The Delta independent., 1920-05-14

Budget and Efficiency Department
established
Commission to Compile Statutes
appointed
County Officers classified.
Additional Tax Levy for Highways
provided.
Memorial provided for Coloradoans
who served in the war with Germany
Memorial provided for Territorial
Governors
Irrigation Finance Commission es-
tablished.
Law adopted forbidding the display
of the red flag.
Tax placed on Petroleum Products
to provide funds for Highway Build
ing
State Board of Pardons established.
Banking Laws revised and improv-
ed
Melon Inspection Laws revised and
improved.
Coal Mine Inspection laws revised
and improved.
Corporation Laws revised and i'm.
proved.
Dentistry Laws revised and improy
ed
F1aternal Insurance Act revised
and improved.
Insurance Laws revised and i'm
proved and Rate-Making Bureaus es-
tablished. with great reductions in
rates
Irrigation District Laws revised
and improved.
fp1n
ed
School Laws revised and improved.
Board of Immigration Laws revised
and improved.
State Board of Land Commissioners
Act revised and improved.
Women's Compensation Act revised
and benefits increased.
Sound Reclaim alton Policy Asked
We recommend to the Congress of
the United States that is Immediately
establish a sound reclamation policy
by the appropriation of enough
money to complete the present gov
ernment reclamation projects and
adequately provide for the extension
of the reclamation service to all valu-
able arid and swamp lands. We
recommend that any reclamation
legislation passed shall give prefer
ence rights of filing or purchase to
service men and women.
Suffrage
The proposed amendment to the
constitution of the United States.
now submitted to the states of the
Union providing for the enfranchise-
- usoS hv
present Republican congress, and is
an achievement of the Republican
party. Its ratification by the states |
has become a question in which the
National Republican party has para
mount interest 1t is our view, there
fore that the Republican states legis-
latures should realize the interest of
the National Republican party, in ac- |
complishing the ratification of the
suffrage amendment and should CO.
operate with the National Republican
party upon the question of ratifica-
ton. We therefore urge the Republi- |
can members of the legislatures now
in special session to vote for the rat
ification of this amendment.
Unfairness Denounced !,
We reaffirm the position taken by /,
the Republican party in the congress
sional campaign of 1918. pointing to
the manifest unfairness of placing
a premium upon the growing of cotton
with no limit to the wild orgy of cot
ton profiteering. while penalizing the
wheat and wool growers of the west.
Extravaeanee in Expenditure
We reaffirm the position taken by
the Republican party in the congress
sional campaign of 1918. holding that
the wanton and extravagant cost plus
system of government contracting,
whereby the contractor actually pro-
fitted through his own wastefulness.
could only result in drawing men
from the essentially productive pur-
suit of farming into the industrial
whirlpools of city life, where reward
was offered to extravagance, and
where commission was actually
reaped upon wages paid the idling
laborer, with a resultant underpro-
diction of the necessaries of life. due
to such government encouragement
Of the movement from the farm.
Senator, congressmen Commended
We unreservedly endorse and ap-
prove the stand takens by United
States Senator Lawrence c. Phipps |
and Congressman Vaile. Undertake |
and Hardy as the representatives of
this great state In Congress.
Recognizing the great sacrifice
made by those who served in the
army. navy and marines' during The
great war. We urge upon congress
the passage of beneficial legislation
for ex-service men and women-such |
1ns In IN ha comets with tho