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 Senate on Labor Measures Presented by and 
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 OFFICERS JOINT LABOR LEGISLATIVE BOARD* 
 
 H. W. STEINBISS, Building Trades Council, St. Louis, President. 
 
 J. H. GEORGE, Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, Marceline, Vice 
 
 President. 
 
 CHARLES W. FEAR, Missouri Federation of Labor, 1112 Locust St., 
 Kansas City, Mo., Secretary-Treasurer. 
 
 
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 Legislative Report. 
 
 Jefferson City, Mo., March 16, 1907. 
 
 The Joint Labor Legislative Board of Missouri, in regular session as¬ 
 sembled, in Jefferson City, Mo., this 16th day of March, 1907, approved the 
 following report and authorized the officers of the Joint Legislative Board 
 to issue the report to organized labor of the State of Missouri. 
 
 H. W. STEINBISS, President. 
 
 J. H. GEORGE, Vice-President, 
 CHARLES W. FEAR, Secretary-Treasurer. 
 
 Jefferson City, Mo., March 16, 1907. 
 
 To Organized Labor of Missouri: 
 
 The representatives of organized labor present in Jefferson City to 
 take care of labor measures to be presented to the Forty-fourth General 
 Assembly, met in conference in the City Hall of Jefferson City on the even¬ 
 ing of January 8th, 1907. After considerable discussion it was unanimously 
 decided to form a Joint Labor Legislative Board of the State of Missouri. 
 H. W. Steinbiss, painter, St. Louis, was chosen president; J. H. George, 
 railway trainman, Marceline, vice president, and Charles W. Fear, printer, 
 Kansas City, was chosen secretary-treasurer. 
 
 The conference committee authorized a committee composed of Thomas 
 J. Sheridan, William Holman and J. H. George to draw up a general plan 
 for the government of the Joint Labor Legislative Board. The committee 
 drew up the following agreement, which was presented to the members of 
 the conference committee and unanimously adopted as the sense of the 
 members: 
 
 Whereas, The representatives of organized labor, assembled in Jeffer¬ 
 son Ctiy for legislative purposes, deem it necessary to organize a joint 
 conference board to assist one another in securing the enactment of labor 
 laws; and 
 
 Whereas, The legislative interests of organized wage earners can be 
 served best by their representatives exchanging ideas, gathering and im¬ 
 parting information one to the other; and by them giving due consideration 
 and thought to the legislative demands made by each organization; therefore 
 
 Be It Resolved, That we, the undersigned representatives of the labor 
 organizations named below do organize a Joint Labor Legislative Board of 
 the State of Missouri for the aforesaid purposes. 
 
 The officers of the Joint Labor Legislative Board of the State of Mis¬ 
 souri shall consist of a chairman, vice-chairman and secretary-treasurer. 
 The outgoing secretary-treasurer shall turn over the records to his succes¬ 
 sor in office and make a complete report of the work done; he shall also 
 turn over the funds that are in the treasury. 
 
 > This Board shall hold meetings daily at eight o’clock p. m. to review 
 
 the work done and to outline the work for the following day; and to 
 transact such other business as may be necessary. 
 
 All regularly authorized labor representatives, present at the first meet¬ 
 ing, and such other representatives as may arrive later, are invited to join 
 the Joint Labor Legislative Board of Missouri. 
 
 The Board requests that all labor measures be presented to the Board 
 for its consideration and record. 
 
 The secretary of the Joint Labor Legislative Board will keep an exact 
 
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 A bill to provide for the revoking of the license of any foreign or non¬ 
 resident railway corporation, or any other foreign or non-resident 
 corporation of whatever kind to do business in this state whenever 
 such corporation shall remove to or bring certain suits or proceedings in 
 any Federal court to provide a penalty on any such corporation^ for doirffe, 
 attempting to do, or holding itself out to do business in this state after its 
 license or authority has been revoked and to provide a penalty upon any per¬ 
 son or persons acting in this state as agent, servant, employee or officer of 
 any such corporation after its license or authority has been revoked, §,nd ' 
 to prevent any such corporation from doing or attempting to do business in 
 this state without first obtaining a license, permit or certificate of authority 
 therefor. 
 
 The passage of a joint and concurrent resolution submitting to the 
 voters of the state a Constitutional Amendment for Direct Legislation " 
 Through the Initiative and Referendum. 
 
 A bill to provide for the safety of railroad employees and other persons 
 by requiring all switches, frogs and guard rails on railroads in state to be 
 properly blocked or filled in all yards, divisional and terminal stations and 
 where trains are made up; prescribing a penalty for failure to conform to 
 said requirement and also providing that defense of contributory negli¬ 
 gence shall not be available in actions for death, maiming or injuries caused 
 by non-compliance with the provisions of this act. 
 
 A bill to rehabilitate the State Board of Arbitration and Mediation by 
 placing $5,000 to the credit of the Arbitration and Mediation Board for the 
 salary of board members and expenses while on duty. 
 
 MEASURES SUPPORTED WHICH ALSO PASSED. 
 
 A bill providing for an eight-hour platoon system for St. Louis police. 
 
 A bill to increase the appropriation for the Buerau of Labor Statistics. 
 
 A bill to set aside a portion of the earnings of convicts in the peniten¬ 
 tiary for the purpose of encouraging discharged convicts to seek employ¬ 
 ment after their release from the penitentiary. 
 
 MEASURES AMENDED IN THE INTEREST OF WAGE EARNERS. 
 
 A bill known as the Conspiracy Act, which if enacted in its original 
 form would have included all labor organizations in this state. 
 
 MEASURES OPPOSED AND DEFEATED. 
 
 A bill requiring that all citizens between the age of 21 and 60 years of 
 age should pay a poll tax of two dollars and fifty cents, and exhibit a receipt 
 for the payment thereof before being allowed to vote. 
 
 A bill permitting the appointment of railroad police. 
 
 A bill to repeal the Barbers’ Examining Board law. 
 
 A bill to establish an examining board for licensing electrical contrac¬ 
 tors and providing regulations for persons or firms engaging in business. 
 
 A bill to prohibit the willful and malicious injury of property. Believ¬ 
 ing the measures to be directly aimed at organized labor and that the 
 latter’s enemies would take undue advantage of the law if enacted. 
 
 MEASURES INTRODUCED WHICH FAILED TO PASS. 
 
 A bill regulating the use of hoists, stays, scaffolds and stages, and 
 providing penalty for violation. 
 
 A bill making it a penalty for any superintendent or trainmaster to 
 give written, printed or verbal instructions requiring brakemen or other 
 employes to ride on top of trains at any designated point or points. 
 
 A bill to provide for the appointment of an inspector to inspect safety 
 appliances on railway locomotives, tenders, cars and all safety devices 
 thereof; also providing salary and expenses for the same. 
 
 A bill to protect the lives of railway employes and traveling public, 
 to prevent rear end collisions by prescribing the number and qualification 
 of the crew necessary to operate any freight train and providing penalty 
 for violation. 
 
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 A bill holding corporations liable regardless of the contracts exacted of 
 their employees. 
 
 A bill providing a legal week and work month for all employes. 
 
 A bill to revise the factory inspection law. 
 
 *' BILLS INTRODUCED BUT FAILED OF PASSAGE. 
 
 A bill defining the liabilities of mine operators in relation to damages 
 sustained by their employes, and to define who are fellow-servants and who 
 are not fellow-servants. 
 
 BILLS ADVOCATED BUT FAILED OF PASSAGE. 
 
 A bill to require that the court which granted a temporary injunction 
 shall grant a hearing not later than five days from date of such temporary 
 injunction. 
 
 A bill to create a State Board of Examiners of Architects to license and 
 regulate practice of architects.' 
 
 A bill to establish a steel bridge plant for state use only in the peni¬ 
 tentiary, which passed the Senate but died on the House calendar with the 
 cldsing of the session. This bill carried an appropriation of one hundred 
 thousand dollars to cover cost of such plant. 
 
 Detail Record of Labor Legislation of the Forty= 
 Fourth General Assembly of Missouri. 
 
 The following is a complete record of the labor bills introduced, the 
 action taken on the measures and the official vote of the Senators and Rep¬ 
 resentatives thereon. 
 
 RAILROAD TELEGRAPHERS’ EIGHT-HOUR BILL. 
 
 An act relating to telegraph operators and train dispatchers in the state 
 of Missouri, and providing an eight-hour day for such labors, with penalty 
 for violation thereof. 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as 
 follows: 
 
 Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any corporation or receiver operating 
 a line of railroad, in whole or in part, in the State of Missouri, or any 
 officer, agent or representative of such corporation or receiver, to require 
 or permit any telegraph or telephone operator, who spaces trains by the 
 use of the telegraph or telephone, under what is known and termed the 
 “block system” (defined as follows): Reporting trains to another office or 
 offices, or to a train dispatcher or telephone leverman who manipulates 
 interlocking machines in railroad yards or on main tracks out on the lines 
 connecting sidetracks or switches, or train dispatchers in its service, whose 
 duties substantially, as hereinbefore set forth, pertain to the movement of 
 cars, engines or trains on its railroad by the use of the telegraph or tele¬ 
 phone in dispatching or reporting trains or receiving or transmitting train 
 orders, as interpreted in this section, to be on duty for more than eight 
 hours in a day of twenty-four hours, and it is hereby declared that eight 
 hours shall constitute a day of employment for all laborers or employes 
 engaged in the kind of labor aforesaid. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any person or persons, company or corporation, who shall 
 violate any of the provisions of the preceding section shall, on conviction, 
 be fined in the sum of not more than one thousand dollars. 
 
 The above bill was introduced on January 8th by Representative Lump¬ 
 kin of Pulaski, and a similar bill was introduced in the Senate by Senator 
 Jno. L. Bradley on the same date. 
 
 This bill was the most bitterly opposed of any of the labor measures. 
 Representatives of the railroads of the state forced repeated continuances 
 of the committee hearings. At one hearing twenty-eight different railroad 
 rpresentatives from seventeen different railroads of the state were present. 
 Despite opposition of both the House and Senate Labor Committees, combined 
 with the united railroad forces, the bill was reported out for passage in 
 
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 the House January 30th, and the Senate bill was reported without recom¬ 
 mendation on February 6th. 
 
 The Joint Labor Legislative board received information which warrants 
 them in stating to organized labor of the State of Missouri that Steele Camp¬ 
 bell of Springfield, chairman of the Labor Committee of the House, Fran^ 
 Farris of Crawford County, and Robert Lucks of St. Louis, all of the 
 House committee, endeavored to kill the bill in the committee. Even worse 
 than the action of these members of the House committee was the action of 
 Senators Thos. E. Kinney, Peter Anderson and J. J. Prendergrast, all of St. 
 Louis. While these Senators had pledged themselves to support this meas¬ 
 ure, in reality they endeavored to defeat it in committee. At the second 
 date of the House Labor Committee on this bill it was found that the 
 chairman of the committee, Steele Campbell, had gone to Chicago, having 
 taken the original bill with him. When asked why he had taken the bill 
 with him he replied that he wanted to be present when the committee acted 
 upon it. The fact that the original bill was not left in the hands of the 
 committee prevented action on it at that time and delayed hearing for one 
 week, which was in line with the action of the opposition to the bill, their 
 purpose being to delay it until it would be too late for it to reach the end 
 of the calendar before adjournment. 
 
 The Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill passed the House on February 13th, 
 by vote of 98 for to 27 against. 
 
 The following representatives voted in'favor of the bill: Aldrich, Banta, 
 Barker, Barry, Biggs of St. Louis, Biggs of Schuyler, Bottsford, Brooks, 
 Busche, Butts, Campbell, Casey, Chilton of Carter, Chilton of Madison, 
 Christy, Clark, Connor, Cook, Coon, Cooper, Crandall, Cross, Crossley, Dale 
 of Andrew, Dale of Gentry, Depuy, Droste, Ford, Gannaway, Gibson, Gilbert, 
 Glick, Graham, Griffith, Groff, Haller, Ham, Hanson, Hart, Heathmen, Hol¬ 
 comb, Hopper, Houston, Hughes, Inglish, Johnson of Chariton, Johnson of 
 Pettis, Kiefner, Kinnett, Kimry, Kirkpatrick, Knobbe, Letterman, Lewis, 
 Linck, Lumpkin, Lyles, Martin, Meffert, Miller of Saline, Morrison, Muir, 
 Nelson of Camden, Norfleet, Noyes, Pemberton, Phillips of Dallas, Phumprey, 
 Polk, Porth, Powell, Rainey, Raymont, Roach, Roseberry, Salts, Sartin, 
 Schueddig, Settle, Sherman, Shope, Silver, Simmons, Speer, Staple, Stark, 
 Stemmons, Swazea, Thralls, Trimble, Tubbs, Wade of Greene, Warner, 
 Webber, Willard, Wilson, Woods, Atkinson. Total, 98. 
 
 The following Representatives voted against the bill: Brassfield, 
 Brockus, Burch, Carter, Catlin, Deal, Ditzler, Duncan, Emerson, Farris, 
 Frieze, Hesseltine, Kies, Lemon, McMurray, Miller of St. Louis, Maroney, 
 Nelson of Cooper, Oliver, Ordelhide, Paul, Spence, Swiers, Traughber, Yitt, 
 Whitaker, Young, Zepp. Total, 28. 
 
 Absent with sick leave: Hill of Butler, Sosey of Marion. 
 
 Absent from their seats, not voting, but in the lobby: Brandon, Brass- 
 well, Chancelor, Conron, Embry, Goshron, Huck, McDermott of St. Louis, 
 Mahan, Organ, Phillips of St Louis, Wade of Scott, Whaley. 
 
 This bill was bitterly opposed on the floor of the House by Frank Faris 
 of Crawford County, Arthur L. Oliver of Pemiscot County, Krat C. Spence 
 of Stoddard and Walter Burch «of Audrain. 
 
 In support of the measure Representatives Wm. A. Lumpkin of Pulaski, 
 Wm. A. Haller of St. Louis, Morton Pemberton of Boone and Jno. T. Miller 
 of Saline, made eloquent appeals for passage of the bill. 
 
 Representative Wm. Lumpkin was particularly active at all times in 
 support of the bill in the House and the same can be said of Senator John 
 L. Bradley in reference to the same bill in the Senate. 
 
 Representative Austin W. Biggs of St. Louis and Wm. H. Lewis of St. 
 Francois also deserve credit for their work on behalf of this bill, and we 
 believe that if it had not been for their untiring efforts this Eight-Hour bill 
 would not have been reported out of the committee. 
 
 The opponents of this bill, realizing that they could not defeat the 
 measure in the senate, attempted to force a twelve-hour amendment, which 
 the members of the Board succeeded in having changed to ten hours in 
 the report of the committee, but the Senate again forced the twelve-hour 
 
amendment on to the bill, the amendment being introduced by Senator 
 Dowell, making the law read twelve hours for all offices that are kept open 
 only during the day time and where only one man be employed. Another 
 amendment providing that in cases of sickness, deaths, wrecks and washouts 
 a telegraph or telephone operator may be kept on duty not to exceed six¬ 
 teen hours in a day of twenty-four hours was also offered and passed, and 
 the bill was passed in this amended form. 
 
 Senators for twelve-hour amendment: Anthony, Brown, Devilbiss, Dor- 
 rik, Dowell, Gardner, Grimes, Hayman, Hudson, Humphrey, Kammerer, Mc¬ 
 Alister, McDavid, Major, Peck. 
 
 Present, not voting on twelve-hour amendment: Bauman, Cooper, Ely, 
 Farris, Fields, Gilmore, Kinney, Mayer, Methudy, Prendergrast, Warnall. 
 
 Voting against twelve-hour amendment: Anderson, Avery, Bradley, 
 Buford, Curry, Drunert, Eads. 
 
 Senator Peck stated on the floor that he had talked with the agent 
 employed at his town and was told by him that wrecks which were 
 caused by telegraphers were not due to their being overworked, but more 
 due to the fact that they did not have enough to do. 
 
 After being amended as above the Senate passed the bill. Senator Peck 
 alone voting against. 
 
 Voting for the bill in amended form: Anderson, Avery, Bradley, Brown, 
 Buford, Curry, Devilbiss, Dorris, Dowell, Drunert, Eads, Ely, Farris, Gardner, 
 Gilmore, Grimes, Hayman, Hudson, Humphrey, Kammerer, McAlister, Mc¬ 
 David, Major. 
 
