The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1909-05-14
AMENDMENT PROVIDING PRoHl.
BITIoN IN 1911 INSTEAD OF
1918 ALSO TURNED DOWN.
BILL GOES BACK TO SENATE
Little Likelihood That Upper Body
viii Recede From Its Former
Action-Death Now Seems
To Be Certain.

were taken up by the house In turn
ing down the two senate amendments
to the Killion prohibition resolution.
The resolution was reported back
to the senate by Chief Clerk Goshorn
Of the house. Calling up the ques-
ton is a privileged matter, and SEN
ator Anthony, who managed the reso-
luton in that body says he does not
know when he will call it up.
1T makes little difference what is
done with the resolution toward put
ting it to conference" said Senator
Anthony. Il believe the resolution
is dead, and conference will not be
able to bring it back to life"
Amendment Killed in Hurry.
1t was just 1915 o'clock when Rep
resentative Killion called up the reso-
luton in the house. Considerable time
was taken up in reading the resolu-
ton and the two amendments. After
it was read Killion shouted:
Il move that the house %non-concur
in senate amendment No. 1 to house
joint and concurrent resolution No.
sixteen.
Il second the notion" shouted half
a dozen other members at the same
instant.
A viva voce vote was taken on the
motion and only two or three noes
could be heard. The echoes hardly
had died away when Killion repeated
the motion for the second amendment.
1t carried with the, same whoop that
was shown in the rejection of the
first senate amendment.
At the conclusion of the noncon-
currence Killion wanted a conference
committee appointed, but the rules
of the two bodies provide that the
measure must first go back to the
senate for IN opportunity to recede
in the amendments. Should that body
refuse to recede, which it probably
will do, then it will ask the house to
name a conference committee.
Death Seems Certain.
The first amendment which the
house turned down struck out a part
of the house resolution fixing enforce
ment of prohibition, in the event it
should pass the legislature and be
adopted by the people, at Jan. 1, 1918,
and made enforcement two years ear
lier. AS it stands the house insists
on 1913, and the senate 1911.
The second amendment provided
for a tax rider doubling the state rate
of assessment for the revenue fund
from Is to 80 cents, and the doubling
of the possible maximum rate for
city and county purposes.
The action of the house it is be-
lieved, ties up the resolution in such
a name that its defeat SEEM GER
tain.
Senator Humphrey thinks the house
has the senate "up a tree" and will
work hard to have Senators let the
tax rider fall. He has little hope of
success. Failing to change it's atti-
tude, the senate will ask for a joint
conference committee.
BY a vote of 81 to 81, the Kies bill
once more failed of passage. Most of
the Democrats present and some Re-
publicans voted against the measure.
The result, it is believed, destroys
the last hope, but n of lid club leg
islation.
1t is the plan of Kies and others
with whom the governor has talked
to have the house add to the Dowell
tax bill the provision relating to the
taxation Of clubs.
This was stricken out by the senate
In the belief that the Kies bill, which
had been pending for weeks, would
undoubtedly pass the house. There
was in the senate, as in the house, a
strong antipathy to putting social
clubs of repute under police surveil-
lance. This opposition still exists in
both houses, and even Kies has little
hope of being able to do what the
governor wants him to do.