The Delta independent. [volume] (Delta, Colo.) 1886-19??, 1903-02-27
COLORADO GENERAL ASSEMBLY
AND DOINGS AT THE CAPITAL

Senator Rush has presented the Sem
ate with petition signed by 1000 peo-
pie. asking that no law be passed in
terfering with the practice of osteo-
pathy.
The Senate passed the Adams bill,
which prohibits the use of carriages to
| carry voters to the polls on election
day. Senators Ballinger Barela, Born,
Jefferson, Kennedy, Wood and Adams
Of Conejos voted against it. Those not
voting were Farwell, Graves, Owen,
Pryor, Hallett and Mcclure.
The house committee on elections
and appointments unanimously decided
to recommend for second reading Rep
resentative Keen's bill, providing
new method of registration for cleo
| tions. The bill does away with the
present method Of court house and dis
trict registration, which has been the
source of so much fraud in Arapahoe
county, and provides for an entirely
new registration every year under the
precinct system.
A lady Senate reporter tells of the
petition addressed to Senator Lewis by
some forty Silverton bachelors pray
ing, entreating and beseeching him to
defeat the pernicious bachelor tax bill
even while somewhat inconsistently
claiming that single blessedness would
be cheap at twice the proposed tax.
II the bill was not slain they wanted
it amended so as to compel any woman
refusing to marry any bachelor to pay
his tax for him, also in such fashion
as to provide for the fine and impris-
onment of any woman with hand
painted complexion or hair that didn't
grow on her own head"
The Senate Feb 21st passed on third
reading the bill introduced by Corn
forth, No. III, for the vacating of land
for public highways on petition OF two
thirds of the owners of land affected;
S. B. No. 6, by Taylor. otherwise
known as the Torrens land bill. for the
registration of land titles; S. B. No. 5,
by Taylor, for the election OF county
attorneys instead of appointment by
county commissioners, and classifying
the salaries to be paid county attor-
! neys; S. B. No. 55, by Drake, permit
ting a division of school districts
where citizens so desire and where the
assessed valuation of the proposed new
districts may be above $4,000 and
there are at least fifty school children;
S. B. No. GO, by Hill. for school cleo
tions in school buildings; and house
bill No. Go. by Aiken, appropriating
$4,000 to pay claims for care and
maintenance of the capitol.
The judiciary committee of the Sen
ate. after discussing the many anti
trust bills presented and hearing ar
guments from John w. Springer, pres
ident of the National Live Stock Asso-
citation, who has made study of the
trust question, decided to recommend
for passage Senator BallIngers bill.
No. 229, drafted on the plan of the
| Texas antitrust statute. The bill de-
| fines the words trust" and monopoly"
and designates the classes of business
| corporations and companies that are
to be adjudged trusts for the purposes
of prosecution. 1t then declares that
| any such corporation organized under
the laws of Colorado. or doing business
under state charter, which shall at
| tempt to fix or maintain prices by pool
| or otherwise, shall be deemed guilty of
| a conspiracy to defraud. Upon con-
| viction the corporation shall violate its
| charter rights. All companies doing
| business in the state shall annually
certify under oath to the secretary of
state that they are not members of any
trust or combine.
1t is provided that there shall be no
| registration at the county clerks Of
| flee except where change in residence
| Is made. A new registration must be
made before every election, either city
| or county, and this registration must
be made by precincts. Each county or
| city committee furnishes a list of three
names of canvassers for each precinct.
| From these lists two canvassers are Sc
lected, one from each political party,
and these canyassers, who are consti-
tuted deputy clerks for the time being,
must make a house-to-house canvass
of their precinct for the purpose OF
registering all voters They must go
in company and every registration
must be made in the presence of both
and both must act as vouchers for the
| voter registered. These canvassers
are given five days in which to canvass
the precinct Members of a family are
empowered to register a voter in that
family If he be absent. provided he is
known to both canvassers Any voter
not so registered is notified by card
left at his residence that the canvassers
will sit as board of registry on one
certain day, from noon until p. M.
at some place in the precinct. for the
purpose of registering those voters
missed on the house-to-house canvass.
The injunction which was issued last
December in the United States Circuit
Court by Judge Hallett restraining
County Treasurer Elder of Arapahoe
county from collecting the taxes as
sessed against the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad in Arapahoe county,
and also those against the. road certifi-
ed to him from any other county under
the provision of the revenue law. was
modified Feb. 21st and the restraining
order preventing the collection of the
taxes for the outside counties was va
Gated. Judge Hallett held that If the
company wished to enjoin the other
counties from collecting their taxes
separate injunctions would have to be
secured against each county. The rul-
ing provided that the Arapahoe county
Injunction should stand, but the other