Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-02-21
SENATE.

senator kinney a Dill
Thursday afternoon which seeks to
place the office of excise commission
er of the city Of st. Louis under the
supervisory control of the circuit court
of that city. The court, should this
bill become a law, would have the right
to pass upon and review all of the
official acts of the commissioner. APP.
peals from his refusal to grant a IL
cense, or the revocation Of one, will go
to the court for final determination.
Senator Humphreys bill affecting
the trust companies OF st. Louis has
finally been arranged satisfactorily to
all concerned by substituting for the
original measure sections agreed upon
by its author and the delegation of
trust company representatives headed
by Breckenridge Jones, John F. Lee
and others. This substitute was adopt
ed in the senate Thursday afternoon
and ordered engrossed.
Nearly all of the numerous petitions
filed in the senate Thursday asked for
the passage of legislation regulating
the sale and manufacture of patent
and proprietary medicines in this
state.
Other new bills Thursday were by
Cooper, to empower state board of
health to inspect private sanitariums;
by Cooper, for commitment of insane
persons to private sanitariums; by
Wornall, changing time of holding Cir
cult court in Holt county; by Gilmore,
establishing board of examiners to
license professional nurses; by Farris,
amending law relating to witnesses;
by Methudy, prohibiting certain medi-
cal advertisements; by Hudson, relat.
ing to admission to girls industrial
home; by Humphrey, establishing
board to license expert accountants.
Senator Humphrey introduced a
joint and concurrent resolution Thurs
day submitting an amendment to the
constitution providing for a distribu-
ton of the collateral inheritance tax
between the state university, the nor
NAL schools, high schools and the road
fund.
The fact was discovered at the
Thursday session of the senate, after
engrossment had been ordered, that
in eliminating the coal schedule from
Mr.. Cooper's freight rate bill all OF
class 81" which contains such com
modities as stone, cordwood, railroad
ties, cement and other heavy freight
had been entirely eliminated, making
a reconsideration of the engrossmenI
necessary. The bill was then laid ovel
until Monday, at which time 1t will be
properly amended SO as to include al
of class 81" with the exception of coal
Gov. Folk Thursday sent appoint
ments to the senate for confirmation
as follows: G. H. Walters of Rich
Hill and Theodric McDarmon of st
Charles, members of the board of man
ayers of the Nevada hospital for the
insane, each for a term of four years
from February l.. j. N. Crutcher o.
C~hillicothe, Gen, Lee Rudd of Jefferson
City and j. r. Moorehead of Lexington
members of the state board of chart
ties and corrections.
There was not a negative vote il
the passage of Senator Kinney's chil(
labor bill. 1t prohibits the employ
ment of any child under Ia years o
age in any factory, theatre, mercantil,
house, messenger service, in fact
every line of employment, and regu
dates the hours that children unde,
16 and owe IA shall be worked. TIL,
maximum hours per day Is fixed a
nine, and no child of this age shall
be worked more than 81 hours eacl
week. Enforcement of the law il
lodged in the state factory inspector
who is required to prosecute all vic
lations of it, which are punishable b.
fines ranging from $40 to 500 TO
each offense.
Senator Majors "Jim Grow" Law
passed the senate Thursday after
sharp debate by the partisan vote o
20 to IL. Every democratic senate
who was In his seat voted for the bill
and every republican against 1t.