Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-01-30
STATE ASSEMBLY HAPPENINGS
BUSINESS is IN FULL SWING At
JEFFERSON CITY.
Both Branches Of State Legislature
Get Down to Business-Many
Bills introduced.

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number OF new positions the legis-
lature is asked to create for the tax
payers OF Missouri to support is
amazing even the House and Senate
leaders.
The proposed new state jobs range
everywhere from a state inspector OF
automatic couplers, who shall receive
a salary of $4,000 a year and $1,000
for travelling expenses. to the men,
bers of the proposed public service
utilities board
Some of the new positions bills in
troduced in the House and Senate
propose to create are:
State inspector Of automatic coup
lers, $4,000 a year.
Secretary of the state poultry com
mission, $4,000 a year.
State dairy commissioner, $4,000 a
year. Two assistants at $500 a
year.
State board of pardons. three men,
bers to receive $4,000 a year.
Three members of public service
commission, $500 a year. An attor-
ney, $500 a year; a secretary, So
500 a year.
State auditing board of unlimited
numbers to receive $3.50 a day. the
state auditor to appoint all assist.
ance necessary.
Panama-Pacific Exposition commits
sion. five members, to receive S. a
day.
Two additional clerks in the secre-
tary of states office to handle motor
car licenses at $500 a year.
Several additional corporation tax
clerks for secretary of states office
at $500 a year.
Increase OF salary for state bee in
spector or apiarist, as the lawmakers
call it. of 5000 a year.
State fire marshal, $500 a year,
and two assistants at $500 a year.
State textbook commission of five.
expenses and S. per day.
State medical supervisor, $500 a
year.
Members Of state electrical board,
five, to receive $40 a day and en-
yenses.
State highway commissioner, $500
a year, and two assistants 1t 81, 500
q year.
State immigration commissioner at
$4,000 a year and an immigration
commissioner at 1880 a year.
Secretary of state optometrical
board, s. a day and expenses.
State drainage department. secre-
tary, $4,000 a year.
State education commission, expen-
ses for investigating trips.
Those are just some of the Jobs
and salaries specified in some OF the
more important measures. Most of
these bills give the new commissions
created authority to hire all the
clerks and stenographers they need.
Jefferson City.-Cain Of Stoddard
introduced a bill in the senate making
some important changes in the dram
shop laws as applicable to cities of
$4,000 inhabitants and more. 1t pro-
vides that if a majority Of the resi-
dents Of any voting precinct petition
against the location of a dramshop
in such precinct no license shall be
issued for a period of four years and
then only in the event a majority of
the residents sign a petition there
for.
Jefferson City.-Both senate and
house adjourned Friday unail Mon
day afternoon. The house held two
sessions that 1t might catch up with
routine business, but the senate was
through in an hour.
Senator Greene of Kansas City in
troduced by request, a bill regulating
marriages in this state. The measure
was drawn by Roy Smith of Kansas
City, and requires applicants for IL
cense to marry to give three days no
tice of such application and that the
parties contemplating matrimony
must have the certificate Of a physi-
clan.
One of the most important bills of
the session, introduced by Senator
Craig, prohibits the substitution of
any material for leather in the manu-
facture OF boots and shoes unless the
same is labeled and stamped as an
imitation. 1t provides severe fines
and other penalties for ~vialotions of
the proposed law.
After a party caucus lasting more
than an hour the Democratic senator's
decided to return all Of Governor
Hadley's recess appointments to Gov.
rno Major. A resolution to that eff
feet was offered in the senate by
Senator Casey of Kansas City and
carried by a strict party vote. There
are forty-seyen such appointments.
among them being the following: f..
Senator Beavens Is the author Of q
DILL empowering the governor in the
event OF disability, through sickne IS
or otherwise, OF a judge Of the supreme