The Glenwood post., 1907-03-16

only the beds and banks of natural
streams. In its original form. it had
provided that hereafter the state
should reserve, on all lands sold. the
fishing rights of all streams running
through them, together with the right
of way along banks and beds of
streams and fifty feet on each side of
the stream.
The House committee on roads and
bridges has agreed to indefinitely
postpone H. B. G1, introduced by Mr..
Duln. This is the bill to provide for
the appointment by the governor of a
highway commission of three mem
bers. 1t was indorsed by the good
roads meeting held in Denver The
Chamber of Commerce and all the
commercial bodies of the state were
also interested in the measure, having
advocated it as likely to aid in making
the Colorado highways what they
should be, the best in the world. Doc
tor Dulin is chairman of the House
committee on roads and bridges. He
introduced the highway bill in the
House, while Senator Drake put it OLA
the Senate list. Doctor Duln stated,
in speaking of the action, that the in
fiuence that killed the bill came from
the Senate and was so strong that,
though he is chairman of the commit
tee, the majority was against him.
The Elsner collection of minerals is
to be removed from the charge of the
state unless it is paid for within a
short time The collection is valued at
SIS 900, and is believed to be the most
extensive and valuable collection of
Colorado minerals ever gotten to-
gether. When Harry A. Lee was com.
| f.,. ,1A -tntn la
cured the collection on an arrangement
nade whereby the state was to ac.
uuire ownership. He paid Mr. Elsner
81 500 on account, but the balance has
never been paid. When Mr. White
took the office of commissioner of
mines h kept on with the work of try
ing to raise the balance due on that
collection. and also to pay for the
grand display of Mollie Gibson ores
now with the bureau. The latter, like
the Elsner collection, is unique among
displays and can never be duplicated
A bill has been introduced in the pres
ent session of the Legislature to ap-
propriate $4,000 for the purchase of
the two collections. Mr.. White is es-
| pecially anxious TO have the bill en-
acted, ds the specimens named have
won five first premiums at as many
| Worlds Fairs for Colorado.
! Going into the committee of the
whole Saturday afternoon, with Repre-
sentative Frank l.. Dodge in the chair
the Republican majority in the House
of Representative submitted the Re
publican caucus railroad commission
bill for the Kelly bill, which its author
claimed was modelled after the federal
commission law. The substitution was
! by a strict party vote of Al to II. Nc
Lachlan, Democrat. and Winters. Re
| publican being paired. The vote wasd
as follows In favor of the substtu-'
| ton of the makeshift caucus measure
for the real railroad bill introduced by
Kelly: Adams, Beck, Blainey. Bryan,
Cannon, Cohen, Collins. Dillingham;,
Dilts, Dodge, Dolph Dulin, Fetzerr
Frank, Garcia Graden, Grisham, Har-
bison Healy, Hickman, Hoyt, Hudgins,
Kelly, Laton, Lines Morrell, Paddock,
Parker, Parrish, Redd, Smith, Stew
art, Tannenbaum, Turner, Werner. Vim
cent, Watson. Wilder Woaver, Young.
Speaker Breckenridge. In favor of re-
tanning the Kelly bill, said to have been
framed along the line of the Roosevelt
railroad law: Bawden, Bellesfield,
Blatchford Bolsinger, Ebbert. Fall,
Hollenbeck. Hurd, Keil, KEN, Law.
renee. Lehrritter, Mackenzie, Napier,
O'Connell, Rubin, Walker. Absent and
not paired: Bunney, Dray, Farr,
Schmidt, Valdez.
lhe House has passed on second
reading the Drake bill that passed the
Senate some time back. The only i'm
portant amendment made by the
House was to limit the application to
cities, towns, villages, districts, wards
7 n,- ni,tr
permitted a county as well as these le
gal divisions and subdivisions to vote
on this question. Governor Buchtel
has worked like a Trojan for such a
measure, and he succeeded in bringing
into line with him quite a number of
Republicans who at first were inclined
to be extremely conservative. The bill
that passed the House permits the peo-
pie of any city, town or subdivision to
decide for themselves whether they
want saloons in their neighborhood. 1t
was felt that to permit whole county
to be included, and have a bare ma
iority declare that county wet" or
dry" as the case might be, would
work hardships. A county having big
city would permit that city to rule the
county. In certain cases this would ap-
pear as tyranny. But great care was
taken IN the House to make lOcalltE
that votes anti-saloon to be dry.
drug store cannot turn itself into sa-
loon. In legislating against this form
of hypocrisy, the House went further
than the Senate.
While 1000 people stood and sang
the successive stanZas of America
in Marble hall last Tuesday night,
Governor Buchtel sat at table
on the platform in front OF
them all and signed Senate Bill
No. 81, introduced by Senator
Parks, making it law that August lst
of 1907, and August LIST of every year
following, shall be known and observed
as Colorado Day. The spirit of patriot
ism has seldom been shown more en-.
thusiastiCaly in Denver than at that
meeting. In spite of the blizzard that
was raging outside there were very