BAffU R CENT.
SAGUAOH~ -~ O~LO~DO~
m~ o
Lord Hopetoun's eldest son. Lord
Hope, who has gone out to Australia
with his father, will return after Eas-
ter to England, when he will begin
public school career at Eton. Lord
Hope is now in his 14th year. His
brother is a year or two younger.
Lord and Lady Hopetoun have only
these two sons, as thelr little girl died
aGree years ago.
Prof. James of the University or
Chicago, has been working twenty
years to get a fully authenticated case
of death from snake bite. Every case
he investigated turned out to be en-
tirely without foundation, or else to be
• based on utterly insufficient evidence,
until the other day when a snake-
charmer in Georgia died from the ef-
fect of a diamond rattler's bite, and
mtequate proofs were given by the ~t-
tending physician.
About the coolest thieves on r~cord
"did a Job of work in Philadelphia a
few days ago. Early in the morning,
while hundreds of people were going
to work, half a dozen men arrayed as
mechanics appeared in front of a Turk-
ish bath establishment In Walnut
street, and with chisels, hammers and
wrenches took down the handsome
bronze ornaments and railing which
ornamented the place,. Then they
calmly walked away with the plunder.
Merits of chocolate as food for
troops in the fields appear to be be-
coming rapidly and widely appreci-
ated. In the recent autumn maneuvers
of the Austrian army in Galicia a
chocolate ration was found to be equal
to about five times its weight of the
primest beef. From Russia also came
equally favorable reports respecting
the use of chocolate and now in Amer-
ica it forms a chief constituent of a
new emergency ration with which
trials have been lately carried out.
According to the Norwich press, a
syndicate has been formed for a
floating Monte Carlo, to be moored off
the English coast somewhere Just be-
yond the three-mile limit. Negotia-
tions are pending for an obsolete At-
lantic liner, which would be turned
into a miniature casino, at a total cost,
including the first outlay for the hulk,
~f £50,000. The idea is to provide a
haunt for gamblers within easy reach
of London, but beyond the reach of the
betting laws of the realm, and, of
course, capital for running the tables
would have to be provided to the ad-
ditional tune of some hundred thou-
sand pounds. It is understood that
the Brighton coast is thought of.
It is contended by me organ of the
German general staff that the rapid
and decisive manner in which eam-
~paigns are now carried out will not
~allow t, me for mining, A fortress
~will, it is affirmed, be captured bY
bombardment or open attack or in
most cases by a combination of the
two methods. The training of engin-
,eere in the German army in mining
~work has been abandoned, while tbe
tcumbrotm material required for sub-
~terranean warfare will no longer form
tpart of the equipment of their forces.
In Austria, it is further stated, the
same views on the matter are held,
~ad the same steps toward carrying
jthem~.lnto practice have been taken.
!
The government is hereafter to par-
~tlatly furnish the quarters of British
~army officers. The amount of furui-
!ture that will be given is not yet spec-
ified, but it Will include at least the
~bed, a chest of drawers, washstand and
bath. This saving in hired or other
!freeport at every regimental move
~will, it is calculated, soon show as a
!set-off or reduction of the initial out-
ilay. Here is a hint for our war de-
partment. Perhaps some officer good
at figures will help the suggestion by
estimating the cost of providing fur-
]niture for quarters and how much
~would ba required annually to lmY tke
~lnterest on this sum and provide a
,sinking fund for its ultimate extin-
guishment.
The Missouri Dairy Association
lheard some lnt~resting testimony
zbeut the infiuencs of music ma kick.
dug cows. 'One man had an anim~ so
wictott~ that she always had to ke tied
~nto tl~ stall at milking time. His
two bo~,s noticed that whenever they
began to sing at their work, the cow
became quiet. Now, instead of tying
her, whoever is milking merely strikes
up "Annie Rooney" or "My OM Ken-
ruckF Home," and the cow stands per-
~feetiy attll. Another delegate aald
~kat in Switzerland farm workers who
leave good voices set better pay be-
~mmse they can milk the wildest and
~most restless cowl The "serum of the
ma~tLt~," however, was express~l by
,t farmer, who said: "It may be all
;right to sing to a kicking cow, but I
valet to keep my eye on her foot. She
~ lght take, a notion to dance to the
USiC."
