The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-03-18
PROCEEDINGS OF THE EXTRA
SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE

Speaker Montgomery's home at Grip
pie Creek has seen burned out.
A revenue bill amendment. requiring
each assessor to transmit to the as
sembly n complete list of all the prop
| erty assessed by him was adopted by
| the Senate.
| Senator Ammons stock bill was the
| first to reach the governor, 1t having
received the signature of the lieuten-
| ant governor yesterday and immediate
| ly thereafter was transmitted to his
| excellency.
The revenue bill, as amended, should
reach the House Friday evening or
Saturday morning. Then the appoint
ment of conference committees will be
in order, and the measure will be
| given its final touches.
The reading of the Revenue bill went
| peacefully ON until section 215 was
reached. Then the cattlemen and
sheepmen met in deadly combat, rs is
their nature to. and this section. like
all the other lighting sections was
| passed over.
The Rush Senate amendment, pro-
| viding that the state board of equali-
zation shall not have power to assess
any tramway, electric road, cable road
| or street railway located in the streets
| of any city or town or upon the public
| road, was carried, 10 to s.
By unanimous consent Mr.. Riley's
memorial to the President and secre-
| tary of the interior was taken up and
| passed. Ii seeks the revocation of Il
departmental order which prevents the
| construction of storage reservoirs on
| government domain in the San Luis
valley.
Senator Bucklin and the friends of
! his single tax bill won a victory in the
! House when the bill for the repeal of
| the submission clause of his amend
ment bill was put at the foot of the
calendar This places the bill in such
! a position that it will have no oppor-
tunity of coming up again this session.
~he Dickerson bill, providing that
new insurance companies may incor-
| porate in Colorado for half the fees
now required, was adopted by big
majority, and the Montgomery bill to
I legaliZe the assessment for 1901 made
by the Senate board, of equalization
was passed With only five dissenting
| votes.
BY vote of sc to 26-counting in
pair-the House passed ON second read
ing the Buckley bill providing for the
I
the Gunnison canal commission. An
amendment. however, was tackled TO
the measure. which it is thought Will
prevent the states assuming any ac-
| tual liability for the certificates.
Senator Ehrhart wanted to raise the
salaries of all county assessors at least
| 10 per cent. to cover the additional
| work entailed. Senator Hill thought
the assessors We're underpaid and over
worked and under the present Revenue
bill their offices We're of far more i'm
portance than ever before, and re-
newed the motion for . per cent.
which motion prevailed.
The Nebraska Legislature informed
the Colorado Legislature that it had
voted for constitutional convention to
| change the national constitution so
that senators should be elected by
direct vote of the people. The Colo
RADIO Legislature sent its compliments
to the Nebraska Legislature and de-
sired that the latter body know that
Colorado had already taken such ac-
| ton.
All the revenue bills have been dis
posed of on second reading in the
House and the debate on the Bell bill
to repeal the Bucklin Australasian tax
lieved that 1t can muster n majority.
Early in the session it would have car
ried by n substantial margin, but the
action of the Senate in killing two sim
liar measures has taken the heart out
of the anti i-Bucklinites.
The Senate has voted to assess all
corporations according to the market
value of their stocks and bonds. After
lengthy debate the upper house de-
cided to change the Martin-Schweiger
amendment adopted by the House for
the government of the state board of
| equalization by striking out that por-
ton which gave the board power to
consider the cost of duplication, gross
earnings and other data in arriving at
the value cf the company's holdings.
The House went ON record as favor
ing the repeal of the Bucklin Austria
| lasian tax amendment. The vote on
| the proposition came after an all days
debate, and was something of n sur
prise to the opponents of repeal, who
thought that the decisive defeats
which the repeal had sustained in the
Senate had taken the vim out of its
| friends. The test came on motion to
Indefinitely postpone the Adams re-
pealing bill. This was beaten, 20
| yeas to SO nays.
| In the House the Ammons bill to
compel the railroads to fence their
| rights of way was passed on third
| reading and sent to the governor. This
| is the measure which the stockmen
| have been demanding. The Martin bill
| to increase the tax upon the gross re
| ceipts of insurance companies from =
| to 21a per cent. was passed on second
reading. Its enactment into law will
! add $4,000 per year to the states rev.
/ enue. The House adjourned until
1 Monday, and at that time the Gunni-