La Junta tribune., 1899-03-25
WHAT THE COLORADO
LEGISLATURE is DOING.


Senator McCrccry'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 FROM
TWO to three per cent.
The House nnti-scrip bill has been
reported without Recommendation and
placed upon the calendar.
The Senate has passed Senator Whit
ford's bin cutting the wages OF court
stcnographers from SO to So per day.
The Senate almost unanimously
passed AmmOus' bill apprcpriating 50,
900 for the Dcnyer-Palmer Lake cycle
path.
The aggregate bridge. road and well
appropriations OF this Legislature will
he $4,000. Of which S21i 200 will come
from the internal Improvement fund.
The House bin changing the manage,
ment OF the state capitol was reported
adversely. The measure would nave
abolished the State Board OF Cnpitoi
Managers.
Senator Crosby's bill to rcorcanize
the management OF the Insane Asylum
was reported fsvorably 10y the SehaIe
In committee Of the whole. after be7-
sion lasting nearly all night.
The contest between Mr. Tnnqunry
and Mr.. Fisher for the senntorship Oh
the Twenty seventh senatorial district
has been decided In favor of Mr.. IAN
ptnry ~ /, yn,a af n
The general appropriation bill is now
ready for Introduction In the hons1,
The Appropriation Committee wI
pass on II nt the first meeting, ana ~
VIII be introduced at the next follow
Ing session.
The Senate has concurred IN the
House amendments 10 Senator NC
Crccry's retrenchmcut bill One oil the
amendments provides that printing
clerks In the future shall be expert
proof readers.
1t was stated in the House the othe'
day that Governor Thomas VIII retus.
10 sign the bill for excess etiipioyes
until the Legislature passes the psh
which viii prevent their employment IN
the future.
a paper was started among members
Of the House yesterday to raise a sup-
scriptIon to buy watch ana chhih
for the speaker The feeling over cer-
tain bits OF Legislation has not yet SUD
sided 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
ihnt call for money out of the general
fund. so that they viii -end to use the
fund to he 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 new hall OF
metallurgy IN connection for the State
School Of Mines. and for improving
the heating facilities. 1t has also ap-
propriatcd 10000 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 spar-ing bill be
amended go as 10 provide for penalty.
The author OF the famous bill says he
will appear before the appropriate com
mittec OF the Senate and suggest that
such an amendment be made. He will
-. tt.t "a
that body concur therein.
The House has passed the following
Senate bills: BY Senator Portcrheld-
To reduce the legal rate OF interest on
county. municipal and school warrants
from s to q 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 $. h. No. 123 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 $1,000 for the
Colorado Humane society will be killed
in the House on the ground that II Is
unconstitutional The bill has passed
second reading. and II is in the hands
of the revision committee. The latter
body considered the measure and the
majority of the members We're 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
Of the bill is that offices In the state
ial, To, Ifa sfA1.lzfx