 Present, not voting: Bauman, Cooper, Fields, Kinney, Mayer, Methudy, 
 Prendergrast, Warnall. 
 
 The house concurred in the amendments and the Telegraphers Eight- 
 Hour bill as above was signed by the Governor. 
 
 ABOLISHING THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF LEASING CONVICTS, 
 
 SUBSTITUTING NEW YORK PLAN. 
 
 An act to amend Sections 8878, 8901, 8902 and 8928 of Article I, Chapter 
 141, Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1899, and to add thereto three new sec¬ 
 tions, to be known as Sections 8928a, 8928b and 8928c. 
 
 Section 1. That Section 8878, Revised Statutes, 1899, be and the same 
 is hereby amended by striking out that part thereof included in the last 
 six lines thereof, which now reads as follows: (“And he shall use his best 
 endeavors, to the end that the expenses of the penitentiary may be paid 
 out of the proceeds of the labor of convicts, when employed in manufactur¬ 
 ing or otherwise, on behalf of the state), and shall act under the direction 
 of the inspectors in making contracts for the employment of the labor of 
 the convicts,” so that the said section, as amended, shall read as follows: 
 
 Section 8878. Duty as to state property—contracting for convict labor, 
 etc.—The warden shall have the charge and custody of the penitentiary 
 prison, with the lands, buildings, tools, implements, stock, provisions and 
 every other description of property pertaining thereto belonging to the 
 state; and it shall be his duty to keep correct accounts of the same. It shall 
 also be the duty of the warden to classify the convicts in their labor, and 
 shall classify them in their cells or sleeping apartments, as follows: Class 1, 
 Those who have been incarcerated from a period of two to three years. 
 Class 2, Those who have been incarcerated for a period from three to seven 
 years. Class 3, Those who have been incarcerated for a period from seven 
 to fifteen years. Class 4, Those who have been incarcerated for a period 
 from fifteen years to life sentence; and that the warden shall classify each 
 above class .with regard to reformation, according to their reputations, as 
 made to him. 
 
 Section 2. That Section 8901, Revised Statutes, 1899, be and the same 
 is hereby amended by striking out the words therein contained, beginning 
 in the sixth line thereof, and reading as follows: “And of the employment 
 of the convicts therein confined; the money concerned and contracts for 
 work,” so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: 
 
 Section 8901. Duty of Inspectors.—The inspectors shall visit the peni- 
 
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 tentiary once in each month, and as much oftener as shall be necessary, to 
 keep them well informed in relation thereto; and at such stated or special 
 visits they shall carefully inquire into all matters connected with the gov¬ 
 ernment, discipline and police of said penitentiary, the degree and nature *£ 
 punishment; the purchase and sales of all articles provided for said peni¬ 
 tentiary or sold on account thereof. They shall see that all such general 
 rules and regulations and orders for the government and discipline of said 
 prison as may be made by the warden, with their approval, are enforced. 
 Such rules only shall be adopted as, in their judgment, shall best conduce 
 to the reformation of the convict. They shall inquire into' any alleged 
 misconduct of the warden or any other officer or employe of the penitentiary, 
 and for that purpose shall have power to issue subpoenas and compel the 
 attendance of witnesses, and may examine witnesses who may appear be¬ 
 fore them, under oath. 
 
 Section 3. That Section 8902, Revised Statutes, 1899, be and the same 
 is hereby amended by striking out the words now therein contained, begin¬ 
 ning in the ninth line of said section, reading as follows: “Of all contracts 
 entered into during the two preceding years for the empolying of convicts, 
 or for any other purpose; the terms of such contracts, stating what portion 
 of each contract has been performed, and the several sums of money re¬ 
 ceived,” so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: 
 
 Section 8902. Report to General Assembly.—“The inspectors shall, at 
 their discretion, require reports to be made, by the warden and other offi¬ 
 cers of the penitentiary, in relation to any and all matters connected with 
 the government, management, operation, business, discipline and property 
 of said penitentiary, with the condition, conduct and employment of the con¬ 
 victs confined therein; and said inspectors shall make a biennial report^to 
 the General Assembly concerning the state and condition of said peniten¬ 
 tiary and convicts; of all moneys received and expended; for what purposes 
 and to whom paid, with similar reports concerning all other contracts; and 
 they shall also include in each biennial report an abstract of all reports 
 made to them by the several officers of the penitentiary during the two 
 preceding years.” 
 
 Section 4. Article I of Chapter 141 of the Revised Statutes of 1899 be 
 and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto the following new sec¬ 
 tions, 8928a, 8928b and 8928c. 
 
 Section 8928a. No contract* shall hereafter be made by the warden of 
 the state penitentiary or the board of prison inspectors or by the super¬ 
 intendent or other officer of any state penal institution or reformatory or 
 by any other authority whatsoever, by which the labor or time of any 
 prisoner in the state penitentiary or state penal institution or any re¬ 
 formatory of the state, or the product or profit of his work, shall be con¬ 
 tracted, let, farmed out, given or sold to any person, firm, association or 
 corporation: Provided, however, that the prisoners confined in said penal 
 institutions may work for and the products of their labor may be disposed 
 of to the state or any political subdivision thereof, or for or to any public 
 institution under or managed and controlled by the state or any political 
 subdivision thereof. 
 
 Section 8928b. The warden of the state penitentiary, the board of prison 
 inspectors, and all other officials of all penal and reformatory institutions 
 of the state shall, so far as practicable, cause all the prisoners who are 
 physically capable to be employed at hard labor, for not to exceed eight 
 hours of each day, other than Sundays and public holidays, but such hard 
 labor shall be either for the purpose of production of supplies for said 
 institutions or for the state, or any political division thereof, or for any 
 public institution owned or managed or controlled by the state or political 
 division thereof, or for the purpose of industrial training or instruction. 
 
 Section 8928c. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with Sections 
 8928a, 8928b and Sections 8878, "8901, 8902 and 8928, of Article I, Chapter 
 141, Revised Statutes of Missouri, as amended by this act, are hereby re¬ 
 pealed. 
 
 Representative William H. Sherman, of Buchanan County, introduced 
 
early in the session a bill to abolish the present system of leasing convicts 
 in Missouri. A similar measure was also introduced in the Senate by Sena¬ 
 tor Jno. L. Bradley. 
 
 After repeated efforts on the part of the members of the Joint Labor 
 Legislative Board to have the Sherman bill reported for passage from the 
 Penitentiary Committee, a compromise substitute measure as above, was 
 recommended for passage by the House Committee on Penitentiary and 
 Reform Schools. This bill remained on the calendar for three weeks and 
 after much hard work was finally made a special order for discussion on 
 March 6th. In the meantime the enemies of the Convict Labor bill got to¬ 
 gether and concocted a plan to defeat it. When Representative Sherman 
 called up the Convict Labor bill an unreasonable amendment was made and 
 a motion proposed to lay the amendment on the table. It was evident that 
 it was the intention to carry the motion to lay on the table by a viva voce 
 vote. Members of the Labor Committee had our friends demand a roll call, 
 which was evidently not expected by the opponents of the measure. Speaker 
 Atkinson announced that the motion to lay the amendment on the table 
 would also kill the original bill. Opponents of the Convict Labor bill ob¬ 
 jected to the roll call, but, thanks to our friends, a record of the vote was 
 secured. Representatives Hill of Butler, Noyes of Jackson, Biggs of St. 
 Louis and Sosey of Marion, demanded the roll call. With the full knowledge 
 that a vote to lay the amendment on the table was a vote to kill the Con¬ 
 vict Labor bill the following voted in favor of tabling the amendment: 
 
 Democrats—Aldrich, Atkinson, Barry, Biggs of Schuyler, Brandom, Bras¬ 
 well, Burch, Butts, Carter, Casey, Chilton of Carter, Christie, Conners, Cook, 
 Crossley, Deal* Duncan, Embry, Emerson, Letterman, Gannoway, Gibson, 
 Glick, Griffith, Holcomb, Hopper, Houston, Huck, Hughes, Johnson of Chari¬ 
 ton, Johnston of Pettis, Kimery, Kirkpatrick, Kobbe, Lyles, McMurry, Miller 
 of Saline, Morrison, Muir, Paul, Pemberton, Pumphrey, Polk, Raney, Rose- 
 berry, Spence, Stapel, Stark, Sweazea, Traughber, Trimble, Wade of Scott, 
 Whaley, Woods. 
 
 Republicans—Brassfield, Coon, Dale of Andrew, Ditzler, Ford, Frieze, 
 Graham, Hesseltine, Nelson of Camden, Ordelheide, Porth, Roach, Stem- 
 mons, Whitaker. 
 
 The following voted against laying on the table: 
 
 Democrats—Chancellor, Chelton of Madison, Conran, Crandall, Cross, 
 Farris, Groff, Ham, Heathman, Kimmet, Lewis, Nelson of Cooper, Sherman, 
 Sosey. 
 
 Republicans—Banta, Biggs of St. Louis, Brockus, Brooks, Busche, Cat- 
 lin, Clark, Cooper, Haller, Hansen, Hart, Hill, Lemon, Linck, Mahan, Mar¬ 
 tin, Meffert, Norfleet, Noyes, Phillips of Dallas, Phillips of St. Louis, Ray¬ 
 mond, Sartin, Settle, Shope, Silver, Swiers, Tubbs, Wade of Greene, Weber, 
 Willard, Wilson, Young, Zepp. 
 
 Absentees—Botsford, Dale of Gentry, Droste, Gilbert, Goshorn, Graham, 
 Inglish, Kiefner, Kies, Lucks, Lumpkin, McDermott, Miller of St. Louis, 
 Moroney, Oliver, Powell, Schueddig, Simmons, Speer, Thralls, Warner. 
 
 Sick and Excused—Barker, Campbell, Organ, Salts, Vitt. 
 
 As a result of this vote this bill was killed in the House, but the board 
 succeeded in having a resolution adopted by the Senate appointing a com¬ 
 mission of three hold-over Senators to fully investigate the systems of 
 working convicts in other states and to make a report on the subject, with 
 a view to adopting a plan satisfactory to all concerned at the Forty-fifth 
 General Assembly. This report fully covers this commission elsewhere. 
 
 STAMPING CONVICT-MADE GOODS. 
 
 An act relating to the stamping of convict-made goods and prescribing 
 penalty for violation. 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri as 
 
 follows: 
 
 Section 1. That hereafter all goods, wares and merchandise manufac¬ 
 tured in the state penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo., made in whole or in 
 part by convict labor shall, before being offered for sale in this state, be 
 
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 branded or stamped with a permanent label, with the words “made in Mis¬ 
 souri penitentiary by convict labor,” and the letters composing such words 
 shall be not smaller than small pica type, and shall be placed upon some con¬ 
 spicuous part of the said article of goods, wares or merchandise, so that 
 the same may be readily seen by the public. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any person, persons, firm or corporation, selling or offering for 
 sale any goods, wares or merchandise so made as described in Section 1 of 
 this act without having thereon the letters or brand as therein provided, 
 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished 
 by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than thirty days nor more 
 than six months, or by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars, nor more 
 than two thousand dollars, or both such fine and imprisonment for each 
 offense. 
 
 This bill was introduced by Senator Henry L. Eads of Daviess County, 
 requiring that all Convict-Made Goods be so stamped. Members of the 
 Joint Labor Committee endeavored to have this measure passed, but it was 
 defeated by the following vote: 
 
 Those voting in favor: Anderson, Bradley, Buford, Eads, Gardner, 
 Gilmore, Hudson, Kinney, McDavid, Mayer, Methudy, Peck—12. 
 
 Those voting against: Anthony, Avery, Brown, Dorris, Dowell, Ely, 
 Farris, Fields, Hayman, Kammerer, McAlister, Major—12. 
 
 Present but not voting: Bauman. 
 
 Absent: Cooper, Curry, Devilbiss, Grimes, Humphrey, Prendergrast, 
 
 Wornall. 
 
 Sick: Connor, Drunert. 
 
 The bill failing to receive a constitutional majority was declared lost. 
 
 At the Board’s request a reconsideration of the vote was had, but the 
 bill failed to receive the constitutional vote and reconsideration was 
 defeated. 
 
 TO INVESTIGATE CONVICT LABOR IN OTHER STATES. 
 
 The fight for the abolishment of the present system of leasing Convict 
 Labor was carried on throughout the whole session of the Legislature. The 
 efforts of the Labor Board were backed up by hundreds of letters from busi¬ 
 ness men and officials of international organizations. Petitions signed by 
 nearly 100,000 citizens were presented to the Legislature. Late in the 
 session, when it was seen that the legislature would not abolish the leasing 
 system until something more beneficial was' proposed, a suggestion was 
 made by the Joint Board that a joint commission of Senators and Repre¬ 
 sentatives be created for the purpose of investigating the different Convict 
 Labor systems both in Missouri and other states. This suggestion was the 
 subject of several conferences between members of the Labor Board, Sena¬ 
 tors and Representatives. It was finally decided, however, that the com¬ 
 mission should be composed of three hold-over Senators who would report 
 to the Forty-fifth General Assembly recommendations, facts and figures on 
 this subject. On March 11th, the following resolution, prepared by members 
 of the Labor Board, was presented in the Senate: 
 
 Whereas, There is a growing opposition to the present system of leasing 
 convict labor in Missouri; and 
 
 Whereas, It is claimed that the present system of leasing convicts is 
 detrimental to the best interests of the State of Missouri, its manufacturing 
 industries, and its great army of working people; therefore be it 
 
 Resolved, That the Senate of the Forty-fourth General Assembly hereby 
 elects a special committee of three Senators, namely, Senators Frank M. 
 McDavid, John L. Bradley and Henry L. Eads to investigate the different 
 systems in operation in this and other states, particularly New York, Ohio 
 and Illinois, with the object of presenting to the Forty-fifth General Assem¬ 
 bly recommendations, facts and figures, which will aid in solving the 
 problem of leasing convict labor and utilizing the labor of convicts of this 
 state; and be it further 
 
 Resolved, That the said investigating committee is authorized to draw 
 upon the fund appropriated for the expenses of the Forty-fourth General 
 
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 Assembly of the state for any necessary expense, and per diem now al¬ 
 lowed by law to members of the Legislature while making the investigation. 
 » After due consideration the Senate authorized a commission composed 
 of Senators McDavid, Bradley and Eads to make the investigation as pro¬ 
 vided by the resolution. 
 
 CHILD LABOR LAW. 
 
 A bill to regulate the employment of children in gainful occupations, 
 drawn up under the direction of the Children’s Protective Alliance and 
 endorsed by the Central Trades and Labor Union and the Building Trades 
 Council of St. Louis, was introduced by Senator Kinney on January 4th. 
 Members of the Joint Labor Board appeared before the Labor Committees 
 of both the House and Senate and suggested several amendments to im¬ 
 prove the original bill. A favorable report was secured in both Houses 
 and the bill was passed unanimously in the Senate and with but one dis¬ 
 senting vote in the House, Spear of Osage voting against the bill. After 
 the bill had been returned to the Senate and it had been properly enrolled 
 Speer of Osage introduced a resolution in the House requesting the Senate 
 to return the bill to the House for reconsideration, which request was com¬ 
 plied with. 
 
 Mr. Speer and others suggested several amendments of which two were 
 adopted, one striking out features of the bill aimed at the employment of 
 children in department stores and the second confining the enforcement of 
 the law to cities of ten thousand inhabitants or over only. 
 
 The Speer amendments destroyed some of the main objects of the bill 
 and members of the Joint Labor Board succeeded in having the proposed 
 amendment of the House non-concurred in by the Senate. It was found upon 
 inquiry that the quickest and safest way to secure the passage of the bill, 
 corrected so as to meet the objections of country members of the House, was 
 to have the matter left to a Conference Committee, and the Joint Labor 
 Board succedeed in having a joint committee appointed. The Senate ap¬ 
 pointed Kinney, Fields and Anderson and the House appointed Biggs of 
 Schuyler, Speer and Spence. After several unsuccessful attempts a meeting 
 was finally had of the Joint Conference Committee, Senator Anderson and 
 Representative Spence remaining away from the committee meet. The com¬ 
 mittee decided to recommeend for passage by the Senate the Conference 
 Committee amendments, which provided that the provisions of this section 
 shall apply only to cities of ten thousand inhabitants or more, and to estab¬ 
 lishments employing ten persons or more. 
 
