Journal of the Senate of the State of Missouri

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TO THE

ENATE JOURNAL

OF THE

XXVTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY, REGULAR: SESSION, 1869.

BIRCH-CONTINUED.

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4 Introduces an act to amend section 24, chap-
ter 95, title XXVI, of the General
Statutes of Missouri, concerning auc-
tioneers and their licenses..........

6 Moves above act be referred to Committee on

Ways and Means.

6 Moves to lay on the table papers in the case
of Foster vs. Essex......

Introduces an act to repeal an act to amend
chapter 137 of the General Statutes,
and to revive and re-enact section 21
of the same chapter..........

7 Moves to indefinitely postpone an act to
amend chapter 137. General Statutes,
and to revive and re-enact section 37
of said chapter.

8 Offers amendment to resolution relative to
printing report of Commissioner of
Permanent Seat of Government......... 102

NAMES OF SENATORS.

BIRCH, JAMES H., JR.

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Sworn in and takes his seat
Nominates Thos. B. Reed for President pro

tem of the Senate

the Senate.

Nominates James McCord for Secretary of
Nominates James L. Hesser for Assistant

Secretary of the Senate.

Clerk.

Nominates Thomas M. Horine, of Jefferson
county, for Enrolling Clerk.
Nominates Albert C. Allen for Engrossing
Nominates Daniel Keiser, of Clinton county,
for Doorkeeper of the Senate.....
Nominates Thos. Winston, of Cole county,
for Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate...
Nominates C. Bulkley, of Cole county, for
Chaplain of the Senate.....
Nominates Henry L. Clark, of St. Louis
county, for Reporter of the Senate....

.....38, 39, 131, 156 Moves to strike out the portion of the reso-

Absent at roll call.....
Offers substitute for resolution relative to
printing the inaugural address of the
Governor and Lieutenant Governor,
and the farewell address of Lieuten-
ant Governor Smith.

Appointed on Committee on Militia... 67
Appointed on Committee on Permanent Seat
of Government.
Appointed on Committee on Swamp Lands... 67
Appointed on Committee on Constitutional

Amendment

Introduces an act requiring the Governor to
issue commissions

Offers resolution that the Committee on Pub-
lic Printing be instructed to inquire
into the expediency of abolishing said
office, etc....

printed for the use of th Senate.

181

Jurisprudence

250

Absent at roll call............182, 184, 184, 186 Introduces an act amendatory and supple-

Offers an amendment to a concurrent resolu-

mentary of an act entitled an act to
provide for the registration of voters,
and to provide for the appointment of
judges of election by the board of re-
gistration, approved March 21. 1868.. 285

Moves that the above entitled act be referred
to the Committee on Retrenchment,
and that fifty copies thereof be printed
for the use of the Senate.

243

tion of Senator Cavender in relation to
the pay of Hon. C. D. Drake for ser-
vices in the case of F. P. Blair vs.
Stephen Ridgeley and others........

Demands the ayes and noes on the adoption
of his amendment to a concurrent re-
solution by Senator Cavender in rela-
tion to Hon. C. D. Drake's pay in the
case of F. P. Blair vs Stephen Ridge-
ley..........

Offers concurrent resolution requesting the
Supreme Court of the United States
to take up and try the case of Biair
vs. Kidgeley

195

198

195 Introduces an act to amend an act entitled
an act to incorporate the Platte City
and Fort Des Moines Railroad Com-
pany, approved January 4, 1860, and
an act amendatory thereof, approved
February 12, 1864, to change the name
of said company, fix the termini of
said railroad, to construct a branch
road in the direction of Ottumwa, to
issue bonds and mortgages thereon,
and to classify the directors thereof... 322

Offers an amendment to an ac to abolish the
olice of fund commissioner of the
North Missouri Railroad Company.... 204 |
Absent at roll call......
Moves to adjourn..

Introduces an act to amend the Constitution

of the state of Missouri, by striking
out section 12 of article eleven of said
Constitution............

Moves that the above entitled bill be referred
to the Committee on Constitutional
Amendments, and fifty copies thereof
printed for the use of the senate..

Moves that leave of absence be granted to
Senator Brown of St. Louis......

Introduces an act to give efficiency to the
western court of common pleas in
Platte county

Moves to reconsider the vote by which the
act to give eliciency to the western
court of common pleas in Flatte coun-
ty was ordered printed..

Offers a concurrent resolution instructing our
Senators and requesting our Repre-
sentatives in Congress to secure a re-
duction of the tariff on woolen and
cotton goods.....

Noves that the above entitled concurrent re-
Solution be referred to the Committee
on Federal Relations, and that fifty
copies thereof be printed for the use
of the senate..

206
214

221

226

Moves to refer the above entitled bill to the
Committee on Banks and Corpora-
tions....

Introduces an act amendatory and supple-
mentary to an act entitled an act to
incorporate the Prairie Point Acad-
amy, of Pettis township, in Platte
county..

