The Grit-advocate., 1903-03-27

UOtn OF Denver, 10 De IHtInDe OF the
State Board of Charities and Cprrec-
tiOn.
Governor Peabody. on the 18th inst.
signed Senate bill No. 80. appropriating
$25 900 for maintenance OF the peniten-
tiary. and Senate bill No: -. providing
for an additional district judge in the
Eighth (Boulder) district.
In the Senate Concurrent Resolution
No. 5, by Senator Ward. asking Con-
gress to provide for amending the
United States constitution so that
United States senators may be elected
by direct vote, was adopted unani-
mOusly.
In the House on March 18th the COM
mittee on appropriations reported Oh
the following bills: II. b. No. 20, to ap-
propriate $50, 800 for the School for the
Deaf and Blind; H. B. No. $50, TO ap
propriate 100000 for the Home for De-
pendent ard Neglected Children; II. B.
No. 124, to appropriate $4,000 for the
Soldiers and Sailors Home; II. b. No.
332. to make an appropriation for the
penitentiary. cut from $3.50, 900 to $780,
900; H. B. No. 50. to make an appro-
priaton for the reformatory, cut from
make an appropriation for the Boys
Industrial School, cut from 100000 to
s95 900; H. b. No Sc. to make an ap
preparation for improvements at the
reformatory, amended TO come out of
the general fund, and cut from S6OOOO
to $4,000 The committee also report
ed out the general appropriation bill.
The latter is designed to make reduc-
in 40 Of hn1
about the capitol. to limit the contin-
gent fund to $l21 900 and leaves the
State Board of Arbitration without any
fund for its maintenance.
H. B. No. 2l2. by Mckenzie, an act
to prevent women or children under
fourteen in smelters or underground
mines, was agreed to by the House in
committee of the whole almost with
out debate. The bill in part is as fol-
lows: Section /. Any person who
shall take receive, hire or employ any
child under the age of fourteen years
in any underground works or mine, or
in any smelter, mill or factory. shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
conviction thereof shall be fined not
less than $50 nor more than $500. and
1hall be imprisoned in the county Jail
not less than thirty days nor more
than six months. Section 2. 1t shall
be unlawful for any woman or any
minor over the age or fourteen and un-
der the age of eighteen years to work
or be employed more than eight hours
per day in any underground works or
mine, or in any smelter, mill or fac
tory. Any person who shall take, re-
ceive, hire or employ any woman or
minor person in violation of the pro-
visions of this section shall be pun
ished as provided in section one of this
act"
Attorney General Miller proposes
that the officers of all the state insti-
tutions shall hereafter be required to
give an accounting of every cent re-
ceived and disbursed. He says that his
investigations show that the state gov
ernment has been conducted from year
to year without knowledge by anybody
of the exact expenses of each depart
ment. Succeeding Legislatures made
appropriations nearly conforming to
the demands and recommendations of
the officials holding these offices, the
basis having been what was spent in
the preceding two years. The appro-
priation bills directed the moneys ap-
priated to each department might be
checked out by its head and he was
not compelled to give an accounting OF
its use I'm the next appropriation
bill" says Mr. Miller. Il have
advised that specific provision
be made for the keeping of an
expense account by each department
1t must contain an account Of every
cent disbursed. Then, possibly, when
- next Legislature attempts to dis
VEer what has become of the peoples
money it will be comparatively easy
task and the responsibility can be
placed where it belongs for any mis-
application of funds. Heretofore when
the Legislature did make these inves-
tigations the responsibility was in
doubt"
In the Senate on March 18th the
Sanford medical bill was further
amended during debate on motion to
adopt a committee o. the whole report.
AS recommended by this committee
Christian Scientists are to be eXclud-
ed from practicing in cases OF contag-
ious and infectious disease. Senator
Ballinger led a fight against this pro-
hibition, which he said was unjust He
declared the.. mad rlSht 10 treat can
Ger, diphtheria. scarlet fever and
tuberculosis. He recalled instances of
cures of those diseases accomplished
by Christian Scientists. He charged Sen
ator Rush with having broken faith
with the scientists in his recent fight
against the bill as it was originally
drafted Senator Rush denied this i'm
pication and declared that he didn't
believe in turning people loose to prac-
tice in cases of contagious and infec-
tious diseases if they could not pass
an examination provided in the bill.
Senator Seldomridge offered an amend
ment which was accepted, permitting
Christian Scientists to practice in cases
of tuberculosis. but efforts of Senator
Ballinger and his supporters to remove
the inhibition against their treating
contagious and infectious" diseases
faiIad tba vote bpjpp 10 tn AS