Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-11-22
MANY DISCUSSIONS
Second Session of State ExeCu.
tiyeS. to Be Held In Kentucky.
VIII Debate Matters
of Moment.
By JAMES a. EDeERToN.

~ HE house Of governors is about
81 to hold another meeting. 1t
f. 81 will convene at the state
capital, Frankfort, KY, on
Tuesday, Nov. 90, a, 2 p. m, and
will hold one session there. Early on
the morning of Nov. 80 it will proceed
by train to Louisville, where the remain
ing sessions, beginning on the morn
ing of Nov. 80 and ending on the even
ing Of Saturday, Dec. 8, will be held
in a large room of the Hotel SeeIbach.
Invitations to this conference have
been extended not only to the gov
errors of the various states, but to
the governors elect
This will be the first conference OF
state executives held outside Of Wash
ington It meets in Kentucky in hon
or of Governor Augustus E. Wilson,
chairman of the executive committee,
and hence virtual head of the body.
It is designed to hold future meetings
at other state capitals, taking them In
rotation, somewhat as the old fash
toned country schoolteacher boarded
around or the circuit courts Travelled
from one county seat to another. Thus
the house OF governors will be pro
gressfve body, at least in the sense that
q certain kind of euchre is called pro-
gressive.
Governors Elect to Attend.
There are forty-six governors of
states and in the neighborhood Of
twenty governors elect who do not now
hold the Office, making a possible mem
bership of more than sixty. Nearly all
have indicated their intention to be
present 1t Will be mighty gathering,
not SO much for numbers as for the
oTeTp0wering greatness there assem-
bled. A governor is q big noise in this
land OF the free. Then think of the
crash OF sound when sixty of them are
gathered together!
To entertair all that congregated i'm
portance viii strain even the hospitall
ties OF Kentucky. Probably If the Blue
Grass State lad her way the confer
erce would be one round of banquets,
balls. tunkets and receptions. It would
be a gala day for the Kentucky colo
neIs. and Henry Watterson would be
in his element. But am informed on
the very best Of authority that this is
70 be n meeting for business and not
for festivities.
Perhaps the honorable governors viii
not froWn on all the hOspitalides 5x-
tended them. but for the most part they
Will forswear the allurements of Ken
lucky bellies, evade the enticements of
the celebrated mint julep and devote
themselves sternly to reading and lis
tening to long winded papers by their
own members. If the governor of
North Carolina and the governor Of
South Carolina are both present there
viii be occasion TO repeat the remark
that made them famous.
If the coming conference carries out
this program Of remuneration it will
confound the Washington Post. which
once remarked that the house of gov
errors could do little harm, since its
functions would be largely social. I
have 1t on the best Of authorfty-the
same authority as before. by the way
that the activities of the house of gov
errors will be anything but academic
and social. The authority Is William
George Jordan, the man who first sug-
gested the body and who is its present
secretary.