Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1907 — WORK Of MANY STATE LEGISLATURES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

W ORK Of MANY STATE LEGISLATURES

Gov. Ansel of South Carolina* in his inaugural, urged the abolition of the State dispensary and the outlawing of bucket shops. « Gov. George E. Chamberlain, in his message sent to the Oregon Legislature, urges the enactment of a law creating a State railway commission. Five bills calling for a,2-cent fare were introduced in the Legislature at Des Moines, lowa. Three bills also were sent in calling for the enactment of a primary law. Tlie lower house in Missouri at Jefferson City passed a bill taxing undivided

profits of 50 per cent of the capital stock of corporations, other than railroads. The lower house of the Legislature at Little Rock, Ark., defeated the Senate resolution commending President Roose-

velt's action In discharging the negro battalion on account of the Brownsville riot. A bill was introduced in the upper house of the Legislature at Lincoln, Xeb„ designed to prevent the practice of tipping and making persons or corporations employing waiters or serrants who may demand or accept a tip guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine.

STANFORD WHITE.