The Springfield herald., 1907-02-08
AntI.PoIyeamy Resolution.

duced the following:
Whereas, 1t appears from investi-
CATION recently made by the Senate OF
the United States, and otherwise, that
polygnmy still exists In certain places
In the United States, Notwithstanding
prohibitory statutes enacted by the
several states thereof and
Whereas, The practice of poly
gamy is generally condemned by the
people of the United States. and there
Is demand for the more effectual pro-
hibition thereof by placing the sub
ject under federal Jurisdiction and con-
troll, at the same time reserving to
each state the right to make and en-
force its own laws relating to marriage
and divorce; now, therefore
Resolved df the assembly concur) /,
That application be and hereby Is
made. to Congress under the provision
of Article of the Constitution OF the
United States for the calling OF con
vention to propose an amendment to
the constitution OF the United States,
whereby polygamy and polygamous CO.
habitation shall be prohibited, and
force such prohibition by appropriate
legislation.
Resolved, That the legislatures Of
all other states OF the United States
now in session, or when not convened,
be and hereby are respectfully re-
quested to Join in this application by
the adoption of this or an equivalent
! resolution.
Resolved, further, That the secre-
tary of state be and hereby is directed
to transmit copies OF this application
to the Senate and House of Represent
atives OF the United States, and to
several members of said bodies repre-.
senting this state therein; also trans
nit copies hereof to the legislatures
of all other states of the United
States"
In an address at the Methodist So.
cial Union Monday night, Governor
Buchtel said that he will ask the attor-
ney general to designate his power
over subordinate executive heads. He
added that he thought this power
greater than generally believed and
would address communications to all
subordinates asking them to do all in
their power to help him carry out
his program for the moral bet
terment of the state. ''Wher-
ever there is a chance for
graft" he said, 81 have told the
men appointed that they had such an
opportunity, but that ! expected an ad-
ministration more free from graft than
any in the history of the state. They
all have assured me that they wanted
to help give an administration absoz
lutely free from it. will keep In con-
slant communication by letter with
every position in the state where graft
is possible, and those appointed know
that a stroke of the pen can remove
them as 1t appointed them"
In an interview In relation to the
Drake railroad commission bill, intro
duced by Senator Drake, Governor
Buchtel is quoted as saying: There
are serious difficulties in making rail
way rate law. The peril is that capital
may be frightened from Colorado. The
purpose of the bill as now introduced
Is to place abundant power in the
hands of the railway commission and
at the same time give a sense of se-
curity to capital. 1t is believed that
this result has been attained In the
provisions of this bill This bill pro
poses that the commission shall hear
complaints and If the difficulties are
not adjusted by the commission In e
friendly way, the commission then has
authority to make a change in rates.
The change, however. is not to
go into effect until an appeal has been
! taken, both to the District Court and
the Supreme Court The bill provides
! that this business shall take prece-
dence over all other business in the
courts excepting only criminal busi-
ness. So 1t would be possible to Sc
, cure final decision at the end OF ap-
proximately ten days or two weeks, as
in election cases.
The members OF the State Agricul-
tural College faculty. who hold posi-.
tions at the experiment station, and all
experts in horticulture and entomology
in the Fort Collins district, are using
every opportunity to say good word
for House bill No 311. introduced by
Representative Hoyt of Mesa county.
This hill has for its object the protec-
ton Of the horticultural interests OF
the state 1t is known as the horticul-
tural inspection bill, and provides for
the inspection of all nursery stock
coming into Colorado for the purpose
of keeping out so far as possible inju-
rious insects and plant diseases that
do not already occur here. The bill also
provides for the determination OF in
sect pests and fruit disease that are
likely to be disseminated to the injury
of fruit growers wherever they may be
found in the state. The bill makes the
entonologists of the agricultural col
lege state entomologist, and makes II
his duty to look after the enforcement
of the inspection law within the state
1t provides for horticultural inspectors
in the various counties of the state
where fruit is grown, the duty of the
horticultural inspectors being to carry
out the provisions of the act in their
respective counties. The inspectors
are appointed by the county commits
sioners in each county. The bill fur
ther provides for the inspection of all
the nurseries within the state for the
purpose of preventing them from send
ing cut to purchasers any dangerous
insects or diseases that may be found
in them. The nurseries of the country
are the centers for the distribution oil
the insect pests and diseases that are
troublesome TO the fruit growers ant
it is hoped in this way to largely pre-
vent the spread of these pests in Colo
rado. Colorado fruit growers are able
now to produce high quality of fruit
and 10 ship il long distances to eastern
and southern markets and still sci
it at a profit, because they do not have
to contend with so many of the or
} chard enemies. If apple scab, bitter
rot, plum curcuilo. San Jose scale, the
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