 In the Senate the following voted for adoption of Conference Com¬ 
 mittee’s report: Anderson, Anthony, Avery, Bauman, Bradley, Brown, Bu¬ 
 ford, Curry, Devilbiss, Dorris, Dowell, Drunert, Eads, Ely, Farris, Fields, 
 Gardner, Gilmore, Hayman, Hudson, Humphrey, Kammerer, Kinney, Mc¬ 
 Alister, McDavid, Major, Mayer, Methudy, Peck, Wornall. 
 
 Absent: Connors. 
 
 Sick: Cooper (with leave), Grimes, Prendergrast. 
 
 The vote in the House was unanimous of those present with the excep¬ 
 tion of Swiers. 
 
 FACTORY INSPECTION BILL. 
 
 During the session of the Forty-fourth General Assembly a number of 
 factory inspection measures were introduced. Members of the Joint Labor 
 Board gave a great deal of time to the factory inspection measures, but 
 were unable to convince the members of the legislature that in order to 
 get proper factory inspection it was necessary to have salaried officers 
 in that department. 
 
 Representative Casey of Jackson County introduced House Bill 195, an 
 act to provide for the appointment of factory inspector, by request. Later 
 in the session another bill was presented, but owing to delay in acting on 
 the bill in the House members of the Joint Board consolidated both meas¬ 
 ures and had Senator Prendergrast introduce the bill as Senate Bill 153. In 
 the meantime members of organized labor of Kansas City and others be- 
 
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 came interested in the subject of' factory inspection and caused to be drawn 
 up and introduced by Senator Gilmore Senate Bill 234, providing, in addition 
 to features contained in other bills, that two assistant factory inspectors,- 
 one to have a permanent office in Kansas City, be authorized. 
 
 The Joint Board deemed it advisable, in order to secure additional sup¬ 
 port for the bill, to combine the good features of all other bills in one 
 measure. Therefore, a substitute for all the bills was introduced in both 
 branches of the Legislature, but the substitute bill was defeated on final 
 passage in the Senate March 6th. 
 
 VENDING OF NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS BY CHILDREN. 
 
 A bill to regulate the vending of newspapers and periodicals by chil¬ 
 dren at certain hours in streets and public places in cities of over thirty 
 thousand population, which was drawn up b? members of the Childrens’ 
 Protective Alliance and substituted for a bill recommeended by the Paper 
 Carrier Union in St Louis, was presented to the Legislature by Representa¬ 
 tive Steele Campbell on February 8, but owing to his continual absence 
 from the session and his very apparent lack of interest in this and other 
 labor legislation, the measure was never allowed to get further than first 
 reading in the House. No one but Mr. Campbell could call the measure 
 up and as he never showed any interest in this bill the measure failed, of 
 course. 
 
 BARBERS’ BOARD OF EXAMINERS’ BILL. 
 
 An act to amend Sections 5042, 5045 and 5047, Chapter 78 of the Revised 
 Statutes of Missouri of 1899, entitled “Barbers’ Board of Examiners.” 
 
 Section 1. That Section 5042 of Chapter 78 of the Revised Statutes of 
 1899 be and the same is hereby amended by inserting between the words 
 ■'provided” and “that,” in the twelfth line of said section, the words, “that 
 all barber schools or colleges shall have not less than one teacher or instruc¬ 
 tor for every ten students, and;” also, by adding at the end of said section the 
 words, “provided, that any firm, corporation or person desiring to operate or 
 conduct a barber school or college in this state shall first secure from said 
 board a permit to do so, and shall keep the same prominently displayed: 
 Provided, that the said board shall have the right to pass upon the quali¬ 
 fications, appointments and course of study in said college, which shall be 
 not less than two years; and provided further, that there shall be no money 
 collected by said college or any of its students or teachers in the practice 
 of the trade therein taught; and the said board shall have the right to 
 revoke the certificate, permit or license of any such barber college instruc¬ 
 tor or teacher therein for any violation of the provisions of this section;” 
 so that said section, when amended, shall read as follows: 
 
 Section 5042. Nothing in this act shall prohibit any person from serving 
 as an apprentice in said trade under license issued by the board under a 
 barber authorized to practice in the same under this act, nor from serving 
 as a student in any school or college for the teaching of said trade under 
 the instructions of a qualified barber: Provided, that in no barber shop 
 shall there be more than one apprentice to two barbers, authorized under 
 this act to practice said occupation; but all barber shops having but one 
 chair shall be entitled to one apprentice; that all barber schools or colleges 
 shall have not less than one teacher or instructor for every ten students, 
 and that all barber schools or colleges shall keep prominently displayed a 
 sign, barber college or barber school, and no other sign or signs: Provided, 
 that all barbers or barber schools or colleges, who shall take an apprentice 
 or student, shall file immediately with said board the name and age of such 
 apprentices or students, and the said board shall cause the same to be en¬ 
 tered in a register kept for that purpose: Provided, that any firm, corpora¬ 
 tion or person desiring to operate or conduct a barber school or college in 
 this state shall first secure from said board a permit to do so, and shall keep 
 the same prominently displayed: Provided, that said board shall have the 
 right to pass upon the qualifications, appointments and course of study in 
 said college, which shall be not less than two years; and provided further, 
 that there shall be no money collected by said college or any of its students 
 
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 or teachers in the practice of the trade therein taught; and the said board 
 shall have the right to revoke the certificate, permit or license of any such 
 barber colleges, instructor or teacher therein for any violation of the pro¬ 
 visions of this section. 
 
 Sec. 2. That Section 5045 of the Revised Statutes of 1899 be and the 
 same is hereby amended by inserting between the word “chapter” and the 
 word “provided,” in the seventh line of said section, the words “or for any 
 « extortion or overcharge practiced;” and by inserting between the words 
 “certificate” and “shall,” in line seven of said section, the words “or per¬ 
 mit;” and by inserting between the words “person” and “whose,” in line 
 twelve, the words “firm or corporation;” and by inserting between the words 
 “certificate” and “has,” in line twelve of said section, the words “or permit;” 
 * and by striking out the words “regranted to him,” in the fourteenth line 
 of said section, and inserting in lieu thereof the word reissued;” so that said 
 section, when amended, shall read as follows: 
 
 Section 5045. Said board shall have power to revoke any certificate 
 of registration granted by it under this act for conviction of crime, habitual 
 drunkenness, gross incompetency, failure or refusal to properly provide or 
 guard against contagious or infectious disease, or the spreading thereof, 
 in the practice of the occupation aforesaid, or violation of the rules of the 
 board mentioned in Section 2 of this act, or for any extortion or overcharge 
 practiced: Provided, that before any certificate or permit mentioned in 
 
 this act shall be so revoked, the holder thereof shall have notice, in writing, 
 of the charge or charges against him, and shall, at the day specified in 
 said notice, at least five days after the service thereof, be given a public 
 hearing on said charges and full opportunity to produce testimony in his 
 behalf and to confront the witnesses against him. Any person, firm or cor¬ 
 poration whose certificate or permit has been so revoked may, after the 
 expiration of ninety days, apply to have same reissued, upon a satisfactory 
 showing that the disqualification has ceased. 
 
 Sec. 3. . That Section 5047 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri of 
 1899 be and the same is hereby amended by inserting between the words 
 “certificate” and “or,” in the second line of said section, the words “man¬ 
 aging or conducting a barber school or college without first having secured 
 a permit as prescribed in section 5042 of this act from said board;” and by 
 inserting between the words “card” and “mentioned,” in sixth line of said 
 section, the words “or permit;” and by striking out the word “Section 5043,” 
 in sixth line of said section, and inserting in lieu thereof the words “this 
 act;” and by inserting between the words “displayed” and “or,” in the 
 seventh line of said section, the words “or for any extortion or overcharge 
 practiced, and any barber college, firm, corporation or person operating or 
 conducting a barber college, without first having secured the permit pro¬ 
 vided for by this act, or advertising that it will teach the barber’s trade 
 to students in less than two years;” so that said section, when amended, 
 shall read as follows: 
 
 Section 5047. Any person practicing the occupation of barber without 
 having obtained a certificate of registration, as provided in this act, or wil¬ 
 fully employing a barber who has not such certificate, “managing or con¬ 
 ducting a barber school or college, without first securing a permit from said 
 board,” or falsely pretending to be qualified to practice as barber or in¬ 
 structor or teacher of such occupation under this act, or failing to keep the 
 certificate, card or permit mentioned in “this act” properly displaved, or 
 for any extortion or overcharge practiced, and any barber college, firm, 
 ' corporation or person operating or conducting a barber college without first 
 having secured the permit provided for by this act, or advertising that it 
 will teach the barber trade to students in less time than two years, or fail¬ 
 ing to comply with the such sanitary rules as the board, in conjunction 
 with the state board of health, prescribes, or for the violation of any of 
 the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
 the board shall proceed against all such persons, and upon conviction there¬ 
 of, they shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10.00) or 
 more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), or by imprisonment in the county 
 
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 jail not less than ten days nor more than ninety days. Prosecutions under 
 this act shall be begun and carried on in the same manner as other prosecu¬ 
 tions for misdemeanors in this state. 
 
 An effort was made to have different members of the Legislature intro¬ 
 duce a bill to repeal the law creating the barbers’ board of examiners, and 
 such a bill was introduced, but members of the Joint Board, in conjunction 
 with union barbers throughout the state, succeeded in convincing those in¬ 
 terested in the bill that there was no desire on the part of the better cla^ss 
 of barbers of the state to repeal the law. Representative Burch of Audrain 
 County introduced amendments to the Barbers’ Board of Examiners law, and 
 after several meetings of the committee to which the different barber bills 
 were submitted, a substitute was drawn up. When this bill came up for 
 final passage in the House it was defeated, but through the efforts of Repre¬ 
 sentatives Cross and Simmons, a reconsideration was had and the bill was 
 passed by a vote of 76 for to 59 against. 
 
 Those voting for the bill: Banta, Barker, Biggs of St. Louis, Biggs of 
 Schuyler, Botsford, Br.ockus, Brooks, Burch, Busche, Catlin, Christie, Clark, 
 Connors, Cook, Crandall, Cross, Crossley, Dale .of Gentry, Droste, Emerson, 
 Ford, Frieze, Gannoway, Gibson, Groff, Haller, Ham, Hanson, Heathman, 
 Hesseltine, Hill, Holcomb, Hopper, Hughes, Inglish, Johnson of Chariton, 
 Johnston of Pettis, Kifner, Kimmet, Kimery, Lewis, Linck, Lumpkin, Martin, 
 Meffert, Miller of Saline, Morrison, Muir, Nelson of Camden, Norfleet, Oliver, 
 Ordelheide, Pemberton, Phillips of Dallas, Phillips of St. Louis, Pumphrey, 
 Polk, Powell, Raney, Roseberry, Schueddig, Settle, Sherman, Simmons, Sosay, 
 Spence, Stapel, Stark, Trails, Warner, Whitaker, Willard, Wilson, Zepp, 
 Atkinson, Butts. 
 
 Voting against: Aldrich, Brandom, Braswell, Carter, Chancellor, Chil¬ 
 ton of Carter, Coons, Cooper, Dale of Andrew, Deal, Duncan, Embry, Farris, 
 Glick, Graham, Hart, Houston, Kies, Kirkpatrick, Lemon, Letterman, Mc- 
 Murry, Mahan, Nelson of Cooper, Noyes, Paul, Raymond, Roach, Salts, Sar- 
 tin, Silver, Stemmons, Sweazea, Swiers, Trimble, Tubbs, Vitt, Wade of Scott, 
 Whaley. 
 
 Absent: Barry, Brassfleld, Campbell, Casey, Chilton of Madison, Con¬ 
 ran, Ditzler, Goshorn, Griffith, Huck, Kobbe, Lucks, Lyles, McDermott, Mil¬ 
 ler of St. Louis, Moroney, Organ, Porth, Shope, Speer, Traughber, Wade of 
 Greene, Weber, Woods, Young. 
 
 This bill was called up in the Senate on the day previous to adjourn¬ 
 ment by Senators McDavid and Farris, and by the united efforts of the 
 members of the Joint Board the bill was passed by the Senate. 
 
 Senators voting for the bill: Anderson, Anthony, Avery, Bauman, Brad¬ 
 ley, Brown, Buford, Cooper, Curry, Devilbiss, Dorris, Dowell, Drunert, Eads, 
 Ely, Farris, Fields, Gardner, Gilmore, Hayman, Humphrey, Kinney, McAlis¬ 
 ter, McDavid, Major, Methudy. 
 
 Absent: Connor, sick; Grimes, Hudson, Kammerer, Mayer, Peck, Pren- 
 dergrast, Wornall. 
 
 CLOSING ABANDONED ROOMS IN MINES. 
 
 A bill to close worked out or abandoned rooms or entries in coal mines, 
 endorsed by the United Mine Workers of America, was introduced by Rep¬ 
 resentative Jno. T. Barker of Marion County. 
 
 An act to amend an act entitled “An act to amend Section 8823, Article 
 2, Chapter 133, Revised Statutes of the State of Missouri, 1899 (Laws of 
 1895, p. 227), relating to the method of working on the room and pillar plan.” 
 
 Section 1 . That Section 8823, Article 2, Chapter 133, laws of 1895, be 
 amended by adding the following: “And further, that it shall be unlawful 
 for any owner, operator or agent, or any person, persons, corporation or 
 company to permit the mouth or mouths of worked-out or abandoned rooms 
 or entries in any coal mine to remain open for a period exceeding one month 
 from the date of abandonment of any such room, rooms, entry or entries. 
 All such abandoned work as designated must be securely sealed in such 
 manner as will effectually prevent the escape of all gasses or other impuri¬ 
 ties calculated to vitiate the ventilative current of a mine;” Provided, that 
 
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 the sealing of rooms and entries herein provided for shall only be required 
 in such mines and places therein as the mine inspector shall, in his discre¬ 
 tion, deem necessary for insuring the health and safety of workmen therein, 
 so that said act shall, when amended, read as follows: 
 
 Section 8823. Method of working on the room and pillar plan.—The 
 owner, agent or operator of any coal mine in this state employing five or 
 more persons, if said mine is worked on the room and pillar plan, shall 
 cause the work in such mine to he prosecuted in the following manner, and 
 ► npne other, to-wit: Two entries must be driven parallel for the ingress and 
 egress of the air, and cross-cuts must be made at intervals not to exceed 
 fifty feet apart, and no rooms, entries or other openings shall be allowed to 
 start inside of the last cross-cut until the next one be made; and further, 
 that it shall be unlawful for any owner, operator or agent for any person, 
 persons, corporation or company to permit the mouth or mouths of worked- 
 out or abandoned rooms or entries in any coal mine to remain open for a 
 period exceeding one month from the date of abandonment of any such 
 room, rooms, entry or entries. All such abandoned work as designated must 
 be securely sealed in such manner as will effectually prevent the escape of 
 all gasses or other impurities calculated to vitiate the ventilative current of 
 a mine: Provided, that the sealing of rooms and entries herein provided 
 for shall only be required in such mines and places therein as the mine in¬ 
 spector shall, in his discretion, deem necessary for insuring the health and 
 safety of workmen therein. 
 
 In the Senate the bill passed unanimously. Grimes, Prendergrast, absent. 
 Connor, sick. 
 
 In the House the bill passed, the vote being as follows: 
 
 Voting in favor: Aldrich, Banta, Barry, Biggs of St. Louis, Biggs of 
 Schuyler, Botsford, Brandom, Brasfield, Braswell, Brockus, Brooks, Busche, 
 „ Butts, Catlin, Chancellor, Chilton of Carter, Chilton of Madison, Christie, 
 Clark, Connor, Conran, Cook, Coon, Crandall, Cross, Crossley, Dale of Andrew, 
 Deal, Ditzler, Droste, Duncan, Embry, Farris, Ford, Frieze, Gannoway, Gib¬ 
 son, Glick, Goshorn, Griffith, Groff, Haller, Hanson, Hart, Heathman, Hes- 
 seltine, Hill, Holcomb, Hopper, Houston, Hughes, Inglish, Johnson of Char¬ 
 iton, Johnston of Pettis, Kies, Kimmet, Kimery, Kirkpatrick, Kobbe, Lemon, 
 Letterman, Lewis, Linck, Lumpkin, Lyles, McDermott, Murry, Martin, Mef- 
 fert, Miller of Saline, Morrison, Muir, Nelson of Camden, Nelson of Cooper, 
 Norfleet, Noyes, Oliver, Ordelhide, Paul, Pemberton, Phillips of Dallas, 
 Phillips of St. Louis, Pumphrey, Polk, Porth, Raney, Raymond, Roach, Rose- 
 berry, Sartin, Settle, Sherman, Shoap, Silver, Sosay, Speer, Spence, Stapel, 
 Stark, Stemmons, Sweazea, Straughber, Trimble, Tubbs, Wade of Greene, 
 Wade of Scott, Warner, Whaley, Whitaker, Willard, Woods, Young, Zepp, 
 Atkinson. 
 