Roher~ Q~mrkart, who is eighty-four
ymu's old, recently walked from his
~aeme in Brush Creek township to Me-
~onnellsbUrg, Penn., and baok, making
• a round trip of~ fifty-two mile& He
the father of. twenty-eight children
~ad has ~ver been fll in his lifo.
A .~nsineu man in Fort Worth.
'T~, k~ had his feelings hurt by
l~ing &meribed in the city d~ory
a4 ,,eok~red." He thinks ~d~mt $~,000
wlll h~l .his wound@d di~fltX, and las
~,.,ou~ht suit ~4~Inst the publlsh@N fo.
DENVER LETTER.
!'~EVENUE BILLS PROPOSED IN
THE FUSION LEGISLATURE.
Measures to Increase Taxation. Discourage
Capital, Fetter Enterprise and HIrmss
Business, But No Slg~m of Economy or
Retrenchment.
Denver, Colo,., Feb. 11, 1901.
A good deal of attention has been ex-
cited here, and some in the East, over
the provisions of some of the proposed
revenue laws that are before the State
Legislature. The so-called Montgom-
ery bill, which seems to be considered
the most likely measure, after being
amended, to become a law, contains
some provisions which in its original
form might well have been entitled to
be headed, "A measure to fix the de-
gree of criminality of various kinds of
property holders, and to assess fines
accordingly." One of the provisions is
to tax all the money that goes through
the hands of real estate agents, wheth-
er in the form of loans or collections or
insurance. If the agent has to pay the
tax, he must collect it either from the
loaner or borrower, in ca~e of a loan
and from the owner or the tenant in
the case of rentals. The Real Estate
Exchange has taken up the matter and
protested against the measure; and one
or two meetings have been held at
which representatives of the Exchange
and of the Legislature have conferred
in regard to the provisions of the bill.
Some of the most objectionable may
be stricken out, but the one mentioned
above, taxing the funds that go
rhroug~h the hands of agents, seems
likely to remain.
The effect of such a measure on in-
vestment by any one outside of the
state in Colorado properties may easi-
ly be seen. If it becomes a law, or-
ders ~> sell will be in the large major-
ity over orders to buy. Tl~re are some
things in the financial and business
world that law has little to do With,
and cannot fix; but by taxing property
sufficiently it Is v~'y easy ~o drive
away investors and discourage home
buyers.
No doubt the provision of our consti-
tution, intended to restrain legislators,
and to prevent the lntroducttofi of a too
enormous mass of bills--the provision
which requires all bills to be introduced
in the first thirty days of the session~
has something to do with the crude and
hastT character of much of the legis-
lation proposed. It leads to the intro-
duction of bills covering every possible
phase of a subject, most of which are
not Intended to be passed, but "which
are introduced so that if needed they
may furnish the basis of a law after
the bills have all been gone over and
a sort of digest made of them. In a
matter of this kind, it is simply impos-
sible for a legislative body in sixty
days to digest the mass of bills intro-
duced and frame a respectable measure
that will answer the pu~2~oses for
which it is intended. A revenue law
Is something that requires study, even
by experts, and the average legislator
Is not an expert, and you can harflly
e.
expec~ him to become one in sixty or
ninety days. The appointment of a
revenue commission was a good idea;
but the commission that was appointed
does not seem to have had sufficient
time to present a symmetrical and
~omplete measure for the consideration
of the Legislature.
One thing Is evident enodgh--that in-
stead of studying how to reduce ex-
penses, and keep the outgo of the state
government from exceeding its Income,
the study has been, and is likely to be,
to devise new aorta of taxation that
will enable the Legislature to meet all
the appropriations which it desires to
make. Perhaps this was what the ma-
|orlty of the people of the state want-
ed when they chose a Fusion Legisla-
ture.
RepuhUoan Advisors" Sorrel
The arrangement for the banquet of
the Republican Advisory "Board to-
morrow evening, on Lincoln's birthday,
are praetlcally complete. Something
over two hundred members of the or-
~,anization will be present at the ban-
quet. The total membership, at this
writing is Just abo'ut ~ven hundred.
The speakers at the banquet are to be
Colorado men. It was found impossi-
ble to get senators to come from Wash-
ington at this time, in the closing days
of a short session of Congress, when
their presence at the capital is required
by ¢.he State of the public business.
