The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1915-04-22
KILLS UTILITY Bill
MEASURE 70 VETOED ~ COVER.
NOR CARLSON.
Defeat OF Amendment at the eolis
Last November Given a. Reason
BY Colorado Executive.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver.-Senate bill No. 229, cx-
tending to the state public utilities
commission the power to approve or
1isapprOve the construction of utility
plants by municipalities in Colorado
Tell. with twcnty-four Appropriation
measures. beneath the executive hat
chet in the veto program Of Governor
Carlson.
Approximately Sl25.0OO was Topped
off the long appropriation bill In the
veto by Governor Carlson Of twenty.
four relief bills. Included in this list
was an appropriation Of $4,000 to the
state immigration board and IN ap-
preparation Of $4,000 for the state
fair at Pueblo.
Governor Carlson in vetoing the
utilities measure issued the following
statement:
This bill attempts to add section
70 to the public utilities act of 1913.
and II the same In substance. and al
most the same in words. as original
section IS OF that act. This section
was referred to the voters and de-
feated at the election In November.
1914. Thus We see that the General
Assembly enacted this section in 1918.
the people voted on and defeated 1t
in 1914. and now the General Assem-.
bly, again enacts it in 1915.
THE public utilities act has been
In course Of administration only few
months and l do not find that it has
been found SO defective in respect to
the matter covered by Senate bill No.
229 rs to require amendment. and
when the people of the state have
Just expressed their disapproval Of
this matter, deem 1t best to wait for
the result Of experience in admins
tering the law as 1t now stands"
The so-called relief bills which Gov.
ernor Carlson vetoed include:
8. B. 1ss-For the relief of Peter
Jennings. salary while an employ6 Of
the state labor department, 1900.
g. B. 196-For the relief of Mrs.
Martha shute, IN employe Of the
state. injured In . gas explosion while
ON duty. $2.400.
8. B. 1S7-state immigration buresu
$4,000.
g. B. 2ss-For the relief of the Buf
falo Pitts Company for machinery
supplied state highway commission.
t6.561.
q. B. 405-Salary for M. c. Hayes
~ assistant scrgeant-at-arms OF state
Senate. Jan. 4 to Feb. 1. 1895. $1o9.
8. B. 406-Relief Of Snodgrass Food
Company for loss during coal strike,
$426.
s. B. 61-Salary Of Herbert N. Cor
nell examiner for civil service com
mission in 1911 and 1912. $1.s75.
s. B. 431-Expenses of legislative
commission which went to San Fran.
cisco in 1913 to select . site for q
Colorado building, $500.
8. B. 377-Compensate Sayre-New
ton Lumber Company for materials
supplied in building Of State Home
for Dependent Children, 1,727.
8. B. 56-For state agricultural
board for use at state fair at Pueblo
$25. 900.
8. B. 29-Relief of A. B. Emory
guard at state penitentiary, shot while
attempting to prevent convict out
break April 25. 1910. $1,000.
H. B. 192-Salary Of L. Wagner, EN-.
ploye Of state board Of equalization
in 1908, 800.
H. B. 45s, Kruse-To pay $4OO back
accounts of the Colorado travelling Ii.
brary commission.
H. B. 532, O'Rouke-For the pay.
ment of Burdick & O'Rouke, account.
ants, for past services.
H. B. 594, Garwood-To pay Thomas
Campbell for services as messenger
to the governor in November, 1908.
H. B. 404, Garcia-Appropriati $50
a month to pioneers.
H. B. 161. McNair-To pay R. A.
Southworth for services rendered sew
eral years ago.
cry and printing furnished three years
ago
H. B. 4. Garcia-Establishin a
branch fish hatchery in Conejos
county.
H. B. 262, Bills-Providing for the
states participating in the Interna-
tional Farming Congress in Denver.
1cQ
the relief of Mrs. Louise D. Smith
H. B. 493, Schmidt-For the relief
Of Donaciana Smith.
H. B. 81, Bills-Giving preference
in civil service examinations to war
veterans.
H. B. 800, Spencer-Increasing the
appropriations in certain school dis
{ot