Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-03-29
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YTHElEG|sLATURE
SUMMARY OF WORK OF FORTY.
NINTH MISSOURI GENERAL
ASSEMBLY.
81 s,5l7,7 TAG APPROPRIATIONS
Death Penalty Aboiished-voeationai
Training Provided For-Hotel In
spection Laws Revised-eank.
ing Laws Changed.

Jefferson City.-The %forty-ninth
general assembly, which wound up
its work and formally adjourned
March IL, appropriated s19.5l7,745
from the n for the mainten-
ance of the state government and its
institutions during the years 1917 and
1918.
This is s3,7G7,746 in excess of the
revenues for the biennial period, in
GLIDING moneys derived from the tax
bills, as recently estimated BY Gov.
Gardner.
The conditions under which the
state obtained q $2,300,e00 loan from
the members of the st. Louis Clear
ing House, to pay off the debts of the
state, were that there should be no
over-appropriations which might pre-
vent the state from paying the claims
taken up by a st. Louis bank the lat
ter part of the year 1918.
The appropriations, not including
one-third Of all receipts for public
schools. total sl3,011,S31, which is
over SIX 900 in exces Of the rev.
enues from present sources.
With two dissenting votes, Repre-.
sentative Whitaker's bill a~bolishing
the death penalty vote in Missouri
was passed by the senate. The late
John Whitaker. his father, when d
member of the house, secured the pas
sage OF the present law, making it op
tional with the jury whether life i'm
prisonment o. the death penalty is
inflicted in capital cases.
important Laws Enacted.
The more important laws enacted
are: State tax commission. state
prison board, with provision of funds
to employ conyicts at state work in
stead of leasing them TO private con
tractors; state highway board II
charge of the construction Of state
roads, with establishment of a means
by which the state can receive fedora
aid for roads: tax of Is cents on TIL
$1,000 Of capital and surplus of Cor
inheritances; tax OF IL cents on tn,
500 valuation of bonds owned in tn,
state; on whisky; increased salool
license; mine inspection tax; tax OF
soft drinks; a prohibition of the in
Fiction of the death penalty; highe
standard OF dentistry examinations
any county to vote to maintain a pull
lie hospital; vocational educational
bills, under which Missouri can RI
ceive federal aid for vocational trair
ing in the public schools; stronger he
tel inspection law; $500, 900 appropr
ated for furnishing the new capitol
permission of the board of education
of st. Louis to pay transportation O
poor children to and from school
Halves l. Y. l.. bill, prohibiting the Gil
culation of anonymous literature dul
ing a political campaign; employment
Of convicts on the public roads author
lied; regulation Of the shipment an
handling of milk, cream and ict
cream; permission for officers In S
Louis police stations to accept cas-
bonds in misdemeanor cases; prob
bition of the e1tortion of confession
by the police; establishment Of hig
schools for colored students In s
Louis county authorized; Septembt
2S established as Francis Willard da
in the public schools; regulation
purchase and sale Of firearms: pro
ecuting attorney of St. Louis count
prohibited from engaging in the pl
vate practice OF law; automobile
censes doubled: permission for cha
lengers and watchers at the polls
constitutional amendment elections
permission for the %contesting OF CO
stitutional amendment elections
women made eligible to membersh
on school boards; department OF fox
and drug inspection put under sta
board of agriculture; the reorganiz
ton Of the Missouri naval reserve
meet the requirements o ( the natio
al defense act; removal Of muni'
pally.owned public utilities from Il
jurisdiction Of the public service col
mission; repeal Of allowance Of CO
tingent fund for the prosecuting
toraey Of st. Louis county; providil
that court records and papers may
made by Photographic process; esta
lishment by the state Of q home I
neglected and homeless childrel
authorization to counties to era
pensions to neglected mothers or vi
may have been deserted; repeal
law prohibiting foreign corporatio
from owning more than 10 per ce
Of the stock Of any Missouri corpol
Best Ne Could Offer.
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