The Holly chieftain., 1901-03-22
Summary of the
Colorado Legislature

The amendment offered by Senator
Stewart to section twenty Of the rcVe-
nue. bin proyi les for a saloon tax ana
Is very fun in its details. The auditor
OF state Is designated as the officer TO
SEE. that what are to be known as bar
room registers" are used by all saloons
and sellers of liquors Sellers of liquors
re 10 register sales on these reg
fsters and TO pay TO the state taxes as
follows: Malt liquors, half pint OF
less J., cent: more than one-half pint.
cent: alcoholic liquor and wines. ~
cents on less than half pint. and thence
rancing gradually up 10 40 cents on
gallon.
Grand Army officials are particularly
anxious to secure the passage OF two
bills now before the state Senate.
These bills are ). i. 25S, 10 appropri-
ate $4,000 for Improvements at the
soldiers and Sailors Home, and $. Il.
80. providing $4,000 for the mainte-
nance of the home for the present bi-
ennial period The proposed amend
ments are in addition to all sums 10 be
provided by the federal government
for This home. Department Command
er II. NJ. Oralood. Colonel Thomas j.
Foote and Colonel Marshall S. Craw
ford are circulating petitions for the
passage of these bills and they are be
ing signed by all old soldiers.
The Senate has passed the Philip anti
trust bill which as amended reads as
follows: All arrangements. trusts or
combinatio I ons between companies, cor
porations or persons. made with view
to, or which do, restrict full and free
competition in the manufacture. i'm
porta;ion, transportation or sale of any
article or articles Of commerce or con-
sumption. or rates or commissions OF
insurance. shall be deemed and are
hereby declared TO be unlawful for any
company, corporation or persons to en-
Ter into. or execute any contract, or
agreement. by which they shall bind
themselves not to buy, or dispose OF
any article or commodity, of commerce
or consumption. or rates or commits
sions of insurance. where. by reasons
of said contract. they shall preclude or
restrict competition" 1t is provided
that transgresSiOn against this act
shall be known as n conspiracy. Any
corporation violating this act shall for
felt its charter and its franchise. Its
corporate existence upon violation Of
this act shall end at once so far as
Colorado is concerned. The attorney
genera. shall enforce the law. The fine
for any violation of this act on the part
Of any of the individuals engaged IL
such II conspiracy against trade" is
from 800 to 5000 and the imprison-
ment sentence for individuals may be
made from one to ten years. A clause
is inserted making the following ex-
emptions: provided, however, that
nothing in this act shall be construed
to apply in any manner TO the Organi-
zation of labOrers: neither shall this act
apply to live stock in the hands of the
raisers thereof, nor to agricultural, hor-
ticulturnl. or agricultural products re-
naming in the hands of the producer"
1t is claimed by its opponents that
these exemptions will render the meas
ure unconstitutional.
House bill No. &C. by Mr.. Judkins,
for constitutional amendment au-
thorizing the initiative and referen-
DUN, was defeated in the House by a
vote of 3G for to 10 against. not receiv-
ing the necessary two-thirds vote, ten
members being absent, excused ana
not toting. The vote was announced
as follows: Yeas-Ballinger, Bolsing-
er, Bradley, Burwell. Galley, Chisholm,
Cunningham. Davidson, Dunlavy, Fall,
German, Hammond, Hart, Hearth,
Hollenbeck, Insley, Judkins, Kennedy,
Madden, Manion. Martin, MCGUIRE,
Meredith, O'Connell. Ong, Park.
Pitschke. Pochon, Raney, Rawalt.
Smith, Sprague, Weldon. White, VIII
let's. Mr.. Speaker-3G. Nays->Adams,
Bartels, Beatty, Bell, Briscoe, Csnnon.
Carringer, Dickerson, Eaches, Garcia,
Harris, Lewis, Mclean, Morris. Platt,
Riley, Schweigert, Taylor, Twomb!ey
10. Absent, excused and not voting
Davis, Dinkel, Gabrin, Lorber, Lu-
bers, Lyttle, Neeley, Sanchez. White
law-1O. Mr.. Morris voted no for the