The Holt County sentinel., 1917-03-16
jefferson City, Mo.


March 10, 1917.
Dear Sentinel:-I believe In my
last message to you, | told you we
were engaged in discussion of the
famous Dog Tax Bill. Well, we aired
the subject for about 4 or hours,
and finally sent 1t to engrossment,
with q few amendments. Will quote
few Of the proposed amendments,
which. Of course, were not adopted.
but caused quite rifle: Amend
ment. House Bill, No. 26S-by strik-
ing out all of Section IL of said bill.
and inserting new section In lieu
thereof to be known as Section Ii (;
Section ii--That each head of a
household shall be entitled to own
one male dog, free Of tax, of the fol-
lowing kinds: Deer hounds, fox
hounds, stag hounds, grey hounds.
blood hounds, Newfoundland, st. Ber-
nard. Dane, Bull dog, Scotch Collie.
Shepherd. Our English setter, Irish
setter. Irish pointer, English pointer,
coon dog, possum dog, rabbit, beagle.
Scotch terrier. rat terrier. poodle dog
spitz flee, angora lap dog, pug or
water spaniel and each kind Of dog Of
the above named shall be entitled to
one female companion. free from oil
tax; all heads Of households owning
dogs in excess of the above named
dogs and their companions. shall nav
81 90 per male dog and s3.OO nor 10.
male, owned or kent on their prcm.
Uses.
Amendment No. n-Amendmer.
House Bill. No. PCS, BY adding n new
section thcrto. 60 be known as Sec
ton IL, and creating the office Of
state dog insnector. and prescr;h;,y
his duties and fixing the salary 10 he
mid the same. section I3--tbcre \.
hereby created the Office of state dog
Inspector for the state of Missouri
M a salary of s2.aOO,OO nor wear, ,n
be maid mon,bly' Il shall no tho dut,
of the state dog inspector IN insnrr,
nil dogs in the state and asccrta IN
the kind. color and sex Of nil dog
subject Ia taxation under this act IL
shall he the further duty bf snG IN.
spcctor TO keen in his Office M Left.
son CITY record of nil dogs 40 In
spec.or and tho date of inspcc,ion.
.aid record 10 he kent omen IN ~"
general public nj nil times. he shat
have the power 10 nppoint such DOM.
ties and stcnovrnphcrs ms he nn,.
deem necessary for the propcr trnn.
saction of tho duties Of his office N,
shall he nppointod by tho vovcrncr
and shall serve for n term Of four
wears from the time Of bis annoini i.
mcn,. and the General Assemble roe.
ommcnds the Amendment of tho v,p.
,lcman from Worth county. Mr.. H..
man, as dog INSPECTOR for tho n, !,
term"
There were numerous other nu,crd.
mcnts nronosed. Will send Won Tho
amended hill.
Well. We nrc doing some strcpuo.
work nov, Have been busy. cpvro.
ing bills; have also pnsscd quite n
number of bills, which will soon h. .
come laws of Missouri.
A resolution. offered by Mr.. Ca,r
belle Of Green county, 10 UNFOLD Tho
action of Senator Stone In the stand
nc took on the question Of arminy
ships. was n borb.shcll dropped In
tho house, and Il sure did cxplodc,
and the smoke never cleared away
until the subject was amended nn,l
re-. amended, and finally was tablet
until tho ars, dny Of AnriI' and stone
GOT no reinforcement. hut Instead n
tremendous amount of abuse. All
those who ,ook mart In tho discussion
s,ood by the prcsident. with t.nrs in
their owes Mr.. Harris. of 81. louis,
rcad message from Senator Reed,
Of Missouri. generating Scnntor
Stone for his action, declaring that
Stone was sincere. and was no, in any
way mixed I'M In the fiilibus,or' I'M,
iii II seems ms though that would
moi suffice nor nppense their anger.
Senate min. No. 100. was nn.sod
today he Tho helm of three nj, fouy
Ronnblicnns' They GOT n hare mn.
io,i,v, bnt we viii Gel another wbncl,
mt Il when /, comes back from thc
sc,ate again, The bouse nut n few
amendments on H. and tho anotc will
have 10 work II over. then NO Mil
give n n partipv shot. Tho hin. nav.
inc a bo,nty on hawks and owl. WAS
nnssed 81 wbcn that bccomes n lnv,
- In. ~ La,,L 90.