Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-03-25
HE WILL CALL A SPECIAL SESSION OF
THE LEGISLATURE.
REFORMS MUST BE ENACTED
AN HONEST ELECTION LAW is DE-
MANDED AND WILL BE HAD.
one OF Governor stones Closest Friends
Says lie VIII Mt an Early Day Call
the Legislature Together
In Extra session to
Finish Work.

jefferson City. Mo. March H-(special)
Like the dying, reverberating echoes of the
battlefield. rumors of all kinds are anoat
this morning. The legislature has ad-
journed The house did it's work we'll and
faithfully, and the blame for the failure
OF needed legislation rests with the SEN
ate. In the last hours of the session Gov
ernor Stone called attention to the senate's
failure to pass needed reform measures.
and while he did not. in express terms,
say that he censured the senate, 1t is gem
orally conceded that he referred to the
failure of that body Like a mountain,
snow-capped. chilly, uninvitng and insur-
mountable, II has stood in the path OF re-
forms. In senate committee the fellow
servants bill died. So also the following
bills: The street car fender. the telephone
rental reduction, the agricultural college
removal, DIR. Tubbs' joint and concurrent
resolution to create a state school fund,
and, to cap the climax. the senate refused
to dot an 'l'' or cross a "t" in its partisan
elections bill. In striking contrast to this
partisan bias the house agreed to support
any bill which would meet the approval OF
the citizens safety committees of ST.
Louis and Kansas City. The result is that
no elections bill passed, and now popular
ulSdppTONdl III IL lluOi VI NAdAh - Bcui
out upon the senate obstructionists. 1t is
enough that the people should know where
to place the blame. An opportunity is
coming next year to impress stinging
rebuke upon those who have defeated
purer elections.
The consensus of opinion is that, in view
of the failure to enact needed reforms, the
governor will soon call the legislature to-
gether in extra session. His sincerity, in
view of his activity in suppressing cleo
ton frauds in Kansas City, ought not to
be questioned. One of his closest friends
said this morning:
''The governor will undoubtedly call an
extra session. He is determined to learn
whether the state is master of its own
destinies, or whether the lobby owns the
state. The defeat of the bill giving him
the power 20 remove the recorder of vot-
ers for cause cannot be defended, and
purer elections law should be placed upon
the statute books"
The Ostcopnthy Veto.
Governor Stones veto of the osteopathy
bill has created considerable comment. 1t
is document replete with information
and argument. Among other things he
said; With all due respect call attention
have voted to authorize the establishment
of schools of osteopathy to empower them
to to efnafe o forbiG de aeg register pe
son, under penalty, to practice the science
or art or whatever it may be- without a
diploma from such school, without knowing
or being able to know what osteopathy Is.
1t is a secret. l am told that many people
have received great benefits by submitting
themselves to these manipulationS. l have
no reason to doubt that.
But II that be good reason for stat
utory recognition of osteopathy, the same
reason would obtain with equal force If ap-
piled to Christian science, mesmeriSm and
other secret practices. We have all heard
how the sick have been cured. the lame
made to walk and the blind to see, by those
merism. know an excellent lady in Kan
sas City who had been sick for many
months was wasted by lingering disease
and almost hereft of hope. who was induced
10 submit herself to the treatment of n
Christian scientist. In an incredibly short
in congress related in my presence the eX-
perience of his wife who had been almost
helpless for several years. She was in
duCed to try Christian science. In two or
woman. only recently a young lady at
Sedalia, who had been lame for months,
was suddenly restored by some mysterious
operation of a mesmerist. But what Is
Christian science, and what the art by
which the mcsmerist can command the
lame to take up their bed and walk?
shall the state give legal recognition to
all these things before they are explained
and while their practices are stll cnveloped
in mystery? ! believe II would be unwise
which an enlightened public opinion has
closed to prevent imposition. | withhold
my approval from this measure with re-
gret, because its enactment into law Is so
much desired by many good people whom
| would be pleased to crafty, but my judg-
ment Is SO pronounced against 1t that feel
constrained TO return IL without my APP
proval to the general assembly for its fur