The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1897-03-12
THE LEGISLATURE.


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new county debate was taken up III
the Senate. motion by Senator Me
Nicely to indefinitely postpone consid
Grafton of the bill to create Sylvanite
county was being talked of by Senator
| Carney when the Senate adjourned the
evening before. He resumed and pro
ceeded to quote from pamphlets pub
lished in favor of the measure.
Senator Moody said 1t would be an
ungenerous thing to create more bur
dens for the people and he must vote
against the bill.
Senator Canon thought the weight OF
the argument lay with the opponents
of the bill, and he believed there were
already too many counties.
Senator Wheeler said all he could do
would be to preach the funeral sermon
on the bill, and he proceeded to do so.
| He spoke of the sentiment in favor
of the measure, the great wealth of the
camp and its increasing prosperity. and
he believed the people We're entitled to
| have county-but. of course, they
were not going to get 1t.
Senator Seldomridge spoke in sup
port of the bill and pointed to the
pledges that had been given by the
representatives from that district and
to the almost unanimous desire for the
county on the part of the people. There
had been n change of sentiment since
the election, but no good reason had
been assigned. He valued his political
pledges too highly to change and would
| support the bill.
The discussion occupied nearly the
whole day. Then the vote was taken
and resulted as follows:
For the new county-Blakey, Carney.
Evans. FELTON,. Harris, Kennedy, Por-
terrified, Seldomridge, Stratton, Tay-
Ior ThomoS Wheeler
Against the county-Adams. Barela,
Bromley. Campbell. Canon, Crosby,
Grove. Gallagher. Gaymon. Gordon.
Locke. Maxwell. Moody. Morton, Nc
Creery. McNeely, Painter. Reuter-.
Schermerhorn. Sours. Swink. West.
House.-House bill No. $50. by An
drew Park, of Pueblo. providing pun
ishment for the breaking of seals of
railway cars. was considered and
passed second reading.
A bill introduced by Mr. Champion
on behalf of n constituent allowing per-
sons and corporal tons to divert and ap.
ply unappropriated water for mining
milling or electric purposes. caused the
expression of wide variance of opin-
ions. 1t passed second reading.
Thursday. March 3rd.
Senate.-The greater part of the day
in the Senate to-day was taken up
with the consideration of the reports Of
the finance committee on Senator Eel
toms bill, appropriating $4,000 for
continuing the work of constructing
state canal No. 1, which would tap the
Arkansas river at a point near Canon
City. The work on the canal has been
done by convict labor. and is completed
for distance of about six miles. In
order to carry out the original plans
about forty miles of construction work
will be required, and the bill fathered
by Senator FELTON, asks for money with
which to purchase tools, machines and
powder for the continuance of the
work, which included the tunneling of
several rocky hills.
The majority report of the finance
committee recommends that the appro-
priation be denied for the reason that
the finances of the state will not iusti-
fly such an expenditure. The minority
report, signed only by Senator Moody.
recommended that the bill be printed.
After spending almost the entire day
in discussing the bill, the minority re-
port to have the bill printed was adopt
ed by vote of % to 10.
House.-A resolution by Senator Bar
ella. asking the president to appoint res
idents to federal positions in New Mex
leo. was adopted.
hunters to take out license passed
second reading. 1t requires n fee of 81
to be paid to the state and so cents to
the county. An exemption is made in
favor of residents of the county where
they may hunt.
A bill by Mr.. Stevens to amend the
child labor law passed second reading.
1t prohibits the employment of children
under fourteen years of age at manual
labor Sin any factory, shop, mill, store,
SaleSroom, mine, smelter or manufac-
turing establishment of any character
during school term"
The next bill discussed was by Mr..
De Wolfe to regulate the delivery of
water. 1t permits the exchange of wa
ter between reservoirs and bitches. 1t
permits the delivery of stored water in
to ditch when the reservoir is given
the supply from the river ut a point
higher up and vice versa. The bill
passed second reading.
Thursday, March 4th.
Senate-Mr. Engley's theater hat bill
was considered in connection with the
reports of the committee on state inSti-
tutions, to which it had been referred
and after a long discussion ii was
killed by vote of 16 to 10.
After recess the Senate Joined the
House in joint session for the consid-
GRAFTON of the report of the Leadvillc
committee upon the strike. after which
it reconvened in the Senate chamber.
Senate bill No. AS by Senator Taylor
raising the bounty on wolves from 50
to So and on mountain lions from So to
50, was finally passed and sent to the
House.
Senate bill No. 40, by Senator Car
ney. prohibiting the management of
state institutions from appointing rel
alive to any position under the control
of such management, was finally
passed and sent to the House.
The following bills passed and were
sent to the House:
Senate bill No. 116, by Senator Har-
ris, prohibiting blacklisting of en-
ployes by employers and the boycott
ting by organized bodies of persons or
corporations. misdemeanor punisha-
BILE by fine and Imprisonment
Senate bill No. 325, by Senator Tay-
Tor, allowing state, county and school
district officials to prosecute appeals
and writs of error in which they are
involved in an official capacity without
giving the usual bond required upon
taking appeals and writs of error.
Senate bill No. 241, by Senator Sci
domridge, providing for the classified