The Springfield herald., 1909-05-14
GOVERNOR USES
HIS VETO POWER
SALARIES OF COUNTY
OFFICERS.
POLL TAX IS RETAINED
VETOES BILL PROVIDING FOR
AGRICULTURAL COMM SSlON
AT COST OF $4,000.

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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
5000 to $1,000 a year. The six bills
were for the following counties; Routt.
Yuma, Arapahoe, Fremont. Otero and
Otero and Bent combined.
There We're thirty or forty bills in
troduced before the Seventeenth Gen
eral Assembly affecting the classified
tion of counties and only six were
passed. The governor says in his
message to the secretary of state, ut
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. I 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, re-classification
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 1t be
maintained as an educational insttu-
ton. The bill contained no provision
for maintainance and the offer of the
government is good until July l, 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 right to the Kansas
Colorado Railroad Company, and one
for 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 twelve-foot right of
way and upon receiving assurance
that no objection would be raised the
officers of the road came to Denver
and got bill through calling for
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 mill levy for the sup
port and maintenance of the Normal
school of Greeley was vetoed. II. B.
1OS. amending the statutes relating to
the state militia so as to remove the
military poll tax was vetoed because 1t
would impair the state revenues. S.
B. 256. providing for an agricultural
commission. to have offices in the
state capitol, and 100000 appropria-
tion, 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. SO, amending the statutes in regard
to improvements in cities and towns of
less than 100000 inhabitants, was ve-
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 circula-
tion in the city or town. The intro
ducer of the bill intended that it
should apply to towns particularly
where there was no daily paper pub
lshed But Governor Shafroth de-
cided in his statement to the secre.
tary of state that it would permit the
commission of frauds by allowing
city or town council to advertise in a
paper of another town in order to con
ceal information about some contracts.
The bills signed by the governor
were: S. b. 342. approprating $176,-
900 for the State University: S. B.
us, approprating $4,000 for the
School of Mines; s. B. 50. appropriat-
ing S119,372 for the State Agricultural
College; II. b. 40, appropriating $780,
O60, for the Colorado School for the
Deaf and Blind; S. B. A, appropriat-
ing 100000 for the erection of prac.
tice school building at the State Nor
NAL school, and S. B. 253. appropriat-
ing $4,000 for the establishment of an
agricultural experiment station.