The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1911-02-23
COLORADO
LEGISLATIVE
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Recent tragedies in Dsaver. result
~ directly from tAs pssnicious prae-
t1eo OF carrying concealed weapons.
have stirred into bright flame The fire
a public demand for the saaetDsat
q Senator Irby's bill directed against
SoeaisA and criminal "gun totsrs."
TAs Hecker bill provides that scheol
directors shall b. elected 1t general
elections for county And stats oefiesrs.
Foreign corporations doing business
u Colorado will b required to pay .
dat tax Of cents . thousand oe cap
ita1 stock. represented BY their prop
esty located. and business transacted.
IN this stats. II tAs Crovlsy bill which
passs1 second reading in the Senate.
y finally enacted into law. The act
DroviAes that. in aAditioa to all pres
sat fees and taxes to be paid BY for.
sisn corporations. they shall. 'on or
beeoFe May I. 1911. and annually
tAeroafter. pay to the secretary OF
state ; cents upon each ono thousand
dollars. par value. upon the proportion
q IL capital stock. represented BY its
property located In and bu.iness trans
aetsd In Colorado: and every such for
sisn corporation. BY its president and
secretary. shall. within sixty days mex!
aftsf the first day Of January in each
year. make and forward to the secrs-
tafy Of state . statement sworn to.
showing that portion Of the capital
stock Of said corporation which 10 rep
resented by its property located and
business transacted in Colorado.
Senator Napier has introduced . bill
for the establishment Of fish hatch
cry in Rio Blanco county.
The search and seizure bill intro
duced by Representative Ardourel
aims at stringent regulation of the
liquor traffic. being designed especial.
ly to prohibit the sale Of liquor by
drug stores and by liquor dealers in
dry" counties. Under the provisions
Of the bill. when any person makes q
complaint before q peace or judicial
officer. search warrant will issue
authorizing the search OF any de-
scribed premises and the seizure O;
any liquor therein found. The temper
snce committee Of the House has with
held report on these measures. and
Representative Ardourel, who intro
duesd them, strongly intimatsd that
he would force direct action on the
bills unless . report was speedily
forthcoming.
Representative Gaines NJ. Allen, who
introduced the bill for state construc-
ton Of the Moffat tunnel, submitted to
the House report on the cost Of the
project by George Bancroft. Denver
civil and mining engineer. Bancroft
states in the report that the tunnel
could b driven for t4.000.O0O and that
it 10 feasible to bring the waters of the
Fraser river through 1t to the eastern
slope. These waters, says the report,
would prove worth SS,000.000. In ad-
dition to its water utility. the tunnel
could b used for railroad purposes
the state charging tonnage toll OF
25 cents . ton. which would bring an
annual revenue Of $s2S,b00 on the ba-
sis Of 3.294.000 tons year hauled
through the tunnel. These figures.
says Bancroft are conservative.
BY . vote Of 26 to 4 the Casady anti
striks-breaking bill was finally passed
by the Senate and sent over to the
House.
Senator Napisr's resolution msmor
talking Congress to defeat the pending
Weeks bill. was passed. The Weeks
bill. it is contended, under guise OF
regulating the navigable streams of
the nation, is really grant of con-
gressional authority to the reclamation
and forestry services of the govern
ment to take full jurisdiction Of all
non-navigable streams in the public
land states. The memorial will be for
warded to the Colorado delegation in
Congress for presentation to the
House and Senate.
A memorial was presented by Rep
resentative Porteous asking that the
Legislature go on record as demand
ing that all of the public lands in the
state be opened for settlement.
The Senate also passed the Joyce
bill, which requires school boards to
publish financial statements Of re-
ceipts and disbursements. This pub
llcation must be made in all first and
second-class school districts at the end
of each semi-annual fiscal period by
at least one insertion in q daily news
paper. In school districts Of other
classes, the publication must be made
once year at the close of business
on June 30th.
Senator Crowley introduced two bills
at the request Of the secretary Of state.
One Of the bills provides that directors
OF corporations. before they can serve.
shall file with the secretary OF state
their written consent, signed and &C.
to act as directors. This