The Delta independent., 1912-05-31
DELTA REPRESENTED
AT GOOD ROADS MEET
DELEGATES FROM ALL PARTS.
Fund For Road Purposes Re
leased in CTti~r That the
Work May Proceed

Senator George stephan returned
home from Denver last Saturday
evening after attending a meeting
of delegates from all good roads as
sociations in Colorado, and one or
more mem bers from all boards of
county commissioners, held in that
city last week. He was there to
represent the good roads association
of this county, and also the BOARD OF
county commissioners, and was act
i've throughout in advancing the in
terests of the. good roads people.
A special session of the legisla-
ture of the enactment of house bill
many and Governor Shafroth was
asked by the convention to call
that session, but he has not as yet
decided upon the question. In an
interview he has stated that the
money would not be available for
road building for three months after
The passage of House Bill 200 at
special session, as the meaure would
be subject to the referendum. It
would not come within the exemp-
ton of measures for the Immediate
public peace and safety, which are
effective Immediately. The mere
declaration by the. Legislature that
the bill was for the public safety
would not make it so.
"On this account" said he, the
money could not be available bfeore
the end of the 1912 bodybuilding
season. There is no doubt but that
the measure can be Initiated
The resolution calling on the gov
ernor to convene a special session
was drafted by a joint committee
selected from the state association
of county commissioners, the Colo.
RADIO Good Roads association and
the Greater Colorado Highway as
sociation. The three bodies met and
tried to devise means whereby the
internal improvement fund, tied up
hy the jobbery of house bill zoo,
might be saved to road and bridge
building. and not again turned over
to pork barrel appropriations by the
legislature
The committee consisted of E Z.
Sommers of Denver. president of the
Greater Colorado Highway associa-
ton; George Stephan, state senator
from Delta couynt; Henry C. Vidal.
city attorney of Pueblo; A. T. Sullen-
berger of Pagosa Sp'gs., chairman of
the board of county commissioners
of Archuleta, and r. H. Schaf-
er of Fort Morgan. chairman of the
Morgan county board of county COM
missionoers.
Following is the resolution:
Whereas, There is now in the
state treasury very large sum OF
money available for internal i'm
provements, which cannot be used
on account of the invalidity of
House Bill No. 200, and
Whereas. The crying and most
imperative need of the state at large
is for good roads. and
Whereas. The only immediate re
lief is by special session and the
occasion is extraordinary;
Now therefore, be 1t
Resolved, by the State Associa-
uon of County Commissioners and
the vice presidents of the Colorado
Good Roads Association and the eN-
ecutive committee of the Greater
Colorado Highway association, that
we request and urgently urge the
governor to call the general assem-
bly, in extraordinary session. for
the sole purpose of considering and
passing n law of the general purport
and spirit of House Bill 200. appro-
priating said money for roads and
bridges, and be it further
Resolved, that this body shall
submit to the members of the gen
eral assembly a request that no
other action be taken at said extra
ordinary session except to dispose
of this fund.
Submitted by the committee on
resolutions and adopted by the un-
animous vote of the convention.
r. II. HIGGINS,
president of the Colorado Good
Roads association.
''W. II. EMMONS,
Secretary
Sen. Stephan. w. II. Emmons and
others who spoke at the sessions
declared that to initiate n bill as
proposed by the state highway asso-
ciatino would be Illegal by reason
OF the federal enabling act. which