Lex Anteinternet: The Wyoming Legislature 2020, Part Two: March 7, 2020
A lot of bills died this past week, some of which died through a parliamentary move of legislative leaders just not assigning a bill that passed the other house to a committee. Stuff like that tends to make the bills supporters mad, but its a long established legislative practice and it demonstrates why a leadership position has real power.
So, as to bills that didn't make it.
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And the House bill that required two man train crews died in the Senate.
Saturday, March 7, 2020
Sunday, March 1, 2020
Lex Anteinternet: March 1, 2020. Railroads Revert To Civilian Control.
Lex Anteinternet: March 1, 2020. Railroads Revert To Civilian Contro...:
On this day in 1920, the railroads, which had been taken over by the U.S. Government during World War One reverted to civilian control.
The country's rail had been nationalized during the war and then run by the United States Railroad Administration as the system was proving to not be up to the tasks that were imposed upon it due to the crisis of World War One. Additionally, concerns over pricing and labor unrest called for the action. Following the war there was some serious consideration given to retaining national control over the lines, which labor favored, but in the end the government returned the system to its owners.
While U.S. administration of the railroad infrastructure was a success, it was not repeated during the Second World War when the rail system was just as heavily taxed by an even heavier wartime demand. There proved to be no need to do it during World War Two.
Not too surprisingly, the news featured prominently on the cover of Laramie's newspapers, as the Laramie was, and is, a major Union Pacific Railroad town.
On the same day a movie featuring Wyoming as the location (which doesn't mean it was filmed here), was released.
Likewise, the reversion was big news to the double railhead town of Casper.
In reality, the sheep wars in Wyoming had largely come to an end by this time, although it was definitely within living memory. The Spring Creek Raid of 1909 had only been a decade prior, and there had been two more raids in 1911 and 1912, although nobody had been killed in those two latter events. The peace was, however, still an uneasy one, perhaps oddly aided by a massive decline in sheep, which still were vast in number, caused by economic conditions during the 1910s. By 1914, the number of sheep on Wyoming's ranges had been cut 40% from recent numbers. World War One reversed the decline, and then dumped the industry flat, as the war increased the demand for wool uniforms and then the demand suddenly ended with the end of Germany's fortunes. Colorado, however, would see a sheep raid as late as this year, 1920.
The novel the movie was based on was by author, Caroline Lockhart, a figure who is still recalled and celebrated in Cody, Wyoming.
Illinois born Lockhart had been raised on a ranch in Kansas and was college educated. She had aspired to be an actress but turned to writing and became a newspaper reporter in Boston and Philadelphia before moving to Cody, Wyoming in 1904 at age 33, where she soon became a novelist. During the war years she relocated to Denver, but was back in Cody shortly thereafter, until she purchased a ranch in Montana, showing how successful her writing had become. She ranched and wrote from there, spending winters in Cody until she retired there in 1950. She passed away in 1962.
The Fighting Shepherdess was her fifth of seven published novels, the last being published in 1933.
March 1, 2020. Railroads Revert To Civilian Control, Caroline Lockhart hits the Screen.
On this day in 1920, the railroads, which had been taken over by the U.S. Government during World War One reverted to civilian control.
The country's rail had been nationalized during the war and then run by the United States Railroad Administration as the system was proving to not be up to the tasks that were imposed upon it due to the crisis of World War One. Additionally, concerns over pricing and labor unrest called for the action. Following the war there was some serious consideration given to retaining national control over the lines, which labor favored, but in the end the government returned the system to its owners.
While U.S. administration of the railroad infrastructure was a success, it was not repeated during the Second World War when the rail system was just as heavily taxed by an even heavier wartime demand. There proved to be no need to do it during World War Two.
Not too surprisingly, the news featured prominently on the cover of Laramie's newspapers, as the Laramie was, and is, a major Union Pacific Railroad town.
On the same day a movie featuring Wyoming as the location (which doesn't mean it was filmed here), was released.
Likewise, the reversion was big news to the double railhead town of Casper.
The Fighting Sheperdess was the story of just that, a fighting female sheep rancher was was struggling to keep her sheep ranch against raiding cattlemen.
In reality, the sheep wars in Wyoming had largely come to an end by this time, although it was definitely within living memory. The Spring Creek Raid of 1909 had only been a decade prior, and there had been two more raids in 1911 and 1912, although nobody had been killed in those two latter events. The peace was, however, still an uneasy one, perhaps oddly aided by a massive decline in sheep, which still were vast in number, caused by economic conditions during the 1910s. By 1914, the number of sheep on Wyoming's ranges had been cut 40% from recent numbers. World War One reversed the decline, and then dumped the industry flat, as the war increased the demand for wool uniforms and then the demand suddenly ended with the end of Germany's fortunes. Colorado, however, would see a sheep raid as late as this year, 1920.
The novel the movie was based on was by author, Caroline Lockhart, a figure who is still recalled and celebrated in Cody, Wyoming.
The Fighting Shepherdess was her fifth of seven published novels, the last being published in 1933.
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