Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-03-30
ASSEMBLY, QUITS;
PASS MANY BILLS
GOV. HADLEY EXPECTED TO APP
PROVE MAJORITY OF MEAS
uREs PASSED AT SESSION.
SUMMARY OF WORK DONE
Legislative Acts Indicate Desire of
Lawmakers to Pursue Careful
course-Salaries Boosted,
Revenue Lacking.

Many laws that will be of benefit to
the state and the people generally
were passed by the Missouri legisla-
ture, which has finished it's forty-sixth
biennial session and adjourned.
Unless the governor should be reck-
les with his veto power 2S6 new acts
will be added to the statutes. Thus far
the governor has disapproved only
two measures, one the home rule po-
lice bill for st. Louis and Kansas
City, and the other the non-partisan
election watchers bill, also applicable
to the two big cities.
Governor Hadley is expected to ap-
prove practically every measure that
went through the two houses. He
has ten days in which to make known
his decision on the bills that reached
him before adjournment and will have
so days to consider those which are
delivered to him after the close of
the legislature.
The greatest interest apparently is
In the Hull automobile bill, although
there are other acts which will have
more general effect.
Ausemobile Regulation.
This measure is expected to put an
end to joy-riding. 1t provides drastic
penalties for reckless driving, but in
creases the speed limit to rs miles an
hour on country roads under certain
conditions. 1t also will be a big rev.
enues producer.
Perhaps the most important rev.
niue measure passed is Senator Oil
ver's act, which raises the express
company. tax from So to 81 on each
500 gross business.
The Carter school apportionment
bill is another measure that is expect
ed to work benefit to the state. 1t
will promote education and will force
counties now Indifferent to education
to bestir themselves in order to obtain
adequate aid from the state.
The convict labor bill, which pro-
vides for the gradual abolition of the
contract system in the penitentiary,
will gladden. the hearts of the trade
u~nionists, who have been urging this
reform for years.
Insurance Companies Are Regulated.
Life and fire insurance companies
are covered in a big batch Of new
laws, most Of which will promote
rather than injured the insurance
business in the state. Policy holders
will reap a big benefit, it is predicted,
from the laws which authorize the
state superintendent of Insurance to
establish fire insurance rates.
The farmer was not overlooked by
his representatives in the assembly.
Mr.. McRoberts Of Lewis county is the
author Of q bill which permits any
county to erect and maintain an agri-
cultural high school where scientific
farming will be taught.
Another aid to good roads will come
from the bill requiring that poll taxes
be paid in cash in the future. The
tax ranges from So to Sc, leaving the
amount to the option Of the county
court.
State to Aid Agricultural Farms.
Speaker Barker is the author of a
bill Intended to promote agricultural
and mechanical fairs in the counties
of the state. 1t provides that the state
shall pay $500 of the premium on live
stock, agriculture and poultry at these
annual fairs.
TIL legislature was anything but
parsimionious In aproDriating the
states revenues, but the money was
SO well and equitably distributed that
for the first time in many years the
apportionment will be within the avail
able revenue, according to Senator
Lane and Representative Deal, chair
men of the respective appropriation
committees.
The total appropriations will be
$~10,190,707. 1t is estimated that the
available revenue will be at least
100000 in excess Of these figures.
All efforts to Increase dramshoP Ii
cense failed, as did also legislation to
tax and license clubs where liquors
are sold to members. The county
unit local option bill and the anti
treating bill went to the morgue after
having received the sanction of the
house. Such dramshop legislation as
passed is OF no public concern.
The state institutions will not be
under a general board of control, such
as was provided in several bills that
failed; there will be NO intermediate
reformatory built for the better class
Of youthful convicts; no state park
can be established under two years;
st. Louis will have to get along with
out a municipal court, ans Joplin and
Springfield must wait two years for
charters as cities Of the second class,
and the state factory law will not
reach beyond the limits established
in 1909.
Appropriations.
Pay civil ofncerS' salary, $bS2,lUV;
eleemosynary and penal, $1,725, 900;
educational, $1,eO1,0 900. One-third Of
revnue for support Of public schools,
$3,5O0,OO0. Contingent-Passed house,
$1,S39, 900; amended in senate adding
$109,757. Total Of contingent, $1,94S,.
Why, Professor!
"A Harvard professor has discov-
cred that woman's waist is increasing
ia size. Soon some learned person will
be making the remarkable obserya-
tion that mans arm is growing In