The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-05-03
FROM BATON ROUGE
NEXT SESSION OF THE LEGISLA-
TURE BEGINS NEXT WEEK.
A FORECAST OF EVENTS
Miscegenation Law to Be Validated and
Reinforced = Game Commission Will
Be Amended or Abolished-Prohibi-
ton Issue VIII Demand Attention.
The Picayune correspondent at Baton
Rouge writes Interestingly as follows:

Rouge writes interestingly as follows
Baton Rouge, May I, 1910.
A week from Monday the lawmakers
will be in Baton Rouge and will open a
two months session There will be new
members both in the House and the
Senate, but no executive Offices have to
be filled, and there should be no delay,
at least none greater than the usual
opening delays, before the members of
the General Assembly get down to
work
On Wednesday at noon Governor
Sanders will send to the Legislature his
annual message, in which he will re-
view at length some of the measures of
his administration, and make his recon-
mendations for new laws. The Governor
will deal at length with the question of
good roads, the public schools, the Pan
anna Exposition, and the States finances,
all of which are to be important matters
for consideration. The Governors mes
sage in length will be about the size of
his inaugural address
Many important issues are coming up
before this assembly 1t is going to be
lively session from the present indi
cations. A strong fight is going to be
made to correct the defects in the mis-
cegenation law passed last session. This
law had its teeth pulled by the Supreme
Court in recent decision, but strong
effort is going to be made during the
coming session to make it legal, and in
the amending to make it even stronger
than the original draft. Prohibition is
going to be strong issue. The regula-
ton act which was passed two years
ago has been modified to great extent
by court decisions, so the prohibitionists
think, and some of the more jealous
white ribboners want to submit con-
stitutional amendment providing for
Statewide prohibition The State Game
Commission is either going to be abol-
ished or the present law passed two
years ago is going to be so amended
that the author will not recognize it.
This is admitted by ardent friends of
the Game Commission. It has been pro-
posed to consolidate the Game Commits
sion with other conservation commits
sions, such as the State Conservation
Commission, the Forestry Commission
er and the State Oyster Commission.
Economy in operation would be the rea-
son for consolidation of the conserva-
ton forces
Economy is also going to cause fight
TO be made for the consolidation of all
of the levee boards of the State under
one board, and thus make saving of
thousands of dollars every year At
present the levees are controlled by dis
trict boards, and the expense of operat-
ing all of these boards is heavy.
Encouraged by the economy that has
been made, the Legislature will probably
further amend the printing law and the
Constitution of the State, 50 as to pro-
vide for competition in the legislative
en- dof the State printing. and get the
reduction in this work which the State
is entitled to by free competition. An
effort viii probably be made in this CON
nection to abolish the official journal.
The report of the two code commits
sions-the Civil and the Criminal Codes
which have been compiled and are
ready to be submitted to the General
Assembly, will come in for serious con-
Isideration by the lawmakers. Both OF
these commissions were required to re-
port back to the Legislature in 1910.
The laws governing the State Tray-
cling Auditor will have to be materially
revised, and provision made for larger
working force and for tie enlargement
of the duties of the Office During the
past two years, on the order of the Gov
ernor, State Travelling Auditor Smith
has done great deal more than check
Iup the parish tax collectors. He has
checked up the different State institu-
tons, installing as nearly universe
a system Of accounting in the different
institutions as possible The checking
1 Of the institutions has been without au-
Ithority Of the act creating the depart
lment. Il has also been found Impossible
| to do effective work without suficien
force.
! The State Bar Association will prob
| ably come before the General Assembl,
j with an amendment to the judicial sys
.lten Of the State. making the presen
] Court Of Appeal an intermediate cour
of appeal This court vii pass on botl