The Elbert County tribune., 1919-03-07
MAY HEAR TAFT SPEAK
LEGISLATURE WOULD HAVE HIM
EXPLAIN LEAGUE.
Booth, Bill Provides for Revolving
Fund to Aid Soldiers
Western Newspaper Union Ns~. Service.

President William Howard Taft to
come to Denver as the guest of Colo
rado, and in an addres sat the Audi
torium to explain the league of IA
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 DDolan, Demo-
Gratis, and McGinnfs, Republican, and
provides that a committee of five. two
10 be named by the Senate and three
oy the House, make all necessary ar
rangements.
There are four measures in the SEN
ite. Each calls for land settlement
BOARD ITO 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
did for settlers is not 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 $T50,000, to be ed-
vanced by the state and which Is to lie
returned with interest at the expirsl-
tion of fifty years. This fund is to
furnish way for soldiers to take up
improved land and pay for the acreage
during n thirty-three-year 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 as part of the state constitution
by the voters in 1920. The bill pro-
vides for a 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 sI-
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 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 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 100000 to
counties that were deprived of the
one-half mill levy revenues in the last
three years, in order that the highway
government dollar-for-dollar road con-
structlon projects in Colorado. Other
questions will arise. including legisla-
ton to raise SO, ,52O,0 600 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 -S20,OO0,OO0 The bonds
may be reduced to $4,000, 900 or even
to $5,0O0.000 and their application re-
stricted 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 IL and In the House SO to %.
The two measures would have permit
ted fraternal benefit societies 10 in
sure children for certain limited
amounts. This bill would put a pre-
MUM upon infant murder" said
Speaker Allyn Cole in the House. "It
even goes so far as to state what chill
dren are worth when dead.
Colorado's first experiment in pro
viding a refuge for its birds and an.
imafs 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 aroa of
approximately 1000 square miles. and
comprising twenty-seven townships.
mostly in Larimer county, but with Il
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. E
Regulatory power over competitive
public utilities is to be retained in the
fauthority 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-
fepted measures which sought 10 up
set these provisions in the present
laws.
The Colorado State Good Roads AS