Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-03-08


passed the House on second reading
yesterday. when II becomes q law. Tho
bill is a re-enactment OF the present
law with the following addition: Or
who shall buy, accept or use, or have
In his or her possession any cigar. ci-
sarette or tobacco In any form. Or
opium, or cocaine. or any other mar.
cotic in .ny form" This makes II a
crime for any youth under eighteen
years OF sge to smoke or have IN his
possession cigarettes. cigars or to-
bacco. The Collins bill. providing for
punishment OF persons guilty OF con-
tributing to juvenile delinquency.
known as House bill lsG. was passed
on second reading. The penalty 10
nxed at a maximum Of $1,000 hn~
or Imprisonment Of one year In Jail.
When the House went into committee
Of the whole Monday. q debate cane
up over the proper local option piii 10
be given consideration; The Dill AZ
The head Of tho calendar was II. u.
70, Watson. The author stated that
his bill was almost Identical with s. d.
40, Drake, and he moved the subs,itu.,
ton Of tho latter. Mr.. Kelly moved
nm amendment that II. d. l5I. his To-
tul option measure. be substituted %
the Watson bill. Mr.. Mckenzie fas
cred the substitution OF the Senate
lii. an he feared any other action
might induce the Senate to take out
its spleen on House bills. Mr.. Redd
spoke In favor OF carrying out all OF
the demands Of the Republican plat
form. The quickest way to act on tho
local option matter was to take up the
LII already passed by the Senate. Any
ether action might put OF the consid-
Grafton until so late In the session
that II might no, be possible to enact
any law ut nil. The matter was dis
posed OF for n time by voting down
Mr. Kciiy's motion. and by agreeing
to substitute the Drake bill for tho
Watson bill.
Shortly before o'clock the com.
nittec arose. leaving consideration OF
tho Drake bill unfinished. When tho
report Of the committee was made TO
the House. Kelly moved to amend by
substituting his bill for the Drake
measure. This prccipitatcd a pariia.
mentary sparrins match lasting more
than an Lour. The nnai vote by which
the Kelly bill took the place Of the
Drake measure. stood as follows: For
the report OF the committee OF tho
Biaincy. Bryan. Cohen. Dillingham;.
Dilts. Dray. Dulin. Fall. Fctxcr. Frank.
Garcia. Grishnm. HarbiSon. Hcaiy. Hoi.
lcnbcck. KEEL. Kelly. KEN. La,on. Law.
renee. Mackenzie. Morrcli. Napier.
Paddock. Parker. Parrish. Schmidt.
Smith. Stewart. Tnnnenbaum. Turner.
Valdez. Walker. Wilder. Winters. To
tai. thirty-scvcn. Against the report:
Adams. Bawden. Blntchford. Boisinyer.
Bunney. Cannon. Collins. Dodge. Doiph.
Farr. Gradcn. Hickman. Hoyt. Hurd.
Lchrrtttcr. Lines. McLachlan. O'Con.
nell. Rcdd. Rubin. Werner. Vincent.
Watson. wolavcr. Young. Brcckcn.
ridge. Total. twcnty.six. Abscntecs.
Ebbcrt. HudSins.
The subject Of local option was Mp
for discussion In the House las,
Wednesday. though much Of the time
was given over to personal cxpiapa.
uons on the part of members. charges
Of misconduct and the cracking Of
Jokes. The Drake bill came up with
an amendment by Laton to strike out
counties. which was adopted. =: to 90
Then followed other amendments BY
the score. Among the first to be
adopted was that which raised the re.
quircment on petitions creating anti.
saloon territory from twenty to forty
per cent. There was practically no op.
position to this. After a few majority
amendemnts had been adopted. each
calculated to weaken the bill, the Dem.
ocrats took a hand In an effort &c
strengthen the measure. KEN called
attention to the fact that. under the
provisions OF the bill. druggists had
free rein and that there was nothing
TO prevent n saloon man from securing
dtuggist's license. engaging q regis.
n ri Of In L.,
uor business under that pretext. .This
is the greatest fraud that have ever
encountered In the way OF purportcd
liquor legislation" said KEN. in speak.
ing OF this particular section. Bawden
OF San Juan. Democrat. moved to strike
out the Objectionable section. but the
majority was not SO inclined. The ma.
jority also voted down an amendment
desired by the Federation OF Woman's
clubs. introduced by Chairman Adams
OF the House temperance committee.
Wednesdays sessions In the Senate
were spent in working on the railSaed
bill. which is the committees sl sti.
tutc for the Mccarthy bill senate
Sapp condemned the bill strongly. He
said the bill was mo good" because.
first. It gave the commission no power
to fix rates when they were found to
be unfair and unjust. He is a master
of sarcasm and the most cutting invec-
tive. and for an hour he held the ma
jority, while he excoriated the bill and
the steering committee which had pre-.
sented 1t, showing the entire dissimi.
larity between the Roosevelt measure
and that proposed by the steering COM
mittee after its hearing with tho repre-
sentatives Of the railways. He said
the long-and.short.haul clause had
been omitted to please eight members
of the Senate. He wanted to know why
the committee had failed to make the
proposed bill conform to the provis-
ions Of the constitution. and charged
that their failure to do 10 WAS no over.