The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1903-03-27

Signed senate Dill NO. 30, apprOpflatlnS
$25. 900 for maintenance of the peniten-
tiary, and Senate bill No. 70, providing
| for an additional district judge in the
Eighth (Boulder) district.
In the Senate Concurrent Resolution
No. s, 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.
The general appropriation bills, the
short and long ones. have been COM
pared by several of the members inter
ested in figures, and the present bills
are found to appropriate $113,0S3.53
less than those of two years ago. The
short appropriation bill of the Thir-
teenth General Assembly disposed Of
$342 .459.S4, including the $251 500 OF
contingent fund that has disappeared,
and the long appropriation bill dis
posed of $5S8,S17.49. The short appro-
priation bill of the Fourteenth General
Assembly authorized the distribution
of s171 ,973.s0. and the long appropria-
tion measure will disburse $646,200.
This amount. however. may be in
creased before the bill is passed.
H. B. No. 212. 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 1. AM 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
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
| In the Senate on the 18th the medi-
cal bill was taken up in committee OF
the whole and the amendments pre-
viously agreed to were incorporated
without discussion. AS soon as the new
law goes into effect the present board
will go out Of existence, and the COVER
nor will appoint new board OF nine
members, just as he pleases, without
regard to school, age, sex, color or pre-
vious condition. This board will then
fix a general standard for schools that
shall be recognized Any person who
is not a graduate of any school can
take an examination before the entire
board in anatomy, physiology. chemis-
try, pathology, surgery, obstetrics.
symptomology and toxicology There
is no examination in materia medica.
practice or therapeutics. Any person
claiming to practice any system must
produce certificate from the state as
sociation Of the school he claims to
represent. The act does not apply to
dentists or Christian Scientists. save
] and except in contagious or infectious
diseases, when the Scientists will not
be permitted to try mind cure on their
patients The salary of the secretary
| is fixed at not to exceed 81 200 year.
Senator Rush offered one or two ad-
verse amendments which were defeat
| ed and the medical bill was recon-
mended to the favorable action Of the
Senate.
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 appDo-
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 people s
money it will be a comparatively easy
task and the responsibility can be
placed where 1t belongs for any mis-
application of funds. Heretofore when
the Legislature did make these inves-
legations the responsibility was In
doubt"
In the Senate on March 18th the
Sanford medical bill was further
amended during debate on motion to
adopt 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 fight against this pro-
hibition, which he said was unjust. He
declared they had right to 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
oooJnat tho hill .as II waS originally