The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1919-02-22
WOULD CUT BOARDS
WOULD CONSOLIDATE ADMINS
TRATIvE AFFAIRS.
Eiahty-three Bureaus and Commits
sions Now in State.

| Denver.-The committee on commits
sons of the House Of Representatives
mas decided to recommend to the leg
slutors constitutional convention as
he first step necessary to bring about
consolidation of administrative du-
lies of the commonwealth. The COM
nlttee was appointed several weeks
ago to prevent, II possible, the crea-
Ion of new bureaus and commissions.
After many' conferences with state of
flcials and leaders of both parties, the
committee could find on other salts
factory solution to the problem OF
wedding out useless commissions and
preventing the needless duplication OF
effort by the many bureaus now In eN-
Istence. There are elghty-three boards,
bureaus and commissions under state
affairs at present, and state board
Of control would reduce this to per-
haps fifteen. The readjustment would
also do away with something like 300
appointments, many of which are po-
sitions that carry no remuneration for
services.
Fourteen bills have been passed in
the House on final reading in the past
few days. They are as follows:
Thompson bill, calling for a transfer
Of property rights between the Gunni-
son high school and the Gunnison nor
NAL school; Rockwell bill, calling for
minimum speed of cattle trains of
twelve miles an hour; Morris bill, in
creasing salaries of county clerks;
Lake bill, enabling the state to dis
pose of armory sites of the Colorado
National Guard Rockwell bill, state
purchase of public camping sites;
Rockwell bill, extra appropriation to
light the alfalfa weevil Rockwell bill,
concerning the instruction of school
children; Dillon bill, increasing the
salary of the state veterinarian
Doyle bill, establishing two irrigation
districts in Dolores and San Miguel
counties; Girard bill, reducing the
percentage of butter fat in ice cream
from II per cent to 10 per cent; Gard
ner bill, exempting certain high
schools districts from county taxation;
Robson bill, permitting an increased
mill levy for the city of Georgetown
Rockwell bill, providing free instruc-
| ton to soldiers in state institutions,
and the Lambert bill, providing for the
reimbursement of salaries of commits
sioners of Douglas county.
| Payment of maximum tax of Sc
on every 81 900 worth of secured
bonds, notes and debentures, in ac-
cordafce with certain conditions,
would exempt such securities from
| further taxation within the state, I'M
der the terms of bill passed on sec
| ond reading in the lower house of the
Legislature.
| A bill by Senator Andrew provides
that wrlts of execution shall hereafter
| be filed with the county clerk as well
as with the sheriffs office, while the
McWilliams bill increases the maxi
mum number of directors of corpor-
alton from fifteen TO twenty-one. The
Tobin bill provides for changes in the
dates of terms of court of the Seventh
| judicial district.
Strict tab on some $500 physicians,
chiropractors and midwives is pro
posed in the Knauss bill. which passed
the Senate on second reading. The
practitioners will be required to reg.
lister annually with the Colorado
Board of Health and pay yearly IL
cense fee of 50. There are no such
restrictions at present.
Backed by residents of Grand juno
ton, a movement has been started
among members of the General Assem-
bly, to make the buildings of the
| abandoned Indian school, one mile
east of Grand Junction, available for
the mental detectives whose care falls
upon the state.
The State Inheritance Tax Depart
ment has received S26,34S.2S from the
estate of William X. owen, who be-
fore his death was manager OF the
Denver Dry Goods Company, and the
sum of S1,779.30 from the estate of the
late Beulah Talbot The two tax pay
ments brought the total of inheritance
collections from Feb. l to Feb. Is to
SAC, 12349.
The Warren bill makes cattle steal
ing felony instead of either mis-
demeanor or felony, as at present.
cities greater privileges in increasing
the bonded Indebtedness of the com
munities, while the Andrew bill re-
duces the time for the adjudication of
probated wills from one year to six
months.
House bill No. 2O6 providing for
commission of five men with power to
submit to the voters Il bond issue for
the purpose of purchasing the proper
with authority to condemn any intra-
state railroad, was reported favorably
in the House by the committee on fl
nance, ways and means.