Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-02-28
Missouri
Legislature
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.

Representative Noyes introduced a
bill providing that the warden OF the
penitentiary should supply each con.
Wet there, once a week, with station
cry and postage for correspondence
with his family or friends and that
tho letters should be neither opened
nor read by the prison authorities.
After three months confinement, II
the prison record OF the convict Is
good, he is to be supplied with such
stationery twice weekly II he desires
Il.
Senator Kinney's bill enabling st.
Louis to secure an art museum passed
TO the stage of engrossment in the
senate. as did the Prendergast subway
bill. These bills will be on tho calen.
dar for third reading by the latter
part OF the week.
Senator McAllister's bill removing
the age limit from the parole law was
passed Thursday morning. Under the
law as II stands today no one over rs
have the benefit Of the parole. The
measure passed provides that any one
Of previous good character can be pa.
rolled on FIRST conviction. in the dlscre.
ton Of the judge.
Senator Gardeners bill fixing the
term of justices OF the peace ap.
pointed by the county court was
passed. II provides that magistrates
Of this kind who owe their office to
appointment OF the county court shall
not hold longer than the day OF the
general election in the. year in which
the justices shall be elected for the
township in which they reside There
has never been any definite time fixed
by the statutes for the term OF jug.
tees affected by the bill.
These bills were passed by the
house. all of them having their origin
in that body: Requiring railroads to
cut the weeds and brush from their
right of way: the extension OF special
road districts; providing for an In.
crease In county taxes; providing for
process in actions to determine or de.
ine title to real estate. giving the de.
iendant right TO preliminary examina-
ton.
The maximum freight rate bill was
taken mp In the senate again for the
purpose OF perfecting II by restoring
class 10 the schedule. Last week,
In amending the bill SO as to elm.
mate coal from It's provisions. all
the rest of elias ] which includes coal
was stricken out. and II was necessary
TO further delay Il until II could be
perfected. The bin was made spec.
lal order for Saturday.
Senator Ayery's sleeping car rate
bill was taken up and passed by the
senate. II fixes the rates on sleeping
ears In Missouri as follows: On dis.
tances under 200 miles, $3.50 for low.
or and Sl.25 for upper berths: on dis
tances between 200 and 400 miles,
1900 for lower and Sl75 for upper.
With the exception OF the difference
between the uppers and the lowers,
this ia exactly the schedule that the
Pullman company has placed In force
since this bill was introduced at the
opening OF the session.
A bill introduced by Senator Gilmore
amending the law relating TO the ma.
liciOus destruction of or injury to
boats and vessels and other property
by adding to the existing law the in.
Jury or destruction OF any railroad
property. was passed By the senate.
The senate passed the Gilmore bill
providing that dispositions may be
taken In shorthand and afterward
written out and signed by the witness.
The senate court on criminal juris.
prudence agreed to report unfavorably
the McAllister bill placing clubs under
the drRmshop law and placing the
Sunday lid on them
Gov. Folk will not make any appoint.
ment at present to fill the vacancy on
the circuit court bench OF Jackson
county. caused by the death OF Judge
W. D. Teasdale. Judge Seehorn. who
was appointed by the governor. at the
request OF Judge Teasdale. 10 serve
during the illness Of the latter. will
continue to serve until such time as
nm nDnointment shall he made