Pueblo chieftain., 1921-04-10

greatest work of the assembly was
the repeal of hundreds of obsolete
and forgotten statutes and the recodi-
ficauon and Qualification of hundreds
or statutes that We're directly opposite
to each other. A special committee
of attorneys had been laboring oyer
-FOUR years on this work. lie required
nearly $50 bills to complete the task
They were introduced by Senators
Fairfield and .knauss. and went thru
without discussion. According to the
lawyers OF the state. the statutes OF
Colorado are now In the best shape
OF any state In the union
The school teachers got everything
they asked from the assembly; they
were given the minimum wage law
under which no teacher can be paid
less than SIS month .ud the most
Of them will receive $1,000 and
$1,000 per year. no difference whether
they teach five months or nine
month"; The Reciprocity Education
al law between states will give teach
ers the privilege of going into other
states and teaching without taking an
examination and the same is true of
the teachers that como into this
state from other statea.
The farmers were given every law
that they were promised in the Re-
publican platform. even to the mark
eting law. which gives them a state
agent to assist them In marketing
their productA
The live stock men were Eiven
everything they asked for In the way
of lesislation, and was also the Hor-
ucultur1lists and Apairy men.
Tho Ant-Discrimination law y not
as strong ~ some wanted It, but II
is as strong ~ II was possible To get
in the first law enacted
Tho proposed Constitutional Con-
vention viii give the people tho right
NO
new Constitution. This VIII enter
into tho next campaign very ma
terially
Notwithstandins the fact that both
houses declared that the primary law
should be amended. when the mem
amend 1t. such q howl went up that
they dared not touch It
The present primary law u expen-
sive; the politicians hate It, but the
people ara not YET ready TO give 1,
up. and the legislature didn't try to
make them give 1t up.
What Is true with the primary
law II true With the Blue Sky law.
Both party platform guaranteed an
effective Blue Sky law" yet there
was moro opposition to this than
there y mas TO the repeal Of tho prim,
never have been Cripple Greek. a
Telluride. = Cred. or q Florence or a
Boulder oil fields II Colorado had a
Blue Sky law In force.
States and communities arc not
developed under Blue Sky laws The
state officials use their power to the
extent OF holding back development
under tho Blue Sky law. the mme /
as the national officials do under tho /
boards and bureaus. The people be- !
lievc that the loss to the community
In general thru the enforcement of
Blue Sky law Is moro than 1t Is to the
individual without the Blue Sky law.
Acting under that theory the opposi-
tion to the Blue Sky law was 30
great that IL was not enacted.
The military program Is rather c1-
tended. 1t calls for an expenditure
of s1,30o.00oo.
The liquor law enforcement pro-
gram was not carried out 50 far as
tho appropriation of $4,000 for cap
turing bootlegKers was concerned, but
the governor has an appropriation of
100000 for law enforcement, part
of which can be used to maintain the
bootlegging squad.
The 100000 appropriation for tho
medical hospital to be constructed in
Denver and operated under the d.
rection of the State University means
much to the medical fraternity Of the
state.
on tho whole during the last days
of the assembly 1t was turned from a
non-entity General Assembly to one
whose constructive work will reflect
in the life of the state for years to
come.