The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-05-13

'M,rnudy ....... st. LoGis CITY 30
Total
Not Recorded on Amendment.
Ngm' County District
. 'N,lug Observation-Disclosures. Jasper 81
'rr,udrrgner ....st. Louis city 81
'Nur'd Tor Go. tax rider.
" 'h' ''N 'I''f ,'..'.,........lN
/ Against the taA rider .,.,.............l5
Jefferson city Suaddlod by a tax
rider which provides for the doubling
/ Of the rate Of taxation, the resolution
Oh submitting TO the people the state.
/ Wid" prohibition amendment was
/ passed by the senate Wednesday aft.
"rHuOu by Il vote Of % to 5. two sen.
/ ators not voting
The senate also eliminated the
claus" in the amendment making the
change effective in 1873.
The amendment win be operative
Immediately II adopted by the people.
The resolution now goes to the
house. II is generally believed that
the lower body will disnpproye of the
plan to increase the rate Of taxation,
and, owing TO the short time the legls.
laturc will be in session, action is
not considered likely.
Dry advocates are much chagrincd
By M" vote OF the senate.
Members Of the house said they
would not agree to either of the
amendments. Tho house is expected
to refuse to concur In these amend
mcnts and the senate will refuse to
rccodo. leaving the submission meas.
urc up In the air
Wednesdays battle in the senate
was surprise TO both sides. for
neither had correct poll Of the sen.
ate The prohibitionists expected
substantial victory They figured thai
both committee amendments would
be- lost. The opposition estimated that
the Conrau proyiso would be adopted
but that the tax rider would he de
fcatpd.
The surprise Of the day was the
speech and subsequent vote of Senator
Pr.k Of Atchison county. who two
years aEo Numbered for submission
and then, AS az this session, was the
author Of the only submission measure
pending in that body that bore the
official stamp of the prohibitionists
hut II developed that he had been
converted to the belief that statewide |
prohibition should not be submitted |
to the people without a tax rider that |
would insure the return by direct tax. |
alton Of the revenue thai would Ger, |
tainiy be lost In the event Of the pro- !
hibi'Ion being adopted 1t was only |
az the end of a long speech that the /
senator expressed this view, and that .
gave the anti.prohibtionisls their first .
genuine hope Of victory, which later
fell easily TO their lot.
Most Of the speeches were made on
the taX.rider amendment There was
no debate on the measure after the
twa amendments submitted by the com.
mittcc were adopted. The debate
took in wide scope. as usually hap.
pens when such questions are under
consideration and the speakers are
not held down strictly to the question
Immediately before them.
Greene swings the Hammer.
This later argument left loophoie,
which Senator Greene of Kansas City
was Cuicli TO take advantage of and
use with telling effect. He contcnded
that IL the people should adopt con.
stitutional prohibition In November.
1910 there would no longer be any
power vested in the state, counties or
to collect dramshop Ii
cense. He made the closing argument,
he did not forget to hammer on the
fact that II would be impossible TO
collect any dramshop licenses follow
Ing the adoption OF prohibition, and
and, although he talked considerable
about the evil result that would fol-
low In jackson county and Kansas
City II prohibition should be adopted,
that every part of the state would suf.
fer, even the dry counties, because
they would be deprived OF their share
Of school money accruing to the state
from dramshop license.
Those who argued for submission
that the people have petit
Toned for a fair proposition, stripped /.
Of all issues save that OF constitution {
Al prohibition. There were yelled ac- ,
,usations made that the liquor inter. 9
ssts were behind the tax rider but ,
40 direct charges Of this kind were :
made. While the debate was the most I
spirited heard In the senate since the
ace track law was repealed in 1905,
ret personalities were not INDUCED In. a
Senators adhered strictly to parlia. :
usages. U