Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1917 — STUDENTS SHOW THEM HOW [ARTICLE]

STUDENTS SHOW THEM HOW

F’u . . | Schoolchildren Hold Session In Colorado Senate in' Presence of Senators. • < Denver. Colo. — A lesson in the ways and means of running a legislative body was given the senate of the state off Colorado when the senate of the Emerson public schooL. of Denver sat tn The seats of the senators at the state capitol and field a ten-minute session. The Emerson school organization is a self-governing body, having all the officers and working machinery that hold forth ih the government of the United States. The “senate” was called to order by Vice President Ell Dorsey, thirteen years old, who is presiding officer of the senate. He Immediately called for the reading of bJJIs us proReading Clerk Beatrice Powell, ten, assisted by Enrolling Clerk Lulu Willlard, also ten, then read bin„.No. TT? by SehcrinrrhTffg, wlffFh was the “bone dry” bill under discussion in. the Colorado assembly. No sooner had the bill been read than Ethel Tonowski, who seemed to lie the Jim Hani LewTs of Hie senate, moved that the enacting' clause be stricken dut. Vice President Dorsey called for a vote and the enacting clause was stricken out. The vice president then the senate for its courtesy in allowing the seSsioir.