Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-04-20
MISSOURI STATE
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NOTES THAT ARE OF INTEREST
TO MlSSOURlANS.
d. ief Mention Of Matters as They
Occur at jefferson City,
Official and other.
wise.

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Jefferson City.-The supreme court
appointed the bipartisan commission
as follows: 8. f. Brown of st.
Joseph and Reuben F. Roy Of New
London, Republicans; II. w. Pond Of
st. Louis and James +. Blair, assist
ant attorney general, Democrats. The
appointment is for four years or n
til the supreme court clears up it's
docket.
The commissioners were named I'M
der a law of the recent legislature to
work on the congested docket of the
court and report the law and facts of
different cases to the court. The de.
cisions of the commissioners must
pass under the review of the supreme
court before they become binding and
effective.
Eben Brown has been connected
with the legal department Of the Rock
Island Railroad company several
years.
Reuben Roy was the Republican
nominee for congress in the Ninth
district against Champ Clark last No.
vember.
Judge Henry w. Bond was for a
number of years a member of the st.
Louis court of appeals, and then re-
signed to resume private practice.
James T. Blair, assistant attorney
general, was appointed in January,
1909. Prior to this he represented De.
Kalb county in the house.
The supreme court commission was
provided for in an act Of the recent
legislature. Each of the commission.
ers will receive the salary of a Judge
of the supreme court, $4,000 a year.
The commissioners will have cases
assigned TO them and hear arguments.
Their findings, however, will be voted
as the findings of a referee-subject
to the approval of the court.
Gov. Hadley has sent to the secre.
tary of state his veto message of
house bill No. $50, a bill providing for
a state board OF immigration, repeal
ing the present law and creating a
new board, to be composed of the gov
ernor, the secretary Of state, the state
auditor, treasurer and attorney gen.
eral and appropriating 100000 for the
support of the commission. Since the
Legislature failed to place the appro-
priation in the regular appropriation
bill, the governor finds that 1t Is not
available for use by the commission.
The state auditor, under advice Of the
attorney general, refused to pay out
any money under the law passed two
years ago, for that reason. The gov.
ernor proposes to continue the work
of the board through subscriptions as
was done two years ago and leave the
matter to the next legislature. He
says he has assurances that an or
ganization will be effected along these
lines by real friends of immigration.
o.
The state board Of equalization re-
duced the valuation placed by asses
sors upon the real estate and personal
property of the state s52,377,29S and
concluded its work except on public
seINlCe COI Dul dIlOub. uc IOldl Ndlu-
alton of all real and personal prop
erty in Missouri as based upon the
boards's figures is 81 ,495,215,001. The
assessors returned a valuation of ST..
547,592, 290, which the board reduced
The valuation permitted to stand by
the board is s31 ,226,14S higher than
the valuation placed upon real estate
and personal property by the state
board last year. Last years valua-
ton was $1,463, 9SS,S5S
Gov. Hadley signed the bill pro-
viding that employees may be made
joint defendants in damage suits
against railroads. The object OF this
bill is to prevent nonresident rail-
road corporations from removing dam
age suits against them to the federal
courts. By joining employees who re-
side in this state as defendants the
state courts would maintain jurisdic-
tion.
o
State Treasurer James Cowgirl in
his regular monthly report filed with
Gov. Hadley shows the transactions
and condition OF the treasury during
the month of March as follows: Bal
ence on hand February 2s. $685..
276.16; receipts during the month ST..
1~72,21937; disbursements during the
month 81 ,O22, 4O7.5 so; balance on hand
March 81, s3,SS3.oS7,94.