Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-01-26
Governors Message Continued,
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car"
Payment for wages earnod, whether made
weekly or less frequently, should DO made In
cash, and the "slore order" system Of pay
ment should DO abolished.
Bureau OF Agriculture.
Agriculture Ia the paramount industry OF
Kansas, and II In reasonable that It's interests
should DO especially considered and assldu.
uously promoted by the state. To this end
would recommend that bureau or depart.
ment of agriculture be created, 70 which shall
be- referred all agricultural and kindred inter-
esta, This bureau or department should be
placed under the supervision OF Secretary
OF Agriculture" or other department official
who should DO appointed by the governor, or
elected by the people as other state officers are
elected, and with the necessary assistants he
should have supervision or all matters pertain
ing TO agriculture, horticulture, bee culture,
fish culture, silk culture, forestry, stock rails
ing cattle inspection, and possibly grain In
speotion. The duties of state veterinarian
should also be performed under direction OF
this department., and all these various oilces
as at present constituted should BIO abolished.
Grain Inspection.
At the twenty-fourth session OF the legisla-
ture bill was passed TO regulate ware
houses, and to provide for Inspecting, grading,
Weighing and handling grain, Some features
of that law are oommendable and others objec-
tionable. Under Its provisions the governor
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spector appoints, on the nomination Of the sew
eral boards of trade, the necessary deputy
inspectors as therein provided. These boards
Of TRADE also appoint state weighmaster and
assistants
The salaries and fees of all the officers are
paid by these several boards Of trade, and for
tho purpose of providing for such payment
these organizations are allowed TO collect q Zee
Of % cents on each carload OF grain weighed,
and like fee for each car inspected. II Is be-
lieyed that these fees collected for weighing
and inspecting, received from all the places
where grain Is weighed and inspected, are
much more than necessary for the payment Of
the officers named, and that some of the organ
lzations referred to are accommodating Rfund of
several thousand dollars annually. II this be-
lief shall be found warranted by the facts, then
the law should be 80 amended that the fees
collected be turned into the state treasury and
the officers be paid therefrom; or that the fees
be reduced to the minimum charge that will
lust cover the salaries and no more To tax
one class of people for the benefit of another
class, however light the burden, is wrong In
principle aud should be promptly corrected.
In my opinion 1t is not wise to delegate to cor
poratlons the appointment of important state
officials and If the inspection of grain shall not
be placed under the control of department of
agriculture, then the chief inspector appointed
by the governor should have authority to APP
point deputies at all points where they are re-
quired, or where the fees will Justify such
appointment. These are matters OF great Inn
portance to the agricultural interests of the
state, and should command your careful atten-
ton. l.. d. LEWELLING,
Governor