The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1909-05-08
GOVERNOR USES
HIS VETO POWER
D!SAPPROVES BILL RAISING THE
SALARIES OF COUNTY
OFFICERS.
TAX IS RETAINED
VETOES BILL PROVIDING FOR
AGRICULTURAL COMMISSION
AT COST OF $4,000.

Denver.-The first bills to be killed
by the governor Tuesday were the six
bills which passed the Legislature
raising the classification of counties
in the matter of salaries of county Of
ficers. The bills would have raised
the salaries of county officers from
$500 to $1,000 a year. The six bills
were for the following counties; Routt.
Yuma, Arapahoe, Fremont, Otero and
Otero and Bent combined.
There were thirty or forty bills in
troduced before the Seventeenth Gen
eral Assembly affecting the classified
ton of counties and only six were
passed. The governor says in his
message to the secretary of state, at
seems to me that no uniformity of
classification can be obtained by the
passage of individual bills. The class
ification of counties in the state of
Colorado for fees was made according
to the population of each county, and
the classification of salaries, without
specifying population of counties, cor
responded with the classification of
counties for fees. l believe there
should be a re-classification of coun-
ties for salaries, but it should be done
according to the population of the re-
spective counties. AS the census of
the United States will be taken in
June of next year, a Reconsideration
will doubtless be made by the next
General Assembly, when all the coun-
ties will be treated fairly according to
their population"
Governor Shafroth also vetoed the
bill by which the government donates
the Fort Lewis Indian school to the
state, upon the condition that it be
maintained as an educational institu-
ton. The bill contained no provision
for maintenance and the offer of the
government is good until July 1, 1910,
so the governor saw no reason for
hurrying in the matter.
Two bills granting rights of way
through the grounds of the state in.
sane asylum at Pueblo, were vetoed.
One granted a right to the Kansas
Colorado Railroad Company, and one
for a wagon road. Most of the states
allow one-half acre of ground for each
of the patients contained in their state
insane asylums. Colorado's asylum
has 700 inmates and should have $50
acres, but has only sixty. Governor
Shafroth did not feel like giving any
| land away for that reason. The
Kansas Colorado road also told the
asylum authorities that they would be
satisfied with a tweive-foot right of
way and upon receiving assurance
that no objection would be raised, the
officers of the road came to Denver
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forty-foot right of way This would
amount to two and one-half acres.
During the evening four bills were
vetoed Senator Carpenters bill, No.
4, providing for an additional one
twentieth of a mill levy for the sup
port and maintenance of the Normal
school of Greeley was vetoed. H. B.
10S, amending the statutes relating to
the state militia so as to remove the
military poll tax was vetoed because it
would impair the state revenues. S.
B. 256, providing for an agricultural
commission. to have offices in the
state capitol, and a 100000 appropria-
ton, was vetoed. The duty of the COM
| mission was to have been the conduct
ing of farmers institutes and assist
ance of state fairs as far as possible.
Governor Shafroth did not think that
there was sufficient need for the COM
mission at the cost it would entail. S.
B. 50, amending the statutes in regard
to improvements in cities and towns of
less than 100000 inhabitants, was We
toed The bill related particularly to
the advertisement of improvements.
| Any city of the character named
might under the bill, advertise in
| some paper having a general circua-