. A history of Missouri and Missourians : a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school. mL Missouri Politics. 1904-1922 2()I. ELLIOTT W. MAJOR showed a decrease of 6 per Major had been electedattorney-general of Missouri in1908 and, like Governor Hadleyhe was advanced to the office ofgovernor. Governor Major was anative Misourian, having beenborn in Lincoln county. He hadstudied law under Champ made his home in BowlingGreen. He had a Democratic Leg-islature in both houses. The important laws passed dur-ing his term were, first,
. A history of Missouri and Missourians : a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school. mL Missouri Politics. 1904-1922 2()I. ELLIOTT W. MAJOR showed a decrease of 6 per Major had been electedattorney-general of Missouri in1908 and, like Governor Hadleyhe was advanced to the office ofgovernor. Governor Major was anative Misourian, having beenborn in Lincoln county. He hadstudied law under Champ made his home in BowlingGreen. He had a Democratic Leg-islature in both houses. The important laws passed dur-ing his term were, first, those pro-viding State aid to small highschools and weak common schools, and second, an act creat-ing the state public service commission to control rates andservice of telephone, railroad, street railway, light, and gascompanies. A state board of pardon and paroles, a statehighway department, a land reclamation department, a com-mission for the blind, and a childrens code commission, wereestablished. In 1913 the Seventeenth amendment to theUnited States Constitution was adopted providing for theelection of United States senators by direct vote of the peo-ple. T
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