The Ordway new era., 1917-02-09
STATECAPITOL
NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
SHORT APPROPRIATION PASSES.
ehorn Of All Extras and Without
Emergency Clause.


Denver.-The short appropriation
bill, shorn OF all additional moneys for
the office of the attorney general. as
insisted upon by the Senate. carrying
approximately $4,000 Of additional
grants to the Bureau of Mines. the
Geological Survey. secretary of the
State Auditing Board, the Tax Com
mission and the liquor enforcement
branch Of the governors office for
minor clerks and attaches, as insisted
upon by the House. was passed by
both branches of the Legislature.
Legislation to abolish the direct pri.
mary law and do away with primary
elections Is advocated in the Legisla-
ture with the introduction simulta-
neously of bills in the Senate and the
House. The agitation came from both
political parties, the Senate measure
being fathered in the Senate by SEN
ator Napier, and in the House by Rep
resentative Gill.
Abolition of the State Board OF
Equalization is advocated in bill in
troduced by Representative Gross
white; bill seeking to repeal the
present civil service act and restoring
the measure initiated in 1912 by the
people is proposed by Representatives
Friend. Banks, Furrow and Somer-
vile; Representative Meyer intro
duced bill which provides that If one
of the twelve members of jury Is
taken ill verdict may be returned by
the other eleven; a weights and meas
ures bill was introduced by Represen-
tative Hearth.
A reapportionment of the counties
included in the Third and Fourth Con-
gressional districts of Colorado Is pro-
posed in bill by Representative Fos-
ter. The measure provides the coun-
ties of Clear Creek. Gilpin, Jefferson,
Park and Teller be transferred from
the Third to the Fourth Congressional
district; the licensing Of plumbers by
the state is proposed in bill by Rep
resentative Baer of Denver; creation
Of state police is proposed in bill
by Representative Ardourel.
President J. r. McLain of the Colo
RADIO Good Roads Association outlined
the legislation desired in connection
House. The first is a measure cen
tralizing control of state roads in the
Highway Commission and giving that
body power to maintain state roads,
and retains the present State Highway
Commission and the state highway
commissioner. The second bill pro-
vides for taxing automobiles by weight
instead of passenger capacity, which
will reduce the tax on passenger cars
and increase the tax on trucks and
heavy cars.
Parents whose children are commit
ted to the State Home through pow
erty will not be refused the right to
redeem them and take them again into
their own homes, If bill introduced
in the Senate by Senator Hethering-
ton becomes a law. At present, when
the gates of the State Home close
upon a child it is lost to it's parents.
The senator also introduced a bill
whereby an adopted child automatical-
adopted it.
A bill introduced by Senator Andrew
would fix the payment for election
judges and clerks at 30 cents an hour,
instead of at IS day, as is now the
practice.
A bill calling for commission OF
three members to arrange for suit.
able monument, mausoleum or statue
of William F. Cody buffalo BilD, and
asking a $25O,000 appropriation for
that purpose, was introduced by Sem
ator Kluge. A measure whereby la
Dor unions would be able to call
strike within not later than ninety
days afted giving notice to the Indus
trial Commission was introduced by
Senators Lewis and Candlish.
Senators Lewis and Candlish also
introduced bill concerning the pay
ment of compensation for injury SO
compensation would begin either one
week or ten days after the injury
takes place.