 Voting against: Carter, Cooper, Emerson, Ham, Huck, Simmons. 
 
 Absent, not voting: Barker, Burch, Casey, Gilbert, Graham, Kifner, 
 Lucks, Powell, Salts, Swiers, Thralls, Wilson. 
 
 INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM. 
 
 Joint and concurrent resolution submitting to the qualified voters of 
 Missouri an' amendment to the constitution thereof concerning the Initia¬ 
 tive and Referendum. 
 
 Be it resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring 
 therein: That at the general election to be held in this state on the first 
 Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1908, there shall be submitted, 
 for adoption, to the qualified voters of the state, the following amendment 
 to the constitution: 
 
 Section 1. The legislative authority of the state shall be vested in a 
 legislative assembly, consisting of a Senate and House of Representatives, 
 but the people reserve to themselves power to propose laws and amend¬ 
 ments to the constitution, and to enact or reject the same at the polls, inde¬ 
 pendent of the legislative assembly, and also reserve power, at their own 
 option, to approve or reject at the polls any act of the legislative assembly. 
 The first power reserved by the people is the initiative, and not more than 
 
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 eight per cent, of the legal voters in each of at least two-thirds of the con¬ 
 gressional districts in the state shall be required to propose any measure by 
 such petition, and every such petition shall include the full text of the meas¬ 
 ure so proposed. Initiative petitions shall be filed with the secretary of state 
 not less than four months before the election at which they are to be voted' 
 upon. The second power is the referendum, and it may be ordered except as 
 to laws necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, 
 or safety, and laws making appropriations for the current expenses of the 
 state government, for the maintenance of the state institutions and for the 
 support of the public schools, either by the petition signed by five per cent, of 
 the legal voters in each of at least two-thirds of the congressional districts in 
 the state, or by the legislative assembly, as other bills are enacted. Refer¬ 
 endum petitions shall be filed with the secretary of state not more than 
 ninety days after the final adjournment of the session of the legislative as¬ 
 sembly which passed the bill on which the referendum is demanded. The 
 veto power of the governor shall not extend to measures referred to the 
 people. All elections on measures referred to the people of the state shall be 
 had at the biennial regular general elections, except when the legislative as¬ 
 sembly shall order a special election. Any measure referred to the people 
 shall take effect and become the law when it is approved by a majority of the 
 votes cast thereon, and not otherwise. The style of all bills shall be: “Be 
 it enacted by the people of the State of Missouri.” This section shall not 
 be construed to deprive any member of the legislative assembly of the right 
 to introduce any measure. The whole number of votes cast for Justice of 
 the Supreme Court at the regular election last preceding the filing of any 
 petition for the initiative, or for the referendum, shall he the basis on which 
 the number of legal voters necessary to sign such petition shall be counted. 
 Petitions and orders for the initiative and for the referendum shall be 
 filed with the secretary of state, and in submitting the same to the people 
 he, and all other officers, shall be guided by the general laws and the act 
 submitting this amendment, until legislation shall be especially provided 
 therefor. 
 
 Senator Cooper of Jackson County, introduced a joint and concurrent 
 resolution submitting to the voters of the state an amendment to the 
 constitution creating the Initiative and Referendum. Senator McAlister of 
 Monroe County also submitted a joint and concurrent resolution embodying 
 the Oregon Initiative and Referendum law. The committee to which these 
 amendments were referred held several hearings and speakers of national 
 prominence in this movement appeared before the committee, among whom 
 were Dr. Clarence Biglow of Ohio, Dr. W. R. Hill of St. Louis, Julian Mc¬ 
 Laughlin of St. Louis, Henry Julian of Kansas City; also members of the 
 Joint Labor Legislative Board. A compromise measure was agreed upon 
 as above and passed the Senate by the following vote: 
 
 Those voting in favor were: Avery, Bradley, Brown, Buford, Curry, 
 Devilbiss, Dowell, Drunert, Ely, Farris, Fields, Hayman, Hudson, Humphrey, 
 McAliister, McDavid, Major, Mayer, Wornall—19. 
 
 Voting against: Anderson, Bauman, Gardner, Grimes, Kammerer, Meth- 
 udy—5. 
 
 Present and not voting: Eads, Gilmore. 
 
 Absent: Anthony, Cooper, Dorris, Kinney, Peck, Prendergrast. 
 
 Sick: Connors. 
 
 Representative Whaley introduced a similar measure in the House, for 
 which he substituted the Senate measure. The vote on this measure in 
 the House was as follows: 
 
 Voting for Initiative and Referendum amendment: Aldrich, Banta, 
 Barry, Biggs of St. Louis, Botsford, Brandom, Braswell, Broekus, Brooks, 
 Busche, Butts, Chancellor, Chilton of Carter, Christie, Connor, Conran, Cook, 
 Crandall, Crossley, Dale of Andrews, Dale of Gentry, Deal, Ditzler, Droste, 
 Duncan, Embry, Frieze, Gannoway, Gibson, Griffith, Groff, Haller, Hart, 
 Heathman, Hesseltine, Hill, Holcomb, Houston, Huck, Hughes, Johnson of 
 Chariton, Johnston of Pettis, Kiefner, Kies, Kimmet, Kimery, Lemon, Let- 
 
terman,. Lewis, Lumpkin, Lyles, McDermott, McMurray, Martin, Meffert, 
 Miller of St. Louis, Miller of Saline, Muir, Nelson of Camden, Nelson of 
 Cooper, Noyes, Paul, Pemberton, Phillips of Dallas, Phillips of St. Louis, 
 Pumphrey, Polk, Porth, Raney, Roach, Roseberry, Salts, Sartin, Sherman, 
 Simmons, Sosay, Spence, Stapels, Stark, Stemmons, Swiers, Thralls, Traugh- 
 ber, Trimble, Tubbs, Wade of Scott, Warner, Whaley, Wilson, Atkinson. 
 
 Against: Farris, Goshorn, Inglish, Silver. 
 
 Absent and not voting: Barker, Biggs of Schuyler, Brasfield, Burch, 
 ■‘Campbell, Carter, Casey, Chilton of Madison, Clark, Coon, Cooper, Cross, 
 Emerson, Ford, Gilbert, Glick, Graham, Ham, ^Hanson, Hopper, Kirkpatrick, 
 Kobbe, Linck, Lucks, Mahan, Maroney, Morrison, Norfleet, Oliver, Ordel- 
 heide, Powell, Raymond, Schueddig, Settle, Speer, Sweazea, Vitt, Wade of 
 Green, Weber, Whitaker, Willard, Woods. 
 
 Special Note.—The Joint Labor Legislative Board urges upon members 
 of organized labor of Missouri the importance of working to have this con¬ 
 stitutional amendment adopted at the general election to be held in Novem¬ 
 ber, 1908. Too much work cannot be done, and now is the time to begin 
 to. urge upon friends the importance of adopting this amendment. 
 
 SCAFFOLDING BILL FOR PROTECTION OF WORKMEN. 
 
 A bill regulating the use of stays, hoists and other mechanical con¬ 
 trivances in the erection or repairing of buildings, and providing a penalty 
 for violation thereof, which had been drawn up at the instigation of the 
 St. -Louis Painters’ District Council and which was endorsed by all labor 
 organizations of St. Louis, Kansas City and other cities in the state, was 
 introduced by Senator Prendergrast. The scaffolding bill passed'the Senate 
 February 21st, by a vote of 19 to 5. 
 
 Following senators voted for bill: Anderson, Avery, Bowmen, Bradley, 
 Brown, Buford, Devilbiss, Drunert, Farris, Gardiner, Haymen, Hudson, 
 Humphrey, Kammerer, McDavid, Major, Mayer, Mathudy and Prendergrast. 
 
 Following senators voted against bill: Curry, Dorris, Dowell, Eads, 
 Grimes. 
 
 Following senators did not vote on bill: Anthony, Ely, Fields, Gilmore, 
 McAlister, Peck, Warnell. 
 
 Absent with leave: Connor, Cooper, Kinney. 
 
 The Scaffolding bill was recommended for passage by the House Com¬ 
 mittee on Criminal Jurisprudence, but, like many other good bills, died a 
 natural death because of the adjournment of the Legislature without tak¬ 
 ing any action thereon. 
 
 MINERS’ FELLOW-SERVANT. 
 
 An act to define the liabilities of mine operators in relation to dam¬ 
 ages sustained by their employes, and to define who are fellow-servants and 
 who are not fellow-servants, and to prohibit contracts limiting liability under 
 this act. 
 
 Section 1. That every person, firm, company or corporation operating 
 a mine or mines in this state for the production of lead, zinc, coal or other 
 valuable minerals, shall be liable for all damages sustained by any agent 
 or servant thereof while engaged in operating such mine or mines by reason 
 of the negligence of any other agent or servant thereof: Provided, that 
 it may be shown in defense of any action that the person injured was guilty 
 of negligence contributing as a proximate cause to produce the injury. 
 
 Sec. 2. That all persons engaged in the service of any such person, 
 firm, company or corporation doing business in this state, who are entrusted 
 by such person, firm, company or corporation with the authority of superin¬ 
 tendence, control or command of other persons in the employ or service of 
 such corporation, or with authority to direct any other servant in the per¬ 
 formance of any duty of such servant, or with the duty of inspection or other 
 duty owing by the master to the servant, are vice-principals of such corpor¬ 
 ation and are not fellow-servants with such employes. 
 
 Sec. 3. That all persons who are engaged in the common service of 
 such person, firm, company or corporation so operating any mine or mines, 
 
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 and while so engaged are working together at the same time and place to 
 a common purpose of the same grade, neither of such persons being en¬ 
 trusted by such person, firm, company or corporation with any superin¬ 
 tendence or control over their fellow-employes, are fellow-servants with * 
 each other. 
 
 Sec. 4. No contracts made between any person, firm, company or cor¬ 
 poration so operating such mine or mines and their agents or servants, based 
 upon the contingency of the injury or death to any such agent or servant,_ 
 limiting the liability of the employer for any damages under the provisions 
 of this act, shall he valid or binding, but all such contracts or agreements 
 shall be null and void. 
 
 The Miners’ Fellow-Servant bill was introduced in the House by Rep¬ 
 resentative Chancellor and in the Senate by Senator Bradley. The House 
 bill passed that body and went to the Senate, where several amendments 
 were made to the bill. The House refused to concur in the amendments 
 and a Joint Conference Committee was appointed. The Joint Conference 
 Committee reported the bill with several satisfactory amendments into both 
 branches of the Legislature. The Senate passed the bill, but the House, 
 after a very bitter fight, during which misrepresentation was indulged in 
 by the opponents of the bill, forgery being resorted to, and money lavishly 
 used in bringing influential men to Jefferson City, and in other ways, the 
 House failed to pass the law. The bill did not receive the constitutional 
 majority, 72, in the House, and was therefore lost, many “friends” (?) of 
 labor being in the lobby, but refusing to go into the House to vote. 
 
 Voting for bill: Aldrich, Barker, Barry, Biggs of St. Louis, Biggs of 
 Schuyler, Botsford, Brandom, Brockus, Carter, Chancellor, Chilton of Carter, 
 Chilton of Madison, Christie, Connor, Conran, Crandall, Cross, Crossley, Dale 
 of Gentry, Deal, Duncan, Embry, Emerson, Gannoway, Gibson, Glick, Grif¬ 
 fith, Ham, Heathman, Hesseltine, Hopper, Huck, Hughes, Inglish, Johnson of 
 Chariton, Kiefner, Kimmett, Letterman, Lewis, Lyles, McMurry, Miller of St. 
 Louis, Miller of Saline, Morrison, Nelson of Cooper, Noyes, Paul, Pemberton, 
 Polk, Rosebury, Salt, Sherman, Simmons, Sosay, Speer, Spence, Stapel, 
 Sweazea, Wade of Scott, Warner, Weber, Whaley, Willard, Woods, Young, 
 Zepp, Atkinson. 
 
 Against bill: Banta, Brasfield, Braswell, Butta, Catlin, Clark, Conn, 
 Cooper, Dale, Droste, Farris, Ford, Goshorn, Haller, Hansen, Kimrey, Kirk¬ 
 patrick, Lemon, Mahan, Martin, Nelson of Camden, Norfleet, Ordelheide, 
 Phillips of St. Louis, Powell, Raney, Raymond, Roach, Sartin, Settler, Silver, 
 Stark, Stemmons, Thralls, Trimble, Tubbs, Vitt, Wade of Greene, Whitaker. 
 
 Absent in lobby and not voting: Brooks, Burch, Busche, Campbell, 
 Casey, Cook, Ditzler, Frieze, Gilbert, Graham, Groff, Hart, Hill, Holcomb, 
 Houston, Johnston of Pettis, Kies, Kobbe, Linck, Lucks, Lumpkin, McDer¬ 
 mott, Meffert, Moroney, Muir, Oliver, Pumphrey, Phillips of Dallas, Porth, 
 Schueddig, Shope, Swiers, Traughber, Wilson. 
 
 Monday, March 11th, the members of the Joint Labor Legislative Board 
 endeavored to have a reconsideration of the vote by which the Miners’ Fel¬ 
 low-Servant bill had been defeated the previous Saturday, March 9th. The 
 motion to reconsider received but sixty-five votes, many Representatives who 
 professed to be friendly to the reconsideration of this measure absenting 
 themselves from their seats at the time the vote was taken. 
 
 Those voting against the motion to reconsider were: Banta, Brasfield, 
 Brockus, Catlin, Clark, Coon, Cooper, Dale of Andrew, Droste, Frank Farris, 
 Ford, Goshorn, Haller, Hanson, Linck, Mahan, Martin of Linn, Nelson of 
 Camden, Norfleet, Oliver, Ordelheide, Phillips of Dallas, Phillips of St. Louis, 
 Powell, Roach, Sartin, Settle, Silver, Stemmons, Trimble, Tubbs, Vitt, Wade 
 of Greene, Whitaker, and Zepp. Total, 35. 
 
 Voting for reconsideration and passage of Fellow-Servant bill: Aldrich, 
 Atkinson, Barker, Barry, Biggs of St. Louis, Biggs of Schuyler, Botsford, 
 Brandom, Braswell, Brooks, Burch, Butts, Carter, Chancellor, Chilton of 
 Carter, Chilton of Madison, Christie, Conran, Cook, Cross, Crossley, Dale of 
 Gentry, Duncan, Emerson, Gannoway, Gibson, Glick, Graham, Ham Heath- 
 man, Holcomb, Houston, Hughes, Johnson of Chariton, Johnston of Pettis, 
 
19— 
 
 Kimmet, Letterman, Lewis, Lyles, McMurray, Miller of Saline, Morrison, 
 Muir, Nelson of Cooper, Noyes, Paul, Pemberton, Polk, Raney, Raymond, 
 Sherman, Shoap, Simmons, Sosay, Speer, Spence, Staple, Stark; Sweazea, 
 r Thralls, Traughber, Wade of Scott, Willard, Woods-f-65. Seventy-two vtates 
 were needed. 
 
 Absent from seats, and not voting: Busche, Campbell, M. Casey, Con¬ 
 nor, Crandall, Ditzler, Embry, Frieze, Gilbert, Griffith, Groff, Hart, Hessel- 
 tine, Hill, Hopper, Huck, Inglish, Kiefner, Kies, Kimrey, Kirkpatrick, Kobbe, 
 “Lemon, Lucks, Lumpkin, McDermott, Meffert, Miller of St. Louis, Moroney, 
 Pumphrey, Porth, Rosebury, Salts, Schueddig, Sweiers, Warner, Weber, 
 Whaley, Wilson, Woods. 
 
 A special effort was made to have the following members go into the 
 House at the time the vote on this measure was being taken without result: 
 Casey, Warner, Hill, Ditzler, Groff, Crandall, Hart, Huck, Porth, Lumpkin, 
 and Connor. 
 
