The Delta independent., 1917-03-09

No. 80, passed the House by a close
vote. This provides for male teachers
of go years or over and female teach
ers of 55 years or over who have been
in active service in the Public Schools
for at least 25 years and in Public
Schools Of Colorado for 15 years shall
be entitled to a pension of $4,000 a
month. Teachers who have been in
continuous service for 10 years and be-
come permanently incapacitated may
also receive a pension. No teacher
on the payroll of any school or receiv-
ing pension from any other retire
ment funds comes under this pension
The absent voters law was amended
so that each county shall publish its
own ballots and send them to the abb
sent voters from it's county In this
way the person may vote intelligently
on his own county election as well as
the State and National Another cleo
ton bill provides that the names of
the electors of each party for Presi-
dent and Vice-President shall be
placed together with a place for n
cross on the right of each group. Thus
one cross will vote for all of the cleo
tors, which will save a great deal of
confusion.
One night session was called to pass
upon several new songs which had
been entered in bills to take the place
of our present State song. The new
songs were sung by very fine singers
but when they were finished. from 40
to so school children came out and
sang Where the Columbines Grow"
which is the present State song This
took the House by storm and 1t was
only formality to vote the new songs
down and keep the one that the child
rem seemed to like and sang so well.
An important bill which came from
the Senate was S. B. No. 5. This ap-
propriates money for six appraisers at
$500 year to designate and pick
out the 100000 acres of Federal land
to which Colorado is entitled under an
old Federal Land Grant This land
has never been selected and turned
over to the State. This Board will also
classify and appraise the other State
lands. All their figures and records
Will be filed in the office of the State
Land Board. and it will be a big help
to the State in advertising its lands
and in helping the homesteader in
choosing where he wants to go. II is
estimated that it will mean several
million dollars to the school fund as
we'll
A little bill which will appeal 10 the
lawyers is one allowing six Jurors in
stead OF twelve in trials for misde-
meanors with the consent OF both
parties. 1t also provides that In some
cases no jury will at all is required.
Another bill which will suit all own
ers OF stock is that making it peni-
tentiary offence of from one to six
years for rustling or stealing stock
Formerly fine or Imprisonment was
the penalty and small fine was gen
orally the result.
A bill which aimed to protect the
laborer from >the mining frauds was
also passed. This provides that the
Misrepresentation of the wealth and
finance of company SO that the
laborer is tricked OF his wages shall
be considered a serious offense and
carries a heavy fine and imprisonment.
An amendment to our primary law
allows only one ballot to each voter at
primary election. This ballot to be
OF the partysto which he is affiliated.
There was no penalty except that he
must take oath II challenged that he
is affiliated with the party whose
ballot he votes.
In the Agricultural and Irrigation
committee had an argument with the
dairy representatives from the districts
in and above Denver They wished
to cut out the field man operating
on the Western Slope and put him in
Denver as an inspector. opposed
that point saying that he was the only
representative of the College that we
came in contact with and that he was
helping us to get our dairy industry,
which Is still undeveloped. started.
When we got through one of the pro-
fessors from the college thanked me
for defending the necessity of a field
man who has done lot OF good work
around Cedaredge and other districts
of our county and Is now working be-