The Glenwood post., 1911-05-13
Pledge Breaking Legislators Again Job
People and Then Sneak Home
To Face the Storm
CONSTITUENTS ARE INDIGNANT

democrat and have thus made it pos
sible for the republicans to have the
opportunity of fighting for two, in
stead Of one senator two years from
now. None there are who were not
here and do not understand the situa-
| tion, who viii ever know the fight the
republican members made to achieve
the result that was accomplished.
Financially the session has been the
most expensive in the history of Colo
RADIO. 1t either appropriated or pro-
vided for the appropriation of the ter
rife sum of nineteen million five hun
dred and sixty thousand dollars. This
S twenty-one dollars and quarter for
every man woman and child in the
state. Ten million dollars of this is
in provided bond issue for good roads
and four million dollars is in the pro.
| vided bond issue for the Moffat tun-
mel. The people vote on both of these
propositions under the referendum
amendment. AS to the remainder, it
is eight hundred thousand in excess of
any preceding legislative appropriation,
and is, according to Senator Napier, IA
half million in excess of the estimated
income. The last democratic state
| platform read I'VE promise an econO-
mical administration of the state Is
| finances. 1t remains to be seen
whether an appropriation of twenty
one dollars and a quarter for every
man. woman and child in the state will
be considered an economical admins
traton' of those finances.
As TO the bills passed, no one coull
| give a review of them at this time.
| \ week ago only seven bills had reach
ed Governor Shafroth. Today, there
are between two hundred and fifty and
three hundred in his hands. All of
these, together with the hundreds of
appropriation bills went through after
Tuesday. 1t was simply a case of'' Yon
pass mine and I'll pass yours The
measures We're not read separately,
neither were they considered indivi-
| dually. They were read in unison at
at a time. One roll call was made
and the clerks were instructed to have
the records show that the bills were
read at length and considered, and
!
calls for each bill. If some member
discovered some bill to which he did
not want to lend his support, he was
| supposed to hunt up that roll cali and
mark himself against it. This, if the
clerks did not have time to find the
roll call and do the marking themselves.
Such condition never prevailed in
preceding assembly. Governor Shat
roth said early Sunday morning that
he had no idea what was in the batch
of bills before him neither had he any
idea as to whether there were any meri-
torious measures through or not.
After wasting a hundred and seven
teen days they jumped into the work
and enacted in four days mass of
stuff that could not have been well
considered had they spent the entire
time on these bills alone
As to the Governor IS appointments,
they were all held in the Committee on
State Affairs until the last minute,
when they were brought out and with
but few exceptions confirmed. George
Hosmer, for printing commissioner.
Claude Street, for oil inspector, Mrs.
Thala Rhoades, as a member of tie
Board of Control of the Normal SchoO'
and the five water division engineers
were rejected.
General principles" was given as
the excuse for rejecting Hosmer and
Street. Mrs. Rhoades was rejected be
cause she is the Vice Chairwoman of
the republican State Central Committee.
The five water engineers were rejected
because the present assembly passed a
bill raising their salaries. This bill
goes into effect August first. Had they
been confirmed now, their old salary