The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-03
STATE NEEDS S5OO,OOO
COLORADO INCOME REPORTED
LESS THAN IN PAST.
Fifty-three Days Of the Twen.
ty-first General Assembly.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

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Denver. = Appropriations for the
state biennial period to be made. by
the Legislature are OF such proper
tions and so numerous that the House
committee on appropriations, headed
by Chairman A. p. Ardourel, is won
dering where something like 100000
is coming from to meet actual state
necessities.
According to figures submitted to
the committees by State Auditor
Leckenby there will be available for
the purposes of the long appropria-
ton bill about S2,694, 900. The
amount is estimated as necessary to
conduct the government and maintain
the penal institutions. The long bill
of the last Legislature approximated
sS,200,000.
Two years ago the estimated reve-
nue. from the State Inheritance De-
partment was placed at 100000. In
reality the income from that source
was $2,Sb0,000, which acted as boon
to the over-estimated appropriations
of the Twentieth Assembly.
With virtually half of the recog-
nized legislative period gone, the
House completed the fifty-third day of
the session with a credit of having
passed fifty-three bills. Incidentally,
the members killed ten House bills
and passed one Senate measure.
Included in bills sent the Senate is
the Horton liquor bill regulating the
importation of liquor shipped into
Colorado, the Hearth bill repeating
capital punishment, the levy bills for
the erection of buildings to cost S6,-
100000 at the state educational insti
tutions within the next ten years and
he Canon bill providing ways for the
reclamation of 100000 acres of val
liable seep lands in the state.
Bills for the financial upkeep of
state institutions between the period
of Dec. l, 1916 and April 1, 1917, were
passed in favor of the reformatory,
soldiers and sailors home, state home
for dependent children, penitentiary,
capitol, state industrial school for
boys, industrial workshop for the
blind and the state asylum.
The Ardourel short appropriation
bill, providing for the expenses of the
Legislature and the executive and ju-
dicial offices were passed after the
Senate delayed the measure and the
two branches of the Assembly locked
horns on the matter of appropriations
for the attorney generals office.
The Anderson bill gives Denver a
public defender, who will see that de,
PENDANTS in criminal case too poor
to engage a lawyer will be given a
fair hearing in court.
Protection of Colorado's water
rights is provided for in a $4,000 ap-
preparation in the Best bill.
The Downing bill provides for the
pensioning Of the blind.
The Denver school board will have
seven members instead of five, fol-
lowing the election in May. Provi-
sion was made in the Rogers bill.
The Rogers bill extending the pow
ers of the State Public Utilities Com
mission authorizes that body to regu-
late and appraise public utilities.
Traffic in peyote is forbidden in
Colorado in the passage of the Crow
ley bill.
The Colgate bill establishes an
eight-hour workday for employees of
penal institutions, while the Mishou
bill pensions firemen in volunteer and
paid services.
The removal of Colorado soldiers
wbo died in tho civil war from IN
marked graves in New Mexico to a
fitting burial place in Colorado, is
provided for in the Studzinski bill.
The Laube bill provides for the
sale of irrigation districts by stock
holders. Increases in the. salaries of
county superintendents and the
state brand inspectors is authorized
in the passage respectively of House
bills by Speaker Boon Best and Rep
resentative Gill.
The Du Praw bill provides for
two-year term for officials in incor-
porated towns instead of one year, as
at present.
The Wilson bill authorizes towns to
create funds to advertise attractions.
Four songs, offered by composers
to take the place of the present state
official song, were killed by the
House, with six other bills.
Senator Staley's bill for an appro-
priation for state institution is the
only bill so far which has passed
the house.
Declares TramWay Loop Unnecessary.