Gilpin observer., 1905-03-02
COZ L0RADo .! LEGISLATURE

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amount Of the appropriations from $5,-
900 to $2,5O0.
At meeting of the Senate mines
and mining committee it was decided
to recommend favorably Senate Bill
No. 233, De La Vergne, providing for
the creation of the Office of state geol-
ogist. The bill carries an appropria-
tion of $1,000.
BY an almost unanimous vote the
House passed on second reading the
bill of Representative Thomas to re-
quire proprietors of stores and other
establishments employing women to
furnish seats or chairs for their en-
ployes. Healey of Boulder being the
only one to oppose it.
Representatives OF the Denver
schools, former state superintendent
OF public instruction and others ap-
peared before the House committee on
education yesterday to urge a favora-
Bile report upon the bill providing for
the pensioning of school teachers. The
bill was pushed through the House
two years ago to meet with defeat in
the Senate.
The elections committee of the
House agreed to report out nearly all
order to give the members the oppor-
tunty to compare them and select the
best. Both Mr.. Keezer and Mr.. Thomas
introduced bills providing for great
changes in the manner of conducting
elections and in the punishments TO be
inflicted for frauds upon the ballot.
A bill is before the Legislature pro
viding for state forester whose duty
10 hn
tion of the timber on the public 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 con-
ducive to 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 1t
speedily. On the floor of the House
the author of the bill and others stated
that private capital was ready to build
the refinery at once. if the state would
throw its protection over the enter
prise.
Senator Taylor introduced a concur
rent resolution in the Senate thanking
Simon Guggenheim for his splendid
gift of $4,000 to the State School OF
Mines for an administration building.
1t also congratulated Mr.. and Mrs.
Guggenheim on the birth of a son.
recently. The resolution was adopted
unanimously. In preparing the resolu-
tion Senator Taylor remarked that he
is not acquainted with Mr.. Guggen-
helm and his object in making it was
that such gifts should be encouraged.
When the Booth registration bill was
under discussion in the Senate there
was some criticism of the clause which
prcvideathat 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
ator Campbell, who came gallantly to
their rescue. 'I don't know why some
of the ladies refuse to tell their ages,
but they do, and We should not inquire
why" The clause was retained, al
though there were a few votes against
1t.
One of the sections of Senator Corn,
forth's bill to amend the tax laws pro-
vides: THE county treasurer shall GER
tify 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 redemp-
ton of the same. II still redeemable,
whenever he shall be requested to GER
tify as to the taxes on such parcel, and
paid or rendered his fees for such GER
tificate."
House Bill No. &c, by Hunt, provid-
Ing that actions affecting the property
Of any person, association or corpora
tion engaged in supplying Illuminating
gas. fuel gas, electricity or water for
domestic or other purposes, or tele-
phone service to or from any city or
community, or any street railway or
tramway company, shall be tried in
the 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 bill giving the State Board
Of Stock Inspection authority to csm-
pei the dipping of cattle for mango or
other infectious diseases. II this bill
becomes a law 1t will assist the State
Board greatly in its efforts to stamp
mango out OF Colorado. The law will
rive 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. Mr.. 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.
Mr.. Thomas spoke for his bill, declar-
ing that dissatisfied workmen were
outside their rights when they tried
to destroy any mans business by pa.