The Greeley tribune., 1910-11-03
ABOUT TAYLoR's RECORD

gave the pest tnere was III MN. rive
constitutional amendments and forty
statutes running through the session
laws from the eleventh general as
sembly down to ana including the
sixteenth are eloquent proof of his
loyal services. No man knows his
Colorado better.
But this is not all. While he stud
led the needs of his state, he kept in
touch with progressive legislation
elsewhere and especially with the
course of congressional affairs.
Look through the journal of those
senatorial years and there are me-
MORALS. senate concurrent and SEN
ate joint resolutions to congress up
on many matters of vital interest at
home and abroad.
Ed Taylor never forgets that
Colorado is his home, but neither
does he cease to remember that he
is an American, engaged in writing
the laws of a great nation.
His long experience has stood him
in good stead, and his habitual
courtesy. his innate kindliness have
won friends and recognition for him
in spite of the fact that he went to
Washington new member from
minority party representing senate
that to the eastern mind lies on the
outer verge of civilization. He has
never gone to his constituents with
excuses for the past or promises for
the future. He has mad always
record of achievement to rely upon
and his congressional career is one
of which we may all be proud
He has succeeded in securing
public park bill setting aside from
40 to $40 acres OF land as parks for
fifteen cities and towns in this state
according to the amount of available
land. The only expense has been
the payment of $1.25 per acre. with
out which the United States does not
transfer land for any purpose.
In line with this is general bill
ing to the whole UNITED States auth
orizing cities and towns within 12|
miles of public lands to select sites
for parks not to exceed $40 acres In
extent. He forsees no difficulty in
the passage of this bill
At the request of the agricultural
college he introduced bill grant
ing 64 tracts of 40 acres each to the
college to be used as experiment
stations for grains, grasses and for
the fruits and trees. This bill now
has been signed by the president and
is now law of inestimable advan-
tage to the college primarily and the
whole state eventually.
1t took hard work getting the law
granting homesteaders leave of abb
sence from their desert or arid reg
ion claims, but Taylor thrives on
hard work and this long and sorely
needed relief has finally been grant
ed to settlers who are trying to
wrest a living from plains that dis
courage a jack rabbit and make a
prairie dog hustle. The government
has at last realized that man cannot
live by land alcne. and allows him
to seek wood, water and grass, not
to mention schools for children, while
1t completes its canals. This
measure has passed the senate sew
eral times In the past but has always
died in committee. until Taylor got
into the house OF representatives.
Another law OF great beneht to
homesteaders permits them to sell a
half or a quarter OF their entry when
necessary to secure money to pay for
or develop the remainder. This
means that a homesteader may own
q nf
with enough working capital to en-
able him to enjoy the fruit of his
labors. Not only this. instead of one
man struggling with debt. the state
has two or three men who are max
ing the desert bloom. In Colorado
the regions lie In Montrose and Delta
counties under the Gunnison tunnel
and in Mesa county under the Grand
Junction high line acqueduct. but
the law applies to all reclamation
projects and is worth untold mill
lions to settlers
One other law for the relief of
homesteaders; it allows those who
had lost their right of entry through
a decision OF the department OF the
interior. subsequently reserved by
the supreme court, to obtain title to
their lands. 1t was short bill but
it covered a great need.
That minority member should
have been recognized in the omnibus
bill for public buildings is so wonder
full that even Mr.. Taylor hardly
knows how 1t happened, but Grand
Junction in the pride of its 100000
federal building is content with re-
suits and probably feels that angels
could do no more.
Everybody knows that President
Taft's visit TO Colorado was largely
due to the interest Mr.. Taylor arous-
ed in the presidents mind In the
Gunnison tunnel project. and what
the chief executive saw over on the