The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-10
HOUSE FOR GOVERNOR
INCREASE TAX LEVY TO CARE
FOR ADDED EXPENSE.
Crowley Primary Ballot Change and
Senate irrigation Memorial Arc
Adopted.

DenVer.-EStaDl1Snm OF q per
manent board of capitol managers, the
five members of which are to serve
eight years. and the erection of gov
ernor's mansion and two additional
buildings of state in the immediate vi
cinity of the capitol are affairs which
the legislators have been asked to
favorably consider as administration
measures.
Immediate purchase of the three
corner lots, on one of which Is three
story building, for approximately $780,
900, is proposed in the amendments to
the bills. 1t is proposed to erect the
governors mansion at West Four
teenth avenue and Sherman street, op-
posite the Colorado state museum, re-
Gently completed.
The appointment of Hiram e. Hits
to the State Industrial Commission
leaves vacancy ON the board of cap
itol managers which, under the pro-
posed arrangements, would give Gov
ernor Gunter the authority to name
his successor.
Provision is made that every two
years one of the present four mem
bers shall retire, according to pre-
vious length of service.
Properly to make provision for the
mansion and the new state buildings.
the committee has further amended
certain bills increasing the present
tax levy of OF mill available for capi-
tol building purposes to .16 of mill
for the years 1917 to 1921, inclusive.
The present levy brings approx
mately $4,000 year. The increased
tax would bring $1S5,000. OF that
sum, $4,000 would go toward the
maintenance of the present buildings,
and the other 100000 for new state
buildings. After 1921, the mill levy
would be i.
The powers of the board Of capitol
managers is to be extended to control
of the new buildings.
Compensation for guardsmen who
suffered permanent disabilities in the
labor troubles in southern Colorado, is
provided for in the bill by Representa-
tives Ardourel and Baer, which was
passed with only three dissenting
votes.
Voters on entering polling places in
the primaries must declare their po-
iitical faith and vote that ballot and
no other, if the bill by Representa-
tives Barlow and Anderson, which
passed the House, meets approval. in
the Senate.
Senator McWilliams memorial to
Congress and Secretary of the In
terror Lane, requesting the establish
ment by the reclamation service Of
one or more irrigation projects in
Routt, Moffat and Rio Blanco counties
to make productive thousands of acres
of land, was unanimously adopted.
Issuance of negotiable coupon bonds
to fund floating indebtedness in the
form of valid judgment against an
Incorporated town is authorized in the
bill by Representatives Kramer and
Roth.
In the passage of the bill to appor-
ton county road taxes, introduced by
Representatives Banks and Scott, sup
porters of the measure declare cities
and incorporated towns will no longer
go bankrupt" paying for improve
ments elsewhere in the county.
Pheasants destroying crops or grain
may be trapped or killed upon permis-
sion from the State Game Depart
ment, according to the Friend bill.
The measure provides that owners or
tenants of land may protect the crops
on their own land in this manner.
The House passed Senator Dunk
lees bill appropriating $4,000 for
maintenance of the industrial work
shop for the blind, and Senator Vests
authorizing the board of capitol mar
ayers to refund the $15O,000 borrowed
from the state highway department in
1891.
The governor has signed the land
appraisal bill and the measure pre-
venting burlesque and parody of tlS
national anthem.