The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1907-05-17
EXTRA SESSION CLOSES
Governor In Last Communication 10 the
Legislature Reviews Work Accom-.
plished

The extra session Of the Leglsa.
ture adjourned last Monday at
noon, aud the work accomplished
by it, the laws enacted, together
with that done ut the regular ses.
sion, is set forth in the following
communication of Governor Folk
Just before the close of the session:
TO the Forty. fourth General As
sembly:
At the close of the regular SEES.
sion, said to You that you had
done much for the people Of Mis-.
souri,, but there was more to be
done, and that | would reconvene
the Assembly, after you had en-
joyed a brief period of we'll earned
rest, to complete the work. | am
glad to say that you have given to
the people at the extra session u
number of measures of incalcu
liable value to the public welfare,
The Forty fourth General AS
sembly has been the most fruitful
in good laws that the State has
ever had. This statement is con
frmed by brief review of some of
the more important laws enacted
Mt the regular session: A general
State primary law, providing for
nominations by all political parties
by direct vote OF the people;
maximum freight rate law; al act
reducing passenger rates to . cents
per mile; pure-food bill; antilobhy
law, making professional lobbying
a felony, except upon registration
and publicity; statute making
operation Of bucket shops a felony
child labor law; antitrust laws,
providing prison punishment for
violation; eight months school
law; demand for convention to
propose amendments to Federal
constitution; constitutional amend.
ment separating resources Of State
and local revenue; good road laws,
providing for State highway engi-
neers and county engineers; one
million dollars appropriated for
road purposes, and measures pro-
vldlng annual revenue for road
purposes; amendment to the con-
stitution, providing for the inltia-
tive and referendum; anti-discrmi- |
nation law, prohibiting concerns
selling goods higher in one part of
the State than in another, cost of
transportation being considered
act giving Railroad Commissioners
power to fix rates, aud making
their order effective until overruled
by court Of competent jurisdlc-
ton; uniform textbook law; ex-
tentlon of the parole law.
WORK or EXTRA SESSION.
AT the extra session there have
been enacted Il public utilities bill
that will result in saving the State
millions of dollars; au effective
statute making race-track gamb-
ling a felony, thus preventing this
kind of gambling and upsetting
the plans of the race-track gam
blers to open up this spring; an
act providing for the removal of
officials who in their public duty |
forsake the service of the people:
a factory inspection law. to enforce
the child labor law; fellow-ser-
want law applicable to mines; a
dramshop law prohibiting brewers
and distillers having an interest i'll
saloons; providing for bond by
dramshop keepers on which any
two citizens can sue in the circuit
court if the dramshop laws are
violated; an act prohibiting the
operation of order houses in local
option counties; law prohibiting a
dramsbop within five miles of the
State University-these being in
addition to the general appropria-
ton bill, which, by reason of de-
fects, had to be re-enacted at the
extra session. This makes a most |
cOmmendable record for you, and |
rounds out the work so well begun
at the regular session.
There were recommendations
of important measurers that did |
not become laws. AS to these il |
will be for the people Of the State
to decide whether those who failed |
to support them were right or
wrong, ! shall answer to the peo-
pie for my recommendations to you
and you must answer to the people |
for your action on these recon-
mendations.
TO those who, through all the
laborous days of the regular and
extra sessions, fought so faithfully
for these measures aud secured the