The Colorado statesman., 1919-03-01
MAY HEAR TAFT SPEAK
LEGISLATURE WOULD HAVE HIM
EXPLAIN LEAGUE.
Booth Bill Provides for a Revolving
Fund to Aid Soldiers.

forum to explain the league of ma
tions Is TO be extended by the State
| Legislature. A resolution introduced
in the lower house of the Assembly
was later concurred in by the Senate.
The resolution was drawn by Repre-
sentatives Owen and Dolan, Demo-
Gratis, and McGlnnis, Republican, and
provides that committee of five, two
to be named by the Senate and three
by the House, make all necessary ar
engagements.
There are four measures in the SEN
ate. Each calls for land settlement
ooard to look after the interests of re-
turning soldiers, not from the stand
point of charity, but rather to give a
lifting hand and credit in deferred
payments for the tracts they may wish
to cultivate. The principle of state
aid for settlers is not a new one. There
are 100000 acres of good lands under
irrigation that are lying idle, and re-
clamation projects are settling up
slowly. The Booth bill provides for
revolving fund of $75O000, to be ad-
vanced by the state and which Is to be
returned with interest at the expira-
ton of fifty years. This fund is to
furnish n way for soldiers to take up
improved land and pay for the acreage
during thirty-three-year period.
Radical changes in the educational
system of the state will be made If
the Phelps bill for a State Board of
Education, which was approved on
| Il lnn Of
resentatives, makes its way success
fully through the Senate and is adopt
ed as a part of the state constitution
by the vsters in 1920. The bill pro-
vides for state board of seven MEM
bers, to be elected serially for terms
of six years each, who will assume the
duties now performed by the state SUI
perintendent of public instruction. The
members of the board are to serve
without salary and to employ COM
missioner of education, who need not
necessarily be n citizen of the state,
at salary to be named by the board.
Definite steps are to be taken this
week by special committees of the
House and Senate in arranging a pro-
gram for good roads to meet the ap-
proval of the Legislature. Among the
| issues is one concerning the feasibility
of returning something like $4,000 to
counties that were deprived of the
one-half mill levy revenues in the last
three years, in order that the highway
commission might meet the federal
government douar-for-dollar road con-
struction projects in Colorado. Other
questions will arise, including legisla-
ton to raise S3,520,000 for the purpose
of meeting the new road program out
lined by Congress, and to fix the
amount of the bond issue, originally
proposed at S2O,000,000. The bonds
may be reduced to S10,OO0,O00 or even
to, 100000 and their application re-
stricted to meet the federal govern
ment road campaigns.
Opponents of childhood insurance
won victory on two frHnts simultan-
eously when both houses. each acting
independently of the other, put to rest
Senate bill No. 1S4 and House bill
No. 800 by striking the enacting
clauses The vote in the Senate was
10 to IL and in the House SO to %.
! ted fraternal benefit societies to in
sure children for certain limited
amounts. This bill would put pre-
MUM upon infant murder" said
Speaker Allyn Cole in the House. ut
even goes so far as to state what chill
dren are worth when dead
Colorado's first experiment in pro
viding refuge for its birds and an
imas where they may never be star
tied by the sound of gun, or in danger
of death at the hands of hunters, is
provided for in bill passed on second
reading in the Senate. The measure is
that of Senator Henry C. Andrew of
Boulder and N. c. Warren of Fort
| Collins. 1t would create an area of
approximately 1000 square miles, and
comprising twenty-seven townships,
mostly in Larimer county, but with
small portion in Boulder county,
where there would never be an open
season except on predatory animals.
Even the predatory animals would not
| be hunted except on special permission
| from the state game and fish commits
sioner.
Regulatory power over competitive
public utilities is to be retained in the
authority of the Colorado Public Util-
| tiles Commission, and the supervision
of the Colorado School of Mines at
Golden carried out according to the
present arrangement. The Senate de-
feated measures which sought to up
set these provisions in the present
laws.
The Colorado State Good Roads AS
ISOLATION has suggested plan where
by no direct taxation is necessary in
meeting the federal requirements, and