The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 15, 1914, Page 9

d and the following new sections fn lieu thereof are hereby enacted to be nated sections 7230 and 17237. Fi Bec. 7230, In all cities in this stat ‘which now have or may hereafter have population of three hundred thoysand bitants or more, there is .hereby Breated a board of excise commisalgners to consist of two members,. who shall have exclusive authority to grant » @ramshop lice One of the cémmis- ‘sioners so appointed shall be a member of the leading political party opposed to that to which the mayor belongs. Every excise commissioner, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take ‘and subscribe an oath or affirmation that he possesses the qualifications for such office prescribed by ‘law, that he. will support the Constitution of the United ‘Btates and of the state of Missouri; that he will demean himself faithfully in of- fice, and shall execute and deliver to the city wherein he is appointed, a penal bond, with sureties approved by the * mayor, in the sum of ten thousand dol- lars ($10,000.00), conditional that he will faithfully perform all the duties of his @ffice, and account for, pay and deliver to the proper parties all money and prop- erty coming to his hands by virtue of his office, which bond and oath he shall file with the city register or clerk. . Each exoise commissioner must have been a bona fide citizen and resident of the city wherein appointed for at least two years next previous to his appointment, and must so continue during the time of hold- ing such office; he shall be appointed by. the mayor such city for a term expiring with the then official term of the mayor appointing him, and until his successor shall be duly appointed and qualified; he shall devote his entire time during. business hours to the duties of his office; he may be removed from of- fice by the mayor or governor at pleas- ure, and by the council for cause, and by the courts as provided by law, and not otherwise; provided, however, that in the event it becomes necessary for the gov- ernor to remove as many 4s three com- missioners, then the governor shall, and is hereby vested with the power to fill vacancies created by such removals. Each commissioner shall receive a salary of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) per annum, payable monthly by such city in such manner as such city pays the sal- aries of its other officials; and the ex- penses of their office shall be paid by such city in such manner:as expenses of other offices in such city are paid. The excise commissioners, including those now in office, shall deliver to their successors, on demand, all property pertaining to the fice. Sec, 7287. The person to whom & @ramshop license shall be issued shall > pay the excise commissioners a fee of three dollars for each state license and a fee of three dollars for each city ‘ Meense, for granting and issuing the same, and said ‘excise commissioners shall charge, collect and receive a further sum of three dollars for taking acknowl- edgments of each petition filed, acknowl- edgment to bond, fil petition and bond, administering oat! and all other acts of said commissioners of like char- acter necessary to perfecting the peti- tions and papers before thé¥Nicense is issued, and the said excise commission- “ers shall perform all these services and acts, and for that purpose the said excise commissioners are hereby grant- ed and given the power to administer eaths, to také acknowledgments to all papets and instruments filed in their office and to possess the same powers for that purpose as are now given by the statute law of the state of Missouri to justices of the peace. All fees and charges s0 collected shall be paid’ over to the treasurer of the city wherein they are appointed, to be placed to the credit of the general revenue fund of such city, Said excise commissioners shall take a receipt therefor from the treas- urer; the original they shall file with the city auditor, and tl duplicate thereof they shall file in their own office as a part of the record thereof. The said excise commissioners shall make sald pay- ments to the city treasurer on the first Monday of each and every month, and shall at the time of making said pay- ments to the treasurer file with the city auditor a full, complete afid sworn state- ment of all of the fees collected by them as herein directed, during the preceding month and since their last statement, nd also stating the total number of state and city licenses issued and grant ed, the name of the person to whom is- sued, date when issued, date of expira- tion and amount of ad valorem tax paid on each. TWELFTH PROPOSITION. REFERENDUM ORDERED BY PETITION OF THE PEOPLE. bill No. 6, emacted by Fe: General Assembly. Abol! THE ers as appointed by the governor in cities having three hundred thousand imbabitants or more and providing for cers and policemen of HOUSE BILL NO. 6. An act to amend sections 9803 and 9804 of chapter 84 of article XX of the Revised Statutes of Missouri of 1909, relating to municipal corporations, laws applicable to cities having three hundred thousand inhabitants or over and to repeal section 9808 and enact a new section in lieu thereof to be known as section 9808. Be %& enacted by the Generai Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: Section 1. Section 9803 of chapter #4 of article XX of the Revised Statutes of Missouri of 1909, relating to munici- pal corporation: laws applicable to eities having three hundred