The silver lance., 1899-05-12
GOSSIP FROM DENVER
AND THE STATE CAPITOL.

| the cable will proceed rapidly. The
Trenton wire firm is winding as rapid
| ly as possible the cable destined for
the Seventeenth avenue line. 1t is ex-
pected to be here early next week. This
cable will weigh forty tons and will be
more than five and one-half miles in
length. Additional cables may be pur-
chased at Chicago by Superintendent
Durbin. who is now in that city. 1t is
asserted that the Transway Company
has spent $35,O0O for new cables.
! All attempts to secure home rule for
Denver have come to naught. The
Legislature wasted lot of time dis
cussing measures that were submitted
i to it and the only result was the pass
age of bill submitting the whole mat
ter to a convention of Denver people.
/, who should formulate a charter. This
bill has just been vetoed by Governor
Thomas on the ground that it involved
+, too much expense, he claiming that
the convention would cost the city $780,
900. In reply to this the Rocky Noun
tain News says that charter revision
along the lines proposed would save
! the city $4,000 year in salaries. The
paper attacks Governor Thomas saw
agely for his action, claiming that it is
due to his personal ambition. In view
of the fact that Tom Patterson, the
editor, was formerly the warm friend
and partner of Governor Thomas,
makes the controversy interesting.
| The Hollenbeck- -Ballinger state board
of assessors bill was decided by the
| Supreme Court to be unconstitutional,
because the amendment made in the
| Senate had not been printed as stated
in the interrogatives submitted to the
| court by Governor Thomas. An extra
session will not necessarily follow. In
fact, although one is possible, it is not
probable. On the subject Governor
Thomas says: "The decision of the
court on this bill does not make an
extra session necessary. There have
been no developments as yet to make
an extra session necessary. / am sor-
ry the court did not pass upon the
| question as to whether or not such
state board of assessors, composed in
part of county officers, would be con
stitutional, but even deciding as it did
on the failure to print the Senate
amendment I will deem II my duty to
veto the bill. That statement is made
on the theory that the amendment Of
the Senate was not printed. / will look
up the record again and make GER
tain"
! Governor Thomas has signed road
and bridge bills appropriating a total
of $75, AGO.
They were Senator Ammons' $1,000
cycle path to Palmer Lake.
Senator Ehrrhart's $4,000 convict
labor road from Pueblo to Leadville.
| A bridge over Blue river, 5000.
A wagon road from Wagon Wheel
Gap to Creede, $4,000.
Wagon road from Montrose to Ma
turita, $1,000.
wa0on road Frov,, rrrtu1No1 +o Sxcco
wall, backed by Senator Barela, $1,000.
Senator Wheeler's bridge over the
Roaring Fork, in Pitkin county, $2,5OO
All these are Senate bills. The three
House bills signed were:
| Wagon road In San Miguel county,
$1,000.
Wagon road at Bear creek, $1,000.
Wagon road from Empire to Ber-
thoud pass, $1,000.
Two other bills were signed. One
was Senate bill No. PIT, by Senator
MeCreery, increasing the state tax for
the Normal School from a sixth to a
fifth of a mill. This increases the an
nual income of the Normal School by
| $1,000.
At a conference Of state officials, in
Guiding Governor Thomas, Attorney
General Campbell and Register Chip
ley Of the land board, Thursday, it
was decided to make a fight for the
states share of the Ute reservation to
be opened up to settlers. Under the
law Of 1867, as amended in 1880 and
1895, regarding the throwing open of
government domain, the state within
whose boundaries the land is located
is allowed to retain sections 16 and 80
in all townships for the benefit of its
permanent school fund. President Nc
toll a.t1 1xS1 Int vsrrry la,
his proclamation affecting the Ute res
ervation, and ever since II was issued
there was a question whether the
states rights were clear in this case.
Attorney General Campbell reported
to the board that they were, and that
the commonwealth could legally de
mand the two sections in every town.
ship. He holds further that the state
does not have TO wait to select lands
in other parts of the state in lieu of
these, but may take these as soon as
the reservation is opened up. John II.
Rankin, a Washington attorney, has
been retained to look after the states
interests. Register Chipley of the land
board has gone to Durango to file on
the states sections. The state will be
entitled to about $500 acres, under
the law.
| The Rocky Mountain News states
that a vigorous and persistent attack
upon the trusts and combines Of Colo
RADIO is to be made by Attorney Cen
eral Campbell under the common law
as construed by Attorney General
Griggs of Ohio Mr.. Campbell is quo
/, ted as saying: AS the thing stands
! now, and l have made as yet only
i, casual investigation of the subject, l
feel that 1 will have little difficulty in
proving the illegality of trusts in gen
eral and certain specific trusts in par
| ticular. We were disappointed in the
| failure of the Legislature to pass an
antitrust law, but nevertheless we do