Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-03-07
SENATE.

The garnishment law recommended
by the Retail Merchants Association
of the state met its death in the sem
ate Thursday. 1t proposed to so amend
the present law as to give tradespeo-
pie a larger per cent of wages subject
to garnishment through debts contract
ed for the necessaries of life. Delega-
tons Of merchants have been coming
to Jefferson City all winter in the in
terest of this measure, but found many
of the lawmakers averse to changing
the present statute. The labor unions
fought the bill from the start. Seem
ingly, the opposition was 90 strong
to leave any hopes for favorable con-
sideration, and to end the struggle
Senator Peck, who introduced the bnl
in the senate, moved its indefinite post
ponement. The motion was adopted
without dissent.
After many delays, Senator Bradley,
of st. Francois, succeeded Thursday
in securing the passage of his bill in
the senate extending the provisions Of
the fellow servant law to the lead,
coal, zinc and copper mines of the
state. This MEASURE was twice sent
to a committee, twice engrossed and
laid over and postponed perhaps a
dozen times. The act makes corpora
tons owning and operating mines liza
BILE for damages to employees as the
result of negligence or c~arelessness of
co-employes. In a general way it Is
just such a law as the one that applies
to employees of railroad companies.
One section renders void any con
tract that may be entered into be-
tween employer and employee that
would obviate the full enforcement of
the law in the matter of liability for
damages.
For more than four hours the senate
Thursday afternoon discussed and
amended the house anti-lobby bill and
then laid the task of completing the
measure over, something due entirely
to the fact that everybody was worn
out with the torturous debate. FRIENDS
of the measure, as it came from the
house, were unable to identify the
mangled remains of the act. Senator
Ely, of Dunklin, who led the fight for
the bill, stated in one of his speeches,
after an amendment had been adopted,
that he considered the bill killed, and
would be willing to vote for its indefi-
mite postponement. Later on he mod
flied this by stating tnat he yet de-
sired to see the measure accorded a
decent funeral, and to this end would
vote for it.
Senator Bradley's eight-hour tele-
graph bill finally got through the
senate Monday afternoon, after a long
seige of buffeting in that body. In the
form in which the masure got through,
eight hours in constituted a days work
for any operator of telegraph or tele-
phone handling train orders, with the
exception of those at stations where
only n man is employed, and the
station is kept open only in the day
time, when twelve hours shall con-
stitute a days work. In case of sick
ness, wreck, death, or washout, the op-
orator may be kept on duty sixteen
hours. This is the bill that was support
ed by the federation of labor, and the
telegraphers' organization.
Bills were passed by the senate
Monday afternoon al follows: Provid-
ing for a Typographical and hydrograp-
hical survey of the st. Francis river
and its basin and appropriating $10,-
900 for that purpose; providing for the
payment of actual expenses of a cir
cult judge when called to another cir
cult to hold court; exempting the re-
gistration of bonds of cities of 400
900 and over with the state auditor;
requiring that mortgages on farm
machinery and agricultural implements
he recorded; amending the change of
venue in justices courts in st. Louis;
for disbursement of appropriation for
national guard under direction of the
governor; giving state board of osteo-
pathy power to revoke certificates and
prohibiting practice of that branch Of
Medicine without license from the
state board; authorizing the city of st.
Louis to levy a tax for the support of
a library and museum.
Senator Farris got through to en-
grossment Monday afternoon his bill
providing for the nomination of a
candidate for United States senator at
the general election. Senator Mayer
also managed to get advanced to that
stage the series Of bills carrying the
charter Of the city Of st. Joseph. Both
Of these measures were given prece-
dence in the printing. The senate
committee on ways and means report
ed ~favorably on the house bill intro
duced by Mr.. Raymond requiring all
persons soliciting business for mail
order or catalogue houses to take out
peddlers licenses. The bill fixes a fine
of not less that $40 nor more than $100
for violations Of the act.
The senate committee on criminal
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