Engineers and legislators

The Engineers of St. Louis have set a precedent which is worth chronicling. On Dec 29 of last year, the engineers invited to a dinner, the members-elect of the coming legislature, with the promise that none of the legislators would be asked to speak, nor would any request or propaganda for support of any bills be introduced. The meeting was a great success; and thereafter, if any of the engineers had occasion to go to the legislature, they met friends instead of strangers. A still more interesting result was that when the measure proposing to license engineers came up, a few letters from engineers in St. Louis to members of the legislature with whom they had become acquainted at this dinner resulted in a recommendation from the committee to which the bill was referred, that it should not pass. A second measure to license engineers received even less attention.