, 1915-02-11
18th General
Assembly
CBy John C. Thompson, Jr.)

epd-but eleven days remain, and
NJ these there will be holidays--is
working hard in an attemp to give
Some consideration to the bulk of
three hundred odd bills which
have been introduced. Today is
twenty-ninth of the session and
after tomorrow no bills may be in
troduced without unanimous con-
sent, which means that during the
ten closing days of the session the
legislators may devote all their
time to labor on bills which are
before them, without consideration
Of a possibility that the Legislation
which they propose might be af-
fected by bills subsequently, off
cred.
One of the interested features of
the session-although it was not
officially communicated to the leg
islature-was Gov. Hendricks dec
laration, at a banquet given by the
State of Wyoming for the Colo
RADIO and Wyoming Legislators and
state oficials-that he believed
the Wyoming-C Colorado water con-
troversy, which now is before the
supreme court of the United
States, should be settled out of
court that the best interest of both
states might be conserved. The
inference of his suggestion was
that if Woyming established that
Colorado had no right to divert
waters flowing from that state into
Wyoming, then Wyoming would
have no right to divert waters
flowing from this state into Colo.
RADIO, Montana, South Dakota, Ne
braska, Idaho and Utah. Former
Governor Gary took issue with
Gov. kendrick, asserting that the
litigation should be pushed to a
definite decision.
The visit of the Colorado legis-
lature and state officials to Obey
enne was a brilliant success, polit-
lcally and socially.
The defeat in the house of the
Dill for submission of a constitu-
tlonsl amendment for a state wide
prohibition concluded an interest
my phase of the session. Pre-
vlously an identical bill had been
defeated in the senate, but the
prohibition forces had hoped to
secure sufficient votes for the
house bill to make it necessary
ior the senate to repeat its action.
nhen the lest came, however, but
" votes We're cast for the amend.
ment bill in the house, which was
10 less than the necessary two
'nlfus which an amendment sub
mission measur must receive.
'~Wenty-nine representatives voted
against the bill and eight were not
Present Subsequently a bill pro-
V'ulnS for state wide prohibition
oy direct enactment was with
uFa"n' 1t being manifest that there
was no possibility of it's passage.
Already the prohibition forces are
preparing for the 1916 campaign
anu The question of "wet or dry"
WIZ oe before the next Legislature.
governor Kendrick, in a special
u'eSSAge to the Legislature, urged
a memorial to congress to pas the
warren bill providing that 1,OOO,-
WV acres of public lands shall be
granted to Wyoming, to be sold or
,'a'ou by the state to secure funds
'o' highway construction. The
message recites that last year Wy
OuI'hs spent $4,000 for good
'oauS' which was $500 for every
I"l' women and child in the
"''e' That nine-tenths of the area
Tue state is owned by the fed.
t,a' government, and that, there
we cue federal government should
tO"'f'oute to the expense of main.
'"'n'ns and building roads.
a" Interesting development of
'u' week was the adoption by both