The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-06-30
THE LEGISLATURE
Hyde Asks Re- Enactment Of Laws
Held Up by Referendum.
Wants His Salary Raised 81
and the Referendum
Law Repealed.

WdutS 111S 0dl1Ky C0ASSO
and the Referendum
Law Repealed.
Jefferson City, June 22.-Although
the special session of the legislature
was called for the expressed purpose
Of carrying out the provisions of the
Sc, 100000 road bond issue, Cow
ernor Hyde, peeved at the rebuke he
received when the voters of the state
suspended his job. bills through the
referendum. has opened the flood
gates to legislation and submitted ~
additional propositions, including
one to increase his own salary.
I The governor, in message to the
legislature, attacks the initiative and
referendum and requests the legisla-
ture to submit constitutional amend
men either to repeal it outright or
modify it in such a manner as to
nullify it.
During the regular session of the
legislaturueu,. which closed March -.
Governor Hyde said he welcomed a
referendum on any of the bills that
were passed, but in his message
Wednesday he declared that the ref
erendum had ''paralyzed progress in
Missouri for two years." and created
''monstrous situations" without paral-
lei.
The governor again submitted the
proposition of gerrymandeing the jul
dicial districts of the state, declaring
that the referendum against the bill
passed during the regular session had
left the judicial circuits in chaotic
condition.
Well informed lawyers here declare
that the present status OF the judicial
courts has not been changed because
the gerrymander measure was sus-
pended. ==a====zz-a=z
The proposition to increase the
governors own salary is provided tor
in the special message when he
called attention to increasing the sal
aries of the members OF the board OF
permanent seat of government. The
governor, chairman of the board, in
addition to his salary as governor,
already receives $3.50 a year for this
service as do the other elective stat.
officers. ~
In reply to petitions from St.
Louis and Kansas City asking for
relief from the rent hog the governor
says, "There is no demand from the
country to regulate rentals ..
Jefferson City, June 23.-The low
er house of tbe Missouri legislature
wrangled for two hours Thursday
over the question OF loading down
the payroll of the house with useless
clerks. E~
Representative Elmer of Dent
county introduced a resolution pro-
viding that each one OF the Io4 Re-
publican members be allowed to
name one clerk and giving the DEM
ocrats five clerks This was in ac-
cordance with action in the Repubi
can caucus OF several days ago.
Representative Ferguson OF Ripley
county, Democratic floor leader, Of
Tered an amendment to strike out the
five clerks. offered to the Democrats.
Ferguson declared that the employ
,nent of the extra clerks would mean
a total of $50 employees in the house
when only so were needed.
If you are going to continue to
emp1oy-usefess clerks and sadrfe ad=I.
ditional burdens upon the people,
said Ferguson, the Democrats do
not want to have any OF the respon-
sibility. The Republicans, as usual,
are endcavoring to carry out the
spoils system, but the Democrats are
not going to be a party to it Just be-
cause you try to hand us little sop. !
The Republicans are padding the
payroll as usual. y
Ferguson's amendment was adopt
ed.
With the employment OF the 100
clerks in one house, il was expected
there will be several clerks to handle
each bill. During the regular SEES
sion there were los clerks to handle
so bills.
Jefferson City, June Ex-senator
Bennett of Dallas county, Friday in
trod,,~ed a ioiut and concurrent res