At the time this organization was
started, there were many who doubt-
ed whether there were 300 men In tt~
.state who would be willing to contrib-
ute $10 ~t year each to help the regu-
lar party oragnization. Three hundred
was set as the minimum numbS, be`
cause it was estimate~ that the sort of
work that was desired could not even
be attempted with an income of less
than $3,000 a year. As soon as the or-
ganization was fairly formed, however,
it was clear that the membership would
greatly excee4 the minimum number,
and that at least twice that number
would Join: The results thus far are
very encouraging, and" the state com-
mittee is sure/now of funds to mai~i~fln
the permanent headquarters and carry
on the work of permanent organlza-.
lion. Six rooms have been secured for
the permanent head~luurters, at N0.
1(~ Champa street, a very central 1o~
t M~10n~ and ~he rooms have been fur-
nished and are now In use. The best
of the roon~s are set aside for the use
of the ladies, and good use they aare
making of them. A woman's auxiliary
has been formed in this county, with a
membership of about a thousand, and
meeting have been begun, and work i~
actively in progress, Republicans from
all parts of the state, whether men or
women, will be made welcome at head-
quarters whenever they are in Denver.
The bill to consolidate the city of
Denver and the county of Arapahos,
commonly known as the Rush bill, is
meeting with a great deal of opposition.
It is pointed ~ut that it will hardly be
possible to include the whole of the
present county, east to the state line,
within the city limits of Denver; and
if Chat is not done, a new~ county must
be created, which must have a county
seat and county buildings and a full
set of county officers; so that even if
the city of Denver were to be relieved
of some expense by the proposed meae-
ur, the people in Arapahoe county o11¢-
side of Denver would be taxed much
higher than they are now. Further.
more, It is urged that while a consoli-
dation would get rid of one set of pill
oers, there would be practically about
the same amount of work to be done as
there is now~ and Just about as many
employes would have to be provided
for; so that the saving to the city
would be comparatively small after all
STRAINING AT A GNAT AND
SWALLOWING A CAMEL.
President Speer and his fellow mem.
berg of the Fire and Police Board
must have hard work to keep their
faces straight while conducting a bur.
l~sque investigation to find out wheth,
er their subordinates have been "graft.
ing," to use the picturesque language
of the day, when they know very well
that much more serious offenses against
the law- are being committed every
day and every night in Denver through
their own direct consent and conniv.
ance.
Scores of gambling houses, policy
shops by the hundred, places of prostl,
tution and assignation more numerous
than all the others combined, and dor~
eus of deadfalls where the victims and
criminal classes congregate to divide
their plun~¢r and devise flesh offense~
against t~he law are run wide open con-
tinually |~tls city, with the full
knowleSge~ consent of the Fire and
Police Board(~
All this i~ not novel by ~any means,
for other Fire and Police Boards have
permitted and even encouraged .a simi-
lar condltlon of affairs, but we doubt
If ever in the past the license unlaw-
fully extended to the vicious and crim-
inal classes was so general or so gen-
erous as at present.
It needs no investigation to estal>
lish these facts for they are matters of
common knowledge, and they are fax
more serious in their moral effect upon
the community than the "grafting" pro~
pensitiea of patrolmen and detectives.
The chronic violators of the law. enu-
merated above never practice their
vices and crimes openly in cities with-
out police permission and protection.
The gambling houses, bunco joints,
policy shops and other evil resorts,
would be closed in an hour by a-simple
notification .from the Fire and Police
Board to that effect. They are not
closed because the highest police au-
thorities are willing that they should
remain open. The governor, who ap-
points the Fire and Police Board,
knows thiS as well as anybody and if
he should order a policy of close re-
striction it~would be followed by the
Fire and Police Board. If the board
itself should order the closing ef these
places, its fiat would be respected and
obeyed instantly by more than ninety
per cent of them.
There is another side of the police
question In Denver which will not be
touched upon during *the present so-
called investigation,, and that.,is ~ the
extraordinary incompetency dl~layed
by the existing force in' dealing with
persons guilty of serioue~@tlmea Fully
a dozen roan'tiers have o~urre~"ln Den-
ver within the last two yearsi* and we
-cannot ~ow recall a single .c~se in
which the murderer Was .arr~!"6~
our potiee force, if he made any effort
at aH to escape detection.
We do not wish to be understood as
saying or believing that the members
of the Fire and Police Board are cor-
rupt. Many 5f their subordinates are
unquestionably guilty of "grafting,"
usually on a petty larceny sort of scale,
bUt there is no known reason to sup-
pose that the beard or the chief of po-
lice is purchasable.
