Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-02-28
SENATE.

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bill placing trust companies under the
general banking laws of the state.
The bill went through as amended, &C
cording to agreement between the
author of the measure and the repre-
sentatives of the trust companies of
st. Louis and Kansas City. The bill
has also been incorporated in the gen.
eral banking bill establishing the state
banking department. The latter will
not be effective, If passed, until Jan
uary is. 1909, while the Humphrey
bill will be in effect ninety days after
the close of the session.
In the senate the Bauman gas in
spection bill vas reported from the
committee on criminal jurisprudence,
with an ~unfavorable recommendation,
and on motion of Senator Bauman the
bill was taken up and indefinitely post
poned.
On motion of Senator Wornall, the
bill which passed the house some days
ago, and was reported favorably from
a senate committee, was made a spe-
cial order for next Wednesday morn
ing, The measure is one affecting all
the great railroads doing business be.
tween points in this state which are
not incorporated under the laws of the
state.
Only two bills were passed in the sen
ate during Monday. One of these is
an amendment to the Wamsley game
and fish law, prepared by Senator
Fields, making clear the much-mooted
provision of that act relative to
licenses to be required to hunt in ones
home county. The Fields bill, passed
Monday, specifically provides that no
license is necessary to hunt in the
county in which a citizen resides. The
other bill passed was a local act chang
ing the time Of holding court In Stod-
dard county.
New bills in the senate include one
by Senator Kinney, providing a stem
ographer for the court Of criminal cor
rection in st. Louis; by M. Gilmore,
amending the law relating to mutual
insurance companies; by Mr.. KAN
merer, increasing the office force of
the circuit attorney of st. Louis by
providing for another assistant and
another deputy.
After several weeks of hard work
the senate committee on agriculture.
roads and highways had agreed upon a
series of five measures, each in a way
supplementary to the other, but yet
so constructed that each will be an.
plicable, in the event Of the failure of
the others to become laws. AS a COM
panion piece the committee will also
recommend the passage OF a constitu-
tional amendment creating a road fund
by imposing a tax OF 10 cents on the
500 valuation. This would create a
road fund of something like $1,25o,O0
annually on the basis OF an assessed
valuation of ST. $50, 900, 900 In the state,
which liz approximately the assessed
valuation of the state at this time.
The bill provides that the weighing
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Quoted by the boards of trade in st.
Louis, Kansas City, and st. Joseph. lie
transferred to the state department.
In the discussion there were charges
and counter charges OF graft, the Oh.
ponents Of the bill alleging that it was
a scheme of the state board of railroad
and warehouse commissioners to en-
large Its patronage, and friends of the
measure retored that the boards Of
trade were resisting its passage be-
cause 1t would deprive them of a con
tinuance Of swindling on a petty scale.
A bill introduced by Senator Farris
increasing the pay of the docket clerks
OF the senate and house and the door
keepers Of the two bodies from $3.50
to $500 per day was passed BY the
senate.
Among the bills passed in the SEN
ate were the following: by Mr.. Prem
dergast, governing the use of stays,
hoists and sc%affolding in the construc.
ton of new buildings; by Mr.. Hum.
phrey, providing for the inspection Of
coal mines in which there Is explo-
gas, the latter being q measure
agreed upon by both mine 0wneuI shd
miners.
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