The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-01-15

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law. All of these branches of the
state government are important. but
inasmuch as these officials will sub
nit reports | shall not in detail re-
yiew their labors.
The insurance department has
grown in recent years to be very
important executive Office. 1t is one
Of the larger revenue producing
branches of the state government,
annually paying into the state treas
ury several hundred thousand dol.
lars more than the cost OF it's main
tenance. The receipts from fees paid
by insurance companies amounted to
$50, 1864 during the biennial period
ending the first OF the present year.
The insurance department is required
annually to assess against every in.
surance company not organized I'M
der the laws of Missouri tax oil 2
per cent upon all premiums collected
10 this state. During the last two
years 1924, O5S.0S have been collect.
ed under the provisions OF this law.
Inasmuch as number Of insurance
companies retired from business in
the United States during this period,
it was feared that the 2 per cent tax
for the past two years would bring
very much less to the treasury than
for the two years preceding. But it
seems that this apprehension was
groundless, the income during the
last two years being greater by
$107, 541 than during the years 1899
and 1900. The financial exhibit Of
this department shows that it has
been faithfully and economically man.
aged, and it's widely extended bust
ness carefully administered.
STATE INSTITUTIONS.
Missouri has twenty.one well equip
ped institutions, fully the equals OF
their kind in any state OF the Union,
The State university, School of Mines
and Metallurgy, three normal
schools, Lincoln institute, four hospi-
tails for the insane, school for the
deaf and dumb, school for the blind,
colony for the feeble minded and
epileptic, Confederate home, Federal
home. reform school for boys, indus.
trial home for girls, state fair, fruit
experiment station and our state
penitentiry are all under capable,
economic and humane management.
The reports of the managers of these
various institutions will be submit
ted to the Legislature, and l shall
not, therefore, weary you with vol
luminous citations from such reports
affecting the scope and extent Of
their work.
Missouri appropriated, for the BIZ
ennial period just closed, nearly
100000 to construct and equip
buildings for state institutions
These appropriations were all q
charge upon the state revenue fund
except those for the buildings of the
State university and the Rolla Schoo
OF Mines, which were paid out of thu
collateral Inheritance tax.
earnestly urge that provision b.
made for adequate insurance upor
all building. But few Of these struc
lures carry sufficient insurance, an(
most OF them are wholly uninsured.
The state -lnnr.Ls of health. agri
culture, pharmacy. t"ntalexaminers
embal'nng, barber examiners, fisl
commission, charities andcorr, elton
geology and mediation and M bitra
ton are all actively and eificientl,
at work in the van nus fields OF lato
assigned them hy the laws uude
which they wer" created.
| Where all lave done so well it i
perhaps invidious to discriminate
And yet | feel constrained to espe
cially commend to your favorabl
notice the achievements of the stat
board OF mediation and arbitration
Since it's establishment this boar
has over and over again successful
: adjusted differences between employ
ers and employees. With ability an
tact it has discharged the importan
duties committed to it. However
the law creating this board require
amendment to make it still more e
} fective, and | bespeak for this recon
mendation the earnest and thought
full consideration OF the general Al
sembly. Arbitration is the mos