The Holly chieftain., 1901-03-29


| House Bill No. l9O TO create the ofnc:
of curator of rhe State Historical 50
cietv, was read and passed. LIS.
Senate bAl III u. F..l4danrs) creating
the Colorado highway commission anu
l39 fAnlmonsi concerning roads and
highways, have been iHdorsed by the
G.nrlemen,s Riding and Driving Club,
,he Denver Athletic Club. the Cham
Der of Commerce the Denver Wheei
! Club. the ArapaEoe County Good
| Roads Association and the League Q!
! American Wheelmen.
| House Bill No. 149. known as the Su-
preme Cour. bill. providing for 4
| merger of the Court of Appeals into
| the Supreme Court. which shall have
| seven members whose terms shall be
| ten wears was defeated III the House,
not receivin. .he two-thirds vote of
the members required for constitu-
| tional amendment. The vote stood ~
to 20.
! The Senate amended section 2:io of
The revenue bill in Il very material
| manner. The last sentence of this see
| tion provided that railroads other than
steam should I've taxed by the State
! Board of Equalization. the same as
| steam railroads. This would rake in
all trolley lines: permitting them To be
| taxed only by the stale board. 1his
| sentence was cut out so that the as
SCISSOR of each county may now tax
lines situated within his own county.
In the committee Of the whole. of the
/ House. Senate Bill No. 2Gi. 10 trans
fer the money in the stock brand fund
| to bounty for coyotes ard mountain
|
third reading and final passage. House
Bill No. 2SS, TO pay certificates 3.S43
10 2.S49. issued for insane asylum cot
| tage WIS recommended for third read
| ing and final passage. House Bill No.
! At. appropriating $4,000 for a heating
| ami lighting plant for the State Nor
nal School at Greeley. was recon-
mended for third reading and final
| passage
In the House, Senate Bill No. 26G, to
"ansfcr money from stock brand
| fund TO the scalp bound fund. was
passed. as was House Bill No. 2S5, to
| provide for participation by the state
in the st. Louis Exposition, commem-
Grating the Louisiana purchase. House
| Bill No. IA, appropriating $4,000 for
erection of additional building at the
State School of Mines. House Bill No.
23S. appropriating 1920 to pay cer-
| titicateS of Indebtedness of the insane
asylum cottage fund. was passed
House Bill No. 149, consolidating the
Supreme Court and Court of Appeals,
was defeated on final vote.
S. B. 81, the employers liability bill,
passed the House. H. b. 1S2. relating
to mavericks, was read and passed, as
| I'll 7 NJ or xo~
mining stock. II. b. 100, relating to
Humane Society. as state institution,
was recommended to committee Of the
whole. AT the request Of Mr.. Bolsinger,
its author. who desires to substitute
$. b. III. which is identical H. b. 40,
providing for organization in cities of
the first class not having 10000 inhab-
itants, of trust companies, with $4,000
capital. was read and passed. as was
S. B. 2G2. amending charter Of Central
City to permit refunding of water
bonds. - sSRt n
The following bills have been
passed by the Senate: Senate Bill No.
laws Of 1909, page 1926; Senate Bill No.
1886. (Ward); Senate Bill No. 1856 dClay-
toni. relation to irrigation: Senate Bill
No. 1856 (Ammops), pay of water CON-
missioners; Senate Bill No. 217 Qew-
isl, to make official certain medals CIV
en- those who served In the army or
navy during the war with Spain; Sen
ate Bill No. 1856 (Stewart), providing
for the elementary education OF child
ren; Senate Bill No. 2S4 tBarela), Gre
ating office of register; Senate Bill No.
252 (Philp). to establish parental and
truant schools.
The Stewart amendment to sections
twenty and twenty-one of the revenue
bill was the occasion of sharp discus
sion in the Senate. 1t was finally or.
dered printed. The main features Of
the amendment, are a provision that
makes every applicant for lcehse dem
onstrate to the county Judge that he is
fit man to sell liquor; IL the Judge
falls to see 1t that way the would-be
saloon keeper can appeal to the Dis
trict Court; 1t also levies a tax of 2k,
cents on all alcoholic drinks and x
dent on malt drinks He says there are
1 800 saloons in the state and this tax
would yield n revenue of nearly 81
OOO, 600 year. The buyer Is to nay the
tax.
The state auditing board has decided
to 6llow pay for the Thomas revenue
commission out of the emergency fund
at the disposal of the chief executive
OF the state At the time the commits.
sion was appointed c. s. Thomas, then
governor, said that he hoped such q
course would be pursued at the proper
. time. There is not enough money In
. the emergency fund to pay all the
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