Cañon City record., 1907-05-16

involve the morals of a child or mi
nor"
The above section, had 1t been
passed. would give the juvenile court
concurrent Jurisdiction with the dis
trict court
The records of the senate show that
that section was adopted In the COM
mittee of the whole. The bill origi-
mated. in the house and after passing
that body went to the senate and a
number of amendments were put in it.
This amendment was offered but was
voted down and killed. Nevertheless,
1t appears in the senate journal as
having been adopted.
At this point is where the fine work
of the party who tampered with the
records is shown. The letter transmit
ting the bill back to the house and CIV
ing a list of the amendments adopted,
does not show that this amendment
was adopted. The house read the let
ter of transmittal and adopted all of
the amendments in that letter. This
amendment although not adopted by
two houses and by the governor.
The records Of the house only show
the adoption of the other amendments
but do not refer to this at all. What
the person did who made the change
was to insert a statement in the SEN
ate journal to the effect that the Sec
cd aa uyha t. Infa foH
and to leave it out of the letter Of
transmittal but TO paste the section in
the original bill thus having It en-
rolled and having it become a part OF
the law.
The fact that the house records are
silent on an amendment that is in the
bill kills the entire bill.
This perhaps is a smoother trick
than the one which was played in the
killing of the loan shark bill. and 1t
succeeds in making null and void one
of the best measures enacted in the
session. 1t also proves the advisability
Of not attempting to rush through hun
dreds of measures on the last day.
The trick was pulled OF on the eighty
eighth day or on Saturday afternoon
when both houses were crowded for
time and were, rushing through bills
at a rate of $50 a day and reading
the senate. was pasted in the bill bu.
was not referred to in the letter of
transmittal. The clerks in the house
never checked the amendments of the
senate with the letter of transmittal.
supposing that only the amendments
referred to in the letter were pasted
on the bill. The bill with this section
pasted on. went to the enrolling COM
mittee of the house and they. of course
enrolled the section. 1t then was
signed by the presiding officers of the
from twenty to fifty in unison in order
to get them through
The bill that is just killed had for
its purpose the establishment of juve-
nile courts in cities in order that the
work of the county judge could be d.
vided between two men. one to look
after the probate matters, the other to
look after the Juvenile matters. The
killing of the bill works directly
against the welfare OF the boys and
girls of the city. The bill was fought
by the enemies of Judge Lindsey. the
parent of juvenile court work in this
state.
Those who had charge OF compiling
the records OF the house and senate
are not nearly through their work. Al
ready errors killing two OF the best
bills enacted have been found and
there is no telling how many more
errors will be discovered before the
records will be complete. 1t Is evident
that we'll organized plan was in
vogue to bring about the defeat Of any
legislative principle II there was in
ducement enough to employ those back
of the plan to change the records.
With the discovery OF the discrep-
ancy in the bill the demand that a
thorough investigation follow Is even