The Elk Mountain pilot., 1899-03-14

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The House has killed Mrs. Wright's
Dill to tax each voter 80 cents.
The governor has signed the bill per
mltttinS Pueblo TO issue bonds for
street paving and other improvements.
House bill No $50 was amended to
compel assessors or their deputies to
attend the meeting of the State Board
OF Assessors, and was recommended
Tor favorable action.
Senator Smiths bill to force assess
ment companies to print in red ink at
the top of their policies: This CON
tract is issued ON the assessment plan
and its cost is not fixed" has been
killed
Without the emergency cause the in
determinate sentence bill, drawn by the
State Board of Charities, and intro
duced by Senator Stewart, was finally
passed by the Senate Tuesday. The
vote was 21 to 10.
The Senate finance committee has
recommended that the bill for n wagon
road along Green lake to Clear Creek
gulch pass. 1t also recommended for
passage Mr.. Seldomridge's bill for the
payment of the mobilization of troops
in the present war.
From the committee of the whole the
House has favOrably reported the bill
apDropriating money in aid of the State
Home for Dependent Children. The bill
contemplateS the erection and equip
ment of II new home on a new site, and
the appropriation of 100000 therefor.
The people of Cripple Creek are pre-
pairing Il lot of medals for the mem
bers of the House who stood by the
Teller county bill and n banquet is
proposed for Saturday night next
week. The opponents of the bill are
talAng of getting twenty leath-
er medals.
The House was amused the other day
by j. Max Clark. who asked permission
to sit with his hat on. The Weld coun
ty member said the room was so chilly
that he could hardly endure it. His re
quest was granted and throughout the
morning he Wore his hat. In the after
noon he merely wore his ovcrcoat.
The Senate passed the following bills:
To publish records of Colorado volun-
teers; concerning security for costs; to
repeal general section 1,5S1; to enable
counties to refund Indebtedness, to en-
able school districts TO refund indebt-
edness; to enable counties to issue
bonds in satisfaction of judgments.
BY parliamentary coup Mr.. Can
non forced his medical council bill
through the House on second reading
Saturday. Only two-thirds of the
members were present, and the friends
of the bill had majority of about 4.
The opponents of the bill say they
have no fear but that they can defeat
the bill on third reading. when all the
members are present.
The general appropriation bill will
appear in the House, II is expected.
early next week. The committee has
been gathering statistics from all the
state departments for the past several
weeks, and comparing them with the
bill of two years ago. The work is
nearly completed and Clerk Henry
Wood expects 10 have the bill drawn
up by Monday morning.
Senators Hill and Taylor and Attor-
ney General Campbell and Attorney
Bryant appeared before the judiciary
committee of the House Thursday
night to argue the points of Senator
Philips antitrust bill. 1t was pretty
generally agreed that the exception of
melon and fruit trusts from the pro
visions would vitiate the bill. The jul
dietary committee viii try to cure the
defects.
Mrs. Carrie Kaiser is confident that
the people of Cripple Creek will ask an
investigation of the reported scheme to
dope" members of the House who
favored the Teller county bill. She
says her connection with the matter
was simply TO discover what the plans
Were and expose them. The result
placed her in a light that is not at all
agreeable. She has asked an investiga-
ton that will prove her exact connec-
ton.
Speaker Smith thinks the question
raised in the House that the bills ap-
propriating money from the general
fund for roads and bridges was with
out a knowledge of existing conditions.
The recommendations of the commit
tees on finance and appropriations
were not made, he says, until it had
been proven there would be money
enough for them. More than that he
believes the estimates of the finance
committee We're about S150,000 short
of his own personal estimate.
The local option bill was defeated in
the Senate Friday after prolonged and
acrimonious discussion by the follow
ing vote: In favor of the measure,
Ammons, Evans. Hill, Maxwell, Nc
Creery, Newell Philip, Porterfield, Roe,
Schermahorn, Stratton. Swink, West
-13. Opposed Adams. Barela, Brown
ing, Crosby, FELTON,, Fisher Gaymon.
Harris. Parks, Smith, Stewart, Taylor,
Wheeler, Whitford-14. This vote
killed the only temperance measure
asked of the present Legislature.
Just before the House took a recess
Monday evening, Mr.. Montgomery
from the committee en- revision and con
stitution. reported back Senate Bill No
50, the Teller county bill, with the rec
ommendation that it be engrossed and
placed on third reading. The report
was signed by the full committee.
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