The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-31
AGREE UPON DRY BILL
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE LINZ
ITS LIQUOR S. HIPMENTs.
Governor Gunter Sends List of APP
pointments to Senate Just Before
Session Ends.
western Newspaper Union News service.

twenty-four quarts of beer month,
according to an amendment to the
Horton bill which was agreed to by
conference committee of both
houses just before the Assembly ad-
attached to the measure.
One important change in the spe-
cial appropriations not contained in
the long appropriation bill was made
in the Senate. This came when Sen
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 s250,000.
Representative Studzinslsis bill au-
thorizing State Fair at Pueblo, and
appropriating $4,000 fund for 1917,
also passed on final reading. The bill
also provides for mill levy to raise
$4,000 for the fair in succeeding
years.
Other House bills which passed
were: Steele's bill to put woman on
the board of the Soldiers and Sailors
Home; Bests 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 a $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.
The Senate passed the House bill
which will forever do away with the
biennial fight over the State Board
of Capitol Managers. The bill so
amends the present law that the mem
bers of the board hold eight years
each, and one term expires every two
years. There will be four members
on the board. At present the members
hold for life.
Governor Gunter sent to the Senate
the following list of appointments:
Members of the State Board of Cor
rections, DIR. Elizabeth Cassidy, Den
yer; Elmer Beckwight, Boulder.
State Board Dental Examiners, R.
A. Adams, Denver; R. c. Quick, Den
yer; a. 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
Mines, Frank G. Willis, Teller; James
E. Smith, Denver.
Commissioners of Soldiers and
Sailors Home, w. H. Mcdonald,
Mesa; John Conkle, Las Animas.
Board of Trustees, State Teachers
College, Henry P. Steele, Denver;
George Sullivan, Gunnison.
Commission for Promotion of Uni
fled State Laws, Fred w. Stover,
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 e. 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 Finchec,
the authors of the law. Speaker Best
named Representatives Ardourel, Nc
Donald and Nagel as the House paem-
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. St-achan.
Commissioner for Soldiers and
Sailors Home, o. S. Reed.
Trustees for the School for Deaf
and Blind, Hubert Work of Pueblo
and ]. 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 nominations sent by Governor
Gunter was then taken up and all
named on the list were confirmed
by unanimous vote.
The committee having the initia-