Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-02-28
: Missouri
Legislature
LEGISLATIVE T 8.

Representative Moves introduced a
bill providing that the warden of the
~penitentiary 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, il
the prison record of the convict is
good, he is to be supplied with such
stationery twice weekly If he desires
it.
Senator Kinney's bill enabling st.
Louis to secure an art museum passed
to the stage of engrossment In the
senate, as did the P~rendergast subway
bill. These bills will be on the ealen-
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 one over rs
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 or first conviction, in the. discre-
ton of the Judge.
Senator Gardner's bill fixing the
term of justices of the peace ap-
pointed by the county court was
passed. 1t provides that magistrates
of this kind who W their office to
appointment Of the county court shall
not hold longer than the day of the
general election in the yea in which
the justices shall be elected for the
township in which they reside. There
has never been any definite time fixed
by the statutes for the term of JUS
tees 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 districts; providing for an in
crease in county taxes; providing for
process in actions to determine or de-
fine title to 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 perfecting it by restoring
class j to the schedule. Last week,
in amending the bill SO as to elm
mate coal from its provisions, all
the rest Of elias J which includes coal
was stricken out, and it was necessary
to further delay it until it could be
perfected. The bill was made. a spec.
ial order for Saturday.
Senator Avery's sleeping car rate
bill was taken up and passed by the
senate. 1t fixes the rates on sleeping
cars in Missouri as follows: On dis
tances under 200 miles, $3.50 for low
er and $1.25 for upper berths; on dis
tances between 200 and 400 miles.
$500 for lower and SITS for upper.
With the exception of the difference
between the uppers and the lowers,
this is exactly the schedule that the
company has placed in force
since this bill was introduced at the
opening of the session.
A bill 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 iuris-
prudence agreed to report u%nfavorably
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 fill the vacancy on
the circuit court bench of Jackson
caused by the death of Judge
W. B. Teasdale. Judge Seehorn, who
was appointed by the governor, at the
request of Judge Teasdale, to serve
the illness of the latter, will
continue to serve until such time as