The silver lance., 1899-02-24
WHAT THE COLORADO
LEGISLATURE is DOING.

The bill to create Teller county is
meeting with unexpected opposition.
A delegation from the Wyoming
| Legislature visited the capitol Thurs
day.
A vast number of petitions have
| been presented favOring the new local
| option bill.
So far there have been 26S bills In
troduced in the House and 2S9 In the
Senate-a total of 557.
A bill has been introduced In the
Senate to enable the people OF Puepio
| to bond themselves for paving pur-
| poses.
The citizens of Dolores county petl-
ton for an appropriation OF $o,oOO 10
build a wagon road from Rico to Nav
ajo basin.
A committee has been appointed to
| Investigate the survey of the Maxwell
land grant, about which there are
many complaints.
The House, sitting as a committee Vi
the whole, has recommended ior pns.
sage a bill to strike out the poyco.'
clause in the present blackiisting law
Speaker Smith has denied the cour-
| tesies of the floor to broker Wno mas
| been offering to purchase raliroau
transportation of members ana ehi-
ployes.
Representative Dickerson Of Eibert
county made lengthy and care1uiiy
prepared speech in the House Weunes
day in reply to the speech of Mr.. Bryan
of Nebraska.
Governor Thomas expresses the
opinion that the only way out OF tne
present financial dilemma of the state
was an act re-establishing the levy
limit for counties.
Mr.. Garcia has introduced a bill for
an artesian well on state land IN Con
ejos county, which is designed TO wa
ter lands that have been bargained Tor
by the Mormon colony in that section.
A bill to permit prize fights Win
five-ounce gloves, upon payment Vi
81 900 license fee, has been lntrouuceu
in the House. 1t was referred to the
committee on temperance.
The bill to do away with party en-
blems on the ballot seems TO be cham
pioned in the Senate principally Dy
Senators Ammons and Harris. 1t Is
opposed by McCreery, Barela, Adams
and Whitford.
Senator Newell's bill for capital pun
ishmtnt is Intended to restore the
death penalty for muraer without
giving the jury any option in the mat
ter. 1t provides for executions al
Canon City in private.
Representative Adams intends 10
amend the election law SO that among
head of bribery will be the hiring of
carriages or other vehicle for the pur-
pose of conveying voters to the polls.
Mr.. Rawalt, Of Gunnison, says the
DeopIe luye grown urea OF having the
government of the city of Denver man
ipulated by the state officers as ma
chine, the subject of charter REFORM
bobbing up neffectually at every ses-
sion of the General Assembly and de-
laying necessary legislation.
A bill is being prepared for introduc-
ton into the Legislature providing that
superintendents of irrigation and lrrl-
CATION commissioners be paid by the
state. Under the present law the COM
missioners are paid by the dinerent
counties. the small county Of Phillips,
for instance, paying just as much as
the large county Of Arapahoe.
Illuminating oils are to be looked
after by a state Inspector, whose sal
ary will be, If the bill passes, $500
year. He is to inspect every barrel OF
oil and mark it, as is done in other
states. the fash test at 12O degrees
being the proof. The deputies he may
appoint are to receive salary accord
ing to number of barrels Of oil In
spected.
Senator Hill has introduced bill to
prohibit the publication of the ballot
advertisement in daily papers in coun-
ties of the fourth and fifth class. Pa
pers, the author states. have been es-
tablished in the small towns of the
state for the sole purpose of printing
the ballot advertisements at the time
of elections.
A majority Of the House committee
on counties and county lines, led by
Chairman Morris, favors the passage
of the bill for the new county of Tel
Ter. Two members of the committee,
Jones and Cannon, have declared
against the present consideration of the
bill. Mr.. Jones will, it is understood,
vote against the new county, and Mr..
Cannon is undecided.
The protest of Representative Nc
Lean against the payment of the extra
employees provided for by the law of
1895 has been sustained. Ten en-
ployes of the house, all of the pages
| and the docket clerk of the Senate
are interested. The decision cuts down
| the pay of the docket clerk 81 day,
reduces the pages 80 cents and leaves
tie other employees named without
Jobs.
Representative Ovington is having a
bill prepared to provide for the estab-
lishment of board of examination for
mine superintendents, mine bosses and
fire bosses of coal mines. The bill pro-
vfdes that the governor shall appoint
two men to assist the coal mine inspec-