The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-01-17

Governor b. w. Hooper will submit
his message to the General Assembly
today. The text Of the same is given
III tpll and excerps from the message.
=. TEXT OF MESSAGE.
Inspection of State Banks-Inter-
est on State Funds-Confederat Pen
sions-AntiPass Law-Express Com
panies-Shop and Factory Inspection
Fellow Servants Law-Workmen's
Compensation Headlight Bill-An
Act to Forbid Legislators Practicing
Before Departments of State Govern
ment-State Auditing Department
The Divorce EVil-Compuisory Pri-
marles-COrrupt Practices Act-Agri-
cultural Department Immigration
( Bureau-State Geological Survey
Water Power Conservation-Sta
Board of Health-Pure Food and
Drugs Department-Capital Annex
Governors Mansion-Free Libraries
Public ucation-Compulsory Ed
notwithstanding State Debt-Ten-
nessee Reformatory-Bristol to Mem
phis ighway-Public Roads-The
State Prison-Penal Legislation
State Board of Charities-State
Board of Examiners of Nurses-Ap-
preparations.
To the Honorable Members of the
Senate and House of Representa-
tives Of the Fifty-Eighth General
Assembly of the State of Tennes-
see:
In obedience to the mandate of our
State Constitution, | herewith trans
NIT to you the following message:
1t is not my purpose to attempt in
this paper discussion of all the
important questions of legislation
that will command your considera-
tlon during the current session of
the General Assembly. At a later
date, l hope to offer suggestions as to
other matters of interest to the State.
Inspection of State Banks.
There is a strong public demand
for a law providing for the inspection
OF State banks. The sentiment has
grown in volume year by year, ac-
celerated by repeated bank failures.
The Legislature of 1911 gave serious
consideration to the enactment of
such a law. Since then a number of
State bank failures have occurred.
disastrous alike to stockholders and
depositors.
| urgently recommend the enact
ment Of a State bank inspection law
that Will protect the people from the
looting of banks from the inside and
That will give the banks the benefit
of increased public confidence and
business. Tennessee is one of only
three States which have no bank in
spection law, and the federal govern
ment has declined to make postal de-
posts in our State banks for that
reason. The law, without being I'M
necessarily drastic, should insure the
close, careful, competent and frequent
inspection of banking institutions
chartered by the State. Some meth
cd should be adopted for penalizing
such directors as accept the position
to attract depositors to the bank and
who perform none of the duties of
a director. Dummy and decoy direc- .
tors constitute one of the chief
menaces to safe banking.
Anti-Pass Law.
The enactment of law forbidding
the issuance of railroad passes, tele-
graph franks, Pullman passes and
similar favors from public service
corporations to public officials, will
meet with the strong approval of the
people At one time there was but
little sentiment in our State against
his practice, but today an enlight-
ened public conscience has resulted
n platform declarations by all par
les in Tennessee against It. The
legislature cannot justify itself in
'ailing to pass such a law.
Fellow-Servants Law.
All political parties in this State
lave frequently and solemnly prom
sed the repeal of the ancient legal {
loctrine that an employer is not liza
'le to his employe in damages for s
n injury due to the negligence of his [
elbow empioye. Every party organi- {
alton represented in the present a
declared in its 1919 plat
orm by unanimous vote in favor OF b
his repeal, The General Assembly ?
( 1913 owe to themselves as a matter O
( honor and to the laboring men OF
he State as a long-delayed act OF f
lstice the enactment of such a law.
n SO doing, we will merely follow
4 the wake of nearly all enlightened
ations, many of the States of our b
alton and the Federal Government. s
The Divorce Evil. y
Two years ago called the attention G
the Legislature to the great evils O
roceeding from the lax administra- Q
on of liberal divorce laws. Since n
hen the court reports have shown