thousand is hereby repealed jew section enacted, follow: Section 9803, In all citiem of this state &@ population of three hundred thousand inhabitants, or over, there shall be and is hereby established within and for said sioners so appol of the leading political party opposed to that to which the mayor belongs as hereinafter provided, together with tne _mayor of said cities for the time being, * or whosoever may be officially acting in capacity and said board shall ap- point one of its members as president and one.member who shall act as vice- it during the absence of the pres- H president or vice-presi executive officer of the for it when the tiele, they will, in no case, and under no pretext, appoint or remove any po- liceman or officer of police or other per- won under them on account of the po- Utical. opinions of such police officer or other person or for any other cause or Yeason than the fiti or unfitness of such a@ person, to the best judgment of such commissioners, for the place for which he shall be ‘appointed or from the place from which he shall be re- moved, The said oaths or Affirmations shall be recorded and preserved among the records of said circuit court. The vice-president shall be treasurer of said board ‘of police. Before entering upon the duties of his office treasurer, he shall give bond tp the city of St. Louis, with one or’ more sureties, in the penal- ty of ten thousand dollars,— conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties as treasurer of the board of police and for the faithful application and @ay- ment over, pursuant: to the order and direction of said board, of all moneys which may come to his hands as such treasurer. The bond of the treasurer shall be approved. by a judge of the circuit court of the judicial circuit in which said cities shall be located and shall be delivered to and safely kept by the register or clerk of said cities. The board shall appdint a secretary to act as such for the board of police com- missioners, to serve during the pleasure of the board, and such appointment shall be additional to the number of appointments hereinafter provided for, and his salary shall be determined and fixed by the boards of police commis- sioners. The board may reorganize at ite pleasure. A majority of the boards of police shall constitute a quorum and the failure or refusal of the mayor or acting mayor of said cities to qualify or act thereunder shall in no wise im- pair the right or duty of said coummis- sioners to organize and proceed as here- in provided. In case a vacancy shall occur on said board, the same shall be filled, for-the unexpired term, by the mayor of said cities forthwith after having been notified that such vacancy exists. No police commissioner shall be eligible to any public office or place whatsover during the whole period for which he was appointed, nor shall he be eligible for the nomination for sny public office or placé during such period. Such commissioners shall be removable from office by the mayor or governor at pleasure or by the council of said cities for cause, or by the courts as provided by law, and not otherwise. Provided, however; that in the event it becomes necessary for the governor to remove as many as three commissioners, then the governor shall, and is hereby vested with the power to fill vacancies created by such removal. Each commis- sioner shall devote all of his time to the duties of his office. Section 2. Section 9804 of article XX of chapter' 84 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri of 1909, relating to ‘municipal corporations, laws applicable to cities having three hundred thousand in- habitants, or over, is hereby repealed and the following new section enacted, to read as follows: Section 9804, The mayor of each of said cities shall appoint two commis- sioners provided for in the preceding section, Said mayor shall issue com- missions to the persons so appointed, designating the time for which they are appointed in case the appointment is to fill an unexpired term occasioned by death, resignation, or other cause, and whenever the term of office of any com- missioner expires, the appointment of his | successor shall be for the term prescribed | in the preceding section. Sec. 3. Section 9808 of chapter 84 of article 20 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri of 1909, relating to municipal corporations, laws applicable to cities having threé hundred thousand in- habitants, or over, is hereby repealed and a new section is enacted in lieu thereof to be known as section 9808, which said section shall read as follow Sec. 9808. Salaries of-officers and po- lNcemen.—The municipal assembly or common council of the said cities is hereby authorized and empowered to fix the salaries of the officers and police- men of said cities. It shall be the duty of the municipal assembly or common council of the said cities to make the necessary appropriations for the expense of maintenance of said police force in the manner provided by the laws of the state of Missouri. THIRTEENTH PROPOSITION, Proposed by Initiative Petition. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Providing that female: same right to vote within this state as males. An act to amend article VIII of the Constitution of the state of Missouri by adding thereto a new section to be known as section 2a, extending the right of suffrage to women, Be it enacted by the people of the State of Missouri: L Section 1, That article VIII of the Con- stitution of the state of Missouri be and the same hereby is amended by adding thereto a new section to be known as, section 2a, and reading as follows: Section 2a, Females shall hereafter have the same right, under the same condi- tions, to vote at all elections’ held in this state, as males now have or may here- after have, FOURTEENTH PROPOSITION. Proposed by Initiative Petition. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. - A proposition to authorize the state building and main- taining the public highways of this state, and to authorize a tax levy suf- ficient to pay the principal and interest om said bonds. Proposed constitutional amendment, au: thorizing issudnce of bonds by the state of Missouri in the sum of fifty millions ‘of dollars ($50,000,000) for good roads pur- poses, amending section 44 of article IV of the Constitution of the state of Mis- souri, by adding thereto a new paragraph and clause at the end-thereof, empower- ing ti eneral assembly to issue inter- est-bearing bonds for the purpose of building and maintaining highways. That section 44 of article IV of the Constitution of the state of Missouri is Third. On the occurring of any um- foreseen emergency, or casual deficiency of the revenue, when the temporary ‘lia- bility. incurred. or to*be incurred shall ex- veed the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for any one year, the general assembly may submit an act pro- viding for the loan, or for the contract- ing of the Hability, and containing a pro- vision for levying a tax sufficient to pay thé interest and principal when they become dué’ (the latter in not more than thirteen years from the- date of its creation), to the. qualified voters of the state, and when the act so submitted shall have been ratified by a two-thirds majority at an election held for that pur- pose, due publication having been made of the previsions of the act for at least three months before such election, the act thus ratified shall be irrepealable~ until the debt thereby incurred shall be paid, principal and interest. Fourth. The general assembly shall have full power to authorize the issuance of interest-bearing bonds of the state in the sum of fifty millions of dollars ($50,000,000.00) for the purpose of con- structing and maintaining public roads and highways. FIFTEENTH PROPOSITION. ‘Proposed by Initiative Petition. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. A proposition to authorize levy and collection of special taxes for road pur- poses, to issue bonds im any sum for or purposes, upon petition of taxpay-. to either levy a direct tax for same to issue interest bearin; same, using proceeds thereof for such purposes, whether such highways are wholly or partly within and partly without the governmental subdivision Proposing to make and pay for such highways or 1 Proposed constitution: cerning revenue and taxation, amending article X of the Constitution of the state of Missouri by adding a new section thereto, to be known as section 27, pro- viding for the levy and collection of special taxes for road purposes, for the issuance of bonds in any sum for said purposes upon petition of tax-paying voters, and authorizing the construction and maintenance of highways partly, without the governmental subdivision paying for same. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Missouri: That article X of the Constitution of the state of Missouri is hereby amended by adding a new section thereto, to be known as section 27, as follows: Section 27. Upon a petition signed by fifty-one percent of tax-paying, voters of the state or of any city of any class, whether organized under special charter or general law, or any, town, village, township, road or school district, or any improvement district naming the pro- posed highway improvement being filed with the proper officials whose duty it now is to levy state or local taxes for the territory embraced in the district pro- posed to be taxed for the improvement, the state board of equalization or’ the proper local tux-levying authorities shall order a special tax levy against all prop- erty in the governmental tax subdivision named by petitioners sufficient to raise any amount necessary to make the pro- posed highway improvement, not exceed- ing, however, the amount named for such improvement in the petition asking there- | for, provided if no amount is named ‘in the petition therefor the authorities mak- ing the tax levy. shall name the amount to be raised and expended. The taxes herein provided for shall be levied and collected in the same manner and at the same time as general state, city, county and local and township, school and dis- trict and special improvement taxes are now levied and collected, according to the fact as to whetuer the taxes are for state highway improsements or for one of the goverkttiental subdivisions herein above named. The words “highway im- provements’ used herein shall include roads, drives, boulevards and streets, via- ducts and bridges over streams either wholly within this state or over streams which may form a boundary between Mis- souri and other states. It is interded by this amendment to confer the power upon the state and cities of all classes, whether | Organized under a special charter or the | general law, and all villages, towns, coun- | ties, townships, road, school and special | improvement districts, upon petition of | tax-paying voters as hereinbefore pro- | vided, to construct, purchase or acquire | roads, drives, boulevards and bridges and | Viaducts, and to maintain, alter, improve