Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1897-01-13

be wise for this legislature to ask the legis-
latures of Texas and Nebraska, whose
state laws have been set aside and an an
nulled, AS ours have been, TO consider the
feasibility OF such plan, in case the laws
that hope will be passed by this leglsiat-
urs should fail of success"
MOrtsnge Legislation.
Governor Leedy's Recommendation as to
mortgage legislation is as follows:
"A great deal of complaint comes from
over the state in regard to mortgages made
and executed in this state, which nave peen
made, as a rule, to companies organized
under the laws of our state Tor the pur-
pose of loaning money. These mortgages
are sold in the East and in many cases the
party who struggles through and pays ms
loan finds that he has been swindled, ana
in order to clear his title he must again
pay the amount or lose his home. Section
3SSS should be so amended as 10 require
every assignment of mortgage or note Sc
cured by mortgage to be placed on the
records in the county where the real estate
is located. This, in great measure, VIII
guard against any recurrence OF these
swindles, which are unjust and work great
hardship to the people OF the state Such
an enactment Will enable the debtor 10
deal directly with his creditors, without
the Intervention of somebody who preyS
upon the necessities of both"
Commissioner Breidenthal's s recommends
tions as to changes in the banking laws
are commended TO the attention of the
legislature. and strict state supervision of
building and loan associations and of loan,
trust and investment companies urged
>
ernor Leedy says:
This bureau possesses possibilities of
great usefulness, and especially is this true
under present economic conditions: while
the relations between labor and capital are
OF such vital Importance"
In Conclusion.
Governor Leedy concludes his message as
follows:
Gentlemen of the Legislature:-We can
not hope, in the short space of fifty days,
10 correct all the mistakes, to remedy all
the evils that nave been made and nave
arisen along with our magnificent civlliZa-
ton, but We should endeavor to accomplish
such results as will demonstrate TO those
who follow us that our intentions, We're
good, our actions determined, and our
coEhsels judicious. We are mere hands on
the dial plate of Kansas. The works are
DeEeath and behind us, where million and
half Of Gods poor people toll and struS-
gle. A generation has passed away since
John Brown, of OsaWatomie, struck /. Let
us so live and SO move, while dressed in
our little brief authority that those VINO
look may hope that we have struck =
John Brown, of Osawatomie-who made
our soil so free,
Advanced the Kansas thought so high, fol
all the world to see;
His name calls such a paeon forth, by
Kansas name and song.
Men know the trail to freedom runs away
from every wrong.
In the completed draft of the message,
the conclusion began:
Gentlemen of the legislature trust
that, for once in the history of the state,
you will be able to spare time from the I'M
portant duty of discussing, cowpaths and
garden alleys to enact legislation that will
be beneficial to the people of this state, as
a people," and then continued: We can
not hope" etc. Before the message was
transmitted to the legislature, or given out
run through this undignitied expression OF
petty demagogy.