Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-07
THE GOVERNORS RE-
.,sessss, PUDIATE GOV. BLEASE
Continued from Page one.)

1 day. as saying ITO hell with the Consti-
tution,'' and that what he said, yester-
day, he repeated, today, to call the good
governors here, to all the governors of
all the states, to all the people of the
United States
Once when his voice was drowned in
a storm OF Kisses, he turned to the gall
leries and to his colleagues and laughed.
what care ] for your hisses?' he
asked. Then shaking his clenched fist
he shouted: "Hiss if you must. Only
snakes and geese hiss
Gov O Neal Embossed the storm when
he introduced the following resolution:
This conference of governors does not
undertake to control the individual views
of its members upon any questions of
law or administrations; it declares that
this government is based upon the fund
anental, principle of law and order; that
the constitution of each state imposes
upon its chief executive the supreme duty
az taking care that the laws shall be
faithfully and equally enforced; that it
advocates all proper methods for
Strengthening and simplifying methods
of civil and criminal procedure.
"This conference protests against any
disposition or utterances by those en-
trusted with the execution of the law in
any of the states of this Union which
tends or could be construed as tending
to the encouragement or justification of
mob violence, or interference with the or
DERBY processes of the law
Richmond Va, Dec. 6.-The fifth an
nual Governors Conference adjourned,
this afternoon, to meet informally, to-
morrow. with President Taft at Wash
ington and discuss rural credits and
to meet formally. next year. at Colo
rado Springs, at date as yet unde-
termined. )
In IT'S dying hours it adopted res
olntion, which in the opinion of many
delegates sound the knell of the time
honored mortgage on the farm and
presages the advent of a new financial
era for the farmers of the country.
Should the intent of this preliminary
resolution attain fruition, the Cover
nors believe it will result in the estab-
lishment of a new system of state
banks throughout the United States,
governed by a uniform state law.
These banks, under the resolution
would be financed by private capital
sufficiently elastic to enable them to
issue bonds for short or long terms
upon American farms in lieu of mort
cages. The bonds in turn. in the opin
ion of the Governors, will be listed I'M
der state supervision on the Stock Ex-
changes of the world.
Myron r. Herrick, ambassador tol
France, addressed the conference on
this topic as President Taft's repre-
Sentative and declared that the thrifty
peoples of France and other European
countries We're ready to invest their
savings in these securities.
The resolution under which it is
hoped to bring this about endorses the
adoption of a plan of financing rural
credits. yet to be detailed, but similar
TO those abroad. 1t provides for the
appointment of a committee of five
governors to draft such a plan and
bill legalizing it. This bill must be
submitted to the governor of each
state in the Union, and upon approval
of two Thirds shall be sent to the
Legislatures of the various states for
enactment.
Gov. Plaisted of Maine. chairman
of the last session, was authorized to
appoint the committee later. He will
do so, tomorrow, in Washington.
THE governors. or many of them,
will leave here. tomorrow morning.
for Washington Before adjourning.
the executive committee appointed
Miles c. Riley of Madison. Wis. sec
rotary treasurer, and John Franklin
Fort, former governor of New Jersey,
manager.
Vnx.f rxtn hox nh 10 r0n nf
program of next yeaN The confer
ence also adopted a resolution con-
graduating Cows. Wilson Of New Jer-
sey and Marshall of Indiana upon
their election as President and Vice
President.
1.-THE custom of electing governors
to the highest office in the gift of the
people, said Gov. Hadley of Missouri,
father of the resolution, lis a wise
one. in which, 1 am sure. we all con-
cur"
All measures of correction designed
to check the increasing cost of living
will prove Intellectual in the opinion
of Gov. Hadley. who, addressed the
conference. tonight, IF the American
people. continue to produce less and
eat more; continue to sell less of food
stuffs to the other nations of the
world and buy more of food stuffs
from the other nations of the world.
1.-THE problem that eonfronts us
therefore, continued the Governor
rs how to increase production and
that problem in turn involves the So
tuition of the problem of how to get
competent people on the land. The
proper cultivation of our farms me-
cessitates smaller farms or better
cultivated farms and smaller farms or
better cultivated farms means. of
course, more people working on them |
while in a general way, the best
results can be secured by keeping or
placing upon the farms those who
have been trained in the cultivation
of the soil, we can produce farmers
under proper conditions just as We
can produce railroad men, machinists,
lawyers or doctors. 1t is state func-
ton, concerning the existence and adj
visibility of which there can be no
question, to advertise and assist In |
the development of the resources