The Raymer enterprise., 1917-01-25
STATE LEGISLATURE
HAS SETTLED down
HON. C. R. GRAVES TELLS IT
The Contest Is Different Than Any Hereto
for And Seats Are Designated Ac-
coTding to Recount Of Ballots

The legislative session has settled its
contest, seated one of the six demo-
Gratis asking for seats, and denying the
application of the other five.
And the democrats had the majority
too. Usually in times past that would
have meant we can do it and we will
throw out the whole six republicans.
Nor was it democrats alone who Of
Tended in such fashion. Even members
OF the G. 0. P. have done just such
things.
But this was contest different 1t
was quite certain that some errors had
been made by the counting board in
Denver. All parties agreed that since
all believed that some error had been
made, the ballots should be counted
again and the seats awarded just as
the new count showed it should have
been in the first place. This was done,
the results were announced, but Mr..
Winters, the man who lost out, grace
fully retired, after thanking the major
ty for the fair and courteous way he
had been treated. Winters left every
member his friend and the wish that
he might come back at some future
time was expressed by more than one.
The fact is the House starts off with
the best of feeling. Boon Best has the
best wishes and confidence o. the mi
nority no less than he has of the ma
jority. There is little indication of
freak legislation being offered, and the
majority seem to be of the old school
rather than the new.
Along the line. of repeal of the in
dustrial law, we have an idea that
labor will find that there is not much
disposition to support their demands.
Both Carlson and Gunter have spoken
well of the law.
The principal objection to the law Is
the one which requires 30 days notice
before strike is called. Labor leaders
think they alone should have the right
to say how and when they shall strike,
just as capital has contended that they
had a right to lock them out. The
rights of either from their own stand
point probably seems good, but people
are beginning to see that there are
more than two parties to the labor
problem. There is third party, and
the public is not longer going to 20
cold and without food while capital and
labor take their own time and way to
settle their disputes. The interests of
the public certainly demand that strikes
be avoided if possible. We believe
that the interests of both capital and
labor are better served by peace, than
by industrial war called strokes and
lock-outs. We are not much of a
prophet, but we do predict that no seri-
GUS change will be made in the labor
laws of Colorado this year.
The same degree of harmony does
not prevail at the senate end that is
found in the lower house. As in the
House, so in the senate. the relative
positions Of the parties are reversed
this year to what they were two years
ago.
Last year the republicans had control
by one vote, this year the democrats
have the upper hand by one vote.
Two years ago the republican senate
was confronted by list of appoint
ments made by the outgoing Governor
Ammons. There was some opposition
to confirming those appointments, but
lit was finally done. This year a goodly
number of Gov. Carlson's appointments
came before the senate for confirma-
tion. Did any of them get by? If so,
the lucky individual is not saying. any
thing about it. We have enough parti-
sanship yet to see what it looks like.
There will surely be some amend
ment of the prohibition law. We pre-
diet that it will be pretty dry. Two
years ago the anti-saloon league was
not in favor of as drastic laws as some
of the members wanted to make it.
Some Of these men were listed by the
anti-saloon league as wet because OF
this and fought bitterly. With the
United States courts upholding the
Webb-Kenyon law, there is little ex.
cuse for not putting the lid on tight,
and the disposition seems to be to clar
1t on.
Cattle men seem to be interested In
getting some sort of change in thu
laws regarding stock running at large
What it will be, no one but a prophe
could tell, and that is what ! am not