222 Moves that the rules be suspended, that an
act amendatory and supplementary of
an act entitled an act to incorporate
the Prairie Point Academy, in Pettis
township, in Platte county, Missouri,
be read the third time and put upon
its passage.

228 Introduces an act to amend an act entitled
an act to establish a court of common
pleas in the county of Platte, approved
March 1, 1851.

236

237

238

253

BIRCH-CONTINUED.

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Platte to subscribe for the capital
stock in the Kansas and Missouri
Bridge Company, and to pay the same
by issuing bonds of the county, be re-
ferred to the Committee on Internal
Improvements, and that fifty copies
thereof be printed for the use of the

Senate

Moves to refer to the Committee on the Ju-
diciary, an act amendatory of an act
entitled an act to provide for the reg-
istration of voters, and provide for
the appointment of judges of election
by the board of registration, approved
March 21, 1868.

Moves that the rules be suspended, that an
act to amend an act entitled an act to
change the time of holding courts in
the Fifth Judicial Circuit, approved
February 14, 1868, be considered en-
grossed, read a third time and put
upon its passage.

Moves to refer to the Committee on Banks
and Corporations an act to amend an
act entitled an act to incorporate the
city of Springfield, and more fully de-
fine its powers..

Moves to refer to the Committee on Crimi-
nal Jurisprudence an act to amend an
act appr ved March 23, 1863, and en-
titled an act to amend an act entitled
an act to establish a court of criminal
correction in St. Louis county, ap-
proved March 15, 1866

Moves to refer to the Committee on Internal
Improvements a concurrent resolution
of the two houses of the General As-
sembly to create a joint commitree to
report by bill or otherwise such legis-
Istion as is needed for the improve-
ment of the Osage river..

Demands the aves and noes on Senator
Evan's motion for the previous ques-
tion on his motion to susuend the rules
so that joint resolution ratifying the
constitutional amendment proposed
by Congress be read a second time

Demands the axes and noes on Senator Rose-
berry's motion for the previous ques-
tion on his motion to suspend the rules
so that joint resolution ratifying the
constitutional amendment proposed
by Congress, be read the third time
and put upon its passage.

Absent nt roll call.

Demands the ayes and noes on the resolution
recommended by the Committee on
Elections that L. M. Conklin be al-
lowed per diem for the present ses-
sion.

Absent at roll call.

Moves to reconsider the vote by which an act

to establish a board of police for the
city of St Joseph, and to authorize
the appointment and maintenance of
a police force for said city, and to
abolish the office of City Marshal and
Street Commissioner, was ordered to a
third reading.

Withdraws his motion to reconsider the vote
by which an act to establish a board
of police for the city of St. Joseph,
and to authorize the appointment and
maintenance of a police force for the
said city, and to abolish the offices of

359

368 Moves to take up an act to authorize the
Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad
Company to increase its capital stock, 491

369

380

Moves to suspend the rules, read a third
time and put upon its passage, an act
to authorize the Haunibal and St.
Joseph Railroad Company to increase
its capital stock

Moves to reconsider the vote by which an
act to authorize the Hannibal and St.
Joseph Railroad Company to increase
its capital stock was passed, and to
lay that motion on the table.......

Absent at roll call......
Oders an amendment to House bill No.

491

404

497

503

514, 519

383 (?)
Absent at roll call
Moves that the Senate take a recess from
evening of March 3d to March 4.

381 Absent at roll call..

383

434

434
444

451

465

469

Moves above act be referred to Committee
on Banks and Corporations, and fifty
copies be ordered printed for these
of the Senate.....

Moves substitute for an act to amend section
fifty-three of chapter one hundred and
thirty-five of the General Statutes be
engrossed and passed.

Moves to reconsider the vote by which above
bill was passed, and to lay the motion
on the table

Offers resolution that the report of the In-
spectors of the Missouri Penitentiary
be referred to Committee on Peniten-
tiary, and that five hundred of tha
same be printed, fifty of which shall
be for the use of the Warden.

Submits report from the Jodiciary Commit-
tee, recommending that an act to en-
large the jurisdiction of justices of the
peace do not pass.

Moves further action on above act be id fi-
nitely postponed..

103

109

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Submits report from Committee on the Ju-
diciary, recommending that an act to
amend section twenty-three of chap-
ter two hundred and thirteen, Gener-
al Statutes of Missouri, in relation to
witnesses, be referred back to the
House of Representatives, and offer-
ing the following resolution: That
the Secretary of Senate is hereby di-
rected to return to the House of Rep-
resentatives House bill No. 46, with
the information that the same has not
been engrossed, and with the request
that the same be engrossed, and with
the further request that the House re-
quire all bills to be engrossed before
they are transmitted to the Senate.... 120

Submits report from Committee on the Ju-
diciary recommending the passage of
an act extending the time in which
the Secretary of State shall lay before
the present General Assembly, an ab-
stract of the enumeration of the resi-
dent inhabitants of each county in
the State...

BLODGETT-CONTINUED.

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chapter ninety-five of the General
Statutes of Missouri.