But that does n~t make the matte~
much better so far as they are eoncorn~,
ed~ because "their official recoguitio~
arid protection of chronic law-breakers,
either ,through political influence or
personal negligence, Is Justas bad [for
the community as if~ it were zeeured
through bribery.
Of course there are question~ that
will not be touched upon during the
present farcical investigation of petty
offenders among the detectiv,es and pc.
lice officers. A competent legislative
committee or a t)ublie-spirlted and fear"
less grand Jury might throw a great
deal of light on these subjects, but
there Is little likelihood that the effort
will be made under existing condi-
tionL--Denver Republican.
COLORADO NOTES.
The Mallory line steamer Denver will
not be ready for christening before
next June.
E. A. Montrose, an old-tlmer of
Buena Vista, died in Kansas City on
the 6th inst.
The new plant of Eae Colorado
Springs Electrie Company was put in
operation February 3rd.
It Is announced that T. O. Stead has
been appointed postmaster at Sallda,
to suceed W. P. Harbottle.
In the District Court at Buena Vlsts,
a five year sentence was given to Col-
lett, the negro who killed Dave Davis
at Sallda last August.
The graduates of Colorado College
tieing in Chicago have formed an as-
sociation, W. L. Tlbbs of the class of
1893 was elected president.
Franches have been asked for by the
Colorado Springs Rapid Transit Com-
pany wlth a view to considerably ex-
tending the street car system. .
Arthur Ball suffered a broken leg
from the explosion of a small steam
boiler in No. 2 shaft house of the Val-
entine Mining Company at Leadville
a few days ago.
Lewis G. Stevenson. son of ex-Vice
President Adlai E. Stevenson, will
hereafter make his home in Denver.
He is interested in various Colorado
mining enterprises.
Mrs. Samuel Wolcott, mother of E.
O. Wolcott and Henry R. Wolcott, of
Denver. died at Longmeadow, Massa-
chusetts, on the 5th inst. at the age of
seventy-nlne years.
Mrs. R. W. Steele, wife of the first
provisional governor of Colorado when
it was a part of the te1~Itory of Jeffer-
son, died in Colorado Springs, Febru-
ary 5th, aged eighty years.
The buslnes~ men of Golden and vi-
elnity axe becoming very much inter-
ested In the sugar beet industry and
an effort will be made to build a fac-
tory near Golden or Arvada.
The Colorado Terminal Lines Asso-
ciation recently met in Denwr and fix-
ed the same summer excursion rates
that were in effect last season, as well
as the same special train rates.
It is stated that @ll the teachers of
Arapahoe county will be ordered by
their school boards to a~tend the
monthly institutes which Miss l-lerey,
the county superintendent of schools,
has organized.
The Idaho colony has been incorpor-
ated with a capital of $50,000 and will
have offices at Salt Lake City and Den-
ver. The incorporators are C. E
Wanfland, A. W. Barbour and Richard
Brackenbury.
Ex-Governor Davis H. Waite, B.
Clark Wheeler and others have organ-
[zed the Colorado Oil and Fuel Oom-
pany, capital stock $3,000,000, to de-
velop 24,000 acres of oll land, mostly
in Routt county.
M. F.. Leach is at the head of a new
combination at Boulder that has se-
cured a franchise for gas works. It is
stipulated that a mile of mains shall
be lald the first year and six miles
within six years.
Between 4,000 and 5,000 persons have
been vaccinated in Denver by the
Board of Health so far this year. Five
doctors are employed day and night in
the work, averaging 300 or 400 every
twenty-four hours.
The Supreme Court of Colorado has
disbarred M. B. Waldron and A. W.
Slndlinger of Denver, for unprofes-
slonal conduct. Waldron was charged
with appropriating $350 belonging to
a client and Sindlinger's offense was
SUMMARY OF THE WORK. OF
THE COLORADO LEGISLAT1
The House bill to provide for the
payment of the funeral expenses of
ex-Senator H. A. W. Tabor has been
reported for printing.
Senator Fred W. Parks of Denver,
formerly a Silver Republican, has
signed the Democratic caucus agree-
ment as a Democrat.
The speaker appointed as the com-
mittee to investigate the abilities of the
clerks of the House: Messrs. Sch~ei-
gert, Ballinger, Madden, Gareia and
McGulre.
