The Colorado statesman., 1905-02-11
COLORADO LEGISLATURE

Auultor DENT mas issued an order
that hereafter printing for his office
shall go through the hands Of the state
commissioner of printing. Heretofore
the ordering of these supplies, which
amount TO $4,000 year, has been done
by the auditor himself.
Auditor A. e. Bent has announced
the appointment of Morris Lehman OF
Telluride to be chief clerk of the insur-
ance department. This position pays
S175 a month and formerly was filled
by w. S. Daniels. who was promoted
to be deputy auditor at the begin
ming of the biennial term
The town of Edith in Archuleta
county will be divorced from Colorado
and become portion of New Mexico,
and Colorado will lose eight square
miles off its southern boundary if
bill presented by Representative Nc
Even in the House is passed The bill
calls for tn adoption of the recent
United States geographical survey,
which nullifies the survey of 1866 to
the disadvantage OF the state of Colo
rado Action by the State Legislature.
adopting the survey of the government
is necessary before the survey is rec
ogniZed as official.
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
an cunts 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 COMMITTEES
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.
ton bills. Speaking before the com
mittee Bishop Lawrence said: Thirty
nine states have some kind of prohib-
itory legislation. In Tennessee pro.
hibtory legislation prevails in all
parts of the state, except eleven cities.
The bill presented to the Colorado
| Legislature contains the result of 100
| 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
/
tenton home it 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 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 a
similar occurrence to five members
failing to do so. The five members
to put in no bills were Griffith, McIn-
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
| 40S put in almost one-fourth of the to-
tai. And all three of these members
were from Denver.
A labor bill introduced by Senator
De La Vergnc and said to have been
drafted by President ]. c. Craig of
the citizens alliance contains some
ering of incorporated unions to make
binding wage contracts with
employers, with penalty for
violation of contract, and the
compelling 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 a meeting must be furnished
corporations employing any number of
men belonging to the union when such
demand is made. If an Incorporated
union violates a wage contract a for
| feiture of 500 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 E fine OF from S25 to $500
and Imprisonment from ten days to
six months.
By special order. at 1880 IA. M. on
the 7th inst, the Senate paid tribute
to the memory of the late Senator
Buckley. The resolution adopted was
in part as follows: "Realizing the IL.
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 Fif.
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
husband and father. Senator Buckley
approached the domain of the perfect
man. In the world of affairs the word