 SENATE BILL NO. 131. Introduced by Senator Ely. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To provide for the safety of railroad employes and other persons by requir¬ 
 ing all switches, frogs and guard-rails on railroads in this state to be 
 properly blocked or filled, in all yards, divisional and terminal stations, 
 and where trains are made up; prescribing a penalty for failure to 
 conform to said requirement; and also providing that the defense of con¬ 
 tributory negligence shall not be available in actions for death, maiming 
 or injuries caused by non-compliance with the provisions of this act 
 Be it enacted by .the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That all companies or corporations, lessees or other persons 
 owning or operating any railroad or part of railroad in this state, are hereby 
 required, on or before the first day of September, nineteen hundred and 
 seven (1907), to adopt, put in use and maintain the best known appliances 
 or inventions to fill or block all switches, frogs and guard-rails on their 
 roads, in all yards, divisional and terminal stations, and where trains are 
 made up, to prevent, as far as possible, the feet of employes or other persons 
 from being caught therein. Any company or corporation, lessees or other 
 person, owning or operating any railroad, or part of a railroad, in this state, 
 who shall fail to do any act or thing in this section required to be done, or 
 shall cause any act or thing not to be done, or shall aid or abet any such 
 omission, shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this law, and shall forfeit 
 and pay the sum of ten dollars ($10.00) for every such offense, and each 
 day shall constitute a separate and distinct offense. At every term of a 
 court of record of this state having criminal jurisdiction, the judge thereof 
 shall direct and charge grand juries to make special inquiry as to violation 
 of this law. 
 
 Section 2. When any employe or other person shall be injured, maimed 
 or killed, by reason of the non-compliance with the provisions of this act, 
 then in any action for damages which may be instituted against any rail¬ 
 road company, corporation or lessee for such injuring, maiming or killing, 
 proof of contributory negligence or carelessness on the part of any employe 
 or other person so injured, maimed or killed, shall not relieve such railroad 
 company, corporation or lessee from liability. 
 
 Sec. 3. That all acts or parts of acts conflicting or inconsistent with 
 the provisions with this act are hereby repealed. 
 
 This bill was introduced in the house by Representative Heathman. 
 
 - It was on the calendar for third reading when Senate bill came over. Mr. 
 Heathman moved to substitute Senate bill 131 for his House bill, they being 
 identical. No objection being raised and bill passed 105 to 0. 
 
 Senate Bill 131—Those voting in favor: Anderson, Anthony, Avery, 
 Bauman, Bradley, Brown, Buford, Conner, Cooper, Curry, DeVilbiss, Dorris, 
 Dowell, Drunert, Eads, Ely, Farris, Fields, Gardiner, Gilmore, Grimes, Hay- 
 men, Humphrey, Cameron, Kinney, McAllister,. McDavid, Majors, Mayer, 
 Mathudy, Peck, Pendergast. Voting no: Hudson. 
 
 Roll Call on House Bill 131—Those voting for: Aldrich, Banta, Barry, 
 
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 Biggs of St. Louis, Biggs of Schuyler, Botsford, Brasfield, Braswell, Brockus, 
 Brooks, Burch, Butts, Carter, Casey, Chancellor, Chilton (Carter), Chilton 
 (Madison), Christy, Clark, Conner, Conran, Cook, Coon, Cooper,, Crandall, 
 Cross, Dale (Gentry), Deal, Droste, Emerson, Frieze, Gannaway, Gibson, * 
 Gilbert, Glick, Graham, Groff, Ham, Hanson, Heathman, Hesseltine, Hill, 
 Holcomb, Hopper, Huck, Hughes, Inglish, Johnson (Chariton), Johnston 
 (Pettis), Kiefner, Kies, Kimmet, Kimery, Kobbe, Lemon, Letterman, Lewis, 
 Linck, Lumpkin, Lyles, McMurry, Mahan, Martin, Miller (Saline), Moroney, 
 Muir, Nelson (Camden), Nelson (Cooper), Norfleet, Noyes, Oliver, Paul, Phil-" 
 lips (St. Louis), Pumphrey, Polk, Porth, Powell, Raney, Roach, Roseberry, 
 Sartin, Schueddig, Settle, Sherman, Silver, Simmons, Sosey, Spear, Spence, 
 Stark, Stemmons, Sweaza, Swies, Thralls, Traughber, Trimble, Tubbs, Wade 
 (Scott), Warner, Weber, Whaley, Willard, Woods, Young, Zepp, Atkinson. 
 
 Not voting: Brandom, Busche, Campbell, Catlin, Crossley, Dale (An¬ 
 drew), Ditzler, Duncan, Embry, Farris, Ford, Goshorn, Pemberton, Phillips 
 (Dallas), Raymond, Shope, Stapel, Vitt, Wade (Greene), Whitaker, Wilson, 
 Hart, Houston, Kirkpatrick, Lucks, McDermott, Meffert, Miller (St. Louis), 
 Morrison, Ordelheide. Total—Yes, 105; No, 0. 
 
 SENATE BILL NO. 152. Introduced by Senator Buford. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To provide for the safety of railway employes, by requiring railroads oper¬ 
 ating lines of railroad within Missouri to equip engines, tenders and 
 cars with automatic couplers, drive wheel power brakes and safety ap¬ 
 pliances, and prescribing penalty for violation thereof. 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That from and after the first day of January, 1908, it shall 
 be unlawful for any person, persons, partnership or corporation, operating 
 any line of railroad, in whole or in part, within this state, either as owner, 
 lessee or receiver, for the purpose of moving freight or passengers between 
 points wholly within this state, to use upon such line of railroad any loco¬ 
 motive or engine to move such train of cars over such railroad without 
 having such locomotive or engine equipped with power drive wheel brakes 
 and fully and properly equipped with air brake appliances, so that the 
 engineer operating such locomotive or engine shall have the means of 
 fully and completely controlling the air brakes on the cars attached to said 
 locomotive and engine without recourse to hand brakes, except in cases of 
 emergency. 
 
 Section 2. That from and after the first day of January, 1908, it shall 
 be unlawful for any person, persons, company or corporation operating any 
 line of railroad, in whole or in part, in this state, either as owner, lessee 
 or receiver, to use or permit to be used or hauled between stations within 
 this state, on said line of railroad, any locomotive, tender, car or other 
 vehicle for moving persons or freight which shall not be equipped with 
 hand holds, grab irons and couplers coupling automatically by impact, and 
 which can be coupled without the necessity of men going between the 
 ends of the cars for the purpose of effecting such coupling. 
 
 Section 3. That from and after the first day of January, 1908, it shall 
 be unlawful for any person, persons, company or corporation operating any 
 line of railroad, in whole or in part, within this state, whether as owner, 
 lessee or receiver, to use any locomotive, tender, car or similar vehicle for 
 the purpose of carrying persons or freight, on its line of railroad, between 
 stations wholly within the state, unless such locomotive, tender, car or other 
 similar vehicle shall be equipped with standard draw-bars; that the standard 
 height of draw-bars on all standard-gauge roads shall be thirty-four and 
 one-half inches, measuring from the top of the track rails to the center 
 of the draw-bar; and upon narrow-gauge roads such standard draw-bar shall 
 be twenty-six inches from the top of the track rails to the center of the 
 draw-bar, and the maximum variation from such standard height to be al¬ 
 lowed between empty and loaded cars shall be three inches, whether or not 
 the draw-bars brought together are of the same kind, make or type. 
 
 Section 4. That from and after the first day of January, 1908, it shall 
 be unlawful for any person, persons, company or corporation operating any 
 line of railroad, in whole or in part, in this state, either as owner, lessee 
 
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 or receiver, to operate any train of cars over such line of railroad between 
 stations within this state, unless at least 75 per cent of the cars composing 
 such train shall be equipped with air or power brakes, and any of the 
 «Temaining twenty-five per centum of such cars composing such train shall 
 be so equipped with such air or power brakes they shall be so associated 
 and connected that brakes thereon can be used, managed and operated by 
 the engineer of the locomotive drawing such train. 
 
 Section 5. That whenever any person, persons, company or corporation 
 operating any railroad, in whole or in part, in' this state, either as owner, 
 lessee or receiver, shall have equipped the locomotives, tenders, cars and 
 similar vehicles used for the carrying of persons and freight between any 
 stations within this state, in the manner and with the appliances and 
 devices prescribed by this act, such railroad may refuse to receive for 
 transportation over its line or lines of road any car or cars from connecting 
 lines which are not equipped in accordance with the provisions of this act, 
 without incurring any liability as a common carrier on account of such 
 refusal. 
 
 Section 6. That the provisions and requirements of this act relating 
 to power drive wheel brakes, train brakes, automatic couplers, grab irons 
 and the standard height of draw-bars shall be held to apply to all trains, 
 locomotives, tenders, cars and similar devices used on or by any railroad 
 engaged in the transportation of persons and freight between points within 
 the State of Missouri: Provided, however, that the provisions of this act 
 shall not apply to street railroads nor to tram railroads employed in the 
 transportation of logs. 
 
 Section 7. That any such person, persons, company or corporation operat¬ 
 ing any railroad, in whole or in part within this state, whether as owner, lessee 
 or receiver, who shall violate any of the provisions of this act, shall be liable 
 to the State of Missouri in a penalty of not less than one hundred nor 
 more than five hundred dollars for each offense, and such penalty shall be 
 recovered and suit therefor shall be brought in the name of the State of 
 Missouri, in any court of competent jurisdiction in any county in the state, 
 into or through which such railway may run, by the attorney general, or 
 under his direction, or by the prosecuting attorney of any county through or 
 into or out of which trains may be operated by such railroad, or by the 
 circuit attorney in the city of St. Louis. 
 
 Section 8. That any employe of such railroad so operated as aforesaid 
 who may be injured by any train, locomotive, tender, car or similar vehicle 
 in use contrary to the provisions of this act, shall not be deemed to have 
 assumed the risk thereby occasioned, nor to have been guilty of contributory 
 negligence, because of continuing in the employment of such railroad or in 
 the performance of his duties as such employe after the unlawful use of 
 such train, locomotive, tender, car or similar device shall have been brought 
 to his knowledge. 
 
 This bill was introduced in the house by Mr. Raney of Livingston, who 
 caused his bill to belaid over informally until Senate bill could be called 
 up for third reading. He then moved Senate bill 152 be substituted for 
 House bill 386. Passed the house with vote of 102 ayes to 0 nays. 
 
 Senate Bill 152—Those voting for: Anthony, Avery, Bauman, Bradley, 
 Buford, Cooper, Curry, Dorris, Dowell, Drunert, Eads, Farris, Fields, Gardi¬ 
 ner, Haymen, Kammerer, McAllister, McDavid, Major, Mathudy, Peck, Wor- 
 nell. Leave of absence: DeVilbiss. 
 
 Not voting: Anderson, Brown, Ely, Gilmore, Grimes, Hudson, Humph¬ 
 rey, Kinney, Mayer, Pendergast. 
 
 Roll Call on Senate Bill 152 in the House—Those voting for: Aldrich, 
 Barry, Biggs (St. Louis), Biggs (Schuyler), Botsford, ©random, Braswell, 
 Brockus, Brooks, Butts, Carter, Catlin, Chancellor, Chilton (Carter), Christy, 
 Clark, Conner, Conran, Coon, Cooper, Crandell, Crossley, Dale (Andrew), 
 Dale (Gentry), Droste, Duncan, Embry, Emerson, Farris, Frieze, Gannaway, 
 Gibson, Glick, Griffith, Groff, Haller, Ham, Hart, Heathman, Hesseltine, Hill, 
 Holcomb, Houston, Huck, Inglish, Johnson (Chariton), Johnston (Pettis), 
 Kimmet, Kimrey, Kirkpatrick, Kobbe, Letterman, Lewis, Linck, Lucks, Lump¬ 
 kin, Lyles, McMurry, Martin, Meffert, Miller (Saline), Moroney, Morrison, 
 
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 Muir, Nelson (Camden), Nelson (Cooper), Norflept, Noyes, Oliver, Ordelheide, 
 Paul, Pemberton, Phillips (Dallas), Polk, Porth, Raney, Raymond, Roseberry, 
 Schueddig, Settle, Sherman, Shope, Silver, Sosey, Speer, Spence, Stapel, Stark, 
 Stemmons, Sweazea, Thralls, Traughber, Trimble, Tubbs, Wade (Greene).' 
 Wade (Scott), Weber, Whaley,.Willard, Woods, Young, Mr. Speaker. 
 
 Leave of absence: Brasfield, Lemons, Pumphrey, Cross. 
 
 Not voting: Banta, Burch, Busche, Campbell, Casey, Chilton (Madison), 
 Cook, Deal, Depuy, Ditzler, Goshorn, Gilbert, Graham, Hanson, Cooper, 
 Hughes, Kiefner, Kies, McDermott, Mahan, Oregon, Powell, Roach, Salts, 
 Sartin, Simmons, Swiers, Vitt, Warner, Whitaker, Wilson, Zepp. 
 
 Ford present but not voting on these measures. 
 
 Total—Yes, 102; not voting, 39. 
 
 SENATE BILL NO. 113 Introduced by Senator Avery. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend section 2866 of chapter 17 of the Revised Statutes of the state 
 of Missouri, entitled “Damages and contributions in actions of tort,” 
 by inserting certain new words in line three thereof, and by striking 
 out the word “five,” in line 4, and inserting in lieu thereof the word 
 “ten.” 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That section 2866 of the Revised Statutes of the state of 
 Missouri, 1899, of chapter 17, entitled “Damages and contributions in ac¬ 
 tions of tort,” be and the same is hereby amended as follows: By inserting 
 after the figures “2864,” as they appear in line 3 of said section, the words 
 /‘as amended by the laws of 1895, page 135,” and further, by striking out 
 * the word “five,” where it now appears in line 4 of said section, and inserting 
 in lieu thereof the word “ten,” so that, when amended, the section shall 
 read as follows: 
 
 Section 2866. Damages accruing under the last preceding section shall 
 be sued for and recovered by the same parties and in the same manner 
 as provided in section 2864, as amended by the laws of 1905, page 135; and 
 in every such action the jury may give such damages, not exceeding ten 
 thousand dollars, as they may deem fair and just, with reference to the 
 necessary injury resulting from such death, to the surviving parties who may 
 be entitled to sue, and also having regard to the mitigating and aggravating 
 circumstances attending such wrongful act, neglect or default. 
 
 Senate Bill 113—Those voting for: Anthony, Avery, Bauman, Bradley, 
 Brown, Buford, Curry, DeVilbiss, Dorris, Dowell, Drunert, Eads, Ely, Farris, 
 Fields, Gilmore, Grimes, Haymen, Hudson, McAllister, McDavid, Majors, 
 Mayer, Mathudy, Peck, Wornall. Sick: Conner. 
 
 Not voting: Anderson, Cooper, Gardiner, Humphrey, Kammerer, Kinney, 
 Pendergast. 
 
 Roll Call on Senate Bill 113 in the House—Those voting for: Aldrich, 
 Banta, Barker, Barry, Biggs (St. Louis), Botsford, Brandom, Brasfield, Bras¬ 
 well, Brockus, Brooks, Burch, Busche, Butts, Carter, Catlin, Chancellor, Chil¬ 
 ton (Carter), Chilton (Madison), Christy, Clark, Cook, Coon, Cooper, Cran¬ 
 dall, Crossley, Dale (Gentry), Deal, Duncan, Embry, Emerson, Ford, Frieze, 
 Gannaway, Gibson, Glick, Graham, Griffith, Groff, Ham, Hanson, Heathman, 
 Hesseltine, Hill, Hopper, Houston, Huck, Hughes, Inglish, Johnson (Chari¬ 
 ton), Johnston (Pettis), Kiefner, Kimmet, Kimrey, Kirkpatrick, Letterman, 
 Lewis, Linck, Lumpkin, Lyles, McMurry, Martin, Meffert, Miller (Saline), 
 Moroney, Morrison, Muir, Nelson (Camden), Nelson (Cooper), Norfleet, Noyes, 
 Oliver, Paul, Pemberton, Phillips, Dallas, Pumphrey, Polk, Porth, Powell, 
 Raney, Raymond, Roseberry, Salts, Sartin, Schuedigg, Settle, Sherman, Shope, + 
 Silver, Simmons, Sosey, Speer, Stapel, Stark, Sweazea, Thralls, Traughber, 
 Trimble, Tubbs, Vitt, Wade (Scott), Warner, Weber, Whaley, Whitaker, 
 Wilson, Woods, Zepp, Mr. Speaker. 
 