The House passed Mr. Stubb's bill.
H. B. 71. restoring the death penalty,
and substituting electrocution for
hanging, by a vote of 41 to 24, after in-
effectua~ attempts to amend it so as to
restore hanging.
S. B. 78. by Mr. Annear, provides for
the election of a labor commissioner
by the people, giving the head of the
labor department the appointment as
his assistants, two boiler inspectors,
two coal mine inspectors and a clerk.
TheDenver News, after mentioning
~a number of the "orators" in the Leg-
islature, adds: "And last, there are
some who do not talk. Mr. Taylor is
an example. But those who think he
! doesn't know all that passes should
note how promptly he votes when his
iname is called."
Senator Taylor of Glenwood Springs
recently took occasion to call the at-
tention of the Senate ~o the numerous
mistakes made in the records. He
charged that many illiterate and in-
competen~ clerks were drawing pay
and intimated that they had no busi-
ness to be there.
Governor Orman recently appointed
three members of the state board of
health. The only member reappoint-
ed was Dr. Hubert Work of Pueblo.
The two new members are Dr. John
A. Whiting of Teller county and Dr.
O. J. Mayas of Park county. These
two succeed Dr. L. E. Lemen of Den-
ver and Dr. D. I. Christopher. These
are unsalaried places.
Au important labor bill before the
Legislature is Mr. Tanquary's S. B. 88,
which provides' for free employment
agencies and free reading rooms in
connection with agencies, the entire
system to be under the control of the
state labor commissioner. Tb, e bill
provides two free employment offices
for Denver. and one free employment
office in Pueblo, Leadville, Colorado
Springs and Cripple Creek, a total of
six. Separate apartments for men and
women are provided for in the bill, in
addition to a reading room at each
place.
The following blils have been favor-
ably reported to the House: By the
committee on education, H. B. 242, for
a uniform per diem for boards of con-
trol. By the committee on state insti-"
¢utions, H. B. 259. to appropriate $15,-
000 for a barn at the state agricultural
colleges. By the committee o~ fish, for-
estry and game, H. B. 249, for the
preservation of state forests; H. B. 171,
to establish a fish hatchery in the up-
per ,part of the South Platte river val-
ley. By the committee on counties and
county lines. H. B. 234. relating to the
removal of county seats.
Senator Moore's eight-hour amend:
ment, which has been recommended
for passage by the Senate in commit-
tee of the whole, reads as follows:
"The General Assembly shall provide
by law and shall prescribe suitable
penalties for the v~olation thereof, for
ends by cheating the wholesaler of hi
money. The measure as passed
rides that a sale of any portion of
stock of merbandise otherwise than i]
the ordinary course of trade
ular and usual prosecution of the
er's busines~ or a sale of an
stock of merchandise in bulk, will
prima facto evidence of fraud and wi:
be void as against the creditors of
seller, unless the seller and
shall at least ten days before the
make a full detailed Inventory showin~
the quantity and cost price to the
of each article included in the sale. an~
unless such purchaser shall, at
ten days before the sale. make
of the seller as to the names and
of residence or paces of
each and all of the creditors of the
er and unless the purchaser shall
least ten days before the sale
each of the seller's creditor of the
posed sale.
The Joint resolution introdm
Senator Taylor of Glenwood
to combat the claims of Kansas in
gard to the waters of the
river reads as follows: "Whereas,
Legislature of the state of Kansas
adopted a Senate'concurrent r,
instructing the attorney general of
state to employ legal asistance
bring m~it at once against the state o
Colorado and o~r citizens to
the further diversion of the waters
the Arkansas river for irrigation put
poses; and. whereas, it is the sense
the Thirteenth General Assembly o:
the s~ate of Colorado that the citizen~
of this state have an unquestioned
gel and moral right to continue to di
vert the waters of said stream for
rlgatton purposes in this state:
therefore, be it resolved, by the
the House of Representatives concur
ring, that the attorney general of thi~
state be and he hereby is instructed
employ such counsel and take such fur
ther steps as may be necessary in
premises and to protect the legal
of Colorado to the use of the waters
the Arkansas river."
