The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1912-01-10


shall educate them IN the public
schools. OF course most of the unmar-
ried women who were here last ses-
sion have not married since, but they
will borrow children and members
of the Federation who have children,
(the president, by the way has two)
will storm the senate committee.
Only the preliminary work of the
present session has been done and but
little has been accomplished toward
Legislation. Those who are leading
the fight for certain bills say that the
work will be done early and not
damned into the closing days. Gov.
McCreary is taking active part in the
business of the present session He
has already let the legislators know
that he does not propose to sit back
and look on, but will he in the thick
Of the fighting, trying to carry through
the recommendations that he made in
his message. The message was a leng-
thy one and covered many subjects,
so many in fact that few of the mem
bers have succeeded in grasping all
that the governor touched upon in his
recommendations. When the governor
let it be known that he wanted Mr..
Terrell elected speaker of the house
and made determined fight to land
him in the chair, the members knew
that the governor was not simply a
lay figure, but a lively individual, de-
spite his years. The governor has
told the legislature what he wants it
to do. and he proposes to see to it
that they do as they are told, if he
can
In his message, Gov. Wilson omitted
all reference to the need OF new
governors mansion. The governor
knows about the mansion, for he lived
there thirty-siX years ago. He said
the other day that when he lived in
the mansion in 1876 it had to be prop
ped up with boards in the cellar to
keep it from falling down, so the con-
ditiOn of the mansion at the present
time may be imagined. When Mrs.
Wilson, wife of the former governor,
was in the mansion she did wonders
with It, and her taste enabled her TO
make it appear attractive. The de
fectS were covered up, and the casual
visitor would not have noticed that
the old building was in need of repair.
KCntucky's first governor lived i'm that
Did mansion. He did not live there
as the first governor. the mansion not
having been built until after he went
out, but Isaac Shelby was elected gov
ernOr twice. and during his second
1e went out of Office the first time he
: we'd in the present mansion.
The new mansion is the pet of
Lieut.. Gov. Ed McDermott He says
Gov. McCrearv feels hesitancy
about asking fer new mansion in
which he Is 10 live. so Gov. McDermott
3 doing all the talking about new
mansion. He has referred to this
IN several addrss eS which he has
rade recently. notably the address he
delivered in taking his seat as presid.
ing officer Of the senate He says Ken
lucky which IL practically out of debt,
with a two million dollar building for
a capitol. should have a mansion for
the governor. that would be in keeping
with the reputation of the state.
Peter Lee Atherton, probably the
one millionaire who has ever been in
the Kentucky legislature. certainly the
only one in recent years, Is keeping
house. by his lonesome. in one of the
finest homes in Frankfort, which he
rented furnished for the session. Mr..
Atherton came to the legislature to
look after good roads and school inn
provement which are his hobbies, but
he wanted home ne as well. He said
he could not stand hotel for three
months, so he secuted about and found
the kind OF house he wanted. lie
brought up from Louisville good cook
and some servants. and now is living