The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-06-03
to be hoped that we could agree ON
rate, at least pending litigation?

sisting on allowing the roads to
charge the general public Scent
rate, the man with 2,000-mile Gre
Dental 2-cent rate, and that the
roads give TO its patrons the right
to travel on n l,0O0-mile book on the
road issuing 1t n 2l% cent rate, and
an interchangeable book for ~
cent rate? Now this is, with two
little changes, the schedule In use
before the 2-cent rate was passed.
81 would not agree to this, stating
that while ] was chairman of the
Railroad Committee | would have
to advise with the Senate, which !
did. The Senate turned the propo-
sition down.
attorney General Major, Mr..
Ravelle, Doctor Muir, Mr.. Rhodes
and others will bear me out in this
statement. Mr.. Rhodes, IA Repub-
lican member of the House, pro-
tested strongly against Governor
Hadley's proposition.
"a few days after this conference
the Governor was out In numerous
interviews, but I'm each of them he
said he wanted a 2IS-cent rate, and
did not, 80 far as / ever observed,
say he did all he could to get us to
agree on the 3-cent rate for the gen.
eral public. And, to-day, the pub
lie believes the Governor was their
friend In this matter"
Some OF Hadley's Pet Measures.
Senator Dowell further discusses
some Of Governor Hadley's pet
measures which he claims the Sen
ate defeated. He says: 1.-THE anti
pass bill got an adverse report from
the Senate Committee on Railroads
by reason of the three Republican
members of the committee voting
against it, thereby sending it to the
foot of the calendar. tried to pass
IL, but for reasons stated IL failed.
Thcre-was not single Republican
member Of the committee who did
not vote against all the railroad
bills of which the Governor speaks,
except the bill giving the Railroad
and Warehouse Commissioners
power to fix railroad rates. The
record shows that every Republic
mn member, save two, voted again st
that measure when called for pass
age.
The Bank Revision Bill.
"ln regard to the bank revision
bill, ! wish Ia claim, in large
measure, the credit for killing it
myself, believing, as ! do, it was
one of the most vicious measures
introduced during the session. The
law was revised two years ago, and
Section Il of the old bill did away
with organizing small banks Of less
than 800, 900 paid-up capital in cities
of over ljO,OOO population. This
new bill had this same bad feature
aud raised the minimum in cities 0I
10000 to an amount not less thar
500 900, and in cities of 5000 tn,
minimum was raised to so, 900. MOI
content with absolutely debarrlnl
men of ordinary means, the bill tool
away the maximum amount, which
practically had but one result, which
was to permit the big banks to or
ganize for large amounts, and crust
mercilessly every little bank In tn,
country. In other words, this woul,
have formed money trust, rulinI
and dominating every business IL
the State. There are many othe
vicious features In this bill.
Hadley's Mania to Increase Taxes
again Governor Hadley falls t,
state that the Senate crucriled one
of his bills providing that all prop
erty should be assessed Mt par valu,
and the Assessor who failed to d,
this should be penallzed heavily are
his Office taken from him. This bill
" would have doubled taxation In the
: State and was one of the measures
intended to increase largely the re
; venues, and it would have done 81
, surely.
1.-The facts are, the Governor ha,
gone mad over taxing everybody ant
everything, This is proven by hi'
, public utterances, by his messages
} by his bills introduced, by his vot'
on the Board of Equalization where
e ms has been proven by the records
= he voted to more than double farm
property assessments. Had not tn,
Senate stood like iron and ston,
: against these measures, taxes woult
: have been largely, yes, enormously
augmented.
The Board of Control Bill.
Representative Crossley, referring
to other pet measures of the Cover
nor says:
1.-THE Governor makes referenc,