and beautify the same. If in the opinion of the officials whose duty it shall be to make the tax levy for the proposed im- provement it would be better to issue interest-bearing bonds instead of levy- ing a direct tax for said improvements, then the said above named authorities shall issue bonds in amount sufficient to make the improvement _and-fix the time of maturity and rate of interest of said bonds, and sign the same and present them to the secretary of state of the state of Missouri, who shall stamp same with the seal of the state of Missouri and deliver same to the state auditor, who shall register same and then de. | liver said bonds to the officials who is- gued them, and said officials may then sell same. No new boards or commis- sions shall be created by the general as- sembly to carry eut the provisions of this amendment, but the present tax-levying and assessing authorities in the various governmental subdivisions named sbove and the state board of equalization shall make the necessary assessments and levies according as the tax may #e for state or city, county, township or district purposes, to the end that no unnecessary additional expenses be imposed on the taxpayers by the creation of additional superfluous offices. The existing officials performing duties hereunder shall re- ceive the same compensation now pro- vided for similar services under the gen- eral revenue laws of Missouri. All peti- tions for state improvements shall be | presented to the state board of equaliza- tion, and petitions for city, county, vil- -lage, township or district improvements to the tax-levying officials of said above named subdivisions. The above enumer- ated powers may be used by the state or any of the governmental subdivisions above named to construct, build, acquire and maintain highways, whether the said highways lie wholly within or partly within and partly without the govern- mental subdivision proposing to make the improvements and pay therefor. STATE OF. MISSOURI, DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Cornelius Roach, Secretary of State Nailing a Republican Falsehood. Republican orators and organs as usual are inaccurately describing the fiscal condition of the national gov- ernment. The facts are that exclu- sive of emergency expenditures, the appropriation of the present session of Congress are $36,510,985 less than the regular session under the pre- ceeding Republican Congress. “Why is it’ the Republicans ask, ‘“‘that it is necessary to impose special taxes to make good a deficiency in revenue?”’ The answer is easy. There is a great war in Europe, involving Austria, Hungary, Belgium, France, Germany Russia, Servia, Montenegro and Great Britain. During the last fiscal year these warring nations sold to the United States $385,989,551 worth of goods, on which they paid tariff duties to the government amounting to $125,811,000. The war has cut off practically all of this trade and this revenue, so that in the coming year it will be necessary to supply that loss due entirely to the European war, by. special taxes. In the proposed reve- nue law two thirds of this $100,000,- 000 necessary to raise is to be pro- duced through taxes upon beer, wine and other articles admittedly lux- uries. These taxes are all tempor- -ary in character, and by the express terms of the bill the stamp tax will expire December Ist, 1915. It is false to say that the Under- wood Tariff Bill has failed as a rev- enue producer, for the fact is at the end of the first fiscal year of its op- eration it had paid all of the current expenses of the government, and left a surplus of $33,000,000 in the gener- al treasury. List of Letters remaining uncalled for in the post office at Butler, Mo., for the week ending October 13, 1914: Butterfield Nursery Co., Thurman Ashcraft, D. H. Baty (2), Donald H. Baty, Joe Lunday, Asa A. Pender- graw, W. S. Reeder, Mrs. W. A. Young. These letters will be sent to the dead letter office October 27, 1914, if not delivered before. In call- ing for the above, please say ‘‘Adver- tised,’’ giving date of list. J. E. Williams, Postmaster. Sheriff's Sale. By virtue and pa hotly) of 8 tranacript exe- cution jasued from the office of the Clerk of the Circult Coart of Bates County, Mo , returnable at the October Term, 1914 of eaid Cou! nd to me directed, in tavor of John M. Grayson and against Conway Grayson 1 have levied uron and selzed the right, title, interest and claim of the sald Conway Graveon of, in and to the following described Real E-tate, to-wit: The eonth west quarter, the west haif of the south east quarter, the east balf of the north west, quarter the west half of the north ast quarter, and the north esst quarter of the north east quarter of section ten, and the west halt of the east half of fractional section three, and the west half of fractional section three andthe west half of tbe north west quarter of section ten, all in township forty two of Range Thirty three. Alllying and being in the eaid County and State of Missouri; and I will, on Thursday, the 15th day of October, A. between the hours of nine o’clock in the fore- noon and five o’clock in the afternoon of that day, at the East Court House Door, in the City of Butler, County aforesaid, sell the same, or 80 much thereof as may be required, at Public Vendve, to the highest bidder fc sh in hand, to satisfy said execution and cos! HARVE JOHNSON 47-td Sheriff of Bates County, Mo. D., 1914, Notice. Notice is hereby given that letters testamen- tary upon the estate of