The Grit-advocate., 1905-03-03
COLORADO LEGISLATURE

amount of the appropriations from So.
900 TO $1,000.
| AT a meeting o. the Senate mines
and mining committee il was decided
| TO recommend favorabiy Senate Bill
| No. 233. De La N"rgne, providing for
| the creation OF the o;tlce of state Geoi.
i osist. The bill carries an appropria
tion of $1,000.
| BY an almost unanimous vote the
House passed on second reading the
| bill of Representative ThC'..as 10 re-
| qlire proprietorS of stores and other
establishments employing women 10
| furnish seals or chairs for their ON
ployes. Healey of Boulder being the
only one TO oppose it.
| Representatives OF tac Denver
schools. a former state superintendent
| of public instruction and others ap.
| peared before the House committee on
education yesterday to urge a iavora-
| bic report upon the bill providing for
| the p.nsioning of school teachers. The
| bill was pushed through the House
| two years ago to meet with defeat in
| the Senate
a bill is before the LEGISLATURE pro
| viding for a state forester whose duty
| shall be the protection and proScrVa-
| tion of the timber on the pubic lands.
| This bill is in line with the policy OF
| the national administration. and the
| bill as presented represents the meth
| DDS which have been found most cor
| duciTe 10 skillful and scientific work
| for the timber culture of the Nation
In the House the bill to provide for
: the state TO construct an oil refinery
! was reported in from the committee
| on finance. ways and means, with the
recommendation that the House pass ii
speedily. On the floor of the House
| he au, nor of the bill and others stated
hat private capital was ready to build
The refinery at once, if the state would
throw Its protection over the enter
prise.
Senator Taylor introduced concur
| rent resolution in the Senate thanking
| Simon Guggenheim for his splendid
gift of s50,00O TO the State School of
Mines for an administration building.
1t also congratulated Mr.. and Mrs.
Guggenhem on the birth of a son.
recently. The resolution was adopted
unanimously. In preparing the resolu.
ton Senator Taylor remarked that he
is not acquainted with Mr.. Gusgen-
helm and his object in making 1t was
that such gifts should be encouraged.
l. When the Booth registrati lion bill WAS
under discussion in the Senate there
WAS some criticism Of the clause which
provides that women need not tell their
exact age to the registration commit
tee. II don't think ladies should be
compelled to tell their ages, said Sen.
alor Campbell. who came gallantly to
their rescue. 81 don't know why some
of the ladies refuse to tell their ages,
bu, they do, and we should not inquire
| why. The clause was retained, al
though there were IA few votes against
| it.
One of the sections of Senator Corn
I forth's bill TO amend the tax laws pro
| IideS: THE county treasurer shall Ger
lily in writing the entire amount OF
taxes and assessments due upon any
| parcel of real estate, and all sales OF
the same for unpaid taxes or assess
ments shown by the books in his Office,
with the amount required for rcdemp
lion of the same. if still redccmable,
whenever he shall be requested to GER
tify as to the taxes on such parcel. ana
| paid or rendered his fees for such Ger
! fihcate."
House Bill No &c, by Hunt. provid-
ing that actions affecting the property
of any person, association or corpora
ton engaged in supplying Illuminating
gas, fuel gas. electricity or water for
domestic or other purposes, or tclc-
| phone service to or from any city or
community, or any street railway or
| tramway company, shall be tried in
| he county in which such property, or
! The greater portion Of it is situated
| was passed on second reading in the
! House. The bill applies especially TO
receiverships.
The stock committee OF the House
has reported favorably on Representa-
| tive Baer's hill giving the Stale Board
Of Stock Inspection authority to com
, pei the dipping of cattle for mango or
other infectious diseases. If this bill
becomes ii law il will assist the State
Board greatly in its efforts to stamp
mango ont OF Colorado. The law will
| give the board authority to gather all
| The cattle whose owners refuse TO com
ply with the law and dip them, selling
as many head as may be necessary to
pay the expense.
During the discussion of the anti
boycott bill in the House. MIR. Melton
insisted that one of the rights of citi.
zenship was that to express disap-
prOval of the acts of employers and
that the Legislature had no right to say
that any one OF the methods used to
express that disapproval was Illegal.
MIR. Thomas spoke for his bill, decar-
ing that dissatisfied wOrkmen were
outside their rights when they tried
TO destroy any mans business by pa
rading in front of his place with the
cries Of unfair "scabs.' and the
other cpthets used al such times.
a meeting was held by the commit
tees on education and finances from
both houses of the Legislature for III"
purpose OF discussing the bill whith .
proposes the establishment OF a nor