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Congressman Hatch thinks the extra session will run into the regular session. and that but little business will be done except organizing. He says it requires about a month's time to get the house thoroughly organized. Hc thinks. however. that speeches will be made on the "silver question" immediately on the opening. "but." said he. "I am not prepared to say what will be done. If both houses should agree upon an unlimited coinage of silver. it would be necessary for a committee to agree upon a need not expect ratio. and consequently much to be done for severa months yet." On being asked how he stood on the free coinage of silver he said he never yet voted against the free coinage of silver. The State Refuses to Pay. The state has refused to pay its pauper debt to St. Louis, and the courts' will be appealed to. City Treasurer Chas. Scudder received a letter from State Auditor J. M. Seibert. in which that official says he can not audit the $12.500 state insane account due the city of St. Louis for the care and board of patients kept at the asylum for the state from January 1 to June 30. 1893. Mr. Seibert says that in the opinion of Attorney-General Walker the law authorizing the payment is unconstitutional This law. which was passed by the last legislature. appropriated $50,000 for the purpose and was passed after a bitter fight by the state officials. The ground the attorney-general takes is that as "nothing in this act shall be construed to pledge the state" to the payment, the state, therefore. is not obliged to settle. The State University Building. JEFFERSON CITY. July 25.-Gov. Stone. Secretary of State Lesueur and Auditor Seibert. composing the commission having charge of the fund appropriated by the last general assembly for the building of the state university at Columbia. met and approved the contract awarded some days since by the board of curators to F. H. Binder. of this city. for the construction of the edifice. Architect Fred Bell. of Fulton. who drew the plans. and who will supervise the construction. was in consultation with the commission. Mr. Binder bid was $241 500. The amount of bond required and furnished by Mr. Binder in $500,000. Work under the terms of the contract must commence Immediatly. The Higginsville Court Act. Judge Broaddus granted an injunetion restraining the holding of a term of the circuit court at Higginsville in September. The last legislature passed an act for the holding of two terms of the circuit court in Higginsville each year, thus taking two terms away from Lexington. [This is in La Fayette county.] The suit was brought to test the constitutionality of the act. Judge Broaddus' decision says the act was constitutional. An ap. peal has been taken to the supreme court. Will Pay the Bonds. The county court of Jackson county has ordered the payment of $100,000 worth of bonds, issued in 1873 by Kaw township to aid in the building of the Kansas City, Topeka & Lawrence railroad. This road was never built, but the county has paid interest for twenty years. and will pay the bonds at their maturity, August 1. School Children in Pettis County. The school enumeration of Pettis county shows a total number of school children of 9,536, of which 8,687 are white and 849 colored, male and female being about equally divided. Bank Clearings at St Louis. During the week ended on the 28th the bank clearings of St. Louis were $16,858,553, a decrease of 20.6 per cent. compared with same week last year. Mand McKibben Indicted. Maud McKibben has been indicted by the St. Louis grand jury for murder in the first degree, having, it is charged, poisoned her father and sister. Missouri State Fair Association. W. J. Millby has been appointed, by the Pettis county circuit court. receiver for the Missouri State Fair association. He gave bond for $30,000. The Osceola Bank Assigns. The bank of Osceola made an assignment the other day. Assets. about $20,000: liabilities, same. Stringency in the money market. Caused by Sunstroke. Thomas B. Haw, aged 76, who had resided in Macon county for forty-five years, died the other day from the effects of sunstroke. Will Make a Test Case. At St. Louis the excise commissioner and Retail Liquor Dealers' association will test the legality of fees charged by the commissioner.
