The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 15, 1906, Page 4

CADE et ee ce eo TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION. Probable Unconstitutionality of] =» ers, all but 53,424 of them!rom that Democrats May Name Ed. Stephens For Governor. | war, with an apuval roll of 1389 mi Hos dollars. la tbe 53,424 are rep- resented veterans of ail other eons | Sesiie Globs, ‘ country ever had. EW. Stephens, of Columbia, Mo., he Civil war eort 6,000 million | was in Joplin, having been summor- the Law Under Which It oo Up to the prevent tiwe half}ed here as a wituess in the ca-e ot | Was Adopted. Gov. Dockery Shows the Neces- __ Sity of Action Being Taken at Next Election to Prevent Dis- astrous Results. From Gallatin Democrat. Governor Dockery tn his last bien- nisl message called the attention of the people to the alleged unconstita- tionality of the act under which sev- enteen counties of the etate adopted Township Organization. This warn- ing of the Governor was given so that the counties might at the next general election again submit the question of adopting the township system of county government, so as to avoid the confusion and chaos that would result in the event the Supreme Court should declare the act unconstitutional. The Governer fe still of the opinion that it ie of paramount importance that all the counties should submit the question to the voters at thenext general election so that untold diffi- eulties in the financial conduct uf the counties and schools should be avolded. Speaking to our reporter, he sald: “There is now pending in the Su- preme Court on appeal from the Lion County Circuit Court, a proceeding which raises the question of the con- atitutlonality of the act under which seventeen counties, Including Daviess, adopted Township Organization. The case has been fully argued before the Supreme Court and the decision of that tribunal will, in due time, be handed down. I do not, of course, know what the judgment of the Su- preme Court may be but {t must be vbvious to all lawyere and even to laymen, that there fs at least great danger that the act will be declared unconstitutional, “The salient points in this impor- tantcontroversy may be briefly atat ed. The constitution at the time of the adoption of Township Organiza- tion by the counties of Barton, Bates, Caldwell, Carroll, Case, Chariton, Daviess, DeKalb, Grundy, Harrison, Livingston, Linn, Mercer, Nodaway, Patnam, Sullivan and Vernon, pro- vided that counties might adopt Township Organization IF A MAsOR- WY OF ALL THE VOTES CAST at a gen- eral election should be in favor of such action. This provision of the constitution was not gelf enforcing. It required the enforcement of a law to make the constitution effective, The General Assembly therefore pase eda statute authorizing the adop- tion of Township Organization but by some inadvertence, instead of fol- jJowing the language of the constitu- tion, the statute declared that Town- ship Organization might be adopted TF A MAJORITY OF THE VOTES CAST ON THAT PROPOSITION should favor it. “This statute therefore is clearly unconstitutional becauee {t is in vio- ation of the constitution. Under this statute, which : ven to a layman seems to be unconatitional, thecoun- ties to which I have referred, as [ am informed, adopted Township Organ- tzation. The people should in ad- vance of the probable decision of the Supreme Court, provide a remedy that will obviate the dangers of fi- nancial chaos in the counties and posetbly require an extra session of the legielature. “It has been suggested by some very able lawyers that the question be again submitted to the voters in each of these counties at the next general election. This course will obvinte the certain dangers conse- qnent to an adverse decision by the not eufficieut evidence to warrant a Sa) Court and enable the coun- ties to continue Township Organiza- tion without avy question as to the Jogality of its adoption.” Pensions Cost 139 Millions. Wasbiogtov, Feb. 12.—Atter the| again Mareb 5 and ordered the eher- ‘rate bill was disposed of the House | {ff to havea epecial ventre of - took up the pension { | Wil! {n committee of the whole, with} will select another jury to Mr. Madden of Illinois in the chair, | cases. pees, General debate on the bill was limit-| Several weeks ago V: much again has b-en pald out for} Ubaries 8. Blanton, charged with | pensions and alr. Gardoer predict |couspiring to bribe in coanectiva| that before the end of ita pension roll | with p atofiice sites now being tried | comes the first cost of the war will] in the federal court. i have been equaled. In twenty years} Mr. Stephens has been frequently from now he predicts tre pension | mentioned asa possible candidate | tolls will contain % million names, of | for gevernor ou the democratic seal | which 132,414 will be chargable to} @5 in 1908. Democratic newspapers the Spanish American war. At tbe/ a!) over the state have commented | present time, he says, the pension |fayorably upon wiv candidacy, the rolls coste the government jast one-| gsycensus of editorial oj iuion being fourth ofall otberexpenses. In 1867, | that the Columbia man would make one year after the Civil war, the in-}q splendid and victorious leader. terest on the public debt was $143,-| Mr. Stepheus has never brea a seeker 781,591, and the pension roll $20,-| of office, but for more than a quar. 983,551. Now these two items are! ter of a century be has been conspie- practically reversed as to the/ youn in the service of the party, and amount. the conviction evems generally to Mr. Gardner compared this pen-| prevail that there are few mea in sion roil of 139 million dollars to} Missouri with as extensive a person: that ot France, with an annual ex-/a' and party following and aa little pen diture ef 26 million dollars, Ger-| personal and party opposition se many 21 million, Austro-Hungary | that of Mr. Stephens. 