 Those not voting: Biggs (Schuyler), Campbell, Casey, Conner, Con¬ 
 
 ran, Cross, Dale (Andrew), Ditzler, Droste, Farris, Gilbert, Haller, Hart, 
 Holcomb, Kies, Kobbe, Lemon, Lucks, McDermott, Miller (St. Louis), Oregon, 
 Phillips (St. Louis), Roach, Spence, Stemmons, Swiers, Wade (Greene), 
 Willard, Young. , Those voting against: Mahan, Ordelheide. 
 
 Total—Yes, 109; No, 2. 
 
Legislative Record. 
 
 * 
 
 Showing How Members of the Senate and House of the 44th General As¬ 
 sembly Voted on Measures Supported by the Joint Labor 
 * Legislative .Board. 
 
 (On many labor bills Senators and Representatives left their seats in 
 order to avoid voting. A constitutional requirement is that a majority of 
 members of each House must vote for a bill before it is declared “passed.” 
 Thus an absentee is against the bill, and those recorded as absent on labor 
 bills, in reality, voted against the bill on which they were absent.) 
 
 SENATE. 
 
 Senate Record No. 1.—Anderson, Peter, (St. Louis): Voted for Miners’ 
 Fellow-Servant bill, voted for bill Labeling Convict-Made Goods, voted against 
 twelve-hour amendment to Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour law, and voted for Tele¬ 
 graphers Eight-Hour bill on final passage, voted against Initiative and Refer¬ 
 endum; absent on Factory Inspection, for Prison Investigation, for Barbers’ 
 Board, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Scaffolding bill, for Block¬ 
 ing Switches and Frogs, absent on Safety Appliances, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 Senate Record No. 2.—Anthony, W. H., (16th District): Voted for Fac¬ 
 tory Inspection bill, voted for twelve-hour amendment to Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour bill, voted for the bill on final passage, voted against Labeling Convict- 
 Made Goods, absent on Initiative and Referendum, for Miners’ Fellow-Serv¬ 
 ant bill, refused to vote on Prison Investigation, voted for Barbers’ Board, 
 for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Child Labor bill, absent on 
 Scaffolding bill, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances. 
 
 Senate Record No. 3.—Avery, O. H., (11th District): Voted against 
 twelve hour amendment to Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill, voted for the bill 
 on final passage, for the Initiative and Referendum, for Factory Inspection, 
 against Labeling Convict-Made Goods, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant bill, for 
 Prison Investigation, for Barbers’ Board, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in 
 Mines, for Child Labor, for Scaffolding bill, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, 
 for Safety Appliances. 
 
 Senate Record No. 4.—Bauman, E. H., (St. Louis): Absent on Telegra¬ 
 phers’ Eight-Hour bill, voted against Initiative and Referendum, for Factory 
 Inspection, absent on bill to Label Convict-Made Goods, for Prison Investi¬ 
 gation, for Barbers’ Board, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Child 
 Labor bill, for Scaffolding bill, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety 
 Appliances. 
 
 Senate Record No. 5.—Bradley, Jno. L., (26th District): Opposed twelve- 
 twelve-hour amendment to Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill and for bill on final 
 passage, for Initiative and Referendum, for Factory Inspection, for Labeling 
 Convict-Made Goods, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant bill, excused from voting on 
 Prison Investigation account of being named in the resolution as one of the 
 Commission, for Barbers’ Board, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for 
 Child Labor bill, for Scaffolding bill, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for 
 Safety Appliances. 
 
 Senate Record No. 6.—Brown, Robt. H., (17th District): Voted for 
 twelve-hour amendment to Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill and bill on final 
 passage, for Initiative and Referendum, for Factory Inspection, against Label¬ 
 ing Convict-Made Goods, for Prison Investigation, for Barbers’ Board, for 
 Closing Abandoned Rooms in.Mines, for Child Labor bill, for Scaffolding bill, 
 for Blocking Switches and Frogs, not voting on Safety Appliances. 
 
 Senate Record No. 7.—Buford, Carter M., (24th District): Voted against 
 twelve-hour amendment to Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill and for bill on final 
 passage, for Initiative and Referendum, for Factory Inspection, for Label¬ 
 ing Convict-Made Goods, for Prison Investigation, for Barbers’ Board, for 
 Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Child Labor bill, for Scaffolding, 
 for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances. 
 
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 Senate Record No. 8.—Connor, Thomas, (28th District): Sick, absent 
 during entire session. 
 
 Senate Record No. 9.—Cooper, A. L., (7th District): Absent on Telegra¬ 
 phers’ Eight-Hour bill, absent on Initiative and Referendum, absent on Fac-' 
 tory Inspection, absent on Labeling Convict-Made Goods, voted against Min¬ 
 ers’ Fellow-Servant bill, absent with leave on Prison Investigation, for Bar¬ 
 bers’ Board, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, absent on Child Labor 
 bill, absent on Scaffolding bill, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety ^ 
 Appliances. 
 
 Senate Record No. 10.—Curry, George R., (19th District): Voted against 
 twelve-hour amendment to Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill and for bill on final 
 passage, for Initiative and Referendum, for Factory Inspection, absent on 
 Labeling Convict-Made Goods, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant bill, present but 
 refused to vote on Prison Investigation, for Barbers’ Board, for Closing 
 Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Child Labor bill, against Scaffolding bill, 
 for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances. 
 
 Senate Record No. 11.—DeVilbiss, Frank, (27th District): Voted for 
 twelve-hour amendment to Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill and for bill on 
 final passage, for Initiative and Referendum, for Factory Inspection, absent 
 on Labeling Convict-Made Goods, against Miners’ Fellow-Servant bill, for 
 Prison Investigation, for Barbers’ Board, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in 
 Mines, for Child Labor bill, for Scaffolding bill, for Blocking Switches and 
 Frogs, absent on leave on Safety Appliances. 
 
 Senate Record No. 12.—Dorris, E. P., (22nd District): V^ted for 
 
 twelve-hour amendment to Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill, and for bill on final 
 passage, absent on Initiative and Referendum, against Factory Inspection, 
 against Labeling Convict-Made Goods, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant bill, for 
 Prison Investigation, for Barbers’ Board, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in 
 Mines, for Child Labor bill, against Scaffolding bill, for Blocking Switches 
 aad Frogs, for Safety Appliances. 
 
 Senate Record No. 13.—Dowell, E. A., (12th District): Proposed and 
 supported twelve-hour amendment to Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill, voted 
 for bill on final passage as amended, for Initiative and Referendum, against 
 Factory Inspection, against Labeling Convict-Made Goods, for Miners’ Fellow- 
 Servant bill, for Prison Investigation, for Barbers’ Board, for Closing Aban¬ 
 doned Rooms in Mines, for Child Labor bill, against Scaffolding bill, for 
 Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances. 
 
 Senate Record No. 14.—Drunert, A. H., (10th District): Voted against 
 twelve-hour amendment to Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill and for bill on final 
 passage, for Initiative and Referendum, absent on Factory Inspection, and 
 absent on Labeling Convict-Made Goods, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant bill, 
 against Prison Investigation, for Barbers’ Board, for Closing Abandoned 
 Rooms in Mines, for Child Labor bill, for Scaffolding bill, for Blocking 
 Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances. 
 
 Senate Record No. 15.—Eads, Henry L., (8th District): Voted against 
 twelve-hour amendment to Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill and for bill on final 
 passage, present and not voting on Initiative and Referendum, for Factory 
 Inspection, for Labeling Convict-Made Goods, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant 
 bill, excused from voting on Prison Investigation on account of being named 
 in the resolution as one of the Commission, for Barbers’ Board, for Closing 
 Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Child Labor bill, against Scaffolding bill, 
 for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances. 
 
 Senate Record No. 16.—Ely, Thomas R., (21st District): Present and 
 not voting on twelve-hour amendment to Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill, voted 
 for the bill as amended, for Initiative and Referendum, avoided voting on 
 Factory Inspection, against Labeling Convict-Made Goods, for Miners’ Fellow- 
 Servant bill, for Prison Investigation, for Barbers’ Board, for Closing Aban¬ 
 doned Rooms in Mines, for Child Labor bill, absent on Scaffolding bill, for 
 Blocking Switches and Frogs, absent on Safety Appliances. 
 
 Senate Record No. 17.—Farris, Joseph W., (23rd District): Present and 
 not voting on twelve-hour amendment to Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill, voted 
 for the bill on final passage, for Initiative and Referendum, against Factory 
 
Inspection, against Labeling Convict-Made Goods, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant 
 bill, for Prison Investigation, for Barbers’ Board, for Closing Abandoned 
 Rooms in Mines, for Child JLabor bill, for Scaffolding bill, for Blocking 
 Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances. 
 
 Senate Record No. 18.—Fields, Emmet B., (6th District): Present and 
 not voting on Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill, voted for Initiative and Refer¬ 
 endum, present and not voting on Factory Inspection, against Labeling Con¬ 
 vict-Made Goods, for Fellow-Servant bill, for Prison Investigation, for Bar¬ 
 kers’ Board, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Child Labor bill, 
 absent on Scaffolding bill, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety 
 Appliances. 
 
 Senate Record No. 19.—Gardner, A. JD. L., (25th District): Voted for 
 twelve-hour amendment to Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill, and for bill as 
 amended, against Iinitiative and Referendum, for Factory Inspection, against 
 Labeling Convict-Made Goods, absent on Miners’ Fellow-Servant bill, for 
 Prison Investigation, for Barbers’ Board, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in 
 Mines, for Child Labor bill, for Scaffolding bill, for Blocking Switches and 
 Frogs, for Safety Appliances. 
 
 Senate Record No. 20.—Gilmore, Solon T., (5th District): Present and 
 not voting on twelve-hour amendment to Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill, voted 
 for amended bill, present not voting on Initiative and Referendum, present 
 and not voting on Factory Inspection, for Labeling Convict-Made Goods, 
 against Miners’ Fellow-Servant bill, for Prison Investigation, for Barbers’ 
 Board, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Child Labor bill, absent 
 on Scaffolding bill, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, not voting on Safety 
 Appliances. 
 
 Senate Record No. 21.—Grimes. John M.. (18th'District): Voted for 
 twelve-hour amendment to Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill and for bill on fina 
 passage, against the Initiative and Referendum, absent on Factory Inspec¬ 
 tion, absent on Labeling Convict-Made Goods, for Miners’ Fellow-^rvan 
 bill, absent on Prison Investigation, absent on Barbers’ Board, absent on 
 Glosing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, absent on Child Labor bill, against 
 Scaffolding bill, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, not voting on Safety Ap¬ 
 pliances. 
 
 Senate Record No. 22.—Hayman, Frank C., (15th District): Voted for 
 twelve-hour amendment to Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill and for bill on final 
 passage, for Initiative and Referendum, against Factory Inspection, against 
 Labeling Convict-Made Goods, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant bill, for Prison 
 Investigation, for Barbers’ Board, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, 
 for Child Labor bill, for Scaffolding bill, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, 
 for Safety Appliances. 
 
 Senate Record No. 23.—Hudson, Fred S., (4th District): Voted for 
 twelve-hour amendment to Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill and for bill on final 
 passage, for Initiative and Referendum, against Factory Inspection, for La¬ 
 beling Convict-Made Goods, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant bill, for Prison In¬ 
 vestigation, absent on Barbers’ Board, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in 
 Mines, for Child Labor bill, for Scaffolding bill, against Blocking Switches 
 and Frogs, not voting on Safety Appliances. 
 
 Senate Record No. 24.—Humphrey, George W., (9th District): Voted 
 for twelve-hour amendment to Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill and for bill on 
 final passage, for Initiative and Referendum, absent on Factory Inspection, 
 absent on Labeling Convict-Made Goods, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant bill, for 
 Prison Investigation, for Barbers’ Board, for Closing Abandoned Rooms In 
 Mines, for Scaffolding bill, for Child Labor bill, for Blocking Switches and 
 Frogs, not voting on Safety Appliances. 
 
 Senate Record No. 25.—Kammerer, Arthur E., (33rd District): Voted 
 for twelve-hour amendment to Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill, and for bill on 
 final passage, against the Initiative and Referendum, against Factory In¬ 
 spection, against Labeling Convict-Made Goods, against Miners’ Fellow- 
 Servant bill, against Prison Investigation, absent on Barbers’ Board, for 
 Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Child Labor, for Scaffolding bill, 
 for Blocking Switches and Frogs. 
 
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 Senate Record No. 26.—Kinney, Thos. E., (31st District, St. Louis): Pres¬ 
 ent and not voting on Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill, absent on Initiative and 
 Referendum, for Factory Inspection, for Labeling Convict-Made Goods, for 
 Miners’ Fellow-Servant bill, present and not voting on Prison Investigation, 
 for Barbers’ Board, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Child Labor, 
 present and not voting on Scaffolding bill, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, 
 not voting on Safety Appliances. 
 
 Senate Record No. 27.—McAlister, Frank W., (13th District): Voted 
 for twelve-hour amendment to Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill, and for bill aS- 
 amended, for Initiative and Referendum, present and not voting on Factory 
 Inspection, against Labeling Convict-Made Goods, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant 
 bill, for Prison Investigation, for Barbers’ Board, for Closing Abandoned 
 Rooms in Mines, for Child Labor bill, present and not voting on Scaffolding 
 bill, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances. 
 
 Senate Record No. 28.—McDavid, Frank M., (20th District): Voted for 
 twelve-hour amendment to Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill and for bill on final 
 passage, for Initiative and Referendum, for Factory Inspection, for Labeling 
 Convict-Made Goods, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant bill, excused from voting 
 on Prison Investigation on account of being named in resolution as one of 
 the Commission, for Barbers’ Board, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, 
 for Child Labor bill, for Scaffolding, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for 
 Safety Appliances. 
 
 Senate Record No. 29.—Major, Sam C., (14th District): Voted for 
 twelve-hour amendment to Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill and for bill on 
 final passage, for Initiative and Referendum, absent on Factory Inspection, 
 against Labeling Convict-Made Goods, for Miners’ Fellow Servant bill, for 
 Prison Investigation, for Barbers’ Board, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in 
 Mines, for Child Labor bill, for Scaffolding bill, for Blocking Switches and 
 Frogs, for Safety Appliances. 
 
 Senate Record No. 30.—Mayer, Charles H., (2nd District): Absent on 
 Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill, voted for Initiative and Referendum, against 
 Factory Inspection, for Labeling Convict-Made Goods, for Miners’ Fellow- 
 Servant bill, for prison Investigation, present and not voting on Barbers’* 
 Board, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Child Labor bill, for 
 Scaffolding bill, for Blocking Switches, not voting on Safety Appliances. 
 
 Senate Record No. 31.—Methudy, Adolph E., (30th District): Present 
 but not voting on Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill, against Initiative and Refer¬ 
 endum, against Factory Inspection, for Labeling Convict-Made Goods, for 
 Miners’ Fellow-Servant bill, for Prison Investigation, for Barbers’ Board, 
 for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Child Labor bill, for Scaffolding 
 bill, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances. 
 
 Senate Record No. 32.—Peck, Josiah W., (1st District): Voted for 
 twelve-hour amendment to Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill and against bill 
 on final passage, absent on Initiative and Referendum, absent on Factory 
 Inspection, for Labeling Convict-Made Goods, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant bill, 
 for Prison Investigation, present and not voting on Barbers’ Board, for Clos¬ 
 ing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, present and not voting on Scaffolding bill, 
 for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances. 
 
 Senate Record No. 33.—Prendergrast, Jeff J., (32nd District, St. Louis): 
 Present and not voting on Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill, absent on Initia¬ 
 tive and Referendum, for Factory Inspection, absent on Labeling Convict- 
 Made Goods, absent on Miners’ Fellow-Servant bill, for Prison Investigation, 
 not voting on Barbers’ Board, absent on Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, 
 Absent on Child Labor bill, for Scaffolding bill, for Blocking Switches and 
 Frogs, not voting on Safety Appliances. 
 
 Senate Record No. 34.—Wornall, Thomas J., (3rd District): Present 
 and not voting on Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill, for Initiative and Referen¬ 
 dum, against Factory Inspection, absent on Labeling Convict-Made Goods, for 
 Miners’ Fellow-Servant bill, for Prison Investigation, not voting on Barbers* 
 Board, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Child Labor bill, not vot¬ 
 ing on Scaffolding bill, absent on Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety 
 Appliances. 
 
