The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-05

Senate Bill No. $50, by Mr.. Copp, pro-
vides for Colorado exhibit at the
Buffalo Pan-American Exposition next
summer.
Speaker Montgomery has introduced
bill the purpose of which is to pay all
the old debts of the state by issuing
bonds. Mr.. Montgomery's bill provides
for the appointment of a non-partisan
committee of three who shall ascertain
all the outstanding Indebtedness of
the state.
The House appropriations committee
| has decided to make no report on bills,
except that they may be printed, until
all carrying appropriations are in its
hands. They will then be considered
together and recommendations made
with n view to keeping the amounts alb
\ solutely within the state revenues.
1t is probable that instead of having
different bills to cover the emergency
| debts of the various state institutions,
all may be covered by IL. B. 125. by in
creasing the contingent item of S95, 900,
made to cover old debts incurred to run
the state government. 1t is thought
| this plan may present fewer difficulties
than that of having separate act for
each Institution.
Mr. sprague's ii. B. 300 seeks to pre-
vent the larceny of small quantities of
ore, retOrts or concentrates by hedging
| about the handling and sale of quanti-
| ties under n ton in weight with restric-
tions which enables them to be traced
to the place from which they come.
| Record must be made of all sales and
shipments and evidences of ownership
be open to inspection.
Six labor unions sent in petitions,
! which were read at the same time,
| favoring Senator Bucklin's bill and the
| proposed amendment to the constitu-
ton, making an eight-hour workday.
The unions sending these petitions
We're the Miners union of Telluride,
Transfers union No. l of Florence, the
| Federation of Labor of Florence, Den
yer Trades and Labor Assembly. Brick
| layers union No. 4 of Colorado Springs
and Smeltermen's union No. % of Den
| yer.
Among the last bills introduced in
| the Senate on the last day for the intro
| ducton of bills. We're two affecting the
| Carter Museum enterprise and like
| projects. One was to appropriate S4O,-
| 600 for the Carter museum and the
| other to give the authorities in charge
| greater powers as to police protection
| and the like. Senator Stratton came
the Girls Industrial School, which pro-
vides $1,000 to finish the purchase of
| the property now being used at Fort
Logan, $4,000 for buildings and $1,000
| for water facilities and like improve
| ments.
| Senator Il. NJ. Ammons, chairman of
| the Senate finance committee, has in
i troduced in the upper branch of the
house series of separate bills to pay
the deficiencies of the past two ad-
ministrations. He did so to get such
measure before the Legislature in all
| possible forms before the time for the
introduction of bills is passed. Then
whichever course is decided upon there
will be proper bills before the Legisla
ture to act upon. State Auditor Crou-
ter is credited with promising that If
such emergency bills are passed in
proper form he will do all in his power
to see that they are paid.
| After an all day fight the employers
liability bill passed second reading in
| the Senate by decisive vote which in
dicated that it would pass third read
| ing and 20 to the House for rejection
or approval. The labor leaders who
| frequent both houses say that they are
| certain of the passage of the bill by
both houses. In the three Legislatures
previous to this the employers liability
bill has failed. The great effort of a
strong minority was to strike out the
word individuals and make corpora
tions alone. and not individuals as well
responsible as employers for injuries
to employees. An amendment to this eff
feet was lost.
One of the important measures intro
duced in the Senate is proposed con-
stitutional amendment offered by w.
,, II. Adams and providing for the fund
ing of the 100000 of outstanding cap
itol building Indebtedness. The bill is
numbered S. B. 23S, and was reported
out for printing by the joint finance
committees of the two houses as soon
as received. 1t provides for taking up
the warrants, certificates of indebted
ness, etc, outstanding against the
fund for the building and maintenance
of the state capitol and issuing bonds
therefor to bear four per cent. interest
As the present warrants bear six per
cent this would make saving to the
state of two per cent, or nearly $4,000
per annum.
Senator James w. Bucklin before the |
Joint constitutional amendment COM
mittees of the Legislature and an audi |
ence of perhaps 200 people, spoke for
two hours on the night of January |
2Sth on his proposed amendment to the |
constitution, giving cities and counties |
local option in taxation, which is in |
tended to make possible the adoption |
of the special tax on land values now
in force in New Zealand and most of |
the colonies of Australia. He stated |
that where this tax has been adopted |
there has never been any effort for its |
repeal. The amendment would also |
n a r.
tories by exempting factories, machin-
cry, ETC., from local taxation. The
measure is embodied in Senate Bill
No