The La Jara chronicle., 1905-02-17
COLORADO LEGISLATURE

OF the First Colorado volunteers, ARMY
of the Philippines, to be erected in ths
state capitol grounds at Il cost not ex'
ceeding $4,000.
The Taylor bill. preventing appeals
being made to the consolidated Su'
preme Court when the amount In
volved is less than $500, occasioncd
lively discussion in the Senate. The
bill met warm opposition from the mo-
ment of its announcement. and was
finally killed by striking out the enact
ment clause.
The House adopted the joint nemor-
ial by Mr.. Baer asking Congress to re-
peal the section of the land laws which
prohibits stockmen from fencing in
springs and water courses on the pub
lie domain, but to provide that when
springs are so fenced in the water shall
be conducted to the outside. where
stock could drink without tranpling
the source OF supply.
The Dodge civil service bill whent
through the House of Representatives
with no amendments of any note. The
only change made was to provide that
| firemen and policemen were under Its
| provisions at all times. Other officers
Of state. county and city might be free
from danger of the law when not In
their Offices. The change was to more
efrectually keep firemen and policemen
from interfering in election matters.
The committee on stock of the House
| decided to report favorably on keez-
er's bill to make larceny of chickens
after dark felony. Most of the mem
bers confessed to having suffered from
the depredations of the after-dark fra
ternity. and were unanimous In the
sentiment that the penalty proposed
was far short of the enormity of the
crime. The committee did not look
favorably upon the bill for the sup
preston of dog fighting, chicken fight
| ing and similar diversions of the
brutal, and the bill Will be reported In
for indefinite postponement-
Chairman Breckenridge of the
House committee on appropriations
has almost completed the work on the
general appropriation bill. The com
mittee is trying to reduce some of the
amounts to be appropriated. on the
| theory that the state will have much
less money to handle In the next two
years than it had in the two just
passed. The appropriations committee
| is having some trouble in making up
| its estimates, for many bills carrying
appropriations were sent to other com
mittees, and there has been no means
| of footing up the tJ,als asked for.
| Sections of the short appropriation
| bills signed by Governor Adams up to
| the pre- sent time include expenditures
as follows: Legislative expenses. $780,
| 900; executive and judicial expenses,
sIo4, ,1G2.GS; State Reformatory, $12,-
600; State Industrial School for Boys.
| $4,000; Soldiers and Sailors Home.
$4,000; penitentiary, 100000. The ap-
preparation for legislative expenses
| rt.Y ht, n
the beginning of the session. The
short appropriations will be charged
out of the general appropriations, the
amounts of which will be fixed later.
The Lincoln memorial services In
Lie Senate chamber at the state house
Sunday, February 18th. were charac-
terized by beautiful decorations and
impressive ceremonies. Under the d.
rection of Sergeantat-Arms Berry the
| Senate chamber had been handsomely
decorated with flags and potted plants.
The desk of the late Senator Buckley
was draped in appropriate mourning
and a bowl of beautiful flowers had
been placed upon it. Rev. Or,n Pal
mer Wright, chaplain of the house of
representatives. presided over the
meeting. Rabbi Friedman was the Or
ator of the day. His Grafton on Lin
!
ever delivered in Denver.
The statistics of bills introduced In
the House show that the Fifteenth
General Assembly will be most re.
markable In one respect. Five mem
bers of the House did not Introduce a
bill. In past legislatures there have
| sometimes been case where more
than one member failed to put in a
bill, but history does not record
similar occurrence to five members
failing to do so. The five members
| to put in no bills were Griffith. McIn-
| tyre, Mcclure. Bolsinger and Street.
Mulqueen, O'Connell, Veldez, Johnson
and Sherwin put in one bill each. On
the other hand. Bromley introduced
thirty five bills. Keezer thirty three and
| Thomas thirty-one. Three members
thus introduced ninety-nine bills of the
! 4OS put in, almost one-fourth of the to-
| tal And all three of these members
were from Denver.
BY special order. at 11:3O a. m. on
the 9TH inst, the Senate paid tribute
to the memory of the late Senator
Buckley. The resolution adopted was
| in part as follows: "RealiZing the ir-
reparable loss resulting to the Senate.
| to the constituency he represented ard
| to the state at large, from the death
of Senator Buckley. we. his colleagues.
members of the Senate of the FIJI
teenth General Assembly, pause In our
discussions. our deliberations. our diff
ferences. and in the discharge of our
duties, to bear witness to the worth.
the integrity. the manhood and the
citizenship of our departed brother.
AS friend William S. Buckley was
true steadfast and reliant. A vigor.
GUS partisan. he fought from the open
with honest. manly weapons. AS a
husband and father. Senator Buckley
approached the domain of the perfect
man. In the world of affairs the word
of Senator Buckley was his bond. Re-
spected and honored by his associates,
and beloved by his employees. his large
business interests moved onward with
out friction or failure. AS n senator he
strove for the right as he was given to
see it. He labored necessarily for the
welfare of his district and for the good
of his state. Although sorely afflicted
with the insidious malady that caused