Cyrus M. Thomas, de- ceased, have been granted to the undersigned by the Probate Court of Bates County Missouri, bearing date the 19th day of September, 1914. All persons having claims against esid estate sre required to exhibit them to the undersigned for allowance within six months after the date o¢ eaid letters, or they may be precinded from any benefit of such estate; and if such claims be not exhibited within one year from the the Jast insertion of this publication, they shall be forever barrei. Date of last insertion, October 15, 1914. MARGARET L, THOMAS, 50 8t Executrix, Notice. Notice is hereby given that letters of admin- letration wpoe the estate ot Peter Morwood, deceased, have been granted tothe undersigned by the Probate Court of Bates County, Mic- Feral bearing date the 2ist day of September, All persons Li claims against said estate are required to exhibit them to the undersigned for allowance within eix months after date of seid letters, or they may be precluded any benefit of such estate; and if such cleims be not exhibited within one year from the date of the laet insertion of this publication, they shall be forever barred. Dats of last insertion, October 22, 1914. ELLA MORWOOD, 61-8¢ Administratrix, Notice of Final Settlement. Notice is hereby givei to all creditors and others interested in the estate of J. C. M. Young. e final . im Bates county, to be held at Butler, Mis- touri, on the 9th day of November, 1914 MARCUS SHELBY YOUNG, Executor. ($50,000,000.00) for the purpose of con- structing and maintaining public roads and highways;” so that said section, ‘when amended, shall read as follows: Section 44. The general egy: bly shall or i Bly i] its it i of the State of Missouri, hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and com- plete copy of the eight joint and con- it resolutions of the Forty-seventh ae eos of the State of Mis- amendments to the and the Coy l David pokes intend to make final sostete of 9.8, mate all Lee Aana intend OTOP | FARMERS: BANK BUTLER.MO. Confidence No better proof of the confidence of the community in this bank could be obtained than our constant growth year after year. The safety this bank provided for deposits, its large Capital, Surplus and Profits of $100,000.00 and the conservative policy of its management. All these are direct factors in obtaining and maintaining the confidence of the public. We have an up-to-date Savings Department and we pay interest on savings twice a year. Farm Loans Abstracts Investments | W. F. DUVALL, President, Arthur Duvall, Treasurer. DUVALL-PERCIVAL TRUST CO. CAPITAL and SURPLUS, $125,000 FARMERS BANK BUILDING, BUTLER, MO. We have money to loan on real estate at a low rate of interest with privilege to pay at any time. We have a complete set of Abstract Books and will fur- nish abstracts to any real estate in Bates county and | examine and perfect titles to same. We will loan your idle money for you, reasonable interest on good security. We pay interest on time deposits. J. B, DUVALL, Vice-President, W. D. Yates, Title Examiner. securing you PACIFIC IRON MOUNTAIN BUTLER CORRECTED No, 206 Kai Ty passengers. No, 253 Stock Expr Ty passenger TRAINS WES 'y passengers. No. 207 K. C, & Joplin | No. 205 Nevada Accommodation. trains carry passengers. for followin, Interstate fiveo’clock p. m, No train in morning. Missouri Pacific Time Table NORTH. : | No, 202 K. C, Joplin Mail & Ex...... No, 208 St, Louis & K. C. No 210 St. Lonie Limited... does not car- T AND SOUTH. No, 201 St. Lonis-Joplin Mail & Ex. No. 209 St. Loulé Limited. . No, 291 Local Freight, does not car- . | INTERSTATE. WEST. No. 698 Madison Local Freight, car- ries passeugers.. No. 687 Madison Accommodation... EAST BOUND ARRIVALS. No. 688 Butler Accommodation. No. 694 Butler Local Freight.. Freight trsins Nos. 693 and 694 carry passen- gers on Interstate Division. : T, J. HALSEY, All freight for forwarding must be at depot | notlater than eleven o’clock a. m.or be held | day’s forwarding. Freight for vision must be delivered be: DR. J. M. | BUTLER Office Phone 20 PROFESSIONAL CARDS CHRISTY: | Diseases of Women and Children a Specialty MISSOURI House Phone 10 DR. J. T. | North side square | DR. H. M. DENT STATION OCT. 19, 1913 » HULL Dentist | Entrance same that leads to Stew- ard’s Studio. Butler, Missouri CANNON IST Butler, Missouri East Side of 8:30 a. m, | 11:00 a. m. | fall & Hx 11:40 a, m.] 10:50 p.m. | .... 9:45 p.m. | Office North Side | Mo. dren a specialty. 3:00 a, m. the Square ] Phone No. 312 City Accommodation 7:10 a, m, | No. 292 Local Freight, does not car- T. C. BOULWARE Physician & Surgéon Square, Butler, ° Diseases of women and chil- . 7:308. m, Mail & E: Attorney at Law East Side Square B, F. JETER, Notary Public Phone 186° BUTLER, MISSOURI a 7:30am 1:30 p.m. i Diseases of Office 301 | DR. ROBERT E. CRABTREE General Practice. Children. TELEPHONES Residence 541 Office in Gench Bldg. y No other freight fore freight billed for this L. R. Twyman, Agent. Office over Peoples Bank = M. D. 0. 0. Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist and the fitting of Glasses BUTLER, MO Phone No. 45 Feeling “At Home” | One of our ambitions is to have folks feel ‘at home”:in this bank; to cultivate geniality and good will; to promote that feeling that the Peoples Bank is a home institution ready to serve our home peo- ple at all times. You will always find a welcome here; you ar¢ entitled to our time and attention whether you bank here or elsewhere. A PEOPLES BANE The Bank on Which You Can Always Bank