Moves that the above entitled bill be refer-
red to the Committee on Ways and
Means, and fifty copies thereof print-
ed for the use of the Senate.

Submits a report from the Committee on the
Judiciary, recommending that an act
requiring the governor to issue com-
missions do not pass.

Moves to indefinitely postpone further con-
sideration of an act requiring the gov-
ernor to issue commissions..

Moves to refer an act to give efficiency to the
western court of common pleas in
Platte county to the Committee on
the Judiciary, and that fifty copies
thereof be printed for the use of the
Senate.

Absent at roll call

Withdraws the motion to print fifty copies
of an act to give efficiency to the west-
ern court of common pleas in Platte
county

208

209

217

226

225

121 Absent at roll call 233, 247, 249, 254, 255,
121 Offers an amendment to a concurrent reso-
131
lution instructing our Senators in Con-
gress to vote for the repeal of the
civil tenure of office act.

256, 258, 261. 262, 280, 280

Moves above act be engrossed for a third
reading to-morrow...
Absent at roll call
Introduces an act to aid in the establishment
of Normal Schools..

137

Moves the above act be referred to the Com-
nittee on the Permanent Seat of Gov-
ernment, and fifty copies ordered
printed for the use of the Senate....... 138

Submits report from the Committee on the
Judiciary, recominending the passage
of an act as amended, being an act to
authorize the different county courts
to appoint additional justices of the
pence

age....

152

Moves to lay on the table a motion of Sen-
ator Gottschalk to recoininit to the
Committee on Banks and Corpora-
tions, an act to amend an act entitled
an act to incorporate the town of
Chillicothe and the several acts
amendatory thereof.

Demands the ayes and noes on an amend-
ment of Senator Reed, to an act to
amend section one of chapter thirty-
one of the General Statutes of Mis-
souri, concerning the salaries of cer-
tain civil officers..

Absent at roll call

Submits a report from the Committee on the
Judiciary, recommending the passage
of a substitute for an act in relation
to the court of common pleas in the
county of Buchanan.

Moves the above act be put upon its pass-
Moves an act be indefinitely postponed, be-
ing act extending the time for the Sec-
retary of State to lay before the pres-
ent General Assembly, an abstract of
the enumeration of the resident in-
habitants of each county in the State 153 Moves to reconsider the vote by which an

Moves that an act in relation to the court
of common pleas in the county of Bu-
chanan be considered as engrossed,
read a third time, and put upon its
passage

act in relation to the court of common
pleas in the county of Buchanan was
passed, and to lay that motion on the
table.....

Moves to reconsider the vote by which an act
to amend an act entitled an act to in-
corporate the city of Chillicothe, ap-
proved March 1, 1855, and the acts
amendatory thereof, and to lay that
motion on the table.

Submits a report from the Committee on the
Judiciary recommending that a sub-
stitute for an act to amend an act en-
titled an act to establish a court of
common pleas in the county of Lafay-
ette, and a court of common pleas in
the counties of Ray, Daviess and Pet-
tis, with probate jurisdiction in the
last three counties, and repealing all
laws in conflict with the same, ap-

281

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289

292

294

295

296

301

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Submits a report from the Committee on the
Judiciary, recommending the pas-
sage of an act establishing a court of
common pleas in Saline county........
Moves to reconsider the vote by which an
act establishing a court of common
pleas in Saline county was passed, and
and to lay that motion on the table... 368

Moves to lay on the table a resolution of
Senator Rogers to grant the use of the
Senate chamber to the Rev S. W.
Marston, of St. Louis, for a lecture on
the temple Solomonis....

372

436

Absent at roll call.................373, 373, 379, 435
Obtains leave of absence........
Moves to refer a communication from the

Commissioner on Permanent Seat of
Government, to the Committee on Per-
manent Seat of Government...

Absent at roll ell

442

.......449, 458, 466
Submits a report from the Committee on the
Judiciary, recommending the passage
of an act to establish the salary of the
judge of the probate court of Benton
county

Moves that an act to establish the salary of
the judge of the probate court of Ben-
ton county, be read a third time, and
1 ut upon its passage..

Moves to reconsider the vote by which an
act to establish the salary of the judge
of the probate court of Benton county

467

Moves the above act be referred to the Com-
mittee on Internal Improvements, and
fitty copies be printed for the use of
the Senate

Submits report from Committee on Printing,
reporting back an act to provide for
the execution and supervision of the
State printing and binding, and moves
fifty copies be ordered priuted for the
use of the Senate......

Submits a report from the Committee on
Printing, recommending the passage
of "an act to provide for the execu-
tion and supervision of the State
printing and binding," with amend-
ments thereto.

113

115

189

Submits a report from the Committee on
Ways and Means, recommending the
passage of a substitute for "an act
to define the annual taxatian of the
revenue for the years 1869 and 1870," 231

Submits a report from the Committee on
Ways and Means, recommending that
"an act to provide the annual rates
of taxation for State revenue, and for
the payment of all State indebtedness,
and to repeal certain acts and parts of

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