The Dolores star., 1919-01-17
SESSION IN FULL SWING
COLORADO LEGISLATURE is GET.
TING DOWN TO BUSINESS.
Many Bills Have Been introduced in
Both eranches-Recess Appoint
ments Being Considered.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Ihe list of recess appointments by
Governor Gunter are in the hands of
the Senate for confirmation and are
as follows:
Member CommIssion for the Promo
Sion OF Uniform state I.aws-Fred w.
1917. ' Np' 49,
Con,missioner state Home md Train
Ing school for Mental Detectives
ihomas +. DAILY. Denver appointed
April 81, 1917.
Members Board Of CommIssioner. Of
the Soldiers and saiIors Home-Mrs.
l-ora NJ. Ginders. Monte Vista, ap-
pointed June rs. 1917; II. S. Vaughn.
Irrigation Division Engineers-Hem-
on g. Getty. Delta. to be irrigation di-
vision engineer for Division No. 4. ap-
bntnniio POINTED July g. s. 1911; +, S. Counselor,
sineer Tor Division No. 3. appointed
Member Industrial Commi1.ion-Jos-
eph e; Bell. Trinidad, appointed Sept.
Member Public Utilities CommI..lon
LEROY J. Williams, Central City, APP
pointed Jan. 21, 1918.
Fish and Game COmmissiOner-wal-
Ter -; Fraser, Denver, appointed Feb.
Public Trustee, Weld County-M T
Walsh. Greeley. appointed Nav 10. 1918
Member Board OF Control industrial
school for Giris-Mary A. Anderson,
appointed May ii, 1878
Member Colorado hoard of Correc-
tions-Charles J. Moynihan, Montrose,
appointed June II: 1918.
members state Board of HeaIth-Dr.
+. Hanson, Gunnison. appointed July
b. 1918; DR.. A. J. Monahan, Pueblo. an
pointed July 5. 1918. "p
Members Board of Trustees Colorado
school for the Deaf and Blind Al
lred Ritter. Colorado Springs. appoint
ed Sept. II. 1918; William ii. Young.
Pueblo; appointed Dec. "a. 1918.
~ember ~ Stnte board Of immigration
Arthur Fl. King, Sterling, appointed
Judges of the District Court-Fran-
cis ~ Boucil, Leadville. to be judge of
tne fifth Judicial district, appointed
July 70. 1918; G; II, Bradfield. Greeley,
to be judge of the Eighth judicial dis
trict. appointed Dec. 81. 1918.
Oliver H. Shoup's plurality over
Thomas ]. lyman for governor in the
November election was 1926 votes,
according to the official canvass of
executive officers conducted by the
Senate and House of the Legislature
In joint session. Leslie E. Hubbard,
Democratic candidate for attorney gen.
eral, was defeated by Victor Z. Keyes,
the Republican nominee, by only 949
votes, the count showed. The recheck
was completed within two hours,
which set record for that work.
House bill No. l is identical with
Senate bill No. 2. 1t provides for
blue sky law, drawn in accordance
with the ideas of the National Asso-
citation OF Securities commissioners,
and modelled after the Kansas. Ohio.
Minnesota and Michigan "blue sky"
statutes, with some notifications. 1t
probably will be one of the first meas
ures to come up on the Senate and
House calendars for consideration
Both parties are pledged in their plat
forms to blue sky law. and there
is no clear party line drawn as be-
tween the different measures.
The virtual elimination of German
language instruction from the public
schools of Colorado is sought in one
of the bills introduced in the Senate.
Languages permitted to be introduced
in school curriculums or as the tongue
in which other branches may be
taught, upon application by twenty or
more parents or guardians of school
children in any district, are restricted
to French, Italian and Spanish. Per-
mission to admit other languages,
however, is placed in the discretion of
school boards under the proposed
measure.
School teachers in Colorado who
are more than GO years old. If men.
and So years, If women, are to re-
ceive monthly pension of $50 from
the school district in which they re-
side, provided they have been in SER
vice twenty-five years and in the dis
trict for fifteen years, if a bill intro
duced in the Senate becomes law.
House bill No. 2 proposes to place
superintendents. supervisors and EN-
ployes of the state penitentiary and
of the other state penal institutions
,,der the operation of the eight-hour
law.
Dr. May Bigeow has prepared
bill which amends the present school
law concerning medical examination
for children of the public schools and
provides that no person shall be given
a certificate to teach in the public
schools of this state who has not
given satisfactory evidence of scompe-
tency to perform the duties of
teacher.
If House bills Nos. and are en-
acted by the Legislature no hunter
NAV trap bear and leave it to suffer
in the trap and closed season will be
established for the killing of bears.
The Legislature now in session VIII
be given an opportunity to pass the
educational code prepared by experts
for the Denver Civic and Commercial
Association, but turned down by the
legislature of 1917. This code, it is
held, viii give not only Denver ana
either cities of the state, but the rural
districts as well, school system eN-
celled nowhere in the country.
In passing the revenue bill members
:. .ho Senate we're convinced OF the