The Glenwood post., 1905-02-11
COLORADO LEGISLATURE

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and after considerable debate on the
section referring to a state board of
instruction for BARRIERS, that section
was stricken out.
Auditor Bent has issued an order
that hereafter printing for his office
shall go through the hands of :he 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
Telluride to be chief clerk of the insur-
$175 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 a portion of New Mexico
and Colorado will lose eight square
miles off its southern boundary if a
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 nullities the survey of 1866 to
the disadvantage OF the state of Colo.
RADIO 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
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 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
hibitory 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
restrict the sale Of liquor. In the Crit.
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 a case where more
than one member failed to put in q
bill, but history does not record q
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. Neldez, Johnson
and Sherwin put in one bin 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 ana al three OF these members
-
labor Dill introduced by Senator
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the citizens alliance contains some
very stringent features. The empow
ering OF incorporated unions to make
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