Gilpin observer., 1919-03-06
STATECAPITOL
NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

tne Lane system of placing soldiers
and sailors on farm lands when both
houses of the Legislature unanimously
ADOPTED resolutions urging Congress
TO enact the settlement plan carrying
an appropriation of $1OO,OOO,OOO. This
step Is regarded favorably by advo-
Gates of the Booth Senate bill. The
booth' bill provides for an appropria-
ton of $750,00O as Colorado's share
to be used in carrying out the Lane
plan. If all the appropriation, or at
least S70O,0OO is pledged to assist the
Lane development plan in Colorado.
the government, it is understood, will
give S2,5OO,0O0 as its share of the en-
terprise.
SIX bills were passed in the House
on second reading and eight on final
reading. Those passed on second
reading were the Fairfield bill to per-
NIT Denver county officers to close
their offices at noon ON Saturday, the
Noonan bill to fix the terms of court
of the counties of the Ninth Judicial
District, the Colgate bill appropriate
ing $1,000 for the relief of the widow
OF John b. Russell, an official of the
state penitentiary, who lost his life in
the recapture of an escaped prisoner,
and the Warren Senate bill to punish
any person who makes water pipe
connections with the purpose Of steal
ing water.
Three soldiers settlement bills are
before the Senate. One is the Burke
Scott bill, which is modelled after the
North Dakota laws; another is the
Tobin bill, which has the Endorsement
Of the United States reclamation SER
vice. The Booth bill was drawn by
the Colorado council of defense and
is said to have the approval Of the
Department of the Interior.
The "red flag" bill, which origin
ated in the Senate, was passed in
the House without discussion, while
Senate bill No. %, separating the de-
partment of charities and corrections,
was unceremoniously referred to the
House Committee on Boards and Bu-
reauA.
The Senate adopted on final read
Ing, without dissenting vote, the
Bigelow House bill, which gives the
State Board Of Dental Examiners the
power to revoke licenses of dentists
for cause. Although the practice of
dentistry in Colorado has been under
the license system since 1908, no legal
machinery heretofore has existed
whereby licenses, once issued, could be
recalled. A new feature is the hcens-
ing of dental hygienists to perform in
schools and other public institutions
under certain restrictions, such work
upon teeth as would come within the
limitations of hygiene and in no way
amount to actual dental operations or
dental surgery. This provision paves
the way for the general Introduction
Of dental hygiene in the public schools
of the state.
The Senate refused to concur. In
House amendments to the Dunlap
Hetherington bill, which provides that
railroad employees shall be paid twice
month. The House sought to set the
fifth and twentieth of each month as
fixed dates for railway paydays. Com
piaihte kEoih railway uuiniuiblfdeioh
officials that great Inconvenience
would be worked by such a provision,
owing to the fact that pay trains ar
rive at different points along the sys-
TENS on different days brought gen.
eral agreement that the bill should be
so changed az to allow payment to be
made on any two days of the month
fifteen days apart.
Appropriations of $4,000 for
nurses home, $4,000 for contagious
diseases hospitals, $4,000 for dairy
barns and $4,000 for repairs and i'm
provements are included in recommen-
dations for $156,000 for the state in
sane hospital at Pueblo.
Motor vehicle license fees and a
tax on gasoline for motor transporta-
ton purposes are two phases of the
road program for Colorado that are
to be considered by the special legis-
latfve committee. The gasoline tax is
new departure in revenue raising,
estimates placing the annual returns
to the state at 100000. The present
motor vehicle law is to be changed SO
that the revenues will be considerably
increased, the 1920 estimate being
$4,000 as against 100000 for 1919.
The gasoline tax in all probability will
be collected at the source Of distrlbu
ton instead of the dealer, investiga-
tion disclosing that considerable de-
tail, including rebates, would be en-
countered II the collections came
through the retailers.
The Noonan bill for an amendment
to the constitution abolishing the Of
flee Of district attorney, whose duties
would be performed by the county at
torneys, was killed In the House. 1t
developed that there are several coun-
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