The Springfield herald., 1907-03-01

any more holidays.
The House refused to concur In the
Senate amendments to Fl. B. No. 29,
the pure food bill, and will ask for a
conference. The one amendment that
was found unsatisfactory was that
which permitted druggists clerks to
compound certain poisons.
Gov. Henry A. Buchtel entertained
the members of the Senate and their
families Tuesday night at the Cham
beIiain observatory of the University
of Denver. CT which he is chancellor
All had an opportunity to test the big
telescope, after which refreshments
were served.
In the House Wednesday Mr.. Fet-
zer's bill to make hazing misde-
meanor was agreed to, with two
amendments. One of these was to cut
out the reference to tossing in blan-
ket, and the other limited the penalty
to fine. Mr.. HARRISON secured the
elision of that part making jail SEN
tencs possible penalty. He argued
that hazing was merely the "ebulition
OF the high spirits of boys"
State Fish and Game Commissioner
David b. Farr, accompanied by other
22d took the members of the Senate
committee on fish and game to the
Denver fish hatchery The trip was
made in automobiles. numerous other
members of the Legislature being in
ClUded IN the party. II was for me
purpose Of inspection and in order 10
give the Legislators an opportunity TO
witness the important work done by
the department.
The commissioner of public printing.
w. A. Platt, has let contracts on
three classes of printing. bids for
which were received several days ago.
The state printing is divided in six
classes. bids being received on three
of these in one year and on the three
others the alternate year. or the six
contracts the Smith Brooks Company
now holds four, the Kistler Company
one and the Franklin Company OF
Pueblo one No further contracts will
be let until next February. All the
contracts now in force are much lower
than those of previous years and some
OF them the lowest known in the his
tory of the state.
The Senate and House took contrary
action Wednesday on the same point,
relative to bills introduced without
proper enacting clauses. The Senate
regarded its bill as nonentity and I'M
properly before the body for consider
alton: the House put in the enacting
clause and will give the measure
chance in the courts. The House bill
was by Stewart and related to receiver
ships. TT : Senate bill was an import
ant piece of legislation framed for the
purpose of letting inmates OF certain
state institutions make clothing for
those in certain other institutions. 1t
was introduced by Senators Lewis. Ba-
rela and AnfenSer. The suggestion
was made in the Senate that the en-
acting clause be inserted and the bill
be given a chance in court, but this did
not prevail.
The House, in committee of the
whole, killed Representative Fetzer's
bill to provide for tenure of office to
school teachers. The bill was to pro-
vide that after two years service
teachers should be held on the pay roll
of the districts, unless grave charges
were proven against them. Mr.. Can
non favored the bill. 1t was. he said.
in line with legislation attempted at
former sessions. when 1t had been pro-
posed to pension teachers after twenty
forerunner of the other, he explained
A plain pension bill might be ineftect-
i've, as school boards would then be
able to discharge a teacher who had
served almost long enough to be en-
titled to pension, and thus they
would avoid mourning the expense to
the district. But with the tenure of
employment bill in force, boards would
be unable to discharge teachers with
out very good cause. Mr.. Smith OBJ
jected to the bill on the grounds urged
in its favor by Mr.. Cannon. He was,
he said, opposed to the idea Of civil
pensions, believing any opening OF that
kind would give too many chances for
abuse. Mr.. Cannon: DO you not
draw a pension?" Mr.. Smith: Yes
sir: | do. A pension because of five
wears and six months service in the
army" This statement drew applause
frori the House, which was followed by
A greater outburst when he paid trib-
ute TO the old soldiers.
Trouble came up in the House of
Representatives because committees
have failed to report back bills that
had been referred during the time
get apart for their introduction. The
trouble came up over demand made
by Mr.. Vincent that the committee on
elections report out H. B. No. 3S5 in
troduced by him and having for its OBJ
iect the elections of United States SEN
ators by direct vote of the people. The
DILL had not even been printed, he
complained, which was an act Of dis
courtesy to him. 1t covered. he said,
one of the promises made In the Re-
publican platform, and. being the only
bill presented on that subject, should
have not acted upon favorably. He
did not presume that it would be re-
ported favorablv. even after his re-
quest but he would like some kind of
a report. Only one measure promised
by the Republican platform had been
nassed by the House. The members
had spent their time discussing mat
ters of minor Importance, while a
string rs long as a mans arm of i'm
portant bills were held back, await
ing the pleasure of the House. Mr..
Keil supplemented the demand of Mr..
Vincent by asking that the committee
On railroads report out Fl. B. No. 1O4
prohibiting railway companies from
having any explosive or inflammable
articles on trains. Mr.. Dodge declared
that he thought 1t showed nerve on
the part of the members to try to