The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1903-02-12
FROM THE STATE CAPITOL

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tee meetings. Joe says little but
keeps his thinker" working aud
can always be depended upon TO do
what he thinks is right.
Walter llenslcy has been here
most of the week laboring Jealous.
is in the interest of State Hospital
| No. I, and his labOrs are produc.
ing results. There is considerable
feeling about this institution among
legislators. and unless the various
and diverse members are talked to
regarding it, the appropriation
will likely be very little.
Sheriff Murphy has been in eyi
dcnce about the Capitol building II
couple of times this week, being
here attending the Sheriif's Con.
ven lion. As young fellow in Farm
ington said, comparing Bradley
with the other legislators, Sheriff
Murphy Stacks ny with any of
| them
The subcommittee having in
charge the arrangements for the
State Celebration IN honor of the
cancellation of the last State bonds
have decided to hold the celebration
on Thursday, the Eth of March
There will he program for Mis-
sourians by Missourians, il present
plans are carried out There will
he speeches, probably in the Hall
of the House of Representatives,
and Senators Stone, Cockrell and
Vest, and Il number of Congress
men and Missouri notablcs. are at
present figured on TO be present,
besides the Governor and State
officers.
The present session of the Lcgis.
laturc started out to distinguish
itself 10y establishing Il high water
mark for economy, considering the
business done. The laws necessary
To- carry into effect the cOnsttu-
tional amendments adopted last fall
are now well advanced and every
taxpayer in the State will soon be.
gin to feel another tonic effect of
drop in taxation, made possible by
honest and Democratic business
methods.
The Democrats in the Legisla
turc are determined that there
shall be no possible charge of cX
lrayagancc in the matter of clerk
hire, and no possible charge that
clerks were paid for staying at
home. In both houses the number
of clerks has been kept down and
finally those who were working on
tie force, III search Of relief, fig
ured up and found that several
clerks were not reporting regularly
and they made Il decided kick
which resulted in both Senate and
House taking action that will in.
sure every clerk working full time
or they will get fircd-alI of which |
is right and Democratic.
The fight over alum" legisla.
ton seems to he compromised f. |
ually. The agreement now is that |
n law shall he passed providing
that all baking powders shall he
labeled on the can with tie name
of the active agent of the com
pound, and the law is to be passed
allowing alum powders to be
manufactured in the State.
The Republican resolution fac
tory is again in operation-Mc-
Pherson of Lawrence being the
instrument used to get in resolu-
zion commencing the Governor of
Illinois for stopping prize fights.
Mcpherson later in the day spoke
in favor of foot ball. Tracy of
Springfield was the instrument
used to get in Roosevelt endorse.
meut resolution, and Murphy, the
omnipresent ''rcsoIuter," came up
smiling with bill providing
that a union label should be placed
on all State printing. He hopes
to get the labor unions to vote the
Republican ticket because he intro
duced the bill, even though he
knew it was unconstitutional If il
did pass. Murphy admitted that
he introduced the bill for campaign
purposes, but he could not hold
the Republicans in line, and about
a third of them refused to stand
for such foolishness and the bill
was indefinitely postponed.
The fact that the insurance PEG.
pile have brought their business so
prominently before the Legislature
has led to investigations all along
the line, and Senator Zevely has
come to the conclusion that as
banks are called upon to publish
statements showing their condition
four times n year, and great
many more people are vitality in
terested in insurance than there
are in banks, it would be to the
general public interest to compel
all foreign insurance companies
doing business in Missouri to pub
lish short financial statement in
two papers in every county in the
State, papers to be of opposite po-
litical parties. The cost of these
publications as fixed by the bill
would be a total for each company
Of $500, an amount that would he
taken from their ADVERTISING an