Gilpin observer., 1917-03-29
STATECAPlTOL
NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
rWENTY-FlRST ASSEMBLY ENDS.
T~so-Quart Liquor Law Passed Before
Final ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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Denver.-The liquor bill. which was
generally considered the biggest bill
in the Legislature. was finally passed
after all of the afternoon session Sat
urday and most of the early Sunday
morning session has been consumed
In wrangling over it. The measure as
passed is Just as Governor ,Gunter rec.
commended 1t to the conference COM
mittees of both houses. 1t alloks each
family to import, during one calendar
month two quarts of whisky, or six
quarts Of wine, or twenty-four quarts
of beer. AS the law stands, the
liquor diet in Colorado is limited to
one kind of spirituous beverage each
month.
Other House bills which passed
were: Steele's bill to put woman on
the board of the Soldiers and Sailors
Home; Best's bill for a $4,000 ap-
preparation to protect the waters of
the state; bills preventing the use
OF cannabis sativa, habit-forming
drug; the bill of Banks, Cawlfield
and Somerville giving $4,000 appro-
priation to be spent by the State Ag-
ricultural Board in diffusing educa-
tional matter throughout the state;
and the usual special appropriation
bills for reformatories and other state
institutions.
One important change in the spe-
cial appropriations not contained in
the long appropriation bill was made
In the Senate. This came when Sem
ator George West of the finance COM
mittee put through an amendment by
unanimous consent, increasing the ap-
preparation for the state penitentiary
from 100000 to $250,000.
Representative Studzinski's bill au-
thorizing State Fair at Pueblo, and
appropriating $4,000 fund for 1917,
also passed on final reading. The bill
also provides for a mill levy to raise
$4,000 for the fair in succeeding
years
Governor Gunter sent to the Senate
the following list of appointments:
Members of the State Board of Cor
rections, DR.. Elizabeth Cassidy, Den
yer: Elmer Beckwight, Boulder.
State Board Dental Examiners, R.
A. Adams. Denver; r. C. Quick. Den
yer; 2. T. Roberts, Otero county; F.
H. Sunderland. Denver; T. L. Smith.
Larimer.
Board of Control, Industrial School
for Boys. Charles w. Owens, Boulder
county.
Industrial workshop for the blind.
d. M. Webster, Denver.
State Home and Training School
for Mental Detectives, b. F. Lowell.
Ell Paso county.
Board of Trustees for the School of
E. Smith, Denver.
Commissioners of Soldiers and
Sailors Home, w. H. Mcdonald,
Mesa; John Conkle. Las Anmas.
Board Of Trustees, State Teachers
College. Henry p. Steele, Denver;
George Sullivan, Gunnison.
Commission for Promotion of Uni
fled State Laws, Fred w. Slower.
Larimer.
Public trustee, Teller county, Miss
Molly O'Brien, Teller.
Insurance commissioner, Claude w.
Fairchild, Mesa county.
State Board of Health, Carl o.
Booth, Cheyenne county; DR.. W. II.
Sharpley, Denver, and Frank r. Coff.
man, Denver, and Il. p Kennedy,
Eagle county.
The governor signed the smelters
investigation bill as agreed upon by
the conference committee, and Lieu.
tenant Governor Pulliam announced
the Senate members Of the commit
tee as Senators Candlish and Fincher,
the authors OF the law. Speaker Best
named Representatives Ardourel, Nc.
Donald and Nagel as the House mem.
bers.
Following the naming Of the inves.
tigators, the Senate went into execu.
tive session and confirmed the fol-
lowing appointees named by Governor
Carlson:
Commissioners for promotion of
uniform state laws, Charles w. Wa.
terman and Willis l.. Strachan.
Commissioner for Soldiers and
Sailors Home, o. s. Reed
Trustees for the School for Deaf
and Blind, Hubert Work of Pueblo
and j. F. Humphreys.
Members of the State Board of
Charities and Corrections, the Rev.
Father William Organ and Mrs. FL
la S. Williams.
State Board of immigration, Thorn
as b. Stearns, II. U. Wallace and l..
Writ Markham.
Trustees for the School of Mines,
o. r. Whitaker and A. e. Carlton.
The questions over the purchase of
ground on Colfax avenue opposite the
capitol were settled by an agreement
The nominations sent by Governor
Gunter was then taken up and all
named on the list were confirmed