North Park union., 1901-03-01

anu Miss Ruth Locke McSos VIZ -
ried at Trinidad on the 14th ihs'an..
1t was n church wedding and there "as
a large attendance.
The Invitation to the Utah 'Leelsia-
ture to visit the Colorado Leglsiu.ui,s ~
has uncovered another plan. nat 10
for the Colorado Legislature 10 .is,.
the Utah Legislature The pihh may
not be sprung until the Mormon ADVENT
In Denver.
Chief Justice Campbell of the su-
preme Court was an attentive llsteiiel
to part of the afternoon debate OH the
Taylor elections bill. The bill proposes
to amend the constitution anu pio-
vides that county and state eiet'ion'
shall come Mt the same time. mus
cording to Senator Taylor, Saving .ns
state S25OOOO n year in money anu
much trouble and anxiety In campaign
work.
Two bills were sent to the governor
recently, neatly typewrittcn, the mrs. ~
have been cngrossed by that hhe'hou.
The bills were the two originating ~
the Sepnte to amend the charter OF the
CITY of Black Hawk. The work was
very neatly done, the bills presenting
far better appearance than had peen
expected. From this time on the great
er part OF all the bills passed VIII pe so
engrossed.
Tho Senate bill to repeal Cannon's
nrIze.fpht law failed of. passage In the
House by n vote of 81 to "a. 1t was
shown that the effect Of the repeai
would be to wipe from the statue
books aIl legislation on the suD)ect,
leaving Colorado with no laws at all
concerning pugilism. On this showing
many voted to strike the enacilng
clause from the repeating Dill. Inc
Cannon law is now before the supreme
Court. and IL that tribunal decides II 10
be unconstitutional previous leSisia-
tion or the subject will stand.
The Buckln land tax bill after much
debate was recommended for passage py
the committee of the whole in the sen
ate The author consented TO three VI
tai amendments. The first OF these
struck out section ., the provision that
the Legislature be empowered to put
the system in force in the state. rms
leaves the bill purely local option,
or county. measure. The second amend
ment provided that 400 resident tax
PAYERS" instead of 100 voters must
sign n petition before n vote can be
taken on the question In any county.
The third amendment makes 2-miil
limit on the extra taxation CT iran
chises. rights of way. etc. AS amended
the bill was ordered reprinted and rec
commended for third reading and maj
passage.
Mrs. Hcartzs bill. known ns House
bill No. 243. which has been favorably
reported to the House. is entitled. "A
bill for an act requiring the consent of
both husband and wife for the mort
gaging or sale of property exempt by
law" 1t reads rs follows: "Section /.
Any chattel mortgage upon property
exempt by law shall be void unless
both husband and wife join In such
mortgage. Section 9. Any sale by
chattcl mortgage. pledge, bill OF sale
or otherwise of any personal property
which is by law exempt from sale by
execution or attachment shall be VOID
unless the same he executed by the
wife Jointly with the husband This
bill IL urged on the ground that per-
sonal property most commonly mort
gagged is that in constant use by the
wife and In which she has therefore
superior rights because Of her greater
interest.
Legislation is not all play. Sometimes
II is very hard work. The Denver Re-
publicnn of the 10Th instant says:
:.ChaIrman Ammons. chairman Of the
senate finance committee, and Represen-
tatlye Mcclure, chairman of the House
appropriations committee. remain
ed at the state capitol yesterday morn
ing after the joint committee had work
ed nearly all night md completed its
report and had passed upon all the i'm
portant features of the bill. They were
still there aiding the clerks in making
out the amendments in proper form
when the committee members again
oppeared for the caucus mt $50 o'clock
I'm the morning, when the entire work
was formally agreed to again just as
1t had been decided upon before nd-
iournment at o'clock in the morning.
Both men remained hard at work with
the committee clerks until late In the
afternoon without any sleep whatever
and about 4 o'clock the bill rs sent out
from the joint committee was turned
over to the appropriations committee of
the House. according to agreement"
The proposed joint memorial to Con-
gress. introduced by Mr. Scldomridge,
of Colorado Springs. was defeated in
the Senate. The memorial criticised
severely the action of the government
in regard to the Philippines. closing as
follows: "Your memorialists think
that simple promise of ultimate indie.
pendcncc would bring about an imme-
diate and honorable peace and would In
some measure at least redeem the hid
eous national blunders of the past two
years" Lieutenant-G Governor Coates
ruled that the memorial should have
been introduced within the thirty days
limit as bill, but that while 1t would
be impossible to introduce bill at this
late date, memorial could be intro
duced by suspending the Senate rule
which requires memorials to take the
same course as bill. 1t would require
a two-thirds vote to do this. Although
there were only four votes against sus-
pension, owing to the absence of many
members 1t was impossible to muster
the two-thirds Of the Senate In its sup
port.
Mr.. Insley's H. B. 92 ought to discour-
age bicycle thieves. 1t provides that
the stealing of bicycles shall be deemed
grand larceny. 1t passed second read
ing In the House without any opposI-
tion whatever and it will doubtless pass
third reading in the same manner A
penitentIary sentence will certainly be
a deterrent. The crime Is so easily
committed, discovery SO difficult and
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