Gilpin observer., 1903-03-19
COLORADO GENERAL ASSEMBLY
AND DOINGS AT THE CAPITAL

signed Senate bill No. 35, appropriating
$25,000 for maintenance of the peniten-
tiary, and Senate bill No. 70, providing
for an additional district judge in the
Eighth (Boulder) district.
The State Land Board on March 4th
granted leases on the following lands:
Seventeen hundred acres in Routt
county; 932 acres in Saguache county;
1,042 acres in Las Animas county; $40
acres in Adams county; $40 acres in
',ostilla county; LAO acres in Sagu-
ache county.
The Colorado State Federation Of
Labor has issued statement calling
for action in the initiative and refer
endum bill. In the call it is stated that
the bill is marked for defeat" A brief
review OF the situation in both houses
is given. 1t is said that four stand by
the bill and that many in the legisla-
ture are lodging the vote. People are
| urged to write their representatives
urging them to work for the measure.
A special committee composed of
| Senators Campbell and Cornforth and
Representatives Aitken, Kinsey and
Dolph, and Chief of Police G. G. Bird
| sail of Colorado City, called on Cover
signed by 700 citizens of the town,
asking a withdrawal of the troops. The
| Governor stated that no militia would
be withdrawn until Sheriff Gilbert in
| formed him the soldiers were no
| longer needed.
House bill No. 296, by Watson, to
provide for local option by city, county
or precinct as to whether saloons
LoI1 1>a Tod
| was passed by the House on second
reading on the 18th inst. with but three
votes against it. H. E. Garman of Den
yer was the only member who openly
! spoke and worked against the measure.
| He, with c. e. Stubbs and Daniel De-
| laney, furnished the three votes in op-
! position.
The inheritance tax sections of the
| revenue law have been attacked in
petition for writ of error filed in the
| Office of the clerk Of the Supreme
| Court. In the lower courts a decision
was rendered against the estate of w.
F. McClelland, holding it for the in
heritance tax. The petition for writ
of error alleges that the law, as
| adopted is unconstitutional and void,
and also that it is in conflict with the
! tion of the United States.
Mrs. James H. Peabody has become
interested in the work that the women
| OF Denver are doing. At meeting OF
the City Improvement Society at which
the annual election of officers took
place, Mrs. Peabody was chosen presi-
dent The planting of trees on side
walks, clean alleys and backyards are
some the the things the society will
work for the comingyear. The placing of
small tables about City park where
cheap refreshments may be secured is
another thing that is approved.
The great grocery store of the Hurl
but Grocery Company in Denver was
burned on the morning Of March 18th,
almost completely destroying the stock.
Other sufferers were w. S. Sanderson
& Bro, teas. coffees and spices; John
d. Ross, tobacconist. damaged by
smoke; Drs. Bennett and Bagley, fur
| niture and fixtures, and several offices
and roomers on upper floors The loss
| is placed at approximately $4,000. OF
| this the Hurlbuts sustain the greater
portion. Nearly all the property lost
was well insured.
| House bill No. SIS. by Mr.. Tcmkins,
was practically killed in the House
when on adjourning at noon the ma
| jority refused to ask leave to sit again
to discuss the bill, thus throwing the
measure to the foot of the calendar,
where it will remain buried until the
session ends. At the afternoon session
Stubbs tried to have the report of the
committee of the whole amended so
that the bill could be taken up again,
but the majority. principally Republi-
cans, refused to allow this and the bill
was killed by vote of 26 to 81.
The injunction against Charles W.
Crouter, formerly auditor of state, re-
straining him from paying over to the
state the money paid him on account
of the fiat tax. was dissolved by Judge
| Carpenter on the 9th inst. The in
| junction was issued several months
ago at the instance of the United
States Reduction and Refining COM
pany, which plaintiff was later Joined
by other corporations in an action to
test the validity of the fiat tax. 1t was
ordered that none of the money col
lected under the new tax should be dis
| posed of until the case was settled II
has now been agreed that the whole
fiat tax receipts. about $4,000, should
not be tied up. Mr.. Crouter immedi-
ately paid into the court the actual
amount involved in the suit, which is
$12, 1868 64.
The Senate on the 18th inst passed
on second reading Senator Wards
bill authorizing two-fifths levy for
the State University at Boulder and
recommending that it be read a third
time and passed. The revenue expect
ed under this levy will be about $685.
900 year, or double the amount re-
ceived by the university during the
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