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s1pervise the c,saaescial relations
of the stsse Az stops IN The right
direction. The psse iopd law 10
modelbsd ON lines o4 national legis-
lation aud is good
Bst there 10 q dark side to the
Legislation and when one considers
the personal OF a body that would
deliberately sell the highest Office in
the state to \ nonresident million
aire, who is typical Of corporate ex-
tortion and oppression, the wonder
is that any good came out Of it at all
No more rotten bunch Of Legislators
ever assembled than republican
members of the recent Colorado
hosse. They were not only sold out
70 the corporations but did mo-. even
have the instincts Of gentlemen.
The speaker violated all parliament
ary rules at will. II some speech or
motion Of . miaurity nsember did
not strike the fancy Of nse@bers il Was
expsnsed. 1'hc senate wss cosnpos-
ID Of sbler osa, aad = aaodly aso-
ber Of tie aajosity were q Isest
gentlemen and ut times seemed TO
try to consider measures on their
inertia, instead Of iamming through
what Vivian and Evans iscided upon.
Lieutenant Governor T.. R. Har-
per. - president of the senate,
proved himself an able officer, and
eMinently fair in his ruling and
treatment Of the democrats. lie
worked hard 10 assist Senator Sapp
ia measures that affected Gunnison
county and generally won the respect
of both parties.
So far as the railroad hill is con-
cerned, its hest friends dare not de-
fend il in the open, any more than
they dared let it be debated in the
Legislature.
OF the war debt steal the Pueblo
Chieftain, republican paper says;
The resolution providing for
the payment of the Colorado war
debt, was great mistake in that
it made provision for sum much
larger than was necessary TO dis
charge the honest and proper OBJ
legations of the state Ii is open
ly charged that at least one-third
Of the total amount of 100000
will go to the grafters and lobby
lists, and in proof of this it is re-
called that the entire debt could
have been discharged for $780,
600 two years ago.
The worst of it was that the re-
publicans would not either two
wears ago or this year allow any in
vestigation of the good and bad ac-
counts.
A most vicioue measure, passed
during the last hours was ali anti
fusion Law, prohibiting q candidate
from running on more than one
ticket. A law so in defiance of JUS
tice or right, or common sense ought
to send any party passing it, to the
political graveyard. No primary
election law was passed and no
measure looking toward election of
senators by direct vote of the peo-
pie nor any measure favoring the
laboring man.
The Legislature providedfor spend
ing nearly six million dollars or
almost double that of the last demo-
cratic legislature 1t is itemized as
follows BY the Pueblo Chieftain:
For general incidentals 100000.