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MISSOUKI. 



MONTANA. 



for Governor was 89,854, of which Lowry 

 received 88,783. The Legislature of 1886 is 

 composed as follows: Senate, 1 Republican 

 and 39 Democrats; House, 9 Republicans, 119 

 Democrats, and 2 Independents. On the Vth 

 of March, Edward C. Walthall, Democrat, was 

 appointed by the Governor United States Sen- 

 ator to succeed Senator Lamar, who became 

 Secretary of the Interior. 



MISSOURI. State Government. The following 

 were the State officers during the year : Gov- 

 ernor, John S. Marmaduke, Democrat; Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor, A. P. Morehouse; Secretary 

 of State, Michael McGrath ; Treasurer, James 

 M. Siebert ; Auditor, John Walker ; Attorney- 

 General, D. G. Boone ; Land Register, Robert 

 McCulloch ; Superintendent of Public Schools, 

 "William E. Ooleman ; Railroad Commissioners, 

 George 0. Pratt, James Harding, and W. G. 

 Downing. Judiciary, Supreme Court: Chief- 

 Justice, John W. Henry; Associate Justices, 

 Thomas A. Sherwood, Elijah H. Norton, Rob- 

 ert D. Ray, and Francis M. Black. 



Legislative Session. The Legislature met on 

 the 7th of January and adjourned on the 25th 

 of March. Among the results of the session 

 were the following acts: 



To appropriate money to build a workshop, etc., for 

 the Missouri Penitentiary. 



To appropriate money to build a laboratory for the 

 School of Mines and Metallurgy. 



To appropriate money to erect additions to the Lu- 

 natic Asylum at St. Joseph. 



To appropriate money for completing and furnish- 

 ing additions to the State University building at Co- 

 lumbia. 



To appropriate money for the purpose of complet- 

 ing an addition to the Normal Scnool building at 

 Warrensburg. 



To establish an insane asylum in the southwestern 



Eart of the State, to be known as State Insane Asy- 

 im Number Three, and appropriating $200,000 

 therefor. 



To provide for the appointment of assistant prose- 

 cuting attorneys. 



To provide For issuing funding bonds in redemption 

 of bonds of the State maturing in 1886, 1887, and 

 1888, such bonds to bear not over 4 per cent, interest, 

 and to be payable in twenty and redeemable in five 

 years, and not to exceed $7,000,000 in amount. 



To facilitate the giving of bonds, to authorize cor- 

 porate suretyships therein, and to regulate the enforce- 

 ment thereof. 



To prevent persons from breaking down bridges 

 and culverts, from frightening horses, mules, and 

 other animals attached to vehicles of any kind, or 

 ridden by persons, by moving steam-engines of any 

 kind, corn-mills, cane-mills, saw-mills, reaping and 

 mowing machines, on public highways. 



Providing for a State veterinary surgeon. 



To provide for the ascertainment of and payment 

 for damages done by municipal corporations to private 

 property for public use. 



In relation to cities of the second class. 



In relation to the taxation of theatrical and minstrel 

 performances by counties, villages, and cities of the 

 third and fourth class, etc. 



Empowering cities of the fourth class to make spe- 

 cial levy for building purposes. 



To provide means for disincorporating cities of the 

 fourth class. 



To secure equal representation in all cities and towns 

 in the State. 



In relation to coroners. 



To require railway companies or corporations, min- 

 ing companies or corporations, express companies or 

 corporations, and telegraph companies or corporations, 

 to give notice to their employe's before reducing the 

 wages of such employe's. 



Requiring railroad, bridge, tunnel, or other trans- 

 portation companies to furnish a caboose or other suit- 

 able car for the transportation of shippers of live-stock 

 to the destination of such shipments. 



Concerning benevolent, religious, scientific, and 

 educational corporations. 



Authorizing the formation of a fire department pen- 

 sion fund and relief association in any city or county 

 of 50,000 inhabitants or over. 



Concerning the reporting and publishing of opinions 

 of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. 



To provide for the certification and transfer of causes 

 pending in the St. Louis Court of Appeals to the Su- 

 preme Court of Missouri. 



To establish a Criminal Court Ln Buchanan County. 



To suppress selling, lending, giving away, or show- 

 ing to any minor child any paper or publication prin- 

 cipally devoted to illustrating or describing immoral 

 deeds. 



Eclating to assignation and bawdy houses. 



To protect guests of hotels and boarding-houses 

 against the use of oleomargarine and other unwhole- 

 some compounds. 



To protect hotel and boarding-house keepers. 



For the preservation of the health of female em- 

 ploy 4s. 



To protect the property of manufacturers, bottlers, 

 and dealers in mineral waters, soda-water, and other 

 beverages from the loss of their siphons, bottles, and 

 boxes. 



To permit owners of land to construct drains for 

 agricultural purposes. 



To prevent the stealing, mutilation, etc., of ballots. 



Eclating to libraries in cities, villages, towns, and 

 townships. 



To provide uniform rules for the measurement of 

 stonework, earthwork, brickwork, etc. 



To regulate the weighing of coal at mines. 



To regulate sales of real estate under mortgages and 

 deeds of trust. 



To erect an additional penitentiary. 



To provide for the establishment of reform schools 

 in counties of over 50,000 inhabitants. 



To regulate the assessment, levy, and collection of 

 taxes on building and loan associations. 



To bar the recovery of taxes against real estate un- 

 less the suit is brought within five years. 



To enlarge the course of study in the School o: 

 Mines and Metallurgy. 



An amendment to the Constitution was 

 proposed relative to taxation for road and 

 bridge purposes, which is to be submitted t< 

 the people in 1886. An act was also passed 

 providing for the organization of the Kansas 

 City Court of Appeals. The congressional 

 apportionment act was amended so that the 

 Sixth District shall be composed of Boone, 

 Howard, Saline, Cooper, Pettis, Monitean, 

 Morgan, Benton, Hickory, Camden, Polk, and 

 Dallas counties ; Twelfth District, Cass, Bates, 

 Yernon, Barton, Henry, St. Clair, Cedar, Dade, 

 and Jasper ; Thirteenth District, Greene, Web- 

 ster, Christian, Lawrence, Newton, McDonald, 

 Barry, Stone, and Taney. A proposition t 

 submit a prohibitory amendment to the peopl 

 was defeated by a close vote. George G. vest, 

 Democrat, was re-elected United States Sena 



MONTANA. Territorial Government The fol- 

 lowing were the Territorial officers during tt 



