Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1901 — Vetoes the Compulsory Bill. [ARTICLE]

Vetoes the Compulsory Bill.

Governor Dockery of Missouri has vetoed the compulsory education bill entitled “An act to enforce the constitutional rights of every child in the state to ( an education, to provide for truant or parental schools and attendance officers in cities of 10,000 population or more, and to prohibit the employment of children during school hours.” Governor Dockery declared that the act interfered with the personal rights of parents and savored of paternalism on the part of the state.