The Senate has passed the
road bill which proposes to inau
a system of permanent road im
ment iu Colorado. The bill
that "the boards of county
ors of the several counties of the
may levy a property tax. for road
poses which should not
each $100 to be levied and
the same manner and at the same
as other property taxes are levied
collected each year. Boards of counU
commissioners shall appropriate
least twenty-five per cent. of such
fund for permanent road work,
as grading, making stone or other
manent culverts and bridges, and
making of firm roadbeds. The
so setapart shall be used
ly of road districts. For this
boards of commissioners are
ed to employ person~ other than
road overseers. The "money so
printed shall not be used for ordiz
repain~ shall be kept in a
separate
and shall not be transYem~d to the ge~
oral road fund or any other fund. Th{
balance of such road tax. after the
proprtation for permanent road
shall have been taken therefrom.
be appropriated for general
work in the several road districts
the county."
Colorado's Debt.
Senate Bill No. 228, by Senator
domrtdge, providing for a constitutlo~
uttering a fraudulent check.. . a period of employment not to exceed
Pueblo veterans have formed a soot- eight hours in_any twenty-four (except
sty to beknown as the Association of ] in cases of emergency, where life or
Veterans of the Spanish-American property is iu danger) for persons, em-
ployed in undergrodnd mines or un-
War. A. K. Lewis of Company A,
First Colorado, was elected president,
and Alfred D: Runyan of Company A,
Thirteenth Minnesota. secretary. Thir-
ty members are already enrolled.
on February 2nd the Eaton School
Board decided to cruse the schools,
possibly for two weeks, owing to light
attendance occasioned by grip, a few
scarlet fever cases and the fear some
people entertained of smallpox, though
the latter was not in evidence.
In the case of the county of Pueblo
against Wilson P. Gartley and his
sureties, the Supreme Court ruled that
the District Court of Pueblo had erred
in not holding that a county treasurer
should pay over to his successor the
moneys collected as interest on coun-
ty funds. The cause was remanded for
a new trial.
The Greeley Business Men's Social
Club, whieh has lived and prospered
for eight years, elected the following
officers for the ensuing year on the 6th
inst.: President, Jesse S. Gale; vice
president, William Mayher; secretary,
C. N. Jackson; treasurer, Clarence
Nelll; directors, F. F. Lemmon, W. C.
Wilson, Judge Smith, H. D. Parker,
Frank Stockover.
In a saloon quarrel at Pueblo on the
evening of the 9th inst., David Allen,
keeper of the saloon, and his brother,
Arthur Allen, were shot by William P
Campbell, colored porter at the hotel.
David Allen died within a few minutes
and Arthur was dangerously wounded.
Following up a previous quarrel the
brothers attacked Campbell in the em-
ployes' dining room of the hotel.
The mountain stage running between
Red mountain and Ouray was caught
in a snow slide near the Yankee Girl
mine in Ironton on the afternoon of
the 5th inst., and the half dozen passen-
gers narrowly escaped going over a
precipice several hundred f~et high.
The old mountain stage was rolling
along over the tortuous mountain trail
when the attention of the driver 0nd
passengers was attracted by a m~mb-
ling~ sound resembling distant thunder.
Looking up the mountain side they
saw. an avalanche of snow, ice and
debris rapidly moving down upon them.
The party became terror-stricken and
the horses were lashed into a mad race
for life. Just before reaching ~ae trail
the shale split, the greater portion pass-
ing to the rear of the stage. Th~
horses were struck by the slide and
completely buried in fifteen feet of
snow. A small portion of the slide
•truck the coach, turning it over on its
side and affording a soft place for the
passengers to fall. None of the pas-
sengers were injured and after several
hours spent in extricating the horses
the stage continued to Ouray, arriv-
Ing about 6 o'clock in the evening, .~
derground workings, blast furnaces,
smelters, or any ore reduction works or
other branches of industry or labor
that the General Assembly may con-
sider injurious or dangerous to h*ealth
life or limb."
Mr. Seldomridge has introduced a
joint memorial to Congress condemn-
ing the methods of our government in
the Philippines. and declaring that
"We have betrayed their good faith,
have invaded their territory, burned
their homes, laid wast~ their lands,
and killed many thousands of their
inhabitants in unrighteous warfare."
The memorial which is quite length~',
quotes the sayings of a number of our
great statesmen and concludes as fol-
lows: "In view of these considerations
your memorialists beg of your honor-
able body that the provisions of our
treaty with Spain be no longer neglect-
ed; and that acting in the spirit of true
Americanism, a pledge of liberty and
of independence should at Once be ex-
tended tOthe Philippine people."
