Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-23
WORK OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY
The Appropriations Exceeded Those
of Any Other Session.
That Were Introduced and
Passed Both Houses.

Jefferson City, No., March 20.-Mis-
souri's Forty-third general assembly
adopted but a small proportion of the
1,200 measures which were introduced
during the session.
In the house, 76S bills were intro !
duced The senate had a few more
than half that number, 451. OF the sem
ate's quota, probably one-third were
identical with measures in the house.
Appropriations this year will aggre-
gate in the n~eighborhood of 81, 000, 900
more than those of any previous ses-
sion. The total will be about $780,
600. Among the bills of general interest
which were passed up are following:
By Godfrey; To repeal the breeders
iaW ana the enactment of a statute pro-
hibiting bookmaking and poolselling and
betting on horse races.
By Senator Bradley: To repeal the
'alum bill"
By Speer of Usage: Maximum freight
rates bill to reduce former rates between
Is and 40 per cent. on the various classes
of freight.
BY Senator Dickinson: To extend the
limitations in bribery cases from three to
five years.
By Walmsley of jackson: A compre-
HtISlNt uSll anu game law anu 10 eSIdD-
fish a state fish and game warden.
BY Senator Walker: To create a SUI
preme court commission for the eXamin-
alton of applicants for the practice of
law and raising the standard of admiS-
sion to the bar.
BY Senator Kinney: To authorize
boards of managers of houses of cor
Tection, houses of refuge, orphan asylums
or any public Institution where delin-
quent children are kept in cities of 100,-
UO or over, to arrange with public school
authorities for the education of such chill
dren.
By Senator Dickinson: To provide tina
plaintiffs in suits for damages against
common carriers, where property has
been transported over connecting lines,
may join all such lines, as defendants in
the suit.
By Senator Buchanan: To require the
state to pay expenses of boys who are
sents to the reform school at Boonville.
By Senator Bradley: 10 prohibit rail-
road companies from permitting EN-
ployes to go back on duty, after they
Without M0f having siG had eight e3nsG hours' rest 19tiS
BY Senate Bradley: To increase the
pay of guards at the state pe%nitentiary
from $50 to $50 a month.
BY Senator Mclndoe: To regulate the
sale of cocaine and preparations contain
ing cocaine.
By Senator Kinealy: To provide for the
establishment of a naval reserve.
By Senator Fields: To empower the at
torney general to employ two deputies at
a salary of 81, 900 q year each, and a chief
clerk at a salary of 81, 800 a year.
BY Senator Gilmore: To prohibit the
sale of liquors to minors.
BY Senator Wornall: To provide that
railroads must pave, gutter and grade
streets where the right-of-way crosses
such streets in Incorporated cities and
towns.
BY Senator Bradley: To require rail-
roads to maintain suitable crossings at
roadWayS.
by Senator Farris of Crawford: To re-
quire druggists to file with the county
clerk each month all prescriptions they
have filled which contained nothing but
intoxicating liquors.
By Senator Wornall: To require rail-
roads to note upon way-bills the exact
time of delivery to them of freight and
making failure to do 50 prima facie evil
dence of negligent delay.
BY Senator Wornall: To require rail-
road companies to furnish cars on appli-
cation within four days; to forward
freight at least sixty miles each day, and
allowing shippers seventy-two hours to
load or unload cars of 10000 pounds ca
pacity or over.
railroad and warehouse commissioners to
inspect hay at all points where grain is
now inspected.
BY Senator Fields: To Inappropriate
1856, 000 from Missouri Worlds fair APP
preparation for the purpose of erecting a
/. new supreme court building.
, By Senator Wornall: 70 appropriate
$4,000 to the exploitation of the state al
: the Lewis and Clark exposition at Port
4 land, Ore.
: BY Senator McAllister: To require Goa
mine owners to furnish a current of fresl
: air for each fifty miners.
: By Speer of Usage: To place the salary
| of bank examiners at $1,000 a year anC
/ prohibiting the employment Of more than
six examiners.
3, By Steel of New Madrid: To increase
the salary of the secretary of the board
of railroad and warehouse commission.
ers from 81, 500 to $1,000 a year.
I BY Biggs of St. Louis: To prohibit
1 those engaged in loaning money on sal
1 aries to charge more than the legal rate
. of interest and providing for the recov'
cry of any overcharge.
3 BY Cross of Clinton: To authorize eacf
4 judge of the supreme court to hire {
stenographer.
! BY Atkinson of Ripley: To compel rail
5 road companies to give notice of the TINT
= of running its trains and provide accom-
modations for passengers, baggage ant
= freight and waiting rooms at points o
crossings with other railroads.
: By Whitecotton of Monroe: To ALLOW
e judges of the circuit court and crimina
judges 500 a month as expenses Whe1
holding court at places other than thei
1 place of residence.
t railroad commissioners to force railroads
to give adequate service by stopping
trains at stations.
BY Smith of Franklin: To require al
a veterinary surgeons to be registered.
4 BY JOHNSON of Pettis: To provide tha
+ three or more taxpayers in t%erritor.
q where there are now no school district
may organize one, in case there ar
more thai twenty school children.
G Ey Senator Mclndoe: To establish
Southwest Missouri normal school.
II BY Senator Peck: To establish a North
west normal school,
Committee substitute for several hous
bills: To fix a maximum penalty for com
mon carriers in cases where death is du
to negligence Of employees from So, 600 t
O &c. 600, ard giving the heirs of bachelor
the right to sue.
Committee substitute for several hous
a bills of similar tenor: To compel chill
n dren from the ages of S to IA years to at
IS tend some school consecutively for one
half the time such school is in session
or be given equivalent instruction a
home, and providing for the appointment
d of a ~truancy officer in all towns over so,
600 inhabitants.
BY Senator Brown: To provide for tn
Improvement of public highways by
system of taxation similar to that use
u in cities in paving.
The following bills of special interest t
81. Louis have been passed:
Q BY Senator Morton: To put the excis
commissioner on a salary of 1000.
BY Senator Baumann: To give the cir
cult attorney four assistants and thre
q stenographers.
IL By Senator Baumann: To create a nev
division of the circuit court; also a III
n putting the probate judge on a salary G
5000 a Year.
SCATTERING SQUIBs.