10 million and Great Britain 9 mil-| Never having been a seeker after lion. As to Spanish-American war'| office is apje sre to be somewhat too veterans, he sald to-day there were| late in the day for Mr. Stephens to more of them on the pension rolle|depart from the custom that has tha n were in Shafter’sentire army in| governed his entire lite. Heis not Cuba. ; @ candidate for office now. In an ewer to a lobe reporter's inquiry as ” ” to hia gubernatorial canvaes he re- “Billy and “Charley Then. plied that no canvass was being From a Recent Lecture by Senator Dolliver. | preased so far ashe knew and related 1 taught echool in Illinoisin my/an incident as fllustrating his atti- younger days. I revolved ino emall|/fude toward the honor of heading orbit, butit was large enough to|the fight for the democratic party come in contact with the orbits injtwo years hence, “A friend of mine which revolved two fellows who kept/ous in Indiana,” said Mr. Stephene, a small station on the Wabash. One| ‘had been a good deal of a factor in was station agent and the other a| politics in his home district, and one sort of head office boy. The latter's} time, on the eve of a district conven- functions consisted of sweeping out! tion, while away from home, he re- the station and selling tickets when | ceived a telegram from afriend ark. the head man went to dinner. One}ing him if he would accept the nom!- wae Billy Van Horn, and the other/nation for president of the Uniied| was Charles Hayes. States. He wired back thie in re-; Hayes is now head of theSouthern | sponse: “I'he oftice of the presidency ' Pacific at the largest salary ever|of the Uuited States is an honor heard of until theee Equitable times. | which should peither be sought nor, Billy Van Llorn went into the tele |declined by any citizan’ That's! graph business. Before ten years} the way I feel regarding the nomtua-| had gone by he was made general tion for the governorship of Missouri superintendent of the Chicago, Mil |on the demucratic ticket,” observed! waukee & St. Paul, Over in Canada,|Mr Stephene, “It is an honor which the Canadian Pacific waslying dead. |no good citizen and good democrat Five engineers had resigned, declar-|could decline, at the same time it’s ng thatit was impossible to build} an honor tuo great to be contested the road. The directors metin Lon |for except in a manner worthy, in don after the fifth engineer had re-|every way, of the high objectrought, signed and picked out Billy Van} “Jam nos an aggressivecandidate Horn They told him to build the/and shali not be. But [ want to as- road. The road was built. Thejsure you that I am not insenaible to good queen made hima baronet,and|the fine tribates which have been the farmer's boy became Sir William | paid to me1a this connection by a Van Horn. great many cemocratle papers I recently tovk a census of New|throughont the state. I believe I York’s big men, and 1 discovered} may, without mock-modesty, ques- that every one who bad ahand in|tion whether I deserve the compli SS WILD WITH ITCHING HUMOR Eruption Broke Out in Spots All Over Body—Caused a Continual Itching for Two Years— Doctor's Medicine Did no Good—Cured at Expense of only $1.25 and Now doing the big things camefrom thi farm. The only map born in New York who has got big is Theodora Roosevelt. How that hapvened is a mystery, unless we attribute it to the fact that he got out of the city in time and went to the country. The Jury Couldn’t Agree. Jefferson City, Feb. 10.—Judge Martin discharged the jury which tried the convicts, Vaughan, Ryan and Raymond, it having failed to @gree upon a verdict. Before doing 80 the court sald to the jury that he had no desire to criticise it or to try to coerce it for the purpose of trying to, force itto an agreement. How- ever, the judge said that this was a very unusual case where twelve men had failed toagree about facte which were so few and which appeared to the court to be so plain. On the firet ballot the jury stood 7 to 5infavor of conviction, but on the second ballot two more of the: | jurors voted Yor conviction, and| there {t hong. Jurors Alexander, Berry and Bryantstood firm against conviction, asserting that there was THANKS CUTICURA FOR COMPLETE CURE conviction. The jury also voted separately on the conviction of Vaughan, and on thisetood tenfor convictionand two for acquittal, Berry in that case| © voting with the majority. — tl Judge Martin eet the cases tor trial | Wise, ‘men here on that day from ‘ and jceived from Mulhall, Ok., that Mies ‘Jered FEN * If you think to ask for Selz Royal Blue or Perfecto shoes you will get -a good shoe; the best that you'll put them on and will not have to think of your feet again for a long time. If you b shapeless shoe, you won’t be able to think of anything are “broken We sell Selz Royal Blue and Perfecto shoes, because they’re best. name Selz on the sole. . mentary comments which have been made. But I ‘certainly appreciate them. Until recently I have been numbered with the country news- paper men ot Missouri, and I am widely acquainted with the demo- cratic editors of this state. Iam aware ofthe work they have done year inand year out, andl know the principles they stand for and the high ideals of public service toward which they have labored and are laboring. To merit the approval of the democratic press of Missouri for the office with which my name has ben associated is, of iteelf, an honor to be prized highly. But she ques- tion as to who shall be the guberna torial nominee of the democratic party in 1908 is not pressing. There is plenty of time. When the time arrives to make a choice, the dem» cratic party of Missouri will select a sta ndard bearer who will be a credit {to the party, one who will command the confidence of the party.” T his is the first visitto Joplin that Mr. Stephens has made in over twen- ty years He said he thoughthe had prepared himself against eurprise but admitted that he was amasedat the great, prosperous city that has gr own up in Southwest Missouri, To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUI NINE Tablets. 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