United labor bulletin., 1913-05-29
SUMMARY OF
LAWS PASSED
eY THE NINETEENTH GENERAL
ASSEMBLY AND APPROVED
BY THE GOVERNOR.
IMPORTANT MEASURES
A COMPLETE AND CONCISE COW.
PILATiON FOR FUTURE
REFERENCE.

Copyright, 1913. by western News
paper Union-)
Denver-The Nineteenth General
Assembly sent 1877 bills to Governor
Ammons for his approval or rejection
OF this number he signed 157, vetoed
Is, signed IL in part, and allowed one
to become a law without his sigma
ture. The total appropriation made
by the Assembly is approximately s2.
$4,000. 1t is impossible to get the
cxact figure. OF this amount s1,777,'
1912 is salary appropriations. The
Assembly enacted a number of very
important laws. among them a law
creating a state highway commits
sioner with an advisory board and
giving this commissioner and board
the right to expend the internal i'm
provement fund with the consent OF
the governor. Also the law providing
States senators; also a public utility
lew, law creating coal mine com
mission and a law creating a horse
racing commission with power to es-
tablish rules controlling all horse
races.
The following is a general summary
of the bills enacted:
Some of the Most Important Ap-
preparation Bills.
Salary appropriation.-$1.77 1912
S. b. No. 80 (Burris) ).-Appropriat.
in IN hon INN of
Pueblo State Fair.
s. B. No. 1o4 (Carver) .-Appropri
ating 100000 Industrial School for
Boys.
S. B. No. 1913 Carver .-Appropri
ating $4,000 State Home for Mental
Detectives.
S. B. No. 157 Q.ines)
ing s214.oo0 for State Penitentiary.
S. B. No. 16o CBurris)
sting $167.50o for State Insane Asy.
lum-
S. B. No. 1s3 (Reynolds) .-Appro.
priating s26.700 for Normal School at
Greeley.
S. B. No. 17s (Cross).-Appropriat
ing $s1.s09.s0 for Agricultural College
at Fort Collins.
s. B. No. 2s1 tMacArthur) .-Appro
priating s57.s0o for Soldiers and Sail.
ors' Home.
S. B. No. 235 (Affolter) ).-Appropri
ating $15o.ooo for State University.
S. B. No. 269 tSharpley) ).-Appro.
r'riating $4,000 for Industrial Work.
shop for the Blind.
H. B. No. (Philbin) .-Appropriat.
ing s115,5O0 for Colorado Reforma.
tory.
H. B. No. 81 CCavanaugh). .-Appro-
priating sl5.7so for Deaf and Blind
School.
H. BIS Nos. 21s and 214 (Gates).-
Appropriating $4,000 for Capitol
building.
Senate Bills.
s. B. No. / (Burris) Creating q
public utility commission and giving
t. power over all public utilities in the
state. except those wholly within in
corporated towns and cities, and abol-
ishing the present railroad commits
sion
s. B. No. "a ivan Tilborg).-Recod-
flying the banking laws OF the state
and amending them to correspond
with the other laws relating to
finances.
S. B. No. 2s (Napier).-Requiring
railroads to equip their locomotives
candle power
s. B. No. AZ (Bellesfield) .-Re-enact-
ing the eight-hour law. which was re-
ferred by the Eighteenth General AS
sembly. and which was adopted by
the people. but which was probably
killed through the adoption of the ini-
tiated eight-hour law. This law Gre
ates an eight-hour work day in mines.
smelters and kindred employments.
S. B. No. 40 (Tobin) Fixing a IL
cense fol, the operation of motorcycles
and automobiles. and also license
for chauffeurs; money to be divided
equally between state and county in
which macines are owned; money to
be expended on the roads of the state
S. B. No. IS Qles).-Transferrin
the Brand Department of the state
from the office of the Secretary of
State to the Stock Inspection Com
mission.
8. b. No ss (west) t).-Providfng for
the refunding of irrigation district
Londs.
s. B. No. 50 tJoyce).-Placing the
resumption of risk entirely on the en-
ployer and abolishing all assumption
OF risk. even under contract. by the
employee.
S. B. No. 7s (wm. G. Robinson) -
Repeating the Moffat tunnel bill.
which was passed by the Eighteenth
General Assembly. the proposed bond
isue of which was defeated by the
people ut the eiection last fall.
8. b. No. 75 (williams) ).-Providing
foi incorporation Of the town Of Cen
tral City.
8. B. No. IS (sharpley).-Providinx
better protection for employees en-
gagged in the construction Of buildings.
s. B. No. Sc (Reynoldsl l-Known as