The Raymer enterprise., 1919-03-06
MAY HEAR TAFT SPEAK
LEGISLATURE WOULD HAVE HIM
EXPLAIN LEAGUE.
6ooth Bill Provides for a Revolving
Fund to Aid Soldiers.
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''h't'. All uuNltuliou 10 IoTlltf
President William Howard Taft to
come to Denver as the guest of Colo
RADIO, and in an ad,res sat the Audi
tori'lm to explain the league of ma
tons, Is to be extended by the State
Legislature. a resolution introduced
In the lower house of the Assembly
was later coneurred in by the Senate.
The resolution was drawn by Repre-
sentatives Owen and Dolan. Demo-
Gratis, and McGinnis, Republican, and
provides that committee Of five, two
to be named by the Senate and three
by the House, make all necessary ar
rangements.
There are four measures In the Sem
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 n
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 1,OOO.OOO 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 $750,OO0. to be ad-
vanced by the state and which Is to be
returned with interest Mt the expIra-
tion Of fifty years. This fund is to
furnish a way for soldiers to take up
improved land and pay for the acreage
during a thirty-three-yenr period
Radical changes In the educational
system of the state will be made II
the Phelps bill for a 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 az part of the state constitution
by the voters In 1920. The bill pro-
vides for 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 a COM
missioner Of education, who need not
necessarily be citizen of the state,
nt 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 dollar-fOr-dollar road con-
structIon projects In Colorado. Other
questions will arise. including legisla-
tlon to raise S3.520,0O0 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 $20.00O,OOO The bonds
may be reduced to Sl0,00O,OOO or even
to S5,000,000 and their application re-
stricted TO meet the federal govern
ment road campaigns.
Opponents Of childhood insurance
won n victory on two frVnts simultan
eously when both houses, each acting
Independently Of the other, put 10 rest
Senate bill No. 1S4 and House bill
No. 355 by striking the enacting
clauses. The vote In the Senate was
IL to II and In the House &c to q.
The two measures would have permit
ted fraternal benefit societies to in
sure children for certain limited
amounts. "Ths bill would put pre-
MUM upon infan. murder" said
Speaker Allyn Cole IN The House 1T
even goes So far rs TO state What chill
dren are worth when dead
col0rado's first experiment in pro
siding n refuge for its birds and IN.
imals where they may Dever be star.
tied by the sound ~ gun. or in danger
OF death nj the hands NJ hunters, IN
provided sor in bill passed on second
reading In the Senate. The measure Is
that of Senator Henry G.. Andrew Of
Boulder and y. G. Warren Of Fort
Collins. II would create an area of
approximately 1000 square miles, and
comprising iwenty-seycn townships,
mostly in Larimer county, but with n
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 he retained In the
authority of the Colorado PGbllc Ttil-
tiles Commission, and the supervision
Of the Colorado School of Mines at
Golden carried ont 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-
s0ciation has suggested plan where
nv mn direcf taxatinu ic to.aasar,. II,