The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-03-07
LEGISLATIVE NEWS
fBy RAY MEANS)

resentatiyes controlled by the Kepup-
leans has twenty-eight assistants
and one doorkeeper much difficulty
was found in getting persons on each
Of the six doors when an executive SEES
sion was held to hear DR.. G. II. Rob
inson of the Sanitary. Corps Of the y.
S. Army.
When the executive session was or
dered Speaker O'Fallon asked that all
doors be guarded and the lobbies and
gallaries be cleared. When this was
done the speaker suggested that some
of the numerous" clerks might per-
form the duty and after considerable
delay the entrances were properly
guarded.
It is on the doorkeeper's force that
a large number of the negroes en-
ployed by the house are taken care OF
at $3.50 per day, in addition to those
in the bill room.
A bill providing for compiling and
publishing records of Missourians
who served during the war with Ger
many, together with history Of the
engagements in which they fought,
has been engrossed.
A measure providing for the state
board of health to regulate and con-
troll veneral diseases and provide pub
lie clinics for their treatment has
been engrossed. The federal govern
ment is back of the bill and offers to
provide $4,000 to enforce it. The
governments interest in the matter
IS occasioned by the large hunters Of
men who were unfit for military SER
vice because of such ailments.
Indications are that the Childrens'
Code bills by Senators Kinney and
Buford will be favorably acted upon.
The senate and house committees have
reported favorably on the following:
Relating to the Amendment of chill
dren.
naising the age Of consent.
Prohibiting the employment of
women three weeks before and three
weeks after childbirth.
RAISING the age of majority for
girls.
Prohibiting the marriage OF feeble
minded, epileptic and insane persons,
| Abolishing common-law marriages.
| Establishing the age Of marriage
for girls at Is.
Requiring the consent of parents for
issuance OF marriage license to min
ors.
Providing institutional care for col
ored children.
| Relating to commitments to indus
trial homes for girls.
| Relating to commitments to indus.
trial homes for negro girls.
| Treatment of incorrigible minors
under the juvenile court age.
| State supervision Of maternity hos
lpitals.
Establishing a state home for de
pendent children.
| Empowering the courts to c&mmi
dependent feeble minded persons t,
the state institutions.
Providing increased facilities TO
the care of the feeble minded.
Renting to the commitment of dea
children to the state institutions.
Il Establishment Of special classes j
the public schools for defective chill
dren. &C..
Age at which, children may worl
hours of work for children.
Issuance of employment certif
Gates.
State superintendent Of school
e shall supervise work of instruction
a certain state institutions.
c II. r. Walmsley, a candidate fc
+ the Legislature from Jackson count,
}. is here as Republican clerk lobby
t ing for the passage of alleged pun
9 election laws applying to Kansas Cit
: alone. If Walmsley were permitte
: to have his way judges of eiectio
D could serve in any precinct of the cit
6 regardless of where they reside. tn
L purpose of the proposed legis'atio
e is to try and leave the impression wit
s the Independent voters of the stat
it that Republicans area defeated /
y fraud in jackson county. The arg'
l. ments used by he and his co-workel
; could be easily transferred to crit
d icism of the judges of election
d Howard, Galloway, Boone, Randolp
6 Charlton or any Of the larger Den
&c ocratic counties as the Democrat
y plurality in each is greater in propo