Gilpin observer., 1899-03-23
WHAT THE COLORADO
LEGISLATURE IS DOING.

Senator McCreery's mechanics lien
law passed with only one dissenting
vote.
The Paris Exposition appropriation
and Colorado museum bills have been
laid upon the table.
The House has passed the bill to raise
the tax on insurance premiums froul
TWO to three per cent.
The House anti-scrip bill has been
reported without recommendation and
placed upon the calendar.
The Senate has passed Senator Whit
ford's bill cutting the wages of court
stenographers from $40 to SO per day.
The Senate almost unanimously
passed Ammons' bill appropriating $5,
600 for the Denvcr-Palmer Lake cycle
path.
The aggregate bridge, road and well
appropriations of this Legislature will
be S242, 900, of which $211, 200 will come
from the internal improvement fund.
The House bill changing the manage.
ment of the state capitol was reported
adversely. The measure would have
abolished the State Board of Capitol
Managers.
Senator Crosbys bill to reorganize
the management of the Insane Asylum
was reported favorably by the Senate
in committee of the whole, after a ses-
sion lasting nearly all night.
The contest between Mr.. Tanquary
and Mr.. Fisher for the senatorship OF
the Twenty seventh senatorial district
has been decided in favor of Mr.. Tan
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The general appropriation bill Is now
ready for introduction in the House.
The Appropriation Committee VIII
pass on it at the first meeting, and II
Will be introduced at the next follow
ing session.
The Senate has concurred in the
House amendments TO Senator Nc
Creery's retrenchment bill. One of the
amendments provides that printing
clerks in the future shall be expert
proof readers.
1t was stated in the House the other
day that Governor Thomas will refuse
to sign the bill for excess employees
until the Legislature passes the Dill
which will prevent their employment IN
the future.
a paper was started among members
of the House yesterday to raise sub
scription to buy n watch and chain
for the speaker The feeling over GER
tain bits of legislation has not yet sub
sifed and many of the members re-
fused to contribute.
The House Committee on Revision
has concluded 10 amend all the appro-
priation bills for roads and bridges
that coll Of hn Uannrnl
fund, so that they will -ead to use the
fund to be returned to the internal
improvement fund from the capitol
fund.
Among the bills that passed third
reading in the Senate was one to allow
railroad companies to buy up connect
ing lines and make one long through
road. The bill was introduced. 1t is
stated. at the request of the Colorado
Southern. which wishes to get all its
small lines making up its great through
line one title and one organization.
The House has passed n bill appro-
priating $4,000 to erect n new hall Of
metallurgy in connection for the State
School of Mines, and for improving
the heating facilities. 1t has also ap-
propriated $4,000 for discharging the
floating debt of the institution. There
seems to be no doubt of the concur
renee of the Senate.
Representative Canon says he is per-
fectly willing that his sparring bill be
amended so as to provide for n penalty.
The author of the famous bill says he
will appear before the appropriate COM
mittee of the Senate and suggest that
such an amendment be made. He will
then make the motion in the House that
that body concur therein.
The House has passed the following
Senate bills: BY Senator Porterfield-
To reduce the legal rate of interest on
county. municipal and school warrants
from g to 6 per cent. BY Senator Tay-
lor-To provide for the compiling and
publishing of the journals of the SEN
ate and House. BY Senator Parks
To provide for the combining of rail
road corporations.
Senator Stewart declares that Gov
ernor Thomas Is Influenced in his at
titude toward the management of the
insane asylum by political ambition.
The Pueblo senator viciously attacks
the motives of s. b. No. 1913 Crosby.
to vest the management of the asylum
In state lunacy board. He declares
that the sole object of the bill is to re-
move DIR. Thombs. and that the gov
ernor, in demanding that the superin-
tendent be removed. is spreading his
sails to catch the breezes of popular
ity.
1t may be that Representative FL
liott's bill to appropriate $4,000 for the
Colorado Humane society will be killed
In the House on the ground that 1t is
unconstitutional. The bill has passed
second reading, and 1t is in the hands
of the revision committee. The latter
body considered the measure and the
majority of the members were inclined
TO the opinion that the Legislature
could not appropriate the money asked.
because the society is not under the
control of the state. Another provision