~enator James W. Buckiin is receiv-
ing letters from all parts of the world
in relation to his proposed constitu-
tutional amendment to introduce the
Australian land tax in Colorado. He
originally had published 1,000 copies of
his report on the subject, but this issue
was long ago exhausted and he has
ordered 20,000 more. Senator Buckll~
has opened letters from nearly every
state and territory in the Union, from
most of the provinces of Canada, from
Cuba, the Hawaiian islands, *Australia,
Alaska and other countries. Many are
from members of legislative bodies and
tax commissions.
It is said to be the purpose of the
House to bunch all bills bearing on
revenue and consider them all In con-
necuon with H. B. I when it comes
from the committee now cotmidering
it, This will enable members to sug-
gest amendments intelligently and com-
bine the best thought of the House in
one bill, avoiding a multiplicity of bills
possibly inconsistent with each other.
The Republican of the 17th inst. says:
Word from Senator William H. Meyer
is that his rheumatism is still mo~t se-
vere and may prevent his attendance
on the Legislature at all. In the mean-
time the other member~ commiserate
with Senator Farwell, the solitary Re-
publican. He can make motions, but
be has no one to second them. When
he is given an opportunity to be heard
it ia by courtesy of the majority. If he
had Mr. Meyer to assist him he might
bring up man~ matters that he would
like to have discussed.
~n important bill passed by the Sen.
ate is S. 13. 159, in the interest of
wholesalers. Under the present law
retailers securing goods on credit some,
times nell out and make money at beth
al amendment to take care of the
debtedness of the state, gives a state
ment of the debt already accrued.
The first part of the proposed amend.
meat is to provide against the piling
of another such debt as that
now faces the state, and the
part provides for the payment of
entire debt which now exists.
It is set forth in section 1 that tl~
state shall not contract any debt except
for the purpose of erecting pubfi{
buildings for the use of the state, t{
suppress.insurrection, defend the, stat~
or, in time of war, to assist the natio~
al government. The present constit~
lion is construed by many to
for the same thing, but instead o~ par
ticularly setting forth that maney~
shall be expended for the state by thi
governor only in times of war and t~
surrection, it adds "cases of emev
geney," which has been construed
governors to cover all manner of e~
peases and deficiencies. The expres!
language of Senator Seldomridge'~
amendment will leave no doubt abom
this matter.
The bill further proposes that th{
debt in any one year for public build
ing~ shall not exceed one-half mill o~
each. dollar of valuation of
property within the stant. It is furthel
proposed that it shall not be lawft~
for the General Assembly to appropr~
ate money except for insurrections an4
war, in excess of the revenue for thl
preceding two years: At present ap
proprlatlons, are mane on anticipated
revenue.
Then it proposes this disposal of th{
present indebtedness by an issue oi
four per cent, bends tb be sold at no~
less than par value:
Warrants now held In the puhlla
school fund of the state to the
amount of ......................... $44~,~0.9
On which warrants there will be
due on Novembe# ~0, 1902, ac-
rued interest amounting to.... 40L4~9.~
Which interest will then be sub-
Ject to dlstrlbutiol~ among the
public schools of the state; • •
Warrants belonging to other
state funds amounting to ....... 61,105.$
On which w~ there will be
due on November 80, 190~, .ac-
crued interest amounting £b .... ~,66~.~
Warrants belonging to private ' ,
persons amounting to ............ 279,2~.S
On which warrants there will he
due November ~0, 1902, accrued
tnteres~. amounting to ............ 248,~/~.~
The bill then estimates the deflclenc~
of the Thomas administration~witl
inter~t--at $198,8~5.~5 and proposes
bond issue to pay this amount besidet
the following sums:
Soldiers' and Sailors' home ...... $ 20 000.0
Penitentiary .............. ~ ........~000.0
University. • ..................... : 701000.~
Insane asylum .... ~. .............. 19., .~46"/.
Certificates of indebtedness ..... ~l,~.~l
Stock destroyed by order Of
veterinary hoard ............... ~, 500.@
Scalp bounties .................... ~5~000.0
Accrued interest. to November" '"
$0, 1902 .. .......................... ~,7~.~[
Warrants issued for the state
capitol building ..... . ........ ...: ~,077.0
On which warrants there wilt
be Novemher 80, 190~, aocrued
interest of ....................... 105.1~.$
TO~o lndebtednmm of Colo---
