The Elbert County tribune., 1907-03-14
LEGISLATIVE. NEWS and GOSSIP

The special committee OF the House.
appointed TO go over the proposed new
school law. met with Miss Craig.
state superintendent OF public in
struction. to listen to her ideas con
cerning the measure. The bill Is
very long one. seeking to provide "a
new school law for the state. The
work of the committee Is to be d.
yided, so that all sections may be care
fully considered Five subcommittee
of two each will be given parts of the
iii. The reports made by these viii
be consolidated into one. Though
strong opposition has been manifested
to the measure. those supporting 1t be-
lleve the recommendations to be made
by the committee viii secure its en-
actment.
Members of the Legislature wero
rendered very happy Wednesday by re-
ceiving their vouchers from the state,
which wert duly honored and paid az
the trcasurers Office. The payment
of the last semi-monthly vouchers had
been held up Till the attorney for
Treasurer Bents boudsmen had rem
dered an opinion on the adjournment
of the House some time ago, as to
whether Il exceeded the three-day
limit fixed by law. Attorney G.. J.
Hughes. Jr.. was the lawyer In ques-
tion. and as he has been out of the
city. his opinion was delayed several
days. He concurs with the opinion OF
Attorney General Dickson that the nd.
iournmenl OF the House did not exceed
the limit, and the salaries were &C.
cordingly paid.
The House committee on roads and
bridges has agreed TO Indefinitely
postpone II. b. G1. introduced by Mr..
Dulin. This is the bill to provide for
the appointment by the governor of n
highway commission of three mem
bers. 1t was indorsed by tho good
roads meeting held in Denver The
Chamber of Commerce and all the
commercial bodies of the state wera
also Interested In the measure, having
advocated it as likely to aid In making
the Colorado highways what thcy
should be, the best in the world Doc.
tor Dulin is chairman OF tho House
committee on roads and bridges. Ha
introduced the highway bill in the
House, while Senator Drake put II on
the Senate list. Doctor Dulin stated
in speaking of the action, that the in
fluence 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 House has passed on second
reading the Drake bill that passed the
Senate some time back. The only i'm.
portant amendment made by tho
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
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. II
was felt that to permit a 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 a 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 a locality
that votes anti-saloon to be dry. A
drug store cannot turn itself into a sa.
loon. In legislasing against this form
of hypocrisy, the House went further
than the Senate.
Going into the committee of tho
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 a strict party vote OF Al to IT, Nc.
Lachlan, Democrat, and Winters, Re
publican being paired. The vote was
as follows: In favor of the substitu
tion 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. F'etzer,
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. 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, 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.
The Bardwell bank investigating
committee appointed to Investigate
three OF Denvers failed institutions
and to make recommendations for
law that would safeguard depositors in
private banking institutions and build
ing and loan associations. reported its
findings with a set of accommodations
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-