SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION No. 10 (By Senators Hattenbach, Riddle and Starkweather) JOINT RESOLUTION OF THE TWENTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF COLORADO. WHEREAS, The recent enormous isues by the warring nations of Europe, and by our own nation, of bonds and notes bearing interest for the purpose of prosecuting the war, will render necessary the imposition, for many years to come, of heavy burdens of taxation upon the working and producing people of the world as well as upon bankers and capitalists; and, WHEREAS, All recorded experience tends to prove that in order that distress amongst the people of any nation may be avoided, confidence in the sound value of the issued money of such nation must be preserved amongst its people, and that such confidence can only be preserved when currency issues are made redeemable on demand in gold or in silver, or in either; and, WHEREAS, It is conceded by economists everywhere that there is not enough gold in existence, or that can be produced from the mines of all the continents, upon which to base sound currency amongst the nations, and it is not believed there will be more than enough of both gold and silver in existence and mined throughout the world for generations to come, to form a sound basis of currencies for the civilized nations; and, WHEREAS, It is the firm conviction of the members of this Legislative Assembly that the lasting world peace which is now being sought to be arranged can be made more permanent by the adoption of the bi-metallic standard in all the civilized nations, and by providing for the free and unlimited coinage by all the nations of all the gold and silver which can be mined in all countries, at the proper ratio, THEREFORE, RESOLVED, That the State Assembly of the State of Colorado, by joint resolution, does hereby respectfully ask consideration by the members of the Peace Congress now sitting at Versailles of the advantage which would come to all peoples from the adoption of the bimetallic standard by all the nations represented at that Congress. RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State of the State of Colorado be, and hereby is, requested to engross and certify, without delay, a copy of these preambles and this joint resolution and forward the same to the Honorable Robert Lansing, Secretary of State of the United States, with the request of this Assembly that it be submitted for their consideration to the members of the Peace Congress of Nations now sitting at Versailles and their attention publicly called to their tenor. Approved: February 19, 1919. SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION No. 20 (By Senators O'Brien, Slattery, King, Andrew and Tobin) BE IT RESOLVED, THAT WHEREAS, At the request of the Government of the United States, made by the Department of the Interior, the War Industries Board, the War Trade Board, the Shipping Board and the Emergency Fleet Corporation, a great many patriotic citizens of the State of Colorado, as well as of other states, expended large sums of money in locating, developing, equipping and operating properties for the production of chrome, manganese, pyrites and tungsten to supply the urgent needs of their country in the prosecution of the war; and, WHEREAS, By the failure of the market for such ores, occasioned by the allowance of the excessive importation of such minerals and the manufactured products thereof, contrary to the restriction promised to the producers of said ores by certain Governmental agencies; and, WHEREAS, The Congress of the United States passed an act for the relief and payment of the losses suffered by said producers (Public No. 322); and, WHEREAS, in preparing and attempting to administer said relief act a form of Questionnaire has been prepared and submitted to secure the evidence of such losses, which Questionnaire does not conform to the said act for relief or to the true intent and purpose therein; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Colorado, in regular session, That the Secretary of the Interior and the War Minerals Relief Commission be, and they are hereby respectfully requested and urged to construe, interpret and administer said relief act, in the same spirit in which it was enacted, and that the Questionnaire, especially questions 6, 7 and 8 thereof, be changed to conform to the true spirit of said act, in order that justice may be done to all claimants, and the obligations of the Government fully discharged to all said producers of said minerals. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That this resolution be enrolled and one copy sent to the Honorable Secretary of the Interior, Hon. Franklin K. Lane, and one copy to the Special Commissioner of the Department of the Interior, Hon. John F. Shafroth. Approved: April 9, 1919. (By SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL No. 3. Senators Tobin, Hetherington, O'Brien, Slattery, Bannister. To The Honorable Woodrow Wilson, President of the Whereas, The railroads of the United States are now under federal control; and Whereas, the narrow gauge branch of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad between Salida, Colorado, and Montrose, Colorado, is inadequate for the needs and development of the extensive agriculture, live stock, coal and metal mining industries of the vast domain tributary to said narrow gauge line of railroad, as is evidenced in the fact that all broad gauge shipments of products from this section have to be routed via Grand Junction, Colorado, necessitating an additional of 142 miles which creates added delay, expense and losses; and Whereas, the Uncompahgre Valley project, one of the largest governmental irrigation undertakings in the entire west is located at Montrose and along said narrow gauge line of railroad and is now in process of development; and Whereas, embraced in this great domain are vast, partially developed coal fields, including the only shipping anthracite mines west of Pennsylvania; also the greatest shipping center of livestock in the State, and the most important producing field of carnotite ores in the nation; and Whereas, embraced in this great domain are large fields of low grade ores containing gold, silver, copper, zine and other minerals, which under the present inade |