Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-11-27

Now there are many vital ques- tions which the states can regulate with uniform laws, without exceed ing their rights in the least and with out requiring any constitutional amendment.
 There are today perhaps twenty issues before the American public that are of vital interest which the federal government can not cope with because of it's constitutional limita- tions, but which may be settled by the cooperative action of the states through the House of Governors
 :" In the House of Governors, ma jority vote VIII not be binding on the minority. Should even A mem bers in full session agree the one member not concurring will have ab- solute freedom of action and he or his successor would probably join tb' majority side at the next sess on of the House.
 If on the subject of, let us say, divorce. twenty-five members of the House were to agree on general plan, the twenty y-five governors thus concurring, would suggest to their respective leg stature in their ensuing messages the passage of bill in ac- cordance with the recommendation The legislatures, of course, would have greater dynamic effect, and d stronger moral influence when each legislature knows that tWenty-four other legislatures are considering the same proposed law. Let us consid- CT that of the twenty-five states, IS passed the bill. in the other seven were public sentiment sufficiently aroused and the people sufficiently united, this question might be made an Issue in the next campaign and those legislatures elected who would be pledged to carry through the bill.
 At the next meeting of the House, with the prestige of the adoption of the law by eighteen states, ten new converts might be made among the governors now concurrlng in the first session and so in the course of few sessions we might have uniform state legislation on this v- tai problem without federal action. A jaw thus formally passed by all the states would more truly repre- sent the sentiment of the American people than any law passed by the federal government, even if constitu- tonal amendment or new revised in- depreciation of the constitution was empowered in the passing of the law.
 The forthcoming conference will be opened at ? D. m., Tuesday, Nov. 29, at the StaJe Capitol, Frankfort, Ky.
 The remain Ing part of the after noon will be taken up with electing officers, appointment of committees and routine work
 The visiting governors will then take special train to Louisville, Ky. where the remainder of the confer ence will be held in the auditorium of the Hotel Seelbach.
 Wednesday the conference will convene 2t 1o:3o a. m. and listen to an address of welcome by Mayor Polesgrove of Louisville. This speech Will be responded to by Governor Aaron w. Porthier of Rhode Island.
 Governor-elect Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey, will then deliver an address on the objects of the con ference, which will be followed by general discussion on organization and the appointment of committee to draft the constitution.
 An address will then be made by Governor John Burke of North Da- kota, his Power and Responsibility which will be followed by a general discussion of the short ballot and the enlargement of the powers of the governor to permit of removing fin. efficient state officers. The way will be closed by an address by M. c Bradford of Boston on the adyisabil. ity of a governors presence at leg. islative sessions.
 Thursday will be given over tt conservation. The governors of tn, differne states will present tht views of their localities, and the dis cussion will embody the northwest ern idea of conservation, conserva ton from the standpoint of the state etc. The discussion will be followe, by consideration of the question o the conservation of human life witt
 it's subsidiary topics of municipa health, tuberculosis, pollution 0 streams, etc.
 Governor Wilson of Kentucky vii open Fridays session with an ad
 dress on the income tax followed b
 a general discussion as to whethe
 the state shall surrender to the fed
 eral government the power to ta
 incomes without apportionment, O
 whether if it seems wise to surrende this power 1t shall be done under tn phrasing of the Sixteenth Amend