The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-04-11
WONDERFUL.
RECORD FOR
GOOD LAWS.
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Last Legislature Enacted
Needed Legislation.
LAWS FOR ALL CLASSES
Killed Fusion and Paid Tn
a Lot of POpuIistfc
Debts.
a RADICAL RAILROAD Law.
Seeded Legislation for Miners and for
the strengthening OF Prohib-
itory Law-CattIemen Given
Desired Protection


No legislature that ever assembled
IN Aanssis has completed its work adj
1ourned, and received such ereneraI
commentator and so little criticism
as that of 1901 It's record stands ont
IN polcer contrast by reason of the
tact that the members chosen bv the
dominant party which had control in
both its branches by decided MAORI
Ties, were chosen, assembled and did
the work of the session without any
great number of promises or loud
protestations of the great, wise and
good things that they We're going to
90 lor the plain common people. They
did not proclaim economy from the
house tops, yet the appropriations that
We're made, when considered from q,
busInesslike standpoint, and from the
best interests and the growing needs
and demands of the state, demonstrates
that it was an economical BODY They
'dld not declare against corporations
nor the money power, vet, they placed
upon the statute books the most radi-
cal railroad law that was ever enacted
y any state, and gave to the laborers
a most sweeping measure=their most
important request-a free emplovine nj
agency law that viii have its ramifi-
cations in every county and city of
Importance in the state They did
not profess their own righteousness
or FAIRNESS. yet, replaced the outra-
g@2dS Legislative gerrymander enacted
by the populists in 1897 with a re
apportionnent that is absolutely fair
and was so recognized even by the
opposition members They did not
parade from public places that they
were the only party that could be de
pended upon to elevate the charitable,
institutions of the state above the
control of party politics, vet they
passed n civil service measure for the
control of the charitable institutions
that VIII, in the future, make merit
the sole criterion for the employnent
or those who are to care for the states
nnfortunates. They did not condemn
McNall and his road agents merely
to secure votes, but enacted n law
which viii prevent any insurance COM
missioner in the future ever follow
ing in his footsteps. 1t was purely a
business session. 1t was a session
about which there was not n breath
of scandal nor charge of corruption.
The lobbyist was conspicuous by his
absence.
The appropriate We're large but
they We're made to build new buildings
for our higher educat ional institu-
lions, to make better the facilities for
caring for the states unfortunates in
the different charitable institutions;
to show Kansas off as she deserves to
he seen by the world at the ST. Louis
exposition: to build an executive man
sion for the states chief executive:
to pay for returning the brave Kan
sas soldiers from California on their.
return from the Philippines; to square
mp legitimate obligations like the
ouantrell raid claims which the popu-
lists had deferred from year to year
They were made almost without ex-
ception for commendable purposes, for
purposes which have met the approval
of the people of the state.
For many years there has been a
demand for revision of the tax laws
of the St14P- No DTREiO1IS lat
had the courage to grapple with the
problem 1t could not be done in a
5o-tlays session. The present leoisla-
ture provided for the appointment of
commission of five, two from the
senate and three from the house, who
will meet and prepare measures for
complete revision of all the taxation
laws of the state, the results of their
laesor to be submitted to the next
Legislature.
Probably one of the most important.
and without question the most popu-
lar with all the people, of all the bills
passed was that known as the bien-
NAL election law which leads the vav
to having only BIENNIAL elections in
the state. The people are tired OF
every year politics, and while annual
township elections are provided for
by the constitution, this legislat ur.e
provided that all county elections in
the future shall be held only biennial
~. and at the same time submitted
to the people an amendment to the
constitution which will be voted upon
next year, and which. if carried will
do away with annual township cleo
tions and thus enable the voters OF
the state to have elections only every
other year This Will result in a great
saving to the people
of scarcely less Importance was the
general revision of the Australian bal
lot law in the measure known as the
anti-fnison bill The people of Kan
sas have opposed the purchase OF
rotes and for years there has been a
growing sentiment that the dickers
and bargains and trades that We're
made from year to year by one party
with another, under the guise of flu
sion. was even more demOralizinsr and
corrupting than the actual and open
purchase of votes. This measure cor
reefs this evil and in the future polit-
icaI parties in Kansas must stand for
principle and place men on their tick