The La Jara chronicle., 1911-06-09

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under this bill is fifty.
Then there is another bill equal
ly as important in that it pro-
vides for the appointment of a
salaried official in every incor-
porated town in the state. This
is known as the fire warden bill.
The bill creates a state board
of five commissioners composed
of the governor, the secretary of
state and the auditor. This com
mission can appoint one fire war
den at $3.50 per month, one dep
uty at 5000 per month and one
assistant deputy at $50 per
month. The chief commissioner
shall appoint one assistant in
every incorporated town or city
in the state and the salary of
this assistant to be arranged by
the chief commissioner. The duty
! of this commission and these hun
this commission and these hun
dreds of deputies is to investigate
the cause of fire where they think
it resulted from incendiarism. 1t
took the eighteenth general as
sembly to discover that there
was enough incendiarism in Col
orado to warrant the creation of
such a political machine, for it
is nothing more or less than a
created machine for political pur-
| IoseS. The fire insurance com
panieS are assessed one-half of
one per cent of their gross in
core and 13S of them, by reason
of their prominence, are assessed
$50 extra each, annually for the
maintenance of this commission
and thiS machine.
A peculiar feature of this bill
is that every insurance company
is fighting it and says that there
is absolutely no need for it.
Stripped of everything, the bill
is simply to put one man in each
town ON the state pay roll for the
purpose of having him work for
Democracy.
incidentally, the coal mine in
spection bill, while it fell down
in its object to protect the coal
miners, did not fall down in
its attempt to furnish jobs for
the members of the Democratic
family. In the first place, it APP
points board of five examiners
at 5000 per day each, to exam
inc all applicants for positions un'
der the bill, the examining board
to sit whenever the members
deer it necessary or whenever
there are applications for vacan-
cies to fill The bill also provides
for one chief Inspector at $4,000
per year, one clerk at 81 800 and
five inspectors at 81, 400 per year
each. No inspector will be al
lowed to have more than forty
mines under his control at any
time, and whenever the number
exceeds forty another inspector
shall be appointed.
The Moffat tunnel bill creates
a commission OF five, two of whom
are not state officers, one must
be civil engineer at $1,000 and
the other must be secretary at
$4,000 per year.
The bill which Treasurer kene-
ham says he will not honor,
creates a committee of six to
have charge of spending the $50,
900 appropriated to defend Colo
RADIO water rights. The assem-
bly, could not make this provi'
sion for this defense without Civ
ing someone a job, hence they
gave six jobs in a committee.
The forestry bill creates the de
partment of forestry and pro
vides for the appointment of q
forester and such assistants as
he deems necessary. He also has
the right to secure the county
sheriff to help him in the work.
Then there is a bill which gives
unto the state veterinarian ano
state board of stock inspection
commissioners the right to ap
point whatever number of deputy
veterinarians they think is neces
sary at 500 per month each tc