La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1905-02-11
coloRADo LEGISLATURE

The House in committee of the
hole took up the Freves medical bill
and after considerable debate on ths
section referring TO . state board Of
Instruction for BARRIERS. that section
Sas strickea Oui-
Auditor Bent has issued An order
that hereafter printing for h.s Once
shall 60 through the hands OF he ststs
commissioner OF printing Heretofore
the ordering OF these supplies. which
amount To Ss o0o . year. has been done
By The auditor himself
Auditor A z Bent las announced
the appointment of Morris Lehman OF
Telluride Tn be chief clerk of the insur-
ance department This position pays
Sl75 q month and formerly ~As Allied
by " 8. Daniels. Who xAs promoted
to be q deputy auditor At the begin
ming Of the biennial term
The to~n of Edith in Arehulefs
county sill be divorced from Colorado
and become 4 portion OF New Mexico.
and Colorado Sill lose eight square
miles off Its southern boundary il .
bill presented by Representative No
Even in the House is passed The bill
calls for tn adoption OF the recent
which nullifes the survey OF lsse to
the disadvantage Of the stat. of Colo
RADIO Action by the State Legislature.
adopting the survey OF the government
Is necessary before the survey is rec
ognixed as omciaL
Chairman Breckenridge of tse
House committee on appropriations
has almost completed the work on the
general appropriation bill The com
mittee il trying to reduce some of the
amounts to be appropriated. on the
theory that the state will have much
less money 10 handle In the mex, two
PEARS than IL 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 totals asked for.
The House committee on temper
ance. medical Affairs and public health
has been giving hearings on local op-
tion bills Speaking before the com
mittee Bishop Lawrence said: Thirty
nine states have some kind OF prohib-
itory legislation. In Tennessee pro
hibitory legislation prevails in all
parts Of the state. except eleven cities.
The bill presented to the Colorado
Legislature contains the result of leo
years OF study OF the question. Mrs.
Wilkinson. president OF the Florence
Crittenton home. urged the passage OF
the bill or OF any measure that would
restrict the sale Of liquor. In the Crit
tenton home IL was found almost i'm
possible to save those girls who had
acquired the drink habit
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 no; introduce n
bill. In pas: legislatures there have
sometimes been . case where more
than one member failed To put In 9
bill. but history does not record =
similar occurrence to ave member,
failing to do 80. The hve members
to put In no bills we've Grimth. McIn-
tyre. MCGUIRE. BolAinger- and Street.
Mulqueen. OConnell. veldez. johnson
and aherwin put In one bill each. On
the other hand. Bromley Introduced
thirty ave bills. Keeser thirty-three and
Thomas thirty-one. Three members
thus introduced ninety nine bills Of the
eos put in. almost one-fourth OF the to-
tai And all three OF these members
were from Denver.
A labor bill introduced bv Senator
De Ia vergne and said to have been
drafted by President J. c. Craig Of
the citizens alliance contsvns some
very stringent features. The empow
eriug Of incorporated unions to make
binding wage contracts with
employers. with . penalty for
violation Of contract. and the
of Incorporated unions
to disclose. proceedings at secret meet
ings, when called upon to do sc by en-
ployers. are some Of the features OF the
bill Certified copies Of the true min
utes of . meeting must be furnished
employing any number oi
men belonging to the union when such
demand is made. II an incorporated
union violates q wage contract a for
fefture Of 800 or any larger sum
agreed upon must be made. Agents
for Incorporated unions Who attempt to
act for the Incorporated union may BE-
punished by nne Of from e25 to $500
and imprisonment from ten days to
six months.
by special order. At 1880 u m. on
the 7th inst. the Senate paid tribute
to the memory Of the late senator
Buckley. The resolution adopted vas
in part a. follows: Realizing the ir-
reparable loss resulting to, the Senate
10 the constituency he represented arJ
to the state 1t large. from the death
Of senator Buckley. We. his colleagues.
members Of the Senate of the f1f-
teenth General Assembly. pause in our
Cur deliberations. our diff
ferences. and 10 the discharge OF our
duties. TO bear witness to the worth.
the integrity. the manhood and the
Of our departed brother.
As . friend William 8. Buckley vas
true. steadfast and reliant A vieor
ous partisan. he fought from the open