Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-01-26
THE MISSOURI LEGISLATURE
LAWMAKERS CONVENE IN elEN-
NAL SESSION.
House and Senate Organize Elect
officers and Appoint Committees
Ready for Work.

a new incorporation act for business
and manufacturing corporations will
have ready for the legislature what is
promised to be the model law Of its
class.
The vote for senator gave the sue
cessiCn to Senator Warner to James
A. Reed of Kansas City over John c.
Mckinley by a vote of % to II in the
senate and 50 to 40 in the house.
An appropriation of $4,000 was
asked in the house to erect in one of
Senator Thomas Hart Benton.
Examination of school children for
sight, hearing and other defcts is pro-
vided in bills introduced in both
houses.
Representative Roach introduced
last sessions public service commits
sion bill, providing for five commits
sioners with siX-year terms, having
control of railroads and other com
mon carriers, gas, electric, telephone,
telegraph, water works and similar
companies.
Senator Hawkins introduced a bill
by request allowing women to act as
school directors.
jefferson City.-A bill to legal.
legalize boxing in Missouri was intro.
duced in the house by Representative
Paulus of st. Louis.
nnntnoittan nf tho Stutn hnr aSGr.
citation is drafting a bill to protect in.
vestors and put a stop to the m
Gus million" dollar companies that
never get beyond the paper stage.
Members of the committee or Grim
inal jurisprudence are receiving let,
tiers from many of their constituents
either urging or protesting against the
passage of the Holmes bill making the
unwritten law a legal defense.
J. Eads How, the "millionaire'
tramp came here to urge the passage
of a bill he is drafting that will give
cities the power to vote bonds to fur
nish work to unemployed men in peri
DDS of financial depression.
Senator Alice, who lives on the Bag
nell branch of the Missouri Pacific,
introduced a bill to require every rail
road to run at least one passenger
train over its lines each day.
A resolution to submit 10 the people
labor was presented in the house by
Representative Fear of Joplin. Labor
unions of the state are behind the
movement.
The vital statistics acts, requiring
the registration of births and deaths,
is repealed by a bill introduced By
Representative ]. II. Martin of Iron
the proposition of abolishlng convict
county.
jefferson City.-Senator Lysaght
introduced in the senate the
employers liability act that the labor
organizations have been working on
for several months. The bill provides
that when a person is injured or kill
ed in the service of an employer his
right to recover damages is not great
er nor less than if he had not been
so employed.
Two administration home rule bills,
prepared by a committee appointed
by Governor Hadley, were introduced
in the house by Hiram Lloyd of St
Louis. Both contemplate centering
control of the police and excise de-
partments in Kansas City and St
Louis with the mayor.
The democrats unseated Harvey D
Dow, republican member from Pettis
county, and seated the democratic
contestant, DR.. r. S. Tyler. Dow's
plurality vas only n vote.
These bills were introduced: nc
limit the storage of food products tc
100 days, and the dating Of such
products. Providing for a state flag
Requiring corporations to pay EN-
ployes weekly or semi-monthly..
jefferson City. $50 Representative
Warner offered a bill providing
that no aviator, pilot or engineer o.
an aeroplane, biplane or balloon may
ascend to a greater height than 1,OO(
feet.
Senator Gardner offered a bill u
authorize cities that make their owl
charters to provide their own excise
commissioner who would collec
state, county and city dramshop Ii
censes.
The report on the theft of desk
and books from the capitol between
sessions of the legislature was mad'
in the house. The only action on tn
report was an order for new furni
ture.