The Elbert County tribune., 1919-02-14
LEGISLATURE IS ACTIVE.
PASS MANY GOOD LAWS AT PRES
EMIT SESSION.
Eliminate Poor Bills and Discuss
Many Big Measures.
estern Newspaper Union News Service.

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the teuehers in the public schools OF
Colorado was begun in the House OF
Representatives by Representative
Mabel Ruth Baker of Denver. Her
bill would make $50 month the min
iinum salary in third-class school dis
tricts, and provide 10 graduated MIN
imum salary, ranging from ST5 the
first year to 500 after five years
service in first and second-class dis
lrlcts.
The employees of the Senate We're
paid for their January services
| through an arrangement whereby
Lieut.. Gov. George Stephan assumed
the responsibility OF later having their
vouchers cashed The pay roll
amounted to $4,20O.
House employees have received their
wages, and now the only employees
who are eagerly watching, the outcome
of the short pay bill are the clerks
and stenographers on the regular pay
roll of the state.
The Knauss Senate bill, which seeks
TO clearly define the duties Of the
Colorado Utilities Commission and
thereby remove any further doubt as
to the right of Denver to regulate the
rates of its public utilities, was final
| ly adopted on second reading by
vote Of 10 to IL In the Senate.
House Bill No. $40, bearing on the
game and fish laws, was passed on
second reading. 1t had been before
the House three days and was amended
to provide closed season on deer,
doves and sage chickens The ques-
ton of permitting hunters to shoot
bear without license was solved by
the insertion of a clause giving any
one the right to Kill grizzly or other
stock-kilIing bears without license"
| With little discussion and virtually
10 opposition, the State Senate gave
Its approval to eight bills. The four
bills which received final passage, and
which 20 TO the House, were: Sen
ate bill No. 10. by Senator Coldren,
providing that every school census
taken hereafter shall include the
place and date of birth of each pupil
and the nationality of trr- pupils par
ents; Senate bill No. 46. by Senator
! Tobln, increasing the salary of the
state superintendent of public instruc-
tion from $1,000 to $4,000 per year
Senate bill No. Al, also by Senator
Tobin, providing for q uniform grad
ing of county teachers certificates in
Colorado by placing that work under.
direct charge of the State Department
| of Education, and Senate bill No. GI,
by Senator Hetherington, which pro
vides that diplomas in the State Nor
/ ma Sc nt N ha
sued independently of the Scnte Teach.
ers' College in Greeley Other bills
passed on second reading were: Sen
ate bill No. 21S, by Senator Hatten.
bach. simplifying and making less ex.
| pensive the procedure in special elec-
tions for bond issues in school dis.
iricts; Senate bill No. 100, by Senator
Hetherington, deciding surplus land on
The State Normal School campus back
to its donor, the city of Gunnison, fol
| u high school site, and Senate bill No
263, by Senator Booth, embodying
recommendations of the Denver board
of school directors, affecting the pow.
ers and duties of school district Off
GERS.
The Senate passed on second read
| ing bill changing the law with ref
erence TO mutual fire insurance com
pnnIes. Instead of compelling mutnai
| companies to put up $4,000 in cast
| with the State Insurance Commission
er before it Is permitted to do bust.
ness, a mutual company, under the
| bill, will be licensed whenever it car
| show 100 risks and has on hand pre-
| m.ums double the amount of the max.
mum risk.
| For the first time during the pres
! ent session woman presided over the
deliberations of the House, DIR. May
| Bigelow being called to the chair by
Speaker Cole when the House y.
solved itself into committee OF the
whole.
The Colorado Equal Suffrage Asso
| citation went on record in support OIL
| the pending bill relating to minimum
wages for women and minors at it,
regular meeting in Denver. A resolu
ton was adopted endorsing the meas
ure before the State Legislature
Due to the fact that number of
automobile manufacturers have de
| creasedNthe size of the cylinder bore
| of their A,s1ines and thus have re.
| dncep Sae horsepower rating of them,
| Senators Booth and McWilliams, spon,
| sois of the proposed motor vehicle
law now pending In the Senate, have
discarded the horsepower rating OF
automobiles as basis for license fees
for autos. If the bill is enacted into
n law auto owners in Colorado will
pay a license based upon the purchase
price of their cars. AS the bill stands
now license fee of " per cent of the
purchase price will hereafter be
charged in Colorado, with minimum
fee of S4 a year