The Ordway new era., 1907-03-15
VOL.VI. NO. 1
LEGISLATIVE NEWS and GOSSIP

der providing for the submission OF a
constitutional amendment giving the
State University the right to remove
TO Denver the schools of medicine, den-
tistry and pharmacy for the last two
years OF the course in each school.
| The 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
or precints, whereas the Senate bill
permitted county as well as these le-
gal divisions and subdivisions to vote
on this question. Governor Buchtel
has worked like "A Trojan for such n
measure, and he succeeded in bringing
into line with him quite 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. It
was felt that to permit n whole county
to be included. and have bare ma
jority 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 APP
pear as tyranny. But great care was
taken in the House TO make locality
that votes anti-saloon TO be dry. A
drug store cannot turn itself into n sa-
loon. In legislatinE against this form
OF hypocrisy. the House went further
than the Senate.
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 Representatives 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 n strict party vote of Il to II. Nc
Lachlan, Democrat, and Winters, Re
publican being paired. The vote was
as follows: In favor of the subs;itu-
tion OF the maEeshift caucus measure
for the real railroad bill introduced by
Kelly: Adams. Beck. Blainey. Bryan
Cannon. Cohen. Collins. Dillingham;.
Dilts. Dodge. Dolph. Dulin, Fetzer.
Frank. Garcia. Graden. Grisham. Har-
bison. Healy. Hickman. Hoyt, HudEins.
Kelly, Laton. Lines, Morrell. Paddock.
Parker. Parrish. Redd. Smith, Stew
art, Tarnenbaum. Turner. Werner, VIM
cent. Watson. Wilder. Wolaver. 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. Eellesfield.
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.
While 1000 people stood and sang
the successive stanzas OF America
in Marble hall last Tuesday night.
Governor Buchtel sat ut a table
on the platform in front OF
them all and signed Senate Bill
No. 81, introduced by Senator
Parks. making II law that August list
of 1907. and August list of every year
| following. shall he known and observed
as Colorado Day. The spirit of patriot
| ism has seldom been shown more en-
| thusiastiCaly in Denver than ut that
meeting. In spite of the blizzard that
was raging outside, there were very
nearly 1000 people present, ana many
OF them had come from surrounding
towns in order to witness the signing
of the bill. The hall had been bril-
| liantly decorated with flags. strands of
electric bulbs IN the national colors.
and great electric display across tho
| front of the hail blazoning the word
Colorado" The platform was crowded
with prominent people, including the
governor. Chief Justice Steele. Mayor
Speer AMI Hugh r. Steele, son of the
first provisional governor of Colorado.
The entertainment provided was bril-
liant with eloquence. humor and fine
music. President Clarence Hagar. OF
the Sons OF Colorado. opened the meet'
ing with an address of welcome, and
1t was he who introduced each OF the
numbers on the program.
The Bardwell bank investigating
committee appointed to investigate
three of Denver's failed institutions
and TO make recommendations for a
law that would safeguard depositors in
private banking institutions and build
ing and loan associations. reported its
findings with a set of recommendations
that will undoubtedly be carried into
law. The report criticises the conduct
of the Denver Savings Bank from the
time application was made for re-
ceiver until that receiver closed his
accounting with depositors but the
criticism is neither harsh nor the re
suit of partisanship. 1t calls attention
to the manner in which the application
was made and granted. involving Ques-
tionable methods. and the committee
is of the opinion that the cost of ad-
ministration was too high. OF the as
signeeship of the Western Bank. there
is some criticism and not q little
praise; and praise is given the conduct
to date 0f the affairs 0f tho Efdalikv