Senate bill No. 199, entitled An act to repeal section 6918 of chapter 3 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1889, entitled "Merchants' licenses," Was taken up, and on motion of Senator Dowell was ordered engrossed and printed. Senator Busche called up Senate bill No. 22 for engrossment and offered the following amendment: Amend Senate bill No. 22: Add to section 4796c the following: "Provided, when there are three or more delegations, not more than one judge or one clerk shall be selected from any one delegation; and provided further, that at no time shall there be more than three judges and three clerks appointed for any one polling place;" Which was read first and second times and adopted. On motion of Senator Busche the vote by which amendment No. 2 to Senate bill No. 22 was adopted was reconsidered. Senator Busche then asked leave to withdraw amendment No. 2 to Senate bill No. 22; Which was granted. Senator Busche offered amendment No. 3 to Senate bill No. 22, as follows: Amend Senate bill No. 22 by adding at the end of section 4796c the following: "Provided, when there are three or more delegations, not more than one judge or one clerk shall be selected from any one delegation;" Which was read first and second times and adopted. On motion Senate bill No. 22 was taken up for engrossment. Division being called for, the bill was ordered engrossed and printed, as amended, by the following vote: Ayes, 10; noes, 5. House joint and concurrent resolution No. 1, submitting to the qualified voters of the State of Missouri an amendment to the Constitution thereof concerning revenue and taxation, Was taken up and Senator Davisson moved its adoption. Senator Rollins moved as an amendment to strike out the "Whereases" in the resolution. The latter motion prevailed. The ayes and noes were called for, and the resolution, as amended, was adopted by the following vote: The supervisor of building and loan associations submitted the following report: State of Missouri, Bureau of Building and Loan Supervision, Hon. A. H. Bolte, President of the Senate: Dear Sir-I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of, through the Secretary of your honorable body, the following resolution: "Resolved, That the commissioner of building and loan associa tions be and hereby is requested to make a report of receipts of all fees received and of disbursements by his office for the last two years, to the Senate.” In reply thereto, I respectfully beg to call your attention to section 2, pages 92-93, Session Acts, 1897, providing that each building and loan association shall semi-annually report its resources, accompanied by 20 cents for each $1,000 shown thereby, which moneys shall be paid into the State treasury, to the credit of a fund to be known as the "Building and Loan Supervision fund.” The practical effect of this law is that the checks drawn to pay the semi-annual tax are made payable to the order of the State Treasurer. For each of such remittances the State Treasurer issues a duplicate receipt, one of which is mailed to the association remitting, and the other is filed in the office of the State Auditor, so that the receipts in the building and loan supervision fund are credited to the associations respectively, by the State Treasurer and State Auditor. However, as a matter of information to myself, I have kept an account with each association, noting the amount of resources returned and the amount of semi-annual tax paid thereon. The advance sheets of the State Auditor's report for the last biennial period ending January 1, 1899, gives the receipts of the Building and Loan supervision fund as follows: The receipts for 1897 are less than those for 1898, because prior to the act of 1897 the law governing building and loan supervision was an act of March 22, 1895, pages 28-32, Laws 1895. That law provides for a semi-annual ad valorem tax of ten cents on each $1,000 of assets reported, which was paid directly into the State treasury to the credit of the Building and Loan Supervision fund. The State Treasurer was, until June 21, 1897, ex officio supervisor of building and loan associations. Under that law the examiner was paid directly by the association examined at the rate of five dollars per day for each day actually employed and necessary expenses. Since June 21, 1897, I have been supervisor. Under my supervision there have been but three semi-annual periods-September, 1897; March, 1898; September, 1898. Under the law of 1897 all the expenses of the bureau are paid out of the Building and Loan Supervision fund, which was not the case under the law of 1895, and which accounts for an increase of $2,302.70 in the disbursements of 1898 over 1897. The receipts for 1898 are only $935.36 more than the receipts of 1897, though the rate of tax for the last three semi-annual periods is double what it was prior to the law of 1897. The decrease in the aggregate of the tax is caused by a shrinkage in assets, which shrinkage has averaged about $2,000,000 for each six months since September, 1895, giving a total liquidation since the law of supervision of about $14,000,000. DISBURSEMENTS. Through the courtesy of the State Auditor, I was permitted to copy the disbursements from the current report now in the hands of the State printer. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, H. L. GRAY, Supervisor of Building and Loan Associations. Which was read. Senator Thomas moved that 100 copies of the report be printed. Senator Mott moved that the Senate go into executive session. The executive session having dissolved, the Senate was called to order by the President. On motion of Senator Haynes the Senate adjourned under the rules. THIRTIETH DAY-Tuesday, February 14, 1899. The Senate met pursuant to adjournment. The President in the chair. A quorum present. Prayer by the Chaplain. The roll was called, and the following named Senators responded to their names: Present-Senators Journal of yesterday read and approved. Senator Tandy, from the Committee on Printing and Joint Printing, submitted the following report: Mr. President: Your Committee on Printing and Joint Printing, to which was referred House bill No. 116, entitled An act to repeal section 310 of article 15, chapter 2 of the Revised Statutes of 1889, and to enact a new section, to be known as section 310, in lieu thereof, Begs leave to report that it has examined the same and recommends that it do pass; Which was read. Senator Young, from the Committee on Engrossed Bills, submitted the following report: Mr. President: Your Committee on Engrossed Bills, to which was referred Senate bill No. 131, entitled An act in relation to the Twenty-fifth judicial circuit, dividing the court into two divisions, providing two judges for the transaction of the business of said court, for the appointment of an additional judge, and fixing the salaries of said judges, Begs leave to report that it has compared the same and finds it to be truly engrossed, and that the printed copies thereof furnished to the Senators are correct; Which was read. House resolution No. 5, entitled House resolution touching State text books, Was taken up and read. Senator Davisson moved its adoption. Senator Anderson moved to refer the resolution to the Committee on Education and School Text Books. The latter motion prevailed. House bill No. 17, entitled An act amending article 2 of chapter 138 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri of 1889 by adding a new section, to be known as section 7568a, said article 2 being entitled "Assessors and the assessment of property," Was taken up, read second time and referred to Committee on Ways and Means. House bill No. 54, entitled An act to amend section 3490, chapter 47, article 2, Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1889, entitled "Offenses against the lives and persons of individuals," Was taken up, read second time and referred to Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence. House bill No. 151, entitled An act to amend section 3461, chapter 47, article 2 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Missouri, relating to offenses against the lives and persons of individuals, Was taken up, read second time and referred to Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence. Senator Whaley, by unanimous consent, introduced Senate bill No. 253, entitled An act to amend section 7445, chapter 135, Revised Statutes, 1889, entitled "Recorders of deeds;" Read first time and 150 copies ordered printed. Senator Schweickardt introduced Senate bill No. 254, entitled An act to amend an act of the General Assembly, approved April 11, 1895, entitled "An act to amend (section 11) section 4990 of an act entitled ‘An act providing for and regulating the fees and emoluments of prosecuting attorneys, judges of the county courts, clerks of the county courts, judges of the probate courts, clerks of the supreme court and courts of appeals, clerks of the circuit and common pleas courts, clerks of criminal courts, sheriffs, coroners, constables, interpreters and translators, county surveyors, recorders of deeds, notaries public, jurors, witnesses, justices of the peace, mayors of cities of the fourth class, fees for naturalization of foreigners, of registers (register) of land (lands) of State, for duties of the Secretary of State, the manner of collecting and disbursing same, and repealing all acts and parts of acts inconsistent therewith,'" approved March 31, 1891; Read first time and 150 copies ordered printed. Senator Schweickardt introduced Senate bill No. 255, entitled An act to repeal section 8256 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Missouri, 1889, relating to the disposition of stenographic notes, and to enact another section in lieu thereof, and providing that transcripts |