The Greeley tribune., 1905-02-09
A DIRTY BILL
MEASURE PROPOSED BY EN-
EM1ES OF JUDGE LINDSEY
Great Friend of The Boys Cham
pioned by Senator Clayton
and ]. W. Nc. .
Creery
Mondays Deuycr Post.

Mondays Denver Post.
By a vote of % to II the senate
this morning passed the bill by SEN
ator Parks, forbidding county judges
from exchanging benches. 1t is al
most certain that the bill will be
killed in the house. The emergency
clause was stricken out, so that the
measure will not be operative until
ninety days after it is signed by the
governor, in the event that it passes
solely at Judge Lindsey and the de-
struction of the juvenile court.
That the bill is unpopular was
demonstrated by the vote and by the
explanation of Senator Campbell that
he voted for it simply because in
committee of the whole it had been
indorsed.
Parks and other enemies of Judge
Lindsey and the juvenile court have
been circulating the report that the
law, as it now stands, is unconstitu
tional. Senator Clayton gave this
statement the lie this morning.
This law was introduced by Sen
ator McCreery. and he was credited
with saying that it was unconstitu-
tional,' said Senator Clayton. Il
spoke to Mr.. McCreery in his home
town Greeley yesterday. He de-
clared he had never made such a
statement. He said that before he
introduced the original bill, he had
gone to considerable pains to ascer-
tain if it were constitutional. and
he had been told that it was. He
said that he believed at the time that
the bill was constitutional. and he
still believed it so, and that all
statements that he had uttered a
different opinion were pure fabrica-
tlons. | am against the present bill
by Senator Parks and therefore vote
against it ~
These remarks by Senator Clayton
plainly show that the enemies of
Judge Lindsey have not heSitated to
resort to falsehood in an effort to
prejudice people against Judge Lind
sey. 1t is bit odd that nothing
has been done to prove the McCreery
bill unconstitutional and that all
agitation on the subject should come
now that Parks hopes for the politi-
cal murder of Judge Lindsey.
Scores of Judge Lindsey's friends
and other scores of philanthropic
people are protesting against this
move by Parks and the Big Mitt of
Denver to railroad Judge Lindsey
out and to ruin the Juvenile court.
Members of the House declare that
they know full well that the Big
Mitt is back of Parks, a republican,
simply because Judge Lindsey exposed
the corrupt county ring. Republi-
cans in the House cannot understand
why republican senator is sleeping
in the same bed with the democratic
Big Mitts of Denver.
Parks has held his second anti
Lindsey bill to await the fate of his
first. Now that one has gone through
the senate he will bring his other
court bill from the dark corner and
gum-Shoe it through. The second
bill is the one that compels Judge
Lindsey to remain in Denver and
hold court, except during his legiti
mate vacation, and it also provides
that if Judge Lindsey is absent he
MUST FURNISH A PHYSICIANS
CERTIFICATE to prove that he is
i'll.
The driver of garbage wagon in
Denver may be absent from duty
without a physicians certificate, but
the judge of the county court cannot.
This second bin also compels Judge
Lindsey to forfeit pay for every day
he is absent from his court. DEATH
WILL NOT ENCUSE HIM, SICK
NESS OF FAMILY WILL NOT
EXCUSE HIM.
1t is believed that the senators who
voted for the bill this morning will
rebel against such selfish and un-
fair bin as the second one of Parks,
the false friend of Lindsey.