The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-03-01
SENATE.

The senate passed the humphrey
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 was reported from the
committee on criminal Jurisprudence,
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 n 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.
the senate committee on agriculture,
roads and highways had agreed upon q
series of five measures, each in a way
supplementary to the other. but yet
SO constructed that each will be ap
plicable, in the event Of the failure. oil
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 9
road fund of something like $1,250.O(
annually on the basis of an assessed
: valuation Of s 1850. 900, 900 in the state
t which is approximately the assessed
valuation Of the state at this time.
: The bill provides that the weighing
and inspection of grain now being coa
Quoted by the boards of trade in st
Louis. Kansas City. and st. Joseph, b,
transferred to the state department
: In the discussion there were charge
t and counter charges of graft. the OF
:, ponents Of the bill alleging that it wa
a scheme OF the state board OF rai!roa'
and warehouse commissioners to en-
a large its patronage. and friends OF tn
measure retored that the boards Q
t trade were resisting its passage bt
$ cause 1t would deprive them OF a cor
tinuanoa Of swindling on q petty scal'