The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1919-03-14
MAY HEAR TAFT SPEAK
WOULD HAVE HIM
EXPLAIN LEAGUE.
Booth Bill Provides for a Revolving
Fund to Aid Soldiers.


president William Howard Taft to
come to Denver as the guest of Colo
rado, and in an address sat the Audi
forum to explain thet league of ma
lions, is to be extended by the State
Legislature. A resolution introduced
I'll tie lower house of the Assembly
was later concurred in by the Senate.
The resolution was drawn by Renre.
sehtatiVes owen and Dolan, Demo-
Gratis, and McGinnis, Republican, and
provides that committee of five, two
TO be named by the Senate and three
oy the House, make all necessary ar
engagements.
There are four measures in the Sen
ate. Each calls for land settlement
BOARD 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 I'D
slowly. The Booth bill provides for a
revolving fund of s75O.OOO. to be ad-
vanced by the state and which Is to be
returned with interest at the eypira-
ton of fifty years. This fund is to
furnish 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 il
the Phelps bill for State Board OF
Education, which was approved on
second reading by the House of Rep
resentatives, makes its way success
fully through the Senate and is adopt
ed as part of the state constitution
by the voters 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 a COM
missioner of education, who need not
necessarily be a 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 $50, 600 to
| counties that We're deprived of the
one-half mill levy revenues in the last
| three years, in order that the highway
| commission might meet the federal
| government dollar-for-dollar road con-
| struction projects in Colorado. Other
| questions will arise, including legisla-
| ton to raise S3,520,OOO for the purpose
of meeting the new road program out
| lined by Congress, and to fix the
amount of the bond issue. originally
proposed Mt S20,OOO,OOO The bonds
may be reduced to S1O,0OOOOO or even
to S5,OOO,OO0 and their application re-
strcted to meet the federal govern
ment road campaigns.
Opponents of childhood insurance
won victory on two fronts simultan-
eously when both houses, each acting
independently of the other, put to rest
Senate bill No. 1874 and House bill
No. 800 by striking the enacting
clauses. The vote in the Senate was
Is to II and in the House 36 to %
The two measures would have permit
ted fratcrnal benefit societies to in
sure children for certain limited
amounts "Ths bill would put pre-
MUM upon infant murder said
Speaker Allyn Cole in the House. 1T
even goes so far rs TO state what chill
dreu are worth when dead.
Colorado's first experiment in pro
viding a refuge for its birds and an
imals 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 n 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
unfortunately 1000 square miles, and
| COMPRISING lNthlN
mostly in Larimer county, but with
small portion in Boulder county,
whore there would never be an open
season except on predatory animals
Even the predatory animals would not
be hunted exwept on special PERMISSION
from the state game and fish commits
sioner
Regulatory power over competitive
uublic utilities is to be retained In the
authority of the Colorado Public ol''-
tiles Commission, and the supervision
of the Colorado School of Mines at
Golden carried out according to the
nresent arrangement. The Senate de'
rcoted measures which sought to up
set these provisions in the present
laws.
The Colorado State Good Roads AS
socation has suggested pan ""e''