The Cordova daily times., 1919-02-25
WOMEN ACTIVE SMEMbERS0F
 LEGISLATURE

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Feb. 25 (by Associated Press). support from the state for elementary schools, equality for women with men under the law and establishment of home for delinquent women, are the meas ures for which California's first women legislators are working here. In addition to these, each of the four assembly women are advocating other bills.
 Mrs. Anna L. Saylor of Berkeley wants the state to appropriate $20, 1000 to establish a child hygiene bureau under the state board of health to as- sist the better babies," movement carried forward by club women and others. She also favors the plan to establish a psychopathic hospital at San Quentin so defective criminals may be properly treated.
 State and federal aid for the con- struction of highway along the Feather river is sought by Mrs. Eliza beth Hughes of Oroville. She will al so seek appropriations for the Chico state normal school and will support the proposal for the extension of the land settlement colony at Durham.
 Mrs. Grace Doris of Bakersfield and Miss Esto Broughton of Modesto are also particularly interested in the development of the Durham project Miss Broughton said she hopes the state will assist soldiers and sailors in settling on the land, and Mrs. Dor ris is interested in having the clause in Secretary Lanes land settlement plan bill, providing that idle lands may be condemned; incorporated in any new land settlement law Mrs. Doris said she favors this as meas ure to compel large land companies in the San Joaquin valley to sell part of their holdings, which, she said, they have refused to do.
 Placing of public defender in every county is another object Mrs, Doris said she hopes to accomplish. She said it was obviously wrong that the state should place all its influence behind the prosecution in criminal cases, providing no really competent legal counsel for the defense,
 Measures in behalf of labor will have Mrs. Doris support. she said. She had introduced bill to limit to ten hours of domestic servants. She plans to offer a measure to establish at Berkeley a separate school for the blind, dividing the present California school for the deaf and blind into two sections. Mrs. Doris introduced a resolution to memoralize congress to act favorably on the federal women's suffrage bill. She also offered meas ure to exempt from attachment motor trucks where they are being used in a mans business, automobiles valued at less than $1OO0, and photographs. "The family flivver should not be at tached," said Mrs. Doris. A change in the civil service so that competent persons shall not be discriminated against because of physical afflictions has been proposed by Mrs. Doris.
 Measures to prevent undue depres- sion of state irrigation district bonds, and other measures favored by the California Irrigation District associa- tion, are to have the support of Miss Broughton. She said she will urge extension of the reclamation program for the assistance of returned fighting men, and legislation to permit irriga- tion districts to develop power.
 Collection of small bills will be made easier, Miss Broughton said, if a bill she will offer passes. This would provide that actions to collect small claims may be taken up by justice of the peace informally, thus eliminating the legal expense that usually makes such action inadvis- able.
 Mrs. Hughes and Mrs. Saylor were i'll during the fore part of the session and were handicapped in getting their hills into shape. All of the women legislators have expressed approval of the proposal to, reduce the number of bills and shorten the session.