The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-03-06
MAY HEAR TAFT SPEAK
LEGISLATURE WOULD HAVE HIM
EXPLAIN LEAGUE.
Booth Bill Provides for Revolving
Fund to Aid Soldiers.
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Denver.-An invitation to former
President William Howard Taft to
come to Denver as the guest of Colo
RADIO, and In an addres sat the Audi
torium to explain the league Of ma
lions, 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 McGinnis, Republican, and
provides that a committee of five, two
to be named by the Senate and three
oy the House, make all necessary ar
lrangements.
There are four measures in the Sen
lte. Each calls for a land settlement
ooard to. look after the interests Of re-
turning soldiers, not from the stand
point of charity, but rather to give
lifting hand and credit in. deferred
payments for the tracts they may wish
to cultivate. The principle of state
aid for settlers is not new one. There
are 1000 900 acres Of good lands under
irrigation that are lying idle, and re-
clamation projects are settling up
slowly. The Booth bill provides for a
revolving fund of $75O,OOO, to be ad-
vanced by the state and which il to be
returned with interest at the expira-
tion Of fifty years. This fund 10 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 II
the Phelps bill for q 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 a part Of the state constitution
by the voters in 1920. The bill pro-
vides for q state board OF seven men,
bers, to be elected serially for terms
of six years each, who will assume the
duties now performed by the state su-
perintendent Of public instruction. The
members Of the board are to serve
without salary and to employ q COM
missioner of education, who need not
necessarily be a citizen of the state.
at a 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 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 500, 700 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 dollar-for-dollar road con-
struction projects in Colorado. Other
questions will arise. including legisla-
ton TO raise $3.52O.O 600 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 $20.OOO.OO0. The bonds
may be reduced to $4,000 900 or even
TO $5,OOOOO0 and their application re-
strieted 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. 355 by striking the enacting
clauses. The vote In the Senate was
15 to II and in the House 80 to %.
The two measures would have permit
ted frnternal benefit societies to in.
sure children for certain limited
amounts. This bill would put a pre-
MUM upon infant murder" said
Speaker Allyn Cole In the House. ut
even goes no far as to state what chill
dren are worth when dead.
Colorado's first experiment in pro
viding refuge for its birds and an
'mals where they may never be star
lied by the sound of gun, or in danger
Of death at the hands of hunters, Ia
provided for in bill passSlPon second
reading in the Senate. The measure 10
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 q
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 commis-
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 ut
Golden carried out according to the
present Arrangement. The. Senate de-
feated measures which sought to up
set these provisions In the present