The Glenwood post., 1905-02-04
COLORADO LEGISLATURE

Tesch, commissioner of insurance, re-
ceived in fees from insurance compa-
MES the sum of $163, 103.94. Since the
close of the year he has received
S5SG.55. His expenditures in the fiscal
year were SIG, 527.01, leaving balance
of STAG, 57G.93 turned over to the treas
urer.
beautiful vase of flowers was
placed on the desk of Mr.. White yes
terday. Mr.. White was elected to the
assembly. but never took his seat, as
his last illness overlook him the day
before the opening of the assembly.
Mr.. Gordon noticed that no flowers
had yet been on the desk set apart for
Mr.. White, though it had been properly
draped in black, and he raised a fund
to correct the omission.-Denver Re-
publican.
In the senate Mr.. Anfenger's bill
to repeal the act of 1897, creating a
board of arbitration, was taken up,
and the favorable report of the com
mittee to which it had been referred
was adopted. Senator De La Vergne,
who is chairman of the board, and
other senators declared the work of
the board a failure and that it is a
useless expense to the state. There
was no opposition to repeating the act
and the bill was adopted on second
reading and sent on to the committee
on revision.
Mr. Alexander has introduced a bill
providing that counties of the state
may establish fish hatcheries and that
the state may furnish spawn to them.
One of Mr.. AleXander's bills pro-
vides for the appointment of state
forester to look after the timber of
Colorado. The bill is TO preserve as
much of the present forests as can be,
providing against destruction by fire
or by cutting down. All sheriffs and
road bosses are made fire wardens,
with power to arrest all who, through
design or carelessness in any manner
injure the growing trees on state o:
government lands.
There was lively discussion in the
House over the question of printing in
Spanish 500 copies of the messages
of Governors Peabody and Adams.
Representative Garcia called up the
subject and for over an hour the mem
bers fought over 1t. Representative
Street thought 24O copies copies should
be enough. Frewen declared that Col
orado had the finest school system in
the world, and that if voters couldn't
read English it was their own fault,
and the Legislature shouldn't condone
it. Garcia was indignant and the de-
bate became heated. Finally the res
olution was adopted as introduced, pro-
viding for the printing of 500 copies o:
the messages in Spanish.
The Senate January 27th voted to
sustain the action of the State Can
vassing Board in regard to the seat
ing of two of its members, Cashmere
Barela and II. b. Willard. These sen
ators We're seated when the session
began, but their seats had been CON
tested by Charles B. Ward and NJ. Be
shear. The action of the Senate was
in accordance with the report of the
committee on privileges and elections,
but Senator Ballinger, the Democratic
member of the committee, submitted
a minority report in the Willard Ward
contest, in which he says: The re,
fusal of said committee to hear the
evidence in this contest is a substan-
tial and wholly ineXcusable denial of
the constitutional rights of the con-
testor to make proof of his right to sit
in this body as senator from the Fifth
senatorial district"
The House committee on counties
and county lines has been hearing ar
.5uments for the formation of the new
county of Platte, designed to take
North park from Larimer county and
to take also slight strip of land
from Routt county. John Affolter pre-
scented a petition of North Park resi-
, dents, signed, he said, by great ma
jority of the taxpayers of that prin-
cipality. The new county would have
forty-one townships. he said, territory
enough for a county larger than Boul-
der. The assessed valuation of North
Park property last year was $79S, 900,
: and the population was about $500.
l This they held to be large enough for
all practical purposes. His descrip-
> tion of the park was poetic. rivalling
f that famous one in the court decision,
: rendered in 1883, declaring North park
to be part of Larimer county.
Senate bill No. 10, by Senator An
5 fenger, to amend an act relating to
= property rights, caused considerab BILE
t discussion in the Senate. Senator An
: fenSer stated that in the present law
e there is an uncertainty regarding the
4 construction of the word Homestead I"
and that the bill is intended to
, correct that. 1t will permit a man to
convey other property than the statu.
tory homestead without the signature
OF the wife. AT present there are
l. vexatious and expensive delays. Grit
J. fifth, De Long and others expressed
I themselves as favorable to a law which
e will require a wife to sign all deeds
with the husband. In the debate it
: was pointed out that an injustice is
e done the wife In that she must make
record of her claim to establish a
:. statutory homestead. The bill was
@ adopted on second reading as re-.
9 ported
e The bill which Mr.. HUT has intro.
J. duced in the House to make some cor.
/, rections and alterations in the laws
n governing irrigation districts, was
It drawn by S. w. Carpenter. an attor.
:. ney of Montezuma county, who has
spent the last twenty years in study.
y ing irrigation law. He stated that he
g discovered bad oversight in the orig.
q 1nal bill to be that no statement was
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