Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1909-06-24
APPROVES WoMEN's NiNE.HoUR
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
~ BILL KILLED.
REVIEWS WORK As COMPLETED
Governor Takes Action on Every
Mea.ure Submitted by LesIsla.
ture-Nearly 100000 Appro.
priatlons Vetoed.

Kansas City.-.Missouri's capitol has
been moved back to Jefferson City.
Gov. Hadley and his secretaries aban.
doning their quarters In the Baltimore
hotel in time to send all the docu.
ments out on a noon train. SO as to
have them placed In the hands Of the
secretary of state in time for filing.
BY noon the governor passed upon
the last Of the bills which the legis.
lature had left as a legacy to him,
in all having signed AIS and disap-
proved As bills.
The governor left no bills TO become
a law through lapse Of time. He
lodged nothing, but met every meas
urc squarely. Among the bills which
the governor signed on the last day
was one to raise the pay of the Kan
sas City court Of appeals judges $4,000
a year and to increase the pay Of h
Jackson county judges from s 1000 to
$500 year. From the general ap-
preparation act the governor struck
out an item Of SO, 800 for decorating
the st. Louis court OF appeals room.
there being provision made for such
work in another bill. One of the last
bills signed creates a new civil court
in st. Louis. He struck out an item
of $4,000 to reimburse Green county,
and still another item of $500 to
reimburse Cass county for roads. The
governor found that the roads for
which pay was asked had been built
prior to the enactment of the law
which authorizes the state TO help
meet such costs.
OF his work in connection with the
legislature the governor said, just be-
fore leaving Kansas City:
Il have finished the consideration
of the bills passed by the last general
assembly and have signed or vetoed
every bill passed. have, Of course,
signed some measures that | would
not have voted for as a member of
the legislature, but where my obliga.
tions were simply based upon a diff
ference of opinion | have signed the
bills. The bills that Woe vetoed were
those | felt were vicious or would be
injurious If they were permitted to
become a law. | have vetoed appro-
priation bills amounting to between
$15O,0OO and $1,000 OO.
Explains Insurance Bill Veto.
81 vetoed the bill authorizing insur-
ance agents TO agree upon insurance
rates because l was advised by the
attorney general and members of the
,,nviSinp nynpptQoinp that tho lt1l mo
of doubtful constitutionality, and for
the further %rcasonthat ! considered
1t inadvisable at this time.
II vetoed the electric headlight bill,
requiring railroads to equip all their
locomotives with headlights of 1900
candle-power, because l deemed the
bill Of doubtful advisability and be-
cause | was able to secure an agree
ment between the railroad companies
by which the railroads agreed to make
a marked improvement In all their
headlights. and in a manner satisfac.
tory 10 the trainmen.
The Legislature failed to pass the
laws that ! recommended in regulation
of the railroads and liquor traffic, but
1t did pass a law permitting the trans
fer Of saloon licenses, under which
It would have been practically impos.
sible for the police board and the ex-
else commissioner In st. Louis to have
revoked a dramshop license for viola.
lions Of the law. This bill, OF course,
l promptly vetoed.
II think the list Of bills given me
by the last legislature was the largest
that any governor has ever had to
consider, and ! am glad to have the
work OF my hands. As soon as my
work on the state board Of equaliza.
tion In the assessment Of public ser.
vice corporation property of the state
Is completed l expect to take up the
Investigation of the various state In.
situations and see what I can do to
improve conditions In them"