The Dolores star., 1923-03-23

pants owing to this frequent rising and
sitting.
The Legislature has been playing
horse; this is not said in disrespect,
out because of the absence, due to
sickness, of some of the members. In
portant legislation is being held back
for a few days, us their opinions may
be valuable to the state.
1t would seem that the public have
IN idea that legislation ought to be put
through in hurry; the opposite is
through in Il hurry, than good things
are lost by deliberative consideration.
The Lambert bill and the code bill,
of Governor Sweet, will be on the cal
endar soon. A word about them may
be interesting.
For several years Colorado's state
government has been hampered by the
Increasingly large number of bureaus,
boards, and commissions; both parties
have recognized the evil. and attempts
have been made to solve it. The two
bills above mentioned are the latest Of
ferings on that topic; ana tney repre-
sent two methods of attacking this
evil, and fungus growth that has ap-
Deared mt the State Capitol. The Lam
bert bill says, Come on, fellers, bring
your pruning hooks, and let's clip off
a branch here and there, but let's see
If we can't preserve the tree, and let
it grow bigger and more beautiful"
Mr.. Sweet came by and looked at
this political fig tree, and saw moth
ing but leaves" and Il great bunch of
political office holders resting in the
shade thereof; and he called out,
Come on, fellers, let's dig this tree
up, root and branch; bring your spades
and mattocks, and get busy" To our
way of thinking this represents, in
hOmeSpun, the real fact in the Situa
ton.
Going more deeply into the situation,
it ought to be said that one of these
bills represents the political philOs-
ophy of Alexander Hamilton, and the
other the political philosophy of Thorn
as jefferson; and we venture the as
sertion that the authors of neither bill
recognized the situation when they
wrote their bills. And-what strange
bedfellows politics do make!!!
In the above case we suggest that it
is about time for the old time citizen
to put on his glasses and look into this
thing. The "modus Operandi' of our
state government is about to be
changed. Governor Sweet will take his
cause to the people if need be.
Ex-Governor Mckelvy will be invited
to deliver an address before the Legis-
lature. He put the code law Into eff
feet in Nebraska.
During the week, the two bills that
have caused the most agitation were
the Brush Hospital Bill" and the
Game Law" creating closed season
on deer, especially. We anticipate that
neither of the bills will 'get by" the
Senate. We find ourselves wondering
nce in while as to what must be the
political philosophy of man who fav-
ors 500 fine for killing Il squirrel,
and is not interested in the unhappy
social conditions of boys and girls, men
and women of today. We suspect that
it is the 500.
Lobbyists around the Capitol are as
thick us buyers ut an auction sale.
Some of these days we are going to
"rise up in meetin' and offer u mo-
ton to send these people home. Whe-
ther they do any good for their cause,
Or not, is very questionable, in the
mind of this scribe; we have known
some of them to effectually kill the bill
for which they profess to be working.
There is some opposition to giving
Governor Sweet the money asked for
to aid in law enforcement. We sug-
gest that it is time for the folks back
home to get busy. We have observed
that nothing gets results so quick us
a good live wire, red hot, sent to u
member from home folks. We have
seen two or three blown clear out OF
the water when the right party pressed
the button.
The bills for relieving the farmer
will all be passed; the miners quail
fication act has been ordered printed;
railroad legislation Is going to get re-
suits.
Probably the people will be asked to
amend the constitution ut the next
election by eliminating civil service.
The Assembly has now been in ses-
sion two months, and will probably last
another month. The members are Just
getting acquainted with each other
that is necessary to get the best re-
suits. Some great achievements have
been recorded thus far. The Turkish
war has ended, the French have en-
tered Ruhr Congress has adjourned
and the Rangers have been fired. The
next month will see us all going home.
"Let us arise and sing, Praise God
sronn whom all blessings flow" |