The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-05-08
WITH THE LAWMAKERS
What is Being Done in the Senate
City.

The bill to place tax OF one cen
on each IS cents admission to ever
paid amusement in the state not to
charity-movies, cabarets, baseba
games and Legitimate plays, faile
in the AeHsse Gil ffitfal pas aye
to Sc hayes, three less than the re
quired majority.
The House passed bill reducing
the state oil inspection fee from /
cents to cents. The bill propose
tax, however, of one eighth of ;
cent a gallon upon all retail oil sta
week.
The House Ways and Means Com
mission reported adversely the pro
posed bill by Babcock of Butler, tc
place 10 per cent tax on paten,
medicines.
The Keith bill, providing for the
inspection OF egg-breaking establish
ments and imposing license fee OF
$IOo, was engrossed.
A bill by Senator Click providing
for the inspection OF ice cream plants
and placing license fee OF SIoo on
wholesale plants and S. on retailers
was defeated by vote OF 62 to 40.
1t was proposed to place the inspec-
ton powers in the hands of the State
Food and Drug Commissioner.
The House Thursday, by vote Of
62 for and "A against, defeated the
Elder bill which proposed that the
State Board of Health should give
recognition to chiropodsts of the
State.
The House was the scene of fist
fight when. Representatives City II.
Waring of Jasper County and O. B.
Whitaker OF Hickory mixed in
wild session of the Committee on
Accounts.
Both are Republicans and are
members of the accounts committee.
Waring is chairman. while Whitaker
is one OF the leading parliamentarians
of the House.
The house by vote Of 81 to AZ
struck out OF all appropriation bill an
item OF S5,oS5 to pay Frederick w.
Lehman and John F. Lee, attorneys
for the St. Louis Clearing House AS
ISOLATION, who negotiated the $4,000
600 loan by which the state covered
its deficit at the beginning of Gov.
Gardeners administration. 4
The Gray bill, to curb the theft OF
automobiles by requiring certificate
of registration to be furnished with !
the sale Of an automobile, was passed |
by the House Friday. The bill, which |
was handled in the House by Repre-
sentative Bailey of Jasper County,
was sponsored by the Missouri Anti
h orcat hief Association
A bill to provide an appropriation
Of $4,000 for a demonstration farm
for negroes was defeated by the
House Friday because the Republi-
cans refused to allow the measure to
be amended to place the farm under
the jurisdiction OF Lincoln Institute,
The State Negro Normal School.
The bill, as passed by the Senate.
provided that the farm should be un-
der the direction OF the State College
Of Agriculture at Columbia.
Farmer members of the House flew
into action Friday morning and
promptly killed bill permitting the
IMPOSITION of a tax OF $3.50 an acre
against farm lands adjacent to county
highways for the purpose OF improv-
ng them.
There was a long contest in the I
enate late Friday over one OF the {
ouse bills, prepared by the state
oard Of health, requiring a resistra-
ion with the board OF marriage IL !
enses and information as 10 divorces
ranted., The fee Of So for such reg
STATIONS was attacked bitterly by
enators Gardner, Gray and Elder.
enator Livcsay. who vas in charge
t the BILL offered to accept al 4
mendment cutting the registry fee Y
| half, but the senate would not &C S
ept it. The bill was defeated. t
The senate Saturday evening a
assed three bills introduced in the
ouse by Representative Parker Of e
t. Louis, all of which have to do Il
18th the protection OF motor car S
wners. Stealing parts OF car or b
with it brings peniten- t;
airy sentence OF five years, or a fine b
$500 and three months in Jail. Re- a
owing numbers from tires for the e
Irpose OF theft is punishable by I,
ne of $500 and three months in Jail.
or stealing a car the maximum PEN te
ty is ten years in the penitentiary. L
Saturday the Senate defeated a A
ouse bill designed to give more +
,wer and fees to the state food and ii
'ug commissioner. The measure A
divided for an inspection and analy- "
5 of all stock and poultry foods and L
ugs designed for animals and the NJ
position OF fee or license tax Of C
o for each inspection and analysis. 81
Senator Gardner made a savage at tn
ok on the bill. He said the food
ID drug laws of the government and
e state itself made ample provis- m
MS against adulteration and mis- fe
anding and there was no excuse for to
e measure except the fees. NJ
The House adopted a resolution to
journ May 2. The Senate amend
: this to adjourn May 9, and to cut I
t the consideration of all except
preparation bills on May 2, then H
ssed it. The belief is the House
II concur in the Senate amendment