The Holly chieftain., 1903-03-27


/ Governor Peabody. on the 18th inst.
! signed Senate bill No, So. appropriating
! s25. 900 for maintenance of the peniten-
tiary. and Senate bill No. IS, providing
| for an additional district judge in the
Eighth tBoulder) 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 on
! the following bills: II. b. No. 20. to ap
! propriate $50 500 for the School for the
! Deaf and Blind: H B. No. $50, to ap-
| propriate $50 coo for the Home for De-
| pendent ard Neglected Children: II. B.
| No. l2i. 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 $500
600; H. b. No. 55. to make an appro-
! priation for the reformatory, cut from
/ $4,000 to $4,000; H. B. No. I. to
/ make an appropriation Tor the Boys
/ Industrial School, cut from sl2e,0oe to
I s95 900; II. Z. No. So. to make an ap-
preparation for improvements at the
! reformatory. amended to come out of
/ the general fund and cut from 100000
| TO $4,000. The committee also report
/ ed out the general appropriation bill.
| The latter is designed to make reduc-
tions in the force of the help employed
about the capitol. to limit the contin-
| gent fund TO 1921 900 and leaves the
I q nf irh
fund for its maintenance.
| II. 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 l. 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 misdemeanor and upon
conviction thereof shall be fined not
| less than $50 nor more than $500, and
shall 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-
ceiyed 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. In 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
the next Legislature attempts to dis
cover 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 inres-
legations the responsibility was in
doubt"
In the Senate on March 18th the
Sanford medical bill was further
amended during debate on a motion to
adopt a committee Of 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 they, had right to treat can
Ger. diphthsria, scarlet fever and
tuberculosis He recalled instances of
cures of those diseases accomplished
by Christian Scientists. Hecharged 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
plication and declared that he didn't
| haliava in turning neoD1e loOSe IN nroc-