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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 
 
 House Record No. 1.—Aldrich, W. W., (Worth): Voted for Telegraphers’ 
 » Eight-Hour bill, for abolishing Convict Leasing System, against Barbers’ 
 Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as 
 amended by Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking 
 Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, 
 for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 2.—Banta, Cyrus N., (Washington): Voted for Tel¬ 
 egraphers’ Eight-Hour bill, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for 
 Barbers’ Board, against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour bill as amended by Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, 
 for Blocking Switches and Frogs, absent on Safety Appliances, for Initia¬ 
 tive and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 3. —Barker, Jno. Tr, (Macon): Voted for Telegra¬ 
 phers’ Eight-Hour, sick Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ 
 Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as 
 amended by Senate, sick Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, sick Blocking 
 Switches and Frogs, sick on Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and 
 Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 4.—Barry, Joseph F., (Ralls): Voted for Telegra¬ 
 phers’ Eight-Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, absent on 
 Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour 
 bill as amended by Senate, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Closing 
 Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Safety Appliances, for the Initiative and 
 Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 5.—Biggs, Austin (District 1, St. Louis): Voted for 
 Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour, for Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Bar¬ 
 bers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bii 
 as amended by Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking 
 Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Ref^^ndurr^ 
 for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 6—Biggs, Warren C., (Schuyler): Voted for Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ 
 Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as 
 amended by Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking 
 
 Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and Refer¬ 
 
 endum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 7.—Botsford, S. E., (Knox): For Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour, avoided voting on Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ 
 Board, for Miners Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as 
 amended by Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking 
 
 Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, 
 
 for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 8.—Brandom, S. W., (Davies): Absent on Telegra¬ 
 phers’ Eight-Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, against Bar¬ 
 bers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill 
 as amended by Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, absent 
 Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for the Initiative and 
 Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 9.—Brasfield, H. R., (Putnam): Voted against Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, absent on 
 Barbers’ Board, against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour bill as amended by Senate, ror Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, 
 for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative 
 and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 10.—Braswell, T. J., (Oregon): Absent on Telegra¬ 
 phers’ Eight-Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, against Bar¬ 
 bers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill 
 as amended by Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Block¬ 
 ing Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referen¬ 
 dum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 11.—Brockus, Daniel T., (Polk): Voted for Telegra- 
 
pliers’ Eight-Hour bill, for Abolishing Convict Leasing System, against Bar¬ 
 bers’ Board, against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour 
 bill as amended by Senate, for Closing' Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for 
 Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Ref- « 
 erendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 12.—Brooks, Floyd W., (St. Louis County): For 
 Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill, for Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for 
 Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, absent on Telegraphers’ Eighth 
 Hour bill as amended by Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for 
 Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Ref¬ 
 erendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 13.—Burch, Walter, (Audrian): Voted against Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Bar¬ 
 bers’ board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, against Telegraphers’ Eight Hour 
 bill as amended in Senate, absent on Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, 
 for Blocking Switches and Frogs, absent Safety Appliances, absent on Initia¬ 
 tive and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 14.—Busche, Fred, (4th Dist. St. Louis): For teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour, for Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ 
 Board, absent on Miners’ Fellow-Servant, absent on Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour 
 bill as amended by Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, absent on 
 Blocking Switches and Frogs, absent on Safety Appliances, for Iniative and 
 Referendum, absent on Child Labor. •— 
 
 House Record No. 15.—Butts, William H., (Laclede): For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, 
 for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as amended 
 by Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches 
 and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child 
 Labor. 
 
 House Record No. 1G.—Campbell, Steele, (Greene): Voted for Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour, absent on Abolishing Convict Leasing System, absent on 
 Barbers’ Board, absent on Miners’ Fellow-Servant, absent on Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour bill as amended by Senate, absent for Closing Abandoned Rooms 
 in Mines, absent Blocking Switches and Frogs, absent Safety Appliances, 
 absent on Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 17.—Carter, Chas. F., (Clark): Voted against Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, against 
 Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour 
 bill as amended by Senate, against Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for 
 Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and 
 Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 18.—Casey, Michael, (4th Dist. Jackson): For Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour bill,- against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, absent 
 on Barbers’ Board, absent on Miners’ Fellow-Servant, absent on Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour bill as amended by Senate, absent on Closing Abandoned Rooms 
 in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, absent on Safety Appliances, 
 absent on Initiative and Referendum, absent on Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 19.—Catlin, T. E., (6th Dist. St. Louis): Voted against 
 Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill, for abolishing Convict Leasing System, for 
 Barbers’ Board, against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour bill as amended in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, 
 absent Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and 
 Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 20.—Chancellor, LI. C. (Barton) : Avoiding voting on 
 Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour, for Abolishing Convict Leasing System, against 
 Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill 
 as amended by Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking 
 Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, 
 for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 21.—Chilton, S. (Carter) : For Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour, for abolishing Convict Leasing System, against Barbers’ Board, for 
 Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour as amended by Senate, 
 
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 for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, 
 for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 » House Record No. 22.—Chelton, Joseph F. (Miadison): For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, absent on Barbers’ 
 Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, absent on Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as 
 amended by Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking 
 pitches and Frogs, absent on Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and 
 Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 23.—Christie, Joseph H. (Lafayette): For Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour bill, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for 
 Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour 
 bill as amended by Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for 
 Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Ref¬ 
 erendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 24.—Clark, Samuel F. (2nd Dist. Jasper) : Voted for 
 Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour, for Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Bar¬ 
 bers’ Board, against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour 
 bill as amended by Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for 
 Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and 
 Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 25.—Connors, W. S. (Buchanan, 3rd Dist.): For 
 Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, 
 foi Barbers’ Board, avoided voting on Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour bill as amended in Senate, for Closing Abandoned 
 Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for 
 Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 26.—Conran, M. J. (New Madrid): Absent on Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour bill, for Abolishing Convict Leasing System, absent on 
 Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour 
 bill as amended in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Block¬ 
 ing Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, 
 absent on Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 27.—Cook, T. B. (Ray): For Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, for 
 Miners’ Fellow-Servant bill, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as amended 
 in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and 
 Frogs, absent on Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, absent 
 on Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 28.—Coon, J. D. (Mercer): For Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, against Barbers’ Board, 
 against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as amended 
 in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and 
 Frogs, for Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and Referendum, for Child 
 Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 29.—Cooper, T. W. (Bolinger) : For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour, for Abolishing Convict Leasing System, against Barbers’ Board, 
 against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as amended 
 in Senate, against Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches 
 and Frogs, for safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and Referendum, for 
 Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 30.—Crandall, U. G. (2nd Dist. Buchanan) : For Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour, for Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ 
 Board, absent on Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill 
 as amended by the Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for 
 Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for the Initiative and 
 Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 31.—Cross, P. T. (Clinton): For Telegraphers’ Eight 
 Hour, for Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ 
 Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as amended in Senate, 
 for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, 
 absent on Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and Referendum, for Child 
 Labor bill. 
 
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 House Record No. 32.—Crossley, Wallace (Johnson): For Telegraphers’ 
 Bight-Hour, against abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, 
 for Miners Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as amended im> 
 Senate, for Closing abandoned Rooms in Mines, against Blocking Switches 
 and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child 
 Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 33.—Dale, Wm. (Andrew): For Telegraphers’ Eigh*.~ 
 Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, against Barbers’ Board, 
 against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as amend¬ 
 ed in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, against Blocking 
 Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, 
 for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 34.—Dale, John A. (Gentry): For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour, absent on Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, for Min¬ 
 ers’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as amended in Senate, 
 absent on Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and 
 Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor 
 bill. 
 
 House Record No. 35.—Deal, E. P. (Mississippi): Against Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, against Barbers’ 
 Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, absent on Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as 
 amended in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking 
 Switches and Frogs, against Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referen¬ 
 dum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 36.—Ditzler, Martin E. (2nd Dist. Jackson): Against 
 Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, 
 absent on Barbers’ Board, absent on Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ 
 EighLHour bill as amended in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in 
 Mines, against Blocking Switches and Frogs, against Safety Appliances, for 
 Initiative and Referendum, absent on Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 37.—Droste, H. F. (4th Dist. St. Louis): For Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour, absent on Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Bar¬ 
 bers’ Board, against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, absent on Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour bill, as amended in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for 
 Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Refer¬ 
 endum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 38.—Duncan, J. J. (Lincoln): Against Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, against Barbers’ 
 Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as 
 amended in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, against Blocking 
 Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, 
 for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 39.—Embry, R. M. (Moniteau): Absent on Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour, against Abolishing Convict Labor System, against 
 Barbers’ Board, absent on Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour bill as amended in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, . 
 against Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative 
 and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 40.—Emerson, Theodore (Clay): Against Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Bar¬ 
 bers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, absent on Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour 
 bill as amended in Senate, against Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for 
 Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and 
 Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 41.—Farris, F. H. (Crawford): Voted against Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, against 
 * Barbers’ Board, against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour bill as amended in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, 
 against Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, against Initia¬ 
 tive and Referendum, absent on Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 42.—Ford, J. E. (Grundy): For Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour, against Abolishing Convict Labor Leading System,, against Barbers’ 
 
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 Board, against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, absent on Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour 
 bill as amended in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, against 
 Blocking Switches and Frogs, avoided voting on Safety Appliances, absent 
 # on Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 43.—Frieze, E. (Dade): Against Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers' Board, absent 
 on Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight Hour bill as amended in 
 Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and 
 i^rogs, for Safety Appliances, for initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor 
 bill. 
 
 House Record No. 44.—Gannaway, T. B. (Monroe) : For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour bill, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ 
 Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as 
 amended in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking 
 Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, 
 for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 45.—Gibson, W. E. (Jefferson): For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, 
 for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as amended 
 in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches 
 and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child 
 Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 46.—Gilbert, J. W. (Barry): For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour bill, absent on Abolishing Convict Leasing System, absent on 
 Barbers’ Board, absent on Miners’ Fellow-Servant, absent on Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour bill as amended in Senate, absent on Closing Abandoned Rooms 
 in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, against Safety Appliances, ab¬ 
 sent on Initiative and Referendum, absent on Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 47.—Glick, G. W. (Holt): For Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, against Barbers’ Board, 
 for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as amended 
 in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and 
 Frogs, for Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and Referendum, for Child 
 Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 48.—Goshorn, W. C. (Montgomery): Absent on Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour bill, absent on Abolishing Convict Leasing System, ab¬ 
 sent on Barbers’ Board, against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, absent on Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour bill as amended in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms 
 in Mines, absent on Blocking Switches and Frogs, absent on Safety Appli¬ 
 ances, against Initiative and Referendum, absent on Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 49.—Graham, G. T. (Douglas): For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, against Barbers’ 
 Board, against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, absent on Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour 
 bill as amended in Senate, absent on Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, 
 for Blocking Switches and Frogs, against Safety Appliances, absent Initia¬ 
 tive and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 50.—Griffith, L. M. (Bates): For Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, absent on Barbers’ Board, 
 ‘absent on Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as amend¬ 
 ed in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, absent on Blocking 
 Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, 
 for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 51.—Groff, W. M. (5th Dist. Jackson): For Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour, for Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ 
 Board, avoided voting on Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour bill as amended in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for 
 Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Refer¬ 
 endum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 52.—Haller, W. A. (5th Dist. St. Louis): For Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour, for Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ 
 Board, against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as 
 amended in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, absent Blocking 
 
Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, 
 for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 53.—Ham, T. H. (Dunklin): For Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour, for Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, for Miners’*? 
 Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as amended in Senate, for 
 Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for-. 
 Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor 
 bill. ^ 
 
 House Record No. 54.—Hanson, R. H. (Wright): For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour, for Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, 
 against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, absent on Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as 
 amended in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking 
 Switches and Frogs, absent on Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and 
 Referendum, absent on Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 55.—Hart, E. L. (1st Dist. Buchanan): For Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour, for Abolishing Convict Leasing System, against Barbers’ 
 Board, absent on Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as 
 amended in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, absent on 
 Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Ref¬ 
 erendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 56.—Heathman, W. T. (Randolph): For Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour, for Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ 
 Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as 
 amended in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking 
 Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, 
 for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 57.—Hesseltine, F. J. (Harrison): Against Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour bill, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for 
 Barbers’ Board, absent on Miners’ Fellow-Servant, absent on Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour bill as amended in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in 
 Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initia¬ 
 tive and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 58.—Hill, D. W. (Butler): Sick, absent with leave 
 on Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill, for Abolishing Convict Leasing System, 
 for Barbers’ Board, avoided voting on Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour bill as amended in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms 
 in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Ini¬ 
 tiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 59.—Holcomb, N. R. (1st Dist. Jackson): For Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Bar¬ 
 bers’ Board, against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour 
 bill as amended in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for 
 Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Ref¬ 
 erendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 60.—Hopper, J. W. (Lawrence): For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, 
 absent Miners’ Fellow-Servant, absent on Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as 
 amended in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking 
 Switches and Frogs, absent on Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and 
 Referendum, absent on Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 61.—Houston, W. P. (Cass): For Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour bill, against abolishing Convict Leasing System, against Barbers’ board, 
 for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as amended in 
 Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, absent on Blocking Switches 
 and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, absent on 
 Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 62.—Huck, P. H. (St. Genevieve): Avoided voting on 
 Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, absent 
 on Barbers’ Board, absent Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour bill as amended in Senate, against Closing Abandoned Rooms in 
 Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative 
 and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
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 House Record No. 63.—Hughes, D. A. (Callaway): For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, 
 for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as amended in 
 # Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, absent on Blocking Switches 
 and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child 
 s Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 64.—Inglish, S. R. (Miller): For Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 ^lour bill, absent on Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, 
 absent Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as amended 
 in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and 
 Frogs, for Safety Appliances, against Initiative and Referendum, for Child 
 Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 65.—Johnson, A. W. (Chariton): For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour bill, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ 
 Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as 
 amended in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking 
 Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, 
 for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 66.—Johnston, E. E. (Pettis): For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, 
 for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as amended 
 in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches 
 and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child 
 Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 67.—Kiefner, C. E. (Perry): For Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour, absent on Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, ab¬ 
 sent Miners’ Fellow-Servant, absent on Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as 
 amended in Senate, absent on Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Block¬ 
 ing Switches and Frogs, against Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Refer¬ 
 endum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 68.—Kies, F. E. (Cape Girardeau) : Against Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour bill, absent on Abolishing Convict Leasing System, 
 against Barbers’ Board, absent Miners’ Fellow-Servant, absent on Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour bill as amended in Senate, for Closing Abandoned 
 Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, absent Safety Appliances, 
 for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 69.—Kimmet, J. H. (DeKalb): For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour, for Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, for 
 Miners’ Fellow-Servant, absent on Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as amended 
 in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and 
 Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor 
 bill. 
 
 House Record No. 70.—Kimrey, L. N. (Texas): For Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour bill, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, 
 absent Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as amend¬ 
 ed in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches 
 and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child 
 Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 71.—Kirkpatrick, J. W. D. (Cedar): For Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, against 
 Barbers’ Board, absent Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour bill as amended in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, 
 against Blocking of Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, absent on 
 Initiative and Referendum, absent on Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 72.—Kobbe, John (Sullivan): For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, absent on Barbers’ 
 Board, absent Miners’ Fellow-Servant, absent on Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour 
 bill as amended in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Block¬ 
 ing Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and Ref¬ 
 erendum, absent on Child Labor bills. 
 
