Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-03-23

The House has killed bill granting
n bounty on beef sugar.
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 from
two to three per cent
The House anti-scrlp 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
stenogruphers from $40 to 50 per day.
The Senate almost unanimously
passed Ammons' bill nppropriating $?.-
600 for the Dcuver-Palmer Lake cycle
path. -.
The aggregate bridge. road and well
appropriations Of this Legislature Will
he S242.OOO, OF which $211 200 will come
from the internal improvement fund.
The House bill changing the manage.
ment Of the state capitol was reportcu
adversely, The measure would have
abolished the State Board OF Capitoi
Managers.
Senator Crosby's bill to reorganizc
the management of the Insane Asylum
was reported favorably by the senate
In committee Of the whole. after scs-
sion lasting nearly all night.
The contest between Mr. TanQunry
and Mr.. Fisher for the senntorship OF
the Twenty.sevenih senatorial district
has been decided In favor Of Mr.. Tan
quarry by n vote of % TO IL.
The general appropriation bill is now
ready for Introduction In the House:
The Appropriation Committee VIII
pass on II mt the first meeting. ana II
will be introduced at the next follow
ing session.
The Senate has concurrcd In the
House amendments TO senator Nc
Crecry's retrenchmcnt bill. One or the
amendments provides that pruning
clerks In the future shall be expert
proof readers.
II 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 piii
4 which will prevent their employment I'D
the future.
a paper was started among members
of the House yesterday TO raise n SUD
scription TO buy n watch ana chnin
for the speaker. The feeling over Ger
tain bits Of Legislation has NOT yet SUD-
sided and many OF the members re-
fused to contribute.
The educational committee reported
unfavornbly the measure TO revolution
izc school management. The bill pro-
vIdcs that NIL schools In cities Of the
first. second and third class shall heat
the buildings with hot air and shall
light and vcntilntc the buildings accord
ing to the most modern methods.
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. II Is
stated. mt the request OF the Colorado
small lines making IN Its great through
line one title and one organization.
The House has passed n bill nppro-
priating $4,000 TO erect n new hall OF
mctIllurgy in connection for the Sintc
School OF Mines. and for improving
the heating facilities. II has also mp
proprinted 100000 for discharging the
floating debt OF the Institution. There
seems to be no doubt OF the concur
renee OF the Senate.
fectiy willing that his sparring bill be
amended so ms to provide for n penalty.
The author OF the famous bill says he
will appear before the appropriate COM
mittcc OF the Senate and suggest that
such nm 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 Portcriicld-
To reduce the legal rate OF interest on
county. municipal and school warrants
from 8 to 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 ut
titudc toward the management of the
insane asylum by political ambition.
The Pueblo senator viclously attacks
the motives of S. u. No. 123 Crosby.
TO vest the management of the asylum
in n state lunacy board. He declares
that the sole object of the bill Is TO re-
move Dr. Thombs. and that the gov
ernor, In demanding that the superln-
tendent be removed. is spreading his
snils TO catch the brcczcs OF popular
ity.
It 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 TINT II is
unconstitutional. The bill has passed
second reading. and II IL In the hands
of the revision committee. The Inter
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 In not under the
control of the state. Another provision