St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1909-08-14

this court, which ought to have been
done twenty years ago, because they
have no power to create additional
courts.
4The people ofLouisiana created this
court, as Mr.. Lewis well knows By
their vote last fall. All that the
Legislature did was to submit a con
s~titutional amendment which required
a tWo-thirds vote, and the people al
most unanimously adopted that amend
ment.
He attacks the Legislature for
passing Act. No, lbs Of 1908, Great
ing a State board of accountants.
This board does not cost the State
one cent, nor does the taxpayer pay
anything the board is allowed a fee
for examining an applicant who desires
a certificate as an expert accountant
just as a fee is charged for certif-
Gates to teachers, to lawyers to doc
tors, to dentists, etc.
Act 155, creating q Commissioner
of Labor and Industrial Statistics
is attacked. Here is more of Mr..
Lewis sophistry. Act 70 Of 1900
created a commissioner Of statistics
Of labor, with the same salary, same
number Of clerks and same expenses.
The only change the new law made
was to enlarge the score Of his labors,
and make him do more for the same
money.
He has specially assailed Act 156.
creating a commissioner Of Louisiana
military records, The purpose Of
which is to collect historical data
and preserve all the records of our
noble Confederate yetrans-liying
and dead. The paltry sums Of $1,000
was appropriated each for the years
Of 1908 and 1909, and no more.
He attacks the Legislature for
passing Acts $50 and 16I relative to
the revision Of our code. Articles
322 and 324 Of the Constitution Of
1908 makes it mandatory. The state
ment Of Mr.. Lewis that the Louisiana
Bar Association did not favor it is
not borne out by the facts and the
records of that meeting.
Act 1872 authorizing the Agri-
cultural Department to send out an
institute conductor is not the crea-
ton Of d new Office, but is simply
permission given to that department
to employ a capable man to instruct
in agricultural science that vast
number Of toilers who are unable to.
go to school and take a course Of
that study.
Acts l78, l85, 2o2 and 3O8, Gre
ating board Of electrical examiner,
board for osteopaths, board Of vet
Urinary examiners and engineering
examiners do not cost the State one
cent, nor do they affect the taxpayer.
These are among the best and most
useful laws ever passed by the legis-
Iature. They give to the people the
best possible skill, thereby assuring
the best service; and at the same
time it protects the people from the
ignorance and malpractice Of quacks
and frauds.
Acts 724 Of 1908 creating d live
stock sanitary board, without cost
except expenses and salary Of the
secretary, is manifestly so much in
favor of the farmer and stock raiser
and the general public that its neces-
sity appears automatic. When we
think Of the millions OF dollars lost
every year from disease among our
live stock we are appalled,, besides
there are many diseases, such as
glanders, Charlton, diptheria, tuber-
culosis and many others, conveyed BY
the diseased animals to human beings,
that We wonder Why this magnificent
law has not been passed years ago.
The last legislature did not appro-
pirate one cent for the board or sec
rotary.
ATTORNEY NEEDS HELP
The attack made in Acts 275 and
304, one increasing the salary Of The
assistant to the attorney general, and
the other giving assistants to The
bank examiner, is so peurile and the
necessity for the Offices SO manifest,
the mere inspection Of the act, and
W@4#H &
the Importance Of those positions I'd
tha nannla n1lohf ID az. sufficient FL