The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1907-03-20

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tons reported cut a number of the
bills that have been under considera-
ton.
The bills reported for maintenance
or the state institutions were:
Penitentiary .....$2 5000, 900
Reformatory ... 1900
Soldiers home " $4,000
Industrial school for boys. 10000
GirlS SCHOOL ............... 10000
Deaf and blind school. .. 1920
The other subjects covered by the
appropriations were: Penitentiary, for
general repairs. $4,000: for insane
ward. $4,000: for the purchase of
land. $4,000.
Soldiers and Sailors Home-Cot-
tages. $4,000: laundry. $4,000; addition
to hospital. $1,000.
Normal School at Greeley-Library,
$50 900.
Deaf ard Blind School-To complete
building, $4,000: for new pipe organ,
$4,000; for purchase of lands, $1,000.
School of Mines-For gymnasium,
So 600
New normal school at Durango,
s25. 900.
New normal school at Grand juno
ton, $4,000.
Repairs of the capitol. 5000; work
on the capitol dome, s73.97O.37.
Attorneys in the Colorado Kansas
water suir, $18,5OO
Fish hatchery on the Rio Grande,
$4,000; resident at hatchery at Glen
wood Springs. $1,000: improvements ut
Durango hatchery. $500; fish ponds in
state. 5000.
Completion Of the pioneer monu-
ment, $4,000.
The Senate routine Thursday, aside
from the railroad bill discussion. con-
sisted principally of discussion of the
telephone and other public utility bills
introduced by Senator Parks, which
were up on third reading. s. B. No.
1873. the principal hill, passed by bare
majority of eighteen votes, but the other
three bills were killed. Senator Camp
bell gave notice that he would move a
reconsideration of the vote on No. 1873,
which will probably result in killing 1t
unless there is I change from the pres
ent lineup.
The House has passed bill repeating
that part of an act which forbids the
importation of horses whose tails have
been 'docked." Debate was opened
by Mr.. Dolph, author OF the bill. He
stated that the measure did rot pro-
pose any interference with the law
against the docking Of horses. Its OBJ
ject was to permit the importation of
valuable horses whose tails had been
already locked. Some of the wealthy
horsemen of the state wished to eStaD-
lish large breeding farms, but were
unable to do so because of the strict
laws against bringing in locked horses
In the Senate Tuesday. when Sena-
tor Crowley withdrew his motion to
strike out the enacting clause of Sen
ator Lewis bill, s. b. No. So, creating
the office of public examiner. Senator
Wood said he would make the motion
on his own account, accompanying his
statement with the remark that he
was willing to strike out the enacting
clause of every measure pledged in the
Republican party platform. Senator
Lewis protested vehemently. He
asked for fair play. The motion was
lost on a close vote, Senator's De Long
and Wood voting with the Democrats
In an effort to kill the bill. Further &C.
ton on the bill was postponed.
The railroad bill passed third read
ing in the House on the 18th. The
vote was as follows: Yeas-Adams,
Bick. Blaney, Bryan, Bunney, Cannon
Cohen. Collins Dillingham;, Dilts,
Dodge. Dolph. Dray. Dulin, Farr. Fet
ger, Frank, Garcia, Graden, Grisham,
HARRISON. Healey, Hickman. Hoyt,
Hudgins. Kelly, Laton, Morrell. Pad
dock. Parrish, Redd. Smith. Tannen-
baum, Turner, Valdez, Werner. Vim
cent. Watson, Winters, Wolaver,
Young. Mr., Speaker-forty-two Nays
-Bowden. BellesHeld, Blatchford, Boil
singer. Fall. Hollenbeck. Hurd. Ken,
Kern. Lehrritter, Lines. Mackenzie
McLochlan, O'Connell. Napier. Rubin.
Schmidt. Walker-nineteen. Absent,
art, Wilder-three.
made speech In support OF his bill,
providing for a constitutional amend.
ment to make shelters to be public
utilities. Mr.. O'Connell charged that
the shelters annually took hundreds Of
thousands of dollars Of the value of
ore and made no report to the pro-
ducers OF that ore. He also attacked
an interview which was credited to
Simon Guggenheim two years ago. In
which the latter gave figures on the
results to the miners Of ore sold to
shelters. His argument was that the
smelters should be declared public
utilities, that rates for smelling ores
should be fixed by public commits.
sion. An extended reply was made by
Mr.. Dolph. who quoted from the re
ports of numerous investigators to
show that ill.advised legislation
against trusts has resulted in making
the trusts stronger. At the conclusion
If the debate. which took up all of the
afternoon, Mr.. Dolph moved that the
enacting clause be removed from the
bill. Carried
While 1000 people stood and sang
the successive stanzas of America"
n Marble hall last Tuesday night
Governor Buchtel sat at table
on the platform in front Of
hem all and signed Senate Bill
No. 81. introduced by Senator
Parks, making it law that August list
Of 1907, and August LIST of every year
following, shall he known and observed
as Colorado Day. The spirit of patriot
SIN has seldom been shown more en-
thusiasticHly in Denver than at that
meeting. In spite of the blizzard that
was raging outside, there were very
nearly 1000 people present. and many
of them had come from surrounding
towns in order to witness the signinr.
of the bill. The hall had been bril-
liantly decorated with flags, strands OF
electric bulbs IN the national colors,
and a great electric display across the
front OF the hall blazOning the word