The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-15
FRON OTHER PENS
GOVERNOR HUGHES. vEroEs.

GOVERNOR HUGHES NETOES.
If a man from Mars visiting Albany
were told that of $50 bills left on his
hands by the legislature Governor
Hughes had vetoed or failed to sign
more than 200, he might say: 81 sup
pose such wholesale use of a veto pow
err intended only for occasional emer-
gency must have caused great public
Indignation"
"On the contrary" his informant
would have to answer, 1.-The governors
work gives great satisfaction. While
some may regret his action upon
specific measures, the general feeling is
one of security and confidence that
New York has in Mr.. Hughes an able
man who laboriously examines the
mass of bills and decides upon them as
he honestly thinks best. regardless of
political or other pulls The leg:s-
lature, out of good nature or for politi-
cal effect passes many bills which it
knows ought not to become laws, ex-
pecting that the governor will veto
them. Thus he has vetoed three
platoon bill for the police of New York
city. which is a local matter and a
veterans pension bill, which is a fed
eral concern Not to speak of a bill to
protect criminal skulls by forbidding
policemen and detectives to carry
blackjacks. The people trust Mr.
Hughes and he has a national reputa-
ton" New York World.
o.
THE MISSISSIPPI TRAFFIC..
That recent preliminary report of
continues to attract considerable at
tention, and there is doubtless more
than one reason for it. One unQues-
tionably is that a new interest has
been aroused in the opening of the
great inland waterways as an i'm
portant step in the future develop
ment of the natural resources of the
country and 1t is probable that an
other is that the cold figures pre-
sented are so distinctly at variance
| of traffic done on the Mississippi and
| its great tributaries Something of
! the romance of the early days of the
| Mississippi steamboats, still remains,
or did remain. until this report Of the
| inland waterways commission was
coming near to- shock, for most
people to be told that the freight tom
mage on the Mississippi in recent
years has varied from $4,000 to 40
using the upper Mississippi, and in
| the words of the commission: THE
| traffic movement on the lower
| Mississippi has SO materially declined
in recent years that the supremacy
once enjoyed by the Mississippi has
| passed to the Ohio.'-Mancheste
| Union.
NO WOOD, NO BREAKFAST
| A Delaware judge has handed down
a decision that is of interest to all
husbands and wives in Delaware. and
| elsewhere. The decision would APP
pear to emphasize the fact that there
must be a community of interest in
| domestic affairs, with each of the
| principals mutually helpful and res
| ponsibie. A Wilmington woman
| charged her husband with non-sup-
| port. She testified that on one oc-
casion the husband refused to cut the
i wood for the breakfast fire There
upon she refused to get his break
| fast THAT was right the judge is
| credited with saying. and the no
Observation-Disclosures precedent may be
| expected to hold good hereafter in
| Wilmington at least.
/ Of course the wood cutting theory
| is not to be taken in a practical form.
| There is very little wood cut nova
days. but this doesn't impair the un-
deriving principle. The wife does her
share but the husband must Cooper
ate fairly. And no doubt the same
theory holds good when reversed-al-
| though the application is more infre-
| ouent. To sum it all up the domes-
| tic partnership calls for mutual de-
| pendence and mutual helpfulness-
and there is no higher way of regard
ing ft--C1eveland Plain Dealer.