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oDO LEGISLATURE.
Fmty-Second Day.

Senate.-ln tne morning tne senate
went into executive session and con-
firmed the appointees of Governor
McIntire to the Denver Fire and Po-
lice Board. Messrs. Boyd and Gra-
ham, Populists, with Adams and Led
DIV, Democrats, voted with the Repub-
licans for confirmation.
A number of kilograms, letters and
petitions from all parts of the state
protesting against the church tax bill
were read and referred.
The Senate went into committee OF
the whole on House Bill 524, Lowell,
amending the insurance Law, assessing
companies on their gross proceeds, IL
stead of net proceeds, as heretofore.
The bill passed.
Ex-Governor Thayer of Nebraska
was introduced to the Senate and oc-
cuped a seat by the side of the presi-
dent.
Going into committee Of the whole
on general orders, Senate Bill oil.
Kennedy, creating state examiner
of county treasurers, was read. 1t was
defeated.
House-The House, in committee of
the whole, took up the question of re-
ports of state officers. The bill intro.
duced by Representative Crow was
first considered.
This provided that the reports OF
elective state officers should be limited
to 1000 copies, with all other reports
limited to 500 copies. with the eXceD-
tions of the state engineer and coal
mine inspector, of which there shall
be 1000 copies printed. No limit is
put on the size of reports of elective Of
ficers or the engineer and coal mines
inspector. Other reports are limited to
100 pages.
recommended the bill to pass
Mrs. Holly's bill providing for an
educational test for voting was knoch-
ed out by a big majority. The bill
provided that no person should be al
lowed to vote unless able to read In
English the constitution of the United
States and the state of Colorado. Mrs.
Holly spoke long in favor of the meas
ure, but 1t was defeated.
Forty Third Day.
Senate.-Senator Boyd's bill to pun
ish seduction was considered in cont
mittee of the whole and recommended
for passage. 1t makes this offense
punishable by imprisonment from one
to twenty years. The age limit Of the
woman was fixed at IS years.
A bill by Senator Drake to require
the justices of the peace to tax the
costs of all criminal examinations be-
| fore them and report them to the
chairman of the county commissioners
every day was next considered. The
author said it was intended to be a
check on the exorbitant fees charged.
Hartzell then moved an amendment
whereby justices might, in counties
other than the first class, certify their
bills under their own hands unless the
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ties ordered otherwise. The amend
ment carried and the bill was favor
ably reported.
The bill to have the reports of state
institutions printed at the Mute and
Blind Institute, was defeated.
The bill abolishing capital punish
ment was favorably reported. 1t pro-
vides for five days solitary confinement
each month for life convicts.
The Senate defeated On third read
ing a bill to regulate the employment
of deputy sheriffs, and to require them
to be citizens and residents of the
county. Another bill to pay the en-
ployes for assisting in organizing the
Senate passed third reading.
A bill by Senator Felker to limit the
time in which action can be brought
for debts contracted outside the state
to six years, passed second reading.
House.-The amendments to the
Lowell bill requiring insurance com.
panies to pay on the gross instead of
the net receipts were concurred in.
A resolution authorizing the publica-
ton of the Waite and McIntire inau:,-
ural addresses in Spanish was adopted
The following bills passed second
reading:
To give Kiowa county two terms of
court instead of one.
By Morris, to amend the law relat-
ing to commitments to the Industrial
school.
To limit police power to water COM
missioners.
To limit the term of leases for school
lands to ten years and making provis-
ions for renewing leases to the holders
by agreement.
To appropriate money to pay the ex
penses of the Inauguration and another
to pay the expenses of the hold-over
senators who inquired into the state
canal and Twin Lakes proposition.
The Denver charter was taken up at
the evening session.
Forty Fourth Day.