Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-17
The Sport Writer In jeff.

The Sport Writer In JEFF.
Jefferson City. Jan. I2--Freak bills play
important parts in state legislation. The
importance Of the "nut" measures devel-
op as the bills increase. You can get any
old kind Of q measure introduced II you
will only have it typewriter and en,body
In it something that will give the village
orator a chance to show what he can do
In the spelling line. some Of the wheel
house fancies' are introduced for fun,
while others are offered in all serious.
ness. a few have already found their
wsy to the reading clerks. but next week
at least a dozen real ripe ones will be
sprung for the benefit Of the comic sup
plements.
The motor cars win come IN for SOME
very drastic legislation. This bill will
have so many amendments that the orig.
inal will not be recognized by its author.
IL is like the Walmsley game law. The
rural members don't know exactly what
to do with it. One member has a bill
which looks good to the boys from the
towns with the little red scliolhouses.
His plan Is to make an open season for
the motor cara just the same as the game
law. He believes that the farmers should
not be allowed to shoot at chaffeurs any
oftener than a sportsman should pop
away at a quail and for that reason he
believes In a season, of say, two months
in a year. He believes any man caught
vn the highway with a zizz cart except in
July or August should be liable to a fine
and imprisonment.
Nearly half Of the members will intro.
duce bills that righAfully belong in the
swanspleuds committee. but as each men,
bar believes in the merit of his pet aud
particular asylum essay he wilr work to
have it passed. He will visit another
member who has a bug" and finally
when about fifty of them'have gotten to-
gether and talked the. freaks over they
reach a csnpromise by agree ng to vote
for each others Fills. That's How many
jokes are put up on the public.
The anti. rabbit bill will be one of the
important measures to face the house this
week. This bill does not prevent the
ruthless slaughter Of poor bunny, but it
is an act to prevent hotel keepers from
charging exorbitant prices for the Jeffer
son City staple. The bill will provide
for a scale OF prices as follows:
Pried rabbit, fifteen cents.
Fricaseed bwnny. two bits.
Boiled on the cob, ten cents.
Baked rabbit. . Il Jefferson City. IS cents.
There is certainly nothing unreason-
able in this bill. At present a collation.
of bunny in the firstciass hotels repre-.
sents the SUM of fifty cents. Under the
new scale the Legislators can save money
as the rabbit season IL always OIL here,
aud for q half a dollar one can dine
sumptuhusly on bunIies three times a
day.
But the anti booze bills are the popula,
ones. Every district represented here
has a petition from the various churches
10 make it felony to mingle with the
festive tod. Some want to make it cap.
ital punishment to be caught talking &c
a bartender, while others are of the opin
ion that a ts09 fiwe will be enough The
brewery lobbyists are b%ew,ldered. II
wouldn't be so hard to Eighth one lone
bill. but when it cornes to tackling some
thing like a hundred it's too much.
II never knew what a good thing my