however, for
eign corporations having vested property
sent each of the 800 Missouri volunteers
in the Spanish-American war. with a
medal to cost not to exceed one dollar.
In the house bills were passed as follows:
For the support, maintenance and i'm
provement of the eleemosynary and penal
asylum, $4,000; st, Joseph asylum, $1,000;
lIumn, Sis, sSe;l Fulton it;S deaf and dumb
school, $1s7, 600; school for blind at st.
Louis, $S1, 200; reform school for boys, at
Fulton, $6S, 200; industrial home for girls
diers' home at Higginsville, $5S, 500; federal
soldiers home at st. James. $25, $40; COL
ony for predetermined at Marshall, $780,
600; state penitentiary at Jefferson City
$4,000. Total. S1,O34, 020.
2sth. Speaker Whitecotton introduced a bill
amending the law in relation to damages
resulting from the death of a person. I'm
der the present law. 5000 is the highest
900. Representative Collins, of ST. Louis,
introduced a bill providing a penalty for
inserting advertisements in newspapers or
by hand bills offering to obtain divorces
easily. A fine Of not less than $10O and
possible Imprisonment for 30 days. Is pro-
and printers as we'll as the divorce law
yers. Carr, of st. Louis, introduced a
bill to prevent the employment Of chill
dren under IA years Of age. The penalty
for violation is 500 for the first offense
and from $50 to 5000 for each and every
offense. No women, the bill provides,
shall be employed between the hours Of
. p, m. and 6 a. M, and their hours OF
per day. Leonard, of st. Louis, secured
the engrossment of his bill, making the