Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-06-24
HADLEY SIGNS 418
Bills vETOEs 45
APPROVES woMEN's NINE-HouR
MISUNDERSTANDING
BILL KILLED.
REVIEWS WORK As COMPLETED
Governor Takes Action on Every
Measure Submitted by Legisla-
ture-Nearly 100000 Appro-
prlations Vetoed.

Kansas City.-Missourf'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
q law through lapse of time. He
lodged nothing, but met every meas
ure squarely. Among the bills which
the governor signed on the last day
was one to raise the pay Of the Kan
cas- City court of appeals judges $500
a year and to increase the pay of the
Jackson county judges from $1,000 to
$1,000 a year. From the general ap-
preparation act the governor struck
out an item Of $500 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. l have, of course,
signed some measures that / would
not have voted for as a member of
the legislature, but where my obliga-
lions were simply based upon a diff
ference Of opinion l have signed the
bills. The bills that were 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
$150,000 and 100000.
Explains Insurance Bill Veto.
II vetoed the bill authorizing insur.
ance agents to agree upon insurance
rates because / was advised by the
attorney general and members Of the
revision commission that the bill was
of doubtful constitutionality, and for
the further r%easonthat / considered
it inadvisable at this time.
Il vetoed the electric headlight bill
requiring railroads to equip all Their
locomotives with headlights of 1906
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 theil
headlights, and in a manner satisfac
tory to the trainmen.
"The legislature failed to pass the
laws that l recommended in regulation
of the railroads and liquor traffic, bu'
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 hav,
revoked a dramshop license for viola
tions of the law. This bill, of course
/ promptly vetoed.
II think the list of bills given m,
by the last legislature was the larges
that any governor has ever had t
consider, and I am glad to have tn
work off my hands. AS soon as m,
work on the state board Of equaliza
tion In the assessment of public sci
vice corporation property Of the stat
Is completed I expect to take up tn
investigation of the various state ii
situations and see what I can do t
improve conditions In them"
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