The Springfield herald., 1899-07-07

$1,000: county judges. S1S,6O0; treas
urers $500; sheriffs, S21 900; county
clerks. $40. 400. Senator Evans had in
troduced similar measure in the Sell
ate. but withdrew it in favor of the
House bill.
The Arapahoe county delegation %
the Senate held n rather stormy ses
sion over the precinct option bill, Sen
ators Philip and Schermerhorn having
Il passage at arms. The committee. by
vote of 6 to .. decided to report an
amendment TO Senator Philips precinct
option bill to make it apply to the en-
tire state, instead of merely to Denver
and cities having 10000 inhabitants
and over. 1t was Senator Philip who
offered the amendment to his own bill.
When he did so Senator Schermerhorn
scored his fellow member for hs
change of front. and Senator Philip re
piled with equal vigor. The bill will
be referred TO the committee of III
whole without recommendation.
The State University will not receive
from the Legislature the amount o
money asked. if the recommendation
of the joint finance committees of III
Senate and House of Representatives
is followed by the two bodies. AT II
prolonged session of the joint commit
tee it was decided to recommend an
| appropriation of $4,000 as the maxi
/ mum amount, TO be contingent upon
| the passage of certain revenue bills
| contemplated by the committees. The
| amount asked by the directors Of the
university is S1TT.0OO. OF this amount
$50 600 WAS TO have been for the main
tenance of the institution during the
next two years and the rest for i'm
provements. among which was n pro
posed library building.
| The Senate has passed a bill in re
| lation TO costs in appellate courts. 1t
| provides that in all cases where an
| appeal is taken OF writ of error sued
| out and transcript of the record or
! the evidence in the court below is pre-
| pared. ii shall be the duty of the clerk
or stenographer preparing the same to
| certify thereon the legal fees paid
therefor by the appellant or plaintiff
| in error. and the clerk of the court in
which the same shall be filed shall tax
| such fees rs part of the costs Of the
| case. and in case of reversal the same
shall be paid by or collected from the
appellee or defendant in error In the
same manner ns other costs. The
emergency clause provides that the
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well as those hereafter brought.
Labor had n hearing Tuesday even
| ing before the Senate committee hav-
ing charge of affairs concerning the
toilers. The talking was done on ii.
b. No. % MOORE. extending the eight
hour law to apply to laborers in under
ground mines. The principal point of
contention was the proposed amend
ment. suggested by the mine owners
and other opponents of the measure,
adding the words: .For time actually
employed" The friends of the bill in
sist that this will open the way for
endless contention between employers
and employees 10 define the meaning of
the amendment. and will have the III
innate effect of keeping the act In con
tinuous litigation. 1t will make it pos
sible, they say, for mine owners to
hold their men underground for sew
eral hours overtime, IN case of n break
down of machinery or other accidental
delay of operations.
l. T. Huff, secretary of the Denver
Retail Coal Dealers Association, testi
fed before the trust investigation com
mittee of the House, and by his an
swers convinced Chairman Steele tina,
the case was made. Mr.. Huff said
that fifty-five of the 100 coal dealers
of the city belonged to the association
which operated under n strong agree
ment. The dealers were divided into
classes. A. B and C. according to the
amount of coal handled, and $50 year
was the price of membership. Sched-
ules of prices We're furnished by the
coal companies and dealers must ad-
here to these. Any violations of the
agreement We're punished by fines of
from $40 to $50. until the offsnses be-
came aggravated, when the delinquent
was expelled from the association.
The principal part of his testimony
was concerning the agreement and the
punishment for violations.
The finance committee reported back
II. b. No. 5O5, with many amend
ments. The bill was introduced by
Speaker Smith and designs to limit
the levy to be made by counties for
,, the general fund 1t was introduced
to enable the state to get larger
share of the revenue. The state tax
being limited by the constitution to 4
mills, county assessors and boards of
commissioners had acquired the habit
of running down county valuations
and up the county levy The state
thus did not receive a proper share of
the revenue. The bill, as amended, d-
5 vides the counties of the state into ten
classes and places on each class limits
, of levy for general county purposes
The limit for Arapahoe is set at 2ih
/ mills the lowest, while Mineral county,
in the tenth class. is allowed 20 mills.
Luetgcrt Case Recalled.