The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-05-06
SAYS MORE GOOD LAWS NEEDED

SAYS MORE GOOD LAWS NEEDED.
In an interview given out Wednesday
after he had signed the last bill passed
by the Thirty-third general assembly,
Governor Carroll reviewed the work
of the recent session, according first
place among it's accomplishments to the
Whipple law creating single board for
the three state schools.
Governor Carroll said:
The Importance of the legislation of
the recent session of the general assem-
bly, will be better appreciated a few
months from now than it is at the
present time. More bills have been
passed by the Thirty-third general as
sembly than were passed by the Thirty
second, and some of them are equally
important with any measure passed in
recent years. Scarcely more important
measure has ever been enacted than the
law creating the state board of edu-
cation for the control of our state
educational institutions. 1t has a great
bearing, not only upon the state uni
versity, the agricultural college and
the state teachers college, but in a
sense it affects our entire educational
system, and the success or the failure
of the measure is one of deep concern.
No session of tho legislature has ever
passed so many statutes with regard to
law enforcement as the session which
has just closed. The law authorizing
the district Judge to remove officials
for neglect of duty puts it within the
power of every community to have tho
laws properly enforced, and doubt not
but that great good is going to come
from this legislation. A matter of no
small Importance to the travelling public
is the law providing for hotel in
spection. This measure is perhaps
not SO popular among the hotel people,
but the travelling men of the country,
spend a great portion Of their lives in
preciate the Importance of this measure.
believe also that very much good
will result from the establishment of
has been provided for by recent en-
actment. Another measure of great
Importance to the farming interests is
that of the establishment of plant for
the production of hog serum as a pre-
ventive of hog cholera. This is some
what experimental as yet, but it bears
about the same relation to hog interests
as the tuberculine does to the cattle
interests. Secretary Wilson of the agri-
cultural department at Washington is
very much interested in this matter and
believes that it is going to result in
great good to the country generally.
One of the most stringent antitrust
laws enacted by any state in the union
was passed by the recent session of our
legislature, and will doubtless go long
way toward protecting the people
against the formation Of these organic
ations.
The entire military code of the state
was revised and placed upon plan in
harmony with the national law pertain
ing to the regular army. The guard of
the state will better appreciate the
change in our military code than will
our civilians, who are not familiar with
guard matters. The bill authorizing the
executive council to remove officials for
gross neglect of duty, for malfeasance
or misfeasance in Office, for corruption,
etc., will also tend to give us better
service and bring about better regard
for official positions.
Statutes were also enacted looking to
the better protection of the labor inter.
ests of the state, especially in the
matter of the assumption of risks.
The improvements in the drainage
laws and the amendments of the pri.
mary election law are worthy of notice
and are of general interest.
Many important matters failed to pass
during the recent session Of the general
ASSEMBLY, but the public attention has
been called to them and the ground
work has been laid for effective legis.
lation in tho future. Among the more
important ones and those which will
doubtless be up for consideration at
future sessions of our legislature are
the bills for the establishment of a bet.
ter system of road making; the consol.
idation of various departments of the
state government; the abolition Of the
per diem system of compensation wher.
ever the same can be dispensed with
revision of the school laws and of the
tax laws of the state; the public utili
ties bills; the fixing of definite salaries
in lieu of the per dien and other methods
of compensation, and the enlargement
and identifying of the capitol grounds
all Of which will, and ought, to demand
public attention during the next TIVE
years.