Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-05-12
COUNTY DIVISION
GOES THROUGH
Subject to the Approval Of
Governor Shafroth
new COUNTY
CALLED CROWLEY

Which Appears to Have Caused the
Change of Heart In the Senator
from Otero County
Cns Of the closing acts Of the leRisla-
turs was the passage Of the bill provl-
ding for the division Of Otero County.
despite the strenuous efforts Of our re-
presentative-Hon. o. J. Baxtsr-who by
the way appears to have been upon the
losing side on every measure and to have
been made sort Of legislative football for
his colleagues in the house. It was
shrewd move upon the part Of the county
division leaders to propose that the new
county division should be called Crowley.
as this apparently caused . change Of
heart 10 the senator from Otero county
and his vote In committee being changed
from negative 10 affirmative allowed the
bill creating the new county to bs rspor-
ted out.
EightssnthG General Assembly adjourned
sinsdis Sunday morning At $50 with the
hands Of the two clocks pointing to mid
night. The immediate hours preceding
it's adjournment were given over to the
enrolling Of the hundreds Of bills that had
passed during the preceding z2 hours
and TO the signing Of these bills by the
presiding officers Of the two houses.
The assembly dissolved without having
selected = successor TO the position made
vacant by the death Of Senator Charles
J. Hughes. Jr.. and Il also dissolved with
out having. in reality. redeemed single
platform pledge. Referring to the latter
the assembly did enact . registration bill
really . big nit" bill drawn for the pur-
pose Of controlling primary elections thr-
ough padded registration. The bank
guarantee bill contains four guarantees
selections. all Of which will bs submitted
TO the people through the referendum for
them 70 take their choice. Thus while
these two bills will reach the governor.
the one is not what was promised. and
the other will not 60 into effect until after
the people have voted on It two years
from now.
Financially the session has been the
most expensive In the history Of Colorado
1t either appropriated or provided for the
appropriation Of the terrific sum Of nine
tssn million five hundred and sixty thou
sand dollars. This 10 twenty-ons dollars
and a quarter for every man. woman and
child in the stats. Ten million dollars Of
this Is provided bond issue for good roads
and four million 10 both Of these PROPOSE
tons under the referendum amendment
As to the remainder it is eight hundred
thousand in excess OF any preceding leg
islstivs Appropriation. and is according to
Senator Napier. . half million in excess
Of the estimated income. The last DEM
oeratie state platform read I'VE promise
an economical administration nf the statss
finances. II remains 10 bs seen whether
an appropriation Of twsnty-ons dollars
and aquartsr for every man. woman and
child in the state will be considered an
economical administration Of those finar-
ess.
As to the bills passed. no one could give
= review Of them At this time. A week
ago only seven bills had reached Governor
Shafroth. Today there are between two
hundred and fifty and three hundred in
his hands. All Of these togsther with the
hundreds Of appropriation bills went
through after Tuesday. It was SIMPLY
q case Of "You pass mine and I'll pass
yours. After wasting hundred and
seventeen days they jumped into the
work and enacted in four days q mass
Of stuff that could not have been we'll
considered had they spent the entire time
on these bills alone.