Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-28
Missouri
Legislature
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.

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bill providing that the warden of the
penitentiaiy should supply each con.
Wet there, once a week, with station
cry and postage for correspondence
with his family or friends, and that
the letters should be neither opened
nor read by the prison authorities.
After three months confinement, II
the prison record of the convict is
good. he Is TO be Supplied with such
stationery twice weekly II he desires
1t.
Senator Kinncy's bill enabling st.
Louis to secure an art museum passed
TO the stage Of cngrossment in the
senate. as did the ~Prcndergast subway
bin. These bills will be on tho calen.
dar for third reading by the latter
part Of the week.
Senator McAllister's bill removing
the age limit from the parole law was
passed Thursday morning. Under the
law as it stands today no n yer 70
years of age convicted Of crime can
have the benefit Of the parole. The
measure passed provides that any one
of previous good character can be pa
rolled on first conviction, in the discre.
ton OF the judge.
Senator G~ardner's bill fixing the
term Of justices of the peace APP
pointed by the county court was
passed. II provides that magistrates
of this kind who owe their office to
appointment Of the county court shall
not hold longer than the day OF the
general election In the year in which
the Justices shall be elected for the
township in which they reside. There
has never been any definite time fixed
by the StatutCS for the term OF JUS
ticcs affected by the bill.
These bills were passed by the
house, all Of them having their origin
In that body: Requiring railroads to
cut the weeds and brush from their
right Of way; the extension of special
road distric.s; providing for an in.
crease In county taxes; providing for
process in actions to determine or de-
fine title 10 real estate; giving the de.
PENDANT right to preliminary examina-
ton.
The maximum freight rate bill was
taken up in The senate again for the
purpose of lcriccting II by restoring
class J 10 thr schedule. Last week,
In amending tn" bill so MS TO elm.
mate . II from It's provisions, all
the rest of elias j which includes coal
was stricken out, ana 1t was necessary
to further delay 1t until it could be
perfected. The bill was made a spec
ial order for Saturday.
Senator Avery's slrcuing car rate
bill was taken up and passed by the
scn;oa. 10 fixes the rates on sleeping
cars In Missouri AS follows: On dis.
tances under 200 miles, $l.5O for low.
er and $l.25 for upper 'bcrths; on dis.
tances between 200 and 400 miles,
500 for lower and $1.75 for upper.
with The exception Of the difference
between the uprcrs and the lowers,
this Is exactly the schedule that the
Pullman company has placed In force
since this bill was introduced at the
opening OF the session.
A bin introduced by Senator Gilmore
amending the law relating to the ma
licious destruction OF or injury to
boats and vessels and other property
by adding to the existing law the in
jury or destruction OF any railroad
property, was passed by the senate.
The senate passed the Gilmore bill
providing that dispositions may be
taken in shorthand and afterward
written out and signed by the witness.
The senate court on criminal juris.
prudence agreed to u>Ort unfavorably
the McAllister bill Placing clubs under
the dramshop law and placing the
Sunday lid on them.
Gov. Folk will not make any appoint
ment at present to fiji the vacancy on
the circuit court bench of Jackson
county, caused by the death Of Judge
w. b. Toasdale. Judge SeehOrn, who
was appointed by the governor, at the
request of Judge Teasdale. to serve
during the illness of the latter, will
continue to serve until such time as
an appointment shall be made.
HOUSE.