The Globe-republican., 1897-01-21

Liberal support Of the live stock sanitary
commission is urged
change in the grain inspect ton laws Is
recommended TO the end that inspectors
and weighers be appointed by the state.
A consolidation of boards IS recommended
% as to have all the peca. institutions
under charge of the board OF directors for
penal institutions. and all of the charitable
institutions under the supervision Of the
state board of charities
Reform of the insurance laws for the pro
lection OF insurers is urged
District ownership of textbooks. while not
urged upon the legislature. is strongly rec
commended.
As to the Kansas CITY stock Yards. Gov
ernor Leedy suggests that 100 per cent
profit above the price in the Kansas City
market is sufficient on the sales of grain and
hay. and recomm mend an enactment to that
effect The statutes should provide that
the live stock sanitary commission should
have such control of the stock yards owned
by the above named company As shall be
necessary to the enforcement of the laws
you make. If this Recommendation CON-
mends itself to your Judgment"
Mortgage Legislation.
Governor Leedy's Recommendation a. TO
mortgage legislation is as follows:
"A great deal OF complaint comes from
over the state in regard 20 MORTGAGES made
and executed in this state. which have been
made. as 4 rule. TO companies organized
under the laws OF our state for the pur-
pose OF loaning money These MORTGAGES
are sold in the East and in many cases the
party who struggles through and pays his
loan finds that he has been SwinGled and
IN order to clear his title ne must again
paw the amount er lose his home. Section
$3.50 should be so amended Is to require
every assignment of mortgage, or note Sc
cured by mortgage, TO be placed on the rec
ords in the county where the real estate IS
located This, in great measure. viii guard
against any recurrence OF these swildles.
which are unjust and work grea, hardship
10 the people OF the state Such Al enact
ment will enable the debtor 20 deal directly
with his creditors. without the intervention
OF somebody who preys upon the necessities
of both"
Commissioner Breidenthal's recommend
atoms as TO the changes in the banking laws
are commended to the attention OF the leg
islature, and strict state supervision of
building and loan associations and of loan,
trust and investment omJanics urged.
A State Railroad Proposed.
If the corporations will accept such Just
and fair regulation, subject 10 review by
the supreme court of the state, wei! and
good, but, in the future. rs in the past,
they flock under the protecting wing OF the
federal courts. where justice 20 the people
seems not only blind as i: should be- but
deof and dumb also. then l advise the peo-
pie of the state OF Kansas TO seek for justice
out of court In doing 50 can only point 10
one route by which il can be obtained. and
that is for the states west o: the Mississippi
river to build I road OF their own to tide
water by the shortest and mos: dircc: route.
which will put them in :; position 20 COM
mand the situation without getting into any
complication with the railroad COM
panies or with the federal courts. We
have at Galveston now I ha-oor tha:
can be entered safely b. the larScS; ships.
The federal government has expended
SO 600, 900 III creating an outlet in Galveston
bay and providing safe harbor FOR term
inal point In order to get TO this haroor
there are no mountains 20 tunnel and no
large rivers TO cross and no engineering
diffic Ulties in the way. II IS practically 4
plain upon which 4 road caEno: ouly he
built, but can be operated IS che2pIy n any
where n the world. At the present value os
labor and material road can be built for
from $1,000 TO $4,000 nile. and it would
be as unjUS, to the people o. this generation
10 ask them 10 support 4 railroad
bonded at $4,000 mile as u would
have been to the people of 4 preceding gen.
Grafton TO haul their grain AMI mcrchaa-
disc on the turnpike of that time, after they
had been p2rallelled BY railroads. No doubt
the owners of stock in the turnpikcs OF that
day claimed that thev had I vested right TO
fair interest upon their investment. but the
railroads did no. Consider he interests of
the turnpike owner in any Wa They siUI-
ply superseded tie turnpike. and II the rail-
road com pany of the present time DO 20. re-
Guce their capital TO basis upoc which
railroads can be built now, then the people
viii be forced, As 4 last resort. to parable!
these roads as they did the turnpike.
Arguments for a State Road.
III the states OF Texas and Nebraska would
join Us in the building of 4 line TO Galveston
the expense of building such 4 road would be
merely nominal, when compared with the
vast sums of money that would be saved TO
the citizens of these states through the
lowering OF freight rates; in fact, the over
charge above what is reasonable and fai-
charge on grain upon the crop now cxistic.
in the state of Kansas would pay Ga the
charges of completing such road. We're the
state of Kansas 20 undertake 1t herself.
Such road, when completed. would place
the people of this state in 4 position OF :nde-
pendence in the matter or transportation 50
far as the railroad companies and the fed
eral courts were concerned, and do not be-
,ieve that such move would be in furious 20
the railroad companies in the long run
The lowered rates OF freight would a.
tract ] great and constantly increasing
business by drawing :raftc in That direction,
and the decreased rate at which the rail-
roads would be compelled TO carry freight
would be made Up in the voldne OF business.
The state of New York. by completing the
Erie canal and keeping the tolls At low
rate. has caused the commerce OF che cou1-
try TO flow in that direction, SO as 10 make Il
the great commercial metropolis OF the
but this did not re;ari the
b,..lding of railroads. which do business
in competition with it; in fact. the
fnest railroad in the world. with four
tracks. was built tor the pur pose OF COM
peting with this canal FOX business The
total amount of money expended by the
state OF New York upon the Erie canal ac-
cording TO recent publications. has been
s116, 90, 900, and the receipts there
from have been $132OO0c Coz II the
state of New York has profted SO vastly
by pursuing this course, 1 think il would be
policy for the West to quit taxing their ad-
vice on commercial affairs and begin to
follow their example. And elsewhere.
where it has been necessary 10 compete
with water transportation in the carrying
Of freight. railroads have never hesitated
10 enter into that competition The haul
from Chicago east 10 the Erie canal IS
greatly reduced because water transporta-
lion makes II necessary. TIE hsul from St
Louis to New Orleans is also made IT low
rate in order to compete with water trans
uoytatiop. These railroads that do business