 House Record No. 73.—Lemon, J. H. (Nodaway): Against Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, against Barbers' 
 
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 Board, against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as 
 amended in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking 
 Switches and Frogs, absent on Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referen¬ 
 dum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 74.—Letterman, P. F. (Maries): For telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, against Barbers’ 
 Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill as 
 amended in Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking* 
 Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, 
 for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 75.—Lewis, W. H. (St. Francis): Voted for Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour bill, for Telegraphers’ bill with Senate amendments, 
 for Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ 
 Fellow-Servant, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Initiative and 
 Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 76.—Linck, A. (2nd Dist. St. Louis): For Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour, for Senate Amendment to Telegraphers’ bill, for Abolish¬ 
 ing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, against Miners’ Fellow- 
 Servant, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, absent on Initiative and 
 Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 77.—Lucks, R. (3rd Dist. St. Louis): Absent on 
 Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour, absent on Senate amendment to Telegraphers’ 
 bill, * absent on Convict Leasing System, absent on Barbers’ bill, absent 
 Miners’ Fellow-Servant, absent on Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, 
 absent on Initiative and Referendum, absent on Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 78.—Lumpkin, W. A. (Pulaski): For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour bill, for Senate amendment to Telegraphers’ bill, absent on 
 Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, absent on Miners’ 
 Fellow-Servant, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking of 
 Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, 
 for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 79.—Lyles, P. L. (Shannon): For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour bill, for Senate amendment to Telegraphers’ bill, against Abolish¬ 
 ing Convict Leasing System, absent on Barbers’ Board, for the Miners’ Fel¬ 
 low-Servant, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Frogs 
 and Switches, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child 
 Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 80.—McDermott, J. J. (3rd Dist. St. Louis): Absent 
 on Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill, absent on Senate amendment to Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ bill, absent on Abolishing Convict Leasing System, absent on Bar¬ 
 bers’ Board, absent on Miners’ Fellow-Servant; for Closing Abandoned Rooms 
 in Mines, absent on Blocking Switches and Frogs, absent Safety Appliances, 
 for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 81.—McMurray, W. M. (Scotland): Against Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour, for Senate amendment to Telegraphers’ bill, against 
 Abolishing Convict Leasing System, against Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ 
 Fellow-Servant, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking 
 Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, 
 for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 82.—Mahan, W. M. (Ozark): Absent on Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour bill, absent on Senate amendment to Telegraphers’ bill, for 
 Abolishing Convict Leasing System, against Barbers’ Board, against Miners’ 
 Fellow-Servant, absent Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking- 
 Switches and Frogs, absent on Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and 
 Referendum, absent on Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 83.—Martin, G. W. (Linn): For Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour bill, for Senate amendments to Telegraphers’ bill, for Abolishing Con¬ 
 vict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for 
 Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for 
 Safety appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 84.—Meffert, H. B. (Caldwell): For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour bill, for Senate amendment to Telegraphers’ bill, for Abolish- 
 
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 ing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, absent Miners’ Fellow-Ser¬ 
 vant, for closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and 
 Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor 
 bill. 
 
 * House Record No. 85.—Miller, J. F. (1st. Dist. St. Louis): Against 
 Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill, for Senate amendment to bill, absent on 
 Abolishing Convict Leasing System, absent on Barbers’ Board, absent on 
 
 ’ Miners’ Fellow-Servant, absent on Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for 
 Blocking Switches and Frogs, absent on Safety Appliances, for Initiative and 
 “Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 86.—Miller, J. G. (Saline): For Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 • Hour bill, for Senate amendment to Telegraphers’ bill, against Abolishing 
 Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for 
 v Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, absent on Blocking Switches and Frogs, 
 
 • for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 87.—Moroney, J. (3rd. Dist. St. Louis): Against 
 Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill, absent on bill with Senate amendment, ab¬ 
 sent on Abolishing Convict Leasing System, absent on Barbers’ Board, absent 
 on Miners’ Fellow-Servant, absent on Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, 
 for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, absent on Ini¬ 
 tiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 88.—Morrison, J. O. (Vernon): For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour bill, for Senate amendment to Telegraphers’ bill, against Abolish¬ 
 ing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, 
 for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, absent on Blocking Switches and 
 Frogs, for Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and Referendum, for Child 
 Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 89.—Muir, J. T. (Lewis): For Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour bill, for bill as amended by Senate, against Abolishing Convict Leasing 
 System, for Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Closing Aban¬ 
 doned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appli¬ 
 ances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 90.—Nelson, O. A. (Camden): For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended by Senate, against Abolishing Convict 
 Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, against Miners’ Fellow-Ser-vant, for Clos¬ 
 ing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety 
 Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 91.—Nelson, W. L. (Cooper): Against Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended by Senate, for Abolishing Convict Leas¬ 
 ing System, against Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Closing 
 Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety 
 Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 92.—Norfleet, R. A. (Morgan): For Telegraphers' 
 Eight-Hour bill, absent on bill as amended by Senate, for Abolishing Convict 
 Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for 
 Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for 
 Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor 
 bill. 
 
 House Record No. 93.—Noyes, E. L. (6th. Dist. Jackson): For Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour bill, for bill' as amended by Senate, for Abolishing Con¬ 
 vict Leasing System, against Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for 
 Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for 
 Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, absent on Child Labor 
 bill. 
 
 m. House Record No. 94.—Oliver, A. L. (Pemiscott); Against Telegraphers’ 
 
 Eight-Hour, against bill as Amended by Senate, absent on Abolishing 
 * Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, 
 
 for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, 
 ^ for Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and Referendum, for Child 
 
 Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 95.—Ordelheide, F. A. (Warren): Against Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended in Senate, against Abolish- 
 
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 ing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, against Miners’ Fellow- 
 Servant, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, absent on Blocking Switches 
 and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and Referendum, for 
 Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 96.—Organ, J. E. (Dent): Sick during all of the*! 
 session. 
 
 House Record No. 97.—Paul, J. M. (McDonald): Against Telegraphers 1 . 
 Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended by Senate, against Abolishing Convict 
 Leasing System, against Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, fC * 
 Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, 
 for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor *■ 
 
 bill. * * 
 
 House Record No. 98.—Pemberton, M. H. (Boone) : For Telegraphers’ ^ 
 Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended in Senate, against Abolishing Convict 
 Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Closing 
 Abandoned Rooms in Mines, absent on Blocking Switches and Frogs, for 
 
 Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 99.—Phillips, I. (Dallas): For Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour bill, for bill as amended by Senate, for Abolishing Convict Leasing 
 System, for Barbers’ Board, against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Closing 
 Abandoned Rooms in Mines, absent on Blocking Switches and Frogs, for 
 
 Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 100.—Phillips, O. C. (5th Dist. St. Louis): Absent 
 on Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill, absent on bill as amended by Senate, for 
 Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, against Miners’ 
 Fellow-Servant, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking 
 Switches and Frogs, absent on Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Refer¬ 
 endum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 101.—Pumphrey, E. E. (Platte): For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended in Senate, against Abolishing Convict 
 Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, absent Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for 
 Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, ab¬ 
 sent on Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor 
 bill. 
 
 House Record No. 102.—Polk, C. H. (Iron): For Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour bill, for bill as amended in Senate, against Abolishing Convict Leasing 
 System, for Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Closing Aban¬ 
 doned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Ap¬ 
 pliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 103.—Porth, J. P. (Cole): For Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour, for bill as amended in Senate, against Abolishing Convict Leasing 
 System, absent on Barbers’ Board, absent on Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for 
 Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for 
 Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 104.—Powell, T. S. (Stone): For Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour bill, for bill as amended in Senate, absent on Abolishing Convict Leas¬ 
 ing System, for Barbers’ Board, against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, absent on 
 Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, absent 
 on Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor 
 bill. 
 
 House Record No. 105.—Raney, J. C. (Livingston): For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended by Senate, against Abolishing Convict 
 Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Closing 
 Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety 
 Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. r 
 
 House Record No. 106.—Raymond, T. D. (Howell): For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended by Senate, for Abolishing Convict % 
 
 Leasing System, against Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for 
 Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, absent Blocking Switches and Frogs, i? 
 
 for Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor 
 bill. 
 
 House Record No. 107.—Roach, J. (Jasper, 3rd Dist.): For Telegraphers’ 
 
Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended by Senate, against Abolishing Convict 
 Leasing System, against Barbers’ Board, against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, 
 for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, 
 absent on Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor 
 
 bill. 
 
 * House Record No. 108.—Roseberry, E. M. (Newton): For Telegraphers’ 
 
 * Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended by Senate, against Abolishing Convict 
 Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, absent Miners' Fellow-Servant, for 
 
 Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, 
 for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 109.—Salts, W. J. (Phelps) : For Telegraphers’ 
 
 Eight hour, for bill as amended by Senate, sick on Abolishing Convict Leas¬ 
 ing System, against Barbers’ Board, absent Miners’ Fellow-Servant, absent 
 on Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, sick on Blocking Switches and 
 Frogs, sick on Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child 
 Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 110.—Sartin, J. A. (Benton): For Telegraphers’ 
 
 Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended by Senate, for Abolishing Convict 
 
 Leasing System, against Barbers’ Board, against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, 
 
 for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, 
 absent on Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor 
 bill. 
 
 House Record No. 111.—Schueddig, C. (2nd Dist. St. Louis): For 
 
 Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended by Senate, absent on 
 Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, absent Miners’ 
 Fellow-Servant, absent Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking 
 Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and Referen¬ 
 dum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 112.—Settle, W. A. (Wayne): For Telegraphers’ 
 
 Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended in Senate, for Abolishing Convict 
 
 Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for 
 
 Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for 
 Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 113.—Sherman, W. H. (4th Dist. Buchanan): For 
 Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended by Senate, for Abolish¬ 
 ing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, 
 for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, 
 for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 114.—Shope, W. A. (3rd Dist. Jackson): For Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended by Senate, for Abolishing 
 Convict Leasing System, absent on Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Ser¬ 
 vant, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, absent on Blocking Switches 
 and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and Referendum, for 
 Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 115.—Silver, R. D. (St. Charles): For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended in Senate, for Abolishing Convict Leas¬ 
 ing System, against Barbers’ Board, against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for 
 
 * Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for 
 Safety Appliances, against Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 116.—Simmons, W. J. (Shelby): For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended in Senate, absent on Abolishing Convict 
 Leasing System,, for Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, against 
 Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, 
 against Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor 
 bill. 
 
 House Record No. 117—Sosey, F. H. (Marion): Absent on Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended in Senate, for Abolishing Convict 
 Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Closing 
 Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Initiative 
 and Referendum, absent on Child Labor bill, for Safety Appliances. 
 
 House Record No. 118.—Speer, A. A. (Osage) : For Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour bill, for bill as amended by Senate, absent on Abolishing Convict 
 
Leasing System, absent on Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, 
 for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, 
 for Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor 
 bill. 
 
 House Record No. 119.—Spence, K. C. (Stoddard): Against Teleg-^ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour bill, absent on bill as amended by Senate, against. 
 Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow^. 
 Servant, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and 
 Frofs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, absent on ChiX,’ 
 Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 120.—Stapel, H. F. (Atchison): For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended in Senate, against Abolishing Convict 
 Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Closing 
 Abandoned Rooms in Mines, absent Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety 
 Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 121.—Stark, J. O. (Pike): For Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour bill, for bill as amended by Senate, against Abolishing Convict Leasing 
 System, for Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Closing Aban¬ 
 doned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appli¬ 
 ances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 122.—Stemmons, A. C. (1st Dist. Jasper): For Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended by Senate, against Abolishing 
 Convict Leasing System, against Barbers’ Board, against Miners’ Fellow- 
 Servant, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and 
 Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor 
 bill. 
 
 House Record No. 123.—Sweazea, T. J. (Reynolds): For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended by Senate, against Abolishing Convict 
 Leasing System, against Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for 
 Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for 
 Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor 
 bill. 
 
 House Record No. 124.—Swiers, J. D. (Christian): Against Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended by Senate, for Abolishing Convict Leas¬ 
 ing System, against Barbers’ Board, absent Miners’ Fellow-Servant, absent 
 Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, 
 absent Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, against Child 
 Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 125.—Thralls, M. V. (Henry): For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended by Senate, absent on Abolishing Con¬ 
 vict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, absent 
 on Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for 
 Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 126.—Traughber, V. S. (Carroll): Against Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended by Senate, against Abolishing 
 Convict Leasing System, absent Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, 
 for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, 
 for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill* 
 
 House Record No. 127.—Trimble, S. C. (Webster): For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended in Senate, against Abolishing Convict 
 Leasing System, against Barbers’ Board, against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for 
 Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, 
 for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 128.—Tubbs, A. (Gasconade): For Telegraphers’ Eight- 
 Hour bill, for bill as amended by Senate, for Abolishing Convict Leasing 
 System, against Barbers’ Board, against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Closing 
 Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety 
 Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, absent on Child Labor bill. 
 
 tiiause Record No. 129.—Vitt, A. A. (Franklin): Against Telegraphers’ 
 'ight-Hour bill, for bill as amended by Senate, absent on Abolishing Convict 
 Leasing System, against Barbers’ Board, against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, 
 absent Closing Abandoned Rooms In Mines, absent Blocking Switches and 
 
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 Frogs, absent Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and Referendum, ab¬ 
 sent on Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 130.—Wade, W. H. (2nd Dist. Greene): For Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended in Senate, for Abolishing Con¬ 
 vict Leasing System, absent on Barbers’ Board, against Miners’ Fellow- 
 fServant, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, absent Blocking Switches 
 and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and Referendum, ab- 
 •Sint on Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 131.—Wade, S. J. (Scott): Absent on Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended by Senate, against Abolishing Convict 
 Leasing System, against Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for 
 Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, 
 for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 132.—Warner, F. B. (1st Dist. St. Louis): For 
 Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended in Senate, absent on 
 Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, against Miners’ 
 Fellow Servant, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking 
 Switches and Frogs, absent on Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referen¬ 
 dum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 133.—Weber, J. G. (1st Dist. St. Louis): For Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended in Senate, for Abolishing Con¬ 
 vict Leasing System, absent on Barbers’ Board, absent Miners’ Fellow-Ser¬ 
 vant, absent Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and 
 Frogs, for Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and Referendum, absent 
 on Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 134.—Whaley, N. C. (St. Clair): Absent Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended by Senate, against Abolish-,- 
 ing Convict Leasing System, against Barbers’ Board, absent Miners’ Fellow- 
 Servant, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and 
 Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor 
 bill. 
 
 House Record No. 135.—Whitaker, J. (Hickory): Against Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended by Senate, against Abolishing Convict 
 Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for 
 Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, absent Blocking Switches and Frogs, 
 absent on Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and Referendum, absent 
 on Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 136.—Willard, C. A. (6th Dist. St. Louis): For Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended by Senate, for Abolishing Con¬ 
 vict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for 
 Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for 
 Safety Appliances, absent on Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor 
 bill. 
 
 House Record No. 137.—Wilson, G. H. (4th Dist. St. Louis): For Teleg¬ 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour bill, absent on bill as amended by Senate, for Abolish¬ 
 ing Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, absent Miners’ Fellow- 
 Servant, absent Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, absent Blocking 
 Switches and Frogs, absent Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum, 
 absent on Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 138.—Woods, J. A. (Howard): For Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour bill, absent on bill as amended by Senate, against Abolishing 
 Convict Leasing System, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Closing Abandoned 
 Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, 
 absent on Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 139.—Young, F. P. (Adair): Against Telegraphers’ 
 Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended by Senate, for Abolishing Convict Leas¬ 
 ing System, absent Barbers’ Board, absent Miners’ Fellow-Servant, for Clos¬ 
 ing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, for Safety 
 Appliances, against Initiative and Referendum, for Child Labor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 140.—Zepp, L. F. (2nd Dist. St. Louis): Against 
 Telegraphers Eight-Hour bill, for bill as amended by Senate, for Abolishing 
 Convict Leasing System, for Barbers’ Board, against Miners’ Fellow-Servant, 
 
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 for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking Switches and Frogs, 
 absent Safety Appliances, against Initiative and Referendum, for Child La¬ 
 bor bill. 
 
 House Record No. 141.—Atkinson, John M. (Ripley): Voted for Teleg* 
 raphers’ Eight-Hour bill, against Abolishing Convict Leasing System, for Bar¬ 
 bers’ Board, for Miners’ Fellow-Servant bill, for Telegraphers’ Eight-Hour bill 
 as amended by Senate, for Closing Abandoned Rooms in Mines, for Blocking 
 Switches and Frogs, for Safety Appliances, for Initiative and Referendum?,, 
 for Child Labor bill. 
 
 
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 MEMBERS OF THE JOINT LABOR LEGISLATIVE BOARD 
 OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI. 
 
 Thomas J. Sheridan.State Federation of Labor, Joplin 
 
 H. W. Steinbiss.International Building Trades Council, St. Louis | 
 
 W. M. Holman.Order Railroad Telegraphers, St. Louis 
 
 J. H. George.Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, Marceline Mi 
 
 Charles W. Fear.Missouri Federation of Labor, Kansas City ; 
 
 Charles G. Kelso.Order of Railroad Telegraphers, Springfield 
 
 J. P. Leach...Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, Laredo 
 
 Al. G. Roberts..Missouri Federation of Labor, St. Joseph M 
 
 George Manuel.United Mine Workers of America, Moberly 
 
 J. W. Burch...Order of Railroad Telegraphers, St. Louis 
 
 Elmer E. Johnson.Missouri Federation of Labor, St. Louis 
 
 F. O. Williams.United Mine Workers of America, RichmondS#;;| 
 
 Jas. B. Finnan.Order of Railroad Telegra phers, St. Louis . 
 
 Collis Lovely.International Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union, St. Louis ’ 
 
 George Colville...United Mine Workers of America, Moberly 
 
 H. Wedermeyer.Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, St. Louis 
 
 J. E. McQuade..Order Railroad Telegraphers, Springfield 
 
 A. C. Thompson... United Garment Workers of America, St. Louis 
 
 Harry Williams. United Mine Workers of America, Richmond 
 
 C. W. Frazee.Barbers’ International Union, St. Louis 
 
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