Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-01-16
MISSOURI LEGISLATURE RUNS
TRUE TO PREDICTIONS ON
BOTH SIDES. o
DEMOCRATS BOLT CAUCUS
speakership of House Goes to Member
Who Failed to Establish connee-
tion With Delegates From
Big Centers.
Jefferson City.

NnASSOuiA, WAlCu Is WIN M
largest volume Of work with which
any legislature has been confronted
in recent years got down to business
following its permanent organization.
After a sharp fractional fight, marked
by much turbulence, the Republican
by much turbulence, the Republican
F. OFallon of Holt County, a veteran
OF three previous legislatures, for
speaker. He defeated Representative
John W. Campbell of Cedar County,
who was backed by Jacob Babler, Re-
publican national committeeman of
Missouri; John Schmoll, chairman of
the Republican City Committee of st.
Louis, and Congressman Fred Essen
OF st. Louis County, by a vote of A
to 20.
Wet and dry lines were tightly
drawn and dry votes, which previous.
ly had been lined up for Campbell,
were switched to O'Fallon when it
was pointed out that st. Louis and st.
Louis County, wet communities, were
seeking the election of Campbell. He
is as dry rs O'Fallon, but Schmoll,
Babler and others are known to have
centered upon Campbell because of
the support of O'Fallon by Rev. VIM.
c Shupp, superintendent of the Anti
saloon League.
Representative John c. Dyott, a dry,
was nominated for floor leader. Judge
Fred L.. Williams of the Supreme
Court administered the oath of Of
fee to the members in blocks of
twenty. This concluded the days
work.
The Democratic majority in the
State Senate split into two warning
factions over the wet and dry cues.
ton and the attempted domination OF
the Democratic organization by the
Missouri A~ntisaloon League. and State
Senator Wallace Green of Kansas
City, a candidate for president pro
tenn, and seven of his followers re.
fused to go into the caucus with the
supporters Of Senator Walter G.
Goodson Of Macon County, a dry,
Greene's opponent for president pro
tenn.
The Greene men who virtually bolt.
ed the caucus are: Senators Mike
Casey of Kansas City, Mike Kinney
and Jos. Brogan Of st. Louis, Thos. J.
Lysaght of st. Joseph, Mark McGruder
Of Sedalia and Carter M. Buford OF
Reynolds.
The seventeen new senators were
sworn in by Judge James T. Blair of
the Supreme Court. On motion of
Senator Casey, the rules of the last
Senate were adopted for temporary
use.
A feature of the organization of the
Senate was the adoption Of a resolu.
ton of coincidence concerning the
death of Col. Theodore Roosevelt. The
resolution was offered by Senator Sam
B. Cook of Jefferson City and was
unanimously adopted. A little later
the Senate adjourned as a mark of re
spect to the former President. The
resolution follows:
Whereas, after a life of distin
guished usefulness, a great American
and former President of the United
States has fallen, therefore, be it re
solved by the Senate of Missouri:
I'VE join with a bereaved nation IL
sincere tribute to the splendid man
hood, the powerful intellect and thu
red-blooded Americanism of Theodore
Roosevelt. His personality has i'm
pressed itself upon his own countr,
and upon the world, so that genera
tons yet unborn will do honor to hi
memory"
The big American flag floating owe,
the Capitol was put at half-mast b!
direction Of the state officials as
further mark of honor to Roosevelt.
While the chief work of the session
which is of 120 days duration, is tn,
revision Of the statutes, there ar,
many other big problems for the Law
makers to tackle and solve.
Looming up large on the legislativ
horizon is the insistent demand for i'm
mediate relief to the rural publ
schools which are revealed by a recen
survey to rank next to the bottom Il
efficiency in the United States. Nor
than 100000 Missouri boys and girl
are dependent upon these schools TO
IT education. That the rural schoc
has signally failed to measure ub I
Kinney Boom Started.
Two Democratic papers from out |
the state have started a little quie
boom for Senator Mike Kinney for til
next gubernatorial nomination. JAG
Blanton Of the Monroe County Appei
was the first to discover that the 8
Louis man was good timber. Con
lmenting on Blanton's action J. Kell
Pool Of the state prison board declare
In an article in the Capitol City News
IF every man in St Louis the sem
tor has befriended would supporthil
me would sweep that town by thou
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