The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-08-04
DISCUSS UNIFORM
LAWS FOR STATES
NATIONAL CONFERENCE AT
FRISCO TOMORROW
HOLDS WEEK SESSION
Proposed Statutes Drafted To
Be Submitted To Coming q
Meetings Legislature.
ASSOCIATED Press DIspatch.l

San Francisco, Calf, August -
The national conference Of com
missioners on uniform state laws
will open its thirty second annual
meeting here tomorrow to consider
and act on proposed statutes for
= SUBMISSION to state legislature
meeting during the next year The
commissioners will continue their
sessions throughout the week.
Among the subjects which tenta-
tive drafts of uniform state laws
have been drawn are aviation
joint parental guardian ship of
children, status and protection of
illegitimate children, declaratory
judgments, extradition of persons
charged with crime and commerc-
ial acts.
Each one of theae subjects has
been considered by special com
mittee of the conference, and mo-
del statutes prepared. Commission
ers from every state of the nation
and from Alaska, Hawaii, Porto
Rico, and the Philippines Islands
are to be represented at the meet
ings when action on the proposals
will be taken.
During the 81. years Of the ex-
istence of the conference 81 I'M
form acts have been adopted in
the various states and 1urisdic-
lions. Twenty six uniform acts
have been drafted and approved by
the conference as covering the sub
iects which the commissioners be-
Iieve should be handled by the
state legislatures and in such a
manner as to give general unifor-
nifty between the various common
wealths-
Object OF The Conference
The six day session Is to be
taken up largely with consideration
and action on committee reports
and drafts Of bills. Increasing use
of airplaneS for commercial pur-
poses has caused particular interest
TO be paid to a proposed uniform
the fight and responsibilities Of
.aeronants. This viii be submitted
to the commissioners, along with
proposed laws governing the obi
cations Of the parents of Legitimate
Children and joint guardianship Of
children, two social subjects OF i'm
portance- .... -
The object OF the conference, as
stated IN its constitution. is to PRO
mote uniformity OF state laws on
all subjects when uniformity Is
deemed desirable and advisable. =
1t seeks to afford a means
for states 10 hoid their leg
isIatiye powers which have tend
ed in some respects to be. absorbed
by the naion congress during the
past few years.
Officers of the conference say
that it tends to provide a way that
Tie American genins for efficiency
may be accomplished in legislation
as In business without doing Vio-
lence to the spirit Of American in
stitutions, and this, not through
the development OF the powers of
the general government TO a opint
wasre centralization breaks down
because Of the bureaucratic tnef-
ficiency, bat rather this uniform
state action. Uniform state Laws
should be secured not to supple
ment and TO re-enforce but also
TO forestail federal Legislation"
Besides acting on proposed uni
form state laws submitted by the
conference committees, suggestions
for additional laws viii be receiv-
ed and considered by the meeting.
Its recommended legisiadons are
being received with increased IA
vor by state legislatures. the com
miSSionerS say.