Semi-weekly herald., 1917-01-25
GERARD CABLES IMPRESSION
OF WILSON'S STATEMENT
Special Communication
Regarding Legislature

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ity OF much OF the matter that goes
out OF Denver is shown by the stor-
les which were circulated Friday
night that the senate finance com
mittee, in rejecting certain appro-
priations in the house short appro.
! priation measure, for the attorney
generals office, did that because he
nad appointed woman to be one OF
his assistants, and that the amount
provided in the bill for her pay, was
stricken in order that she might not
se allowed to serve.
This is not true. The house ap-
Ipropriation committee allowed Attor-
ney General Hubbard all he asked
The senate committee on finance cut
these appropriations down to the
amount asked and given Attorney
General Farrar two years ago. Miss
ruth Mozzer has been named as
ourth assistant attorney general
There was no fourth assistant at
tomey general in Farrar's office
The senate committee merely want
ID to know why there should be
more help at this time.
The request for s1,5O0 from Hub
oard to take care Of the expenses
y his bureau to draft bills for meni7
iers, was also cut out because this
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tate. Members have to look after
such items themselves.
The rejection of this amount asked
for to sustain fourth assistant does
not mean that Miss Mozzer cannot
be employed. The attorney gener.
ais office is given $4,000 in the
short appropriation bill to take care
IF any added help he may have tt
,nploy, and she can be paid out o.
that fund.
Another case of misinfornatior
was sent out the first day of the ses
sion, when it was said Senato
1andlish Of Leadville had bolted hi
party, Republican, and announced HI
would stand with the Democrats
This was not Senator Condlish's po
sition at all. There was a scheme
Matched in caucus which he consider
ID petty politics and told the mem
oers so. He openly announced OF
the floor of the senate, that he
would not be bound by any caucus
4greement when peanut politics wa.
Jeing played. That he was sent t,
he senate to help his constituent.
and that was what he proposed L
10; that people of all parties voteC
,or him; that if the Democrats hac
! good measure he would be founC
Importing it regardless of politics
and that if the Republicans had ;
BAD measure he would be founC
lighting it regardless of politics. The
act that there is an impression
broad that the senator from Lak'
county bolted his prty has causec
aim considerable annoyance. Sena
or Candlish, as matter of fact, il
me of the big men of the senate an'
mas always proven his right to tina
distinction.
The mining men of the Legislature
feel that some one has tried to "pu
something over" in the adoption b.
the state grange of a resolution
asking that the present method o
taxing mines be changed. TIL
state tax commission, which is no
altogether popular institution in
great many ways, wants to chang
this tax law which would make
heavier burden fall on mining mei
Rudolph johnson, secretary of tn
state grange, is an employe Of tn
tax commission. The mining mem
bers of the legislature contend tina
the secretary OF the grange merel
slipped one over on the farmers i
he interest of his employers, and t
create the impression over the stat,
that the farmers believed they wer
paying more than their share of tn
taxes.
Probably not one out Of each hun
red delegates to the grange kno,
nything at all on the subject.
The mining men are up in arm
/ ,ver what they term trick on tn
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