The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-02-28
CALIFORNIA; Four
Women Legislators
Advocate Many Bills

SACRAMENTO, Cal. Feb. 10-(As-
ISOLATED Press)-Greater support from
the state for elementary schools,
equality for women with men under
the law and establishment Of a home
for delinquent women are the meas
ures for which CALIFORNIA; 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 $780,
Bureau under the state board Of
health to assist the better babies"
movement being carried forward by
club women and others. She also
favors the plan to establish a psyche
pathic hospital at San Quentin so
defective criminals may be properly
treated.
State and federal aid for the con-
struction of a highway along the
Feather River is sought by Mrs.
Elizabeth Hughes of Croville. She
will also seek appropriations for the
Chico state normal school and will
support proposal for extension OF the
land settlement colony at Durham.
Mrs. Grace Doris of Bakersfield
and Miss Esto Broughton of Modesto
are also particularly interested in
development of the Durham project.
Miss ~Broughton said she hopes the
state will assist soldiers and sailors
in settling on the land, and Mrs.
Doris is interested in having the
clause in Secretary Lanes land set
Element plan bill, providing that idle
lands may be condemned; incorpor-
ated in any new land settlement law.
Mrs. Doris said she favors this as a
measure to compel large land com
panies in the San Joaquin Valley to
sell part of their holdings, which, she
said, they have refused to do.
Placing Of a public defender in ev-
cry county is another object Mrs.
Doris said she hopes to accomplish.
She said it was obviously wrong that
the state should place all it's influ-
ence behind the prosecution in GRIM
inal cases, providing no really com
petent legal counsel for the defense.
Measures in behalf of labor will
have Mrs. Doris support, she said.
She had introduced a bill to limit to
ten the hours of domestic servants.
She plans to offer a measure to es-
tablish 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 memorial
ize congress to act favorably on the
federal women's suffrage bill. She
also offered a measure to exempt
from attachment motor trucks where
they are being used in a mans bust
ness, automobiles valued at less than
$1,000 and monographs. "The family
fliver should not be attached" said
Mrs. Doris. A change in the civil
service SO that competent persons
shall not be Disseminated against be-
cause of physical affliction has been
proposed by Mrs. Doris.
Measures to prevent undue depres-
sion of state irrigation district bonds
and other measures favored by the
Irrigation Districts Associ-
alton are to have the support of Miss
She said she will urge
of the reclamation program
for the assistance of returned fight
men, and legislation to permit
irrigation 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
of the peace informally, this
eliminating the legal expense that
makes such action inadvisa-
Die.
Mrs. Hughes and Mrs. Saylor were
during the fore part of the session
and were handicapped in getting their
into shape. All of the women
legislators have expressed approval of
he proposal to reduce the number OF
bills and shorten the session.