The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-02-02
LIGHTS FROM THE LEGISLATURE
tBy Frank Armstrong;

the House up to FRIDAY OF last week.
Among them were these: To allow
jurors, not on the regular panel sum-
moned to serve on case, where the
offense is punishable by death or life
Imprisonment $500 per day and five
cents mileage, going and coming,
whether he sits in the trial or is chal
lenged off; to put county surveyors
on salaries; allowing prosecuting at
torneys in counties having less than
$4,000 inhabitants, travelling expenses
when away from the county seat on
official business; allowing judges of
the county court salaries, in accord
ance to the population of the county;
making owners of motor vehicles Ii
able for negligence Of users thereof;
forbidding taking the pelts of fur
bearing animals, except from De-
cember l, to February Is; prohibiting
remarriage within one year after the
granting of divorce; abolishing the
department of land reclamation; per-
hitting the organization of mutual
automobile insurance companies; al
lowing the free use of public school
buildings for the free discussion of
public questions, civic, social and edu-
cational meetings; prohibiting the
publication and distribution of annoy
nous printed matter relative to a
candidate for public office; allowing
county superintendent of public
schools travelling expenses; requiring
all notes to be stamped by the as
SCISSOR of the township or county in
snh hn hnl IF
The good roads advocates in Mis-
souri,, and they are legion, are hop
ing the Halves bill gets through the
committee without being rendered use
less with lot of looney amendments.
The Missouri Press Association has
'took" after the paper trust with a
pistol and side stick and is going to
get its pate. The newspaper men are
being told to buy all paper as sparing-
ly as possible, for it will not be long
until the trust will kick in with faif
prices.
1t is quite reasonable to believe
that the st. Louis anti-Democratic pa
pers are really stalling for booze, that
they are hoping to disgust the public
with the issues of their galleys of
glazing falsehoods concerning the
feeling in the Legislature in regard to
the subject. The Kansas N'ty Star is
| spilling its stuff simply because it
can't help itself. 1t is foregone con-
clusion that it is only a question of a
short time until the nation and state
is going dry. This is so apparent the
liquor agents are not maintaining a
legislative agent here. They are get
ting even better results from self
styled dry members, who would not
settle the question if it were in their
power. 1t is their single political as
set. They are disciples of H-2-0 for
selfish purposes only. They insist
emily contend they have been annoint-
ed and appointed to decry Democ-
racy's doom, and declare the party will
voloplane to perdition unless they are
the pilots. The Democratic party ex-
listed long before they were diapered,
and will endure aeons after the earth
worms breed on their bonedry brains.
The st. Louis Post-Dispatch, the
most bedraggled bawd in newspaper
dom, has said the members of form
er assembly copied the cuspidors
from the Capitol and was greatly
crushed at their claimed culpability.
A once over of the corps of reportorial
macs furnishing the metropolitan pa
pers with perverted legislative news
proved the panderer of the Post-Dis-
patch was writing his prevarications
with pencil purloined from the State,
on paper that had been pre-empted.
These bills "got by" committees:
State inspection of hay; creating a
state bureau of dairying and regulat-
ing the production, manufacturing and
distribution of dairy products; pro-
viding regulation for handling milk,
cream and ice cream; compelling stop
page of all passenger trains at coun-
ty seat towns; forbidding professional
fortune telling; providing for chal-
lengers of votes on constitutional
amendments; creating and establish
ing a market commission; providing
for search of houses where intoXicat-
| ing liquors are suspected of being il
legally stored; providing state aid for
approved rural schools; abolishing
death penalty where conviction is had
on circumstantial evidence; allowing
bounty Of $1,000 on wolves and $500
on cubs, state and county each pay
half; allowing sheriffs rs cents per
day for board of prisoners.
A proposed constitutional emend-
ment prescribes that an election be
held in November, 1918, to vote on the
question of statewide prohibition.
Representatives of the seven Mis-
souri, temperance organizations met
here Wednesday of last week.
A flock of falsifiers are saying that
Warden Painters appointment was a
political play, in face of the fact that
he was one of the candidates in the
primary against the Governor. Mr..
Painter was selected because he is
the proper person for the position.
He does not believe in coddling Grim
inals, yet he ever remembers that all
they know, who lie in Jail, is that
"the walls are strong, and every day
is like a year, year whose days are
long" He already has plans under
way that will be beneficial to the in
mates of the institution and to the
people.
The constitutionality of two of
Governor Gardner's proposed revenue
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