The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-02-06
LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
FOOD ROADS BILL STILL HOLDS
CENTER OF STAGE.
,ae eIlI Would Prevent Weighing
Hands With Provisions.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Denver.-Good' roads legislation
probably will not be reached in the
legislature until the middle of next
month. according to tentative
agreement reached. following
point meeting of the constitutional
amendments committe Of the Senate
md the roads and bridges committee
II the House. Hearings. however.
will be given to those who are inter-
,sted in the s20.O00.O00 bond ISSUE
,r those who are opposing the pas
,age, Of such measure. Legislators
II both houses will BE guests at
luncheon to be given by the Colorado
food Roads Association on Lncoln's
birthday. The matter Of good roads
win be discussed in detail. State, Of
lcials apd others will be invited to
,ttend.
Legislators say they have first
,and knowledge OF some grocers
weighing the scoop with the sugar
md then removing the receptacle be-
,ore tying the paper sack. Represen-
:ative Charles A. Foster proposes
legal operation against the grocery
.lerk who weighs his hand with the
article purchased and thereby short
weights the purchaser. His net
weight" bill would compel whole
salers and retailers and all others to
mark every package. large or small.
with the actual weight of the net
contents. He says he has facts to
prove that in some instances the
Bags or burlap or other covering
used in the purchase Of hams. for .ex-
ample. total per cent of the gross
weight, and that the consumer pays
tor something which he does not get.
Chickens in the vicinity of Pueblo
may bring 500 apiecein fines-pro-
vided the bill OF Senator w. o. Peter-
son becomes law. The chickens
must be caught trespassing on any
cemetery in. adjacent to or within
three miles" of Pueblo OF any other
city OF 10000 population or more.
A bill by Representatives Gifard
and Dolan. both of Boulder. to create
a new judicial district to consist OF
Boulder coGnty. was referred by the
House to the committee on state at
fairs and reapportionment. Several
proposals for rearrangement OF the
judicial aAd representative districts
are before this committee and wnl
be considered together.
Representative Ernest Owen of
Leadville, author of the bill to re-
peal the Sunday closing act. issued a
reply to the criticism of him by g.
Arthur. Holloway. acting superin-
tendent of the Colorado Anti-saloon
League. in which he says the fight
Mr.. Holloway threatened to make
against him and his colleagues is
merely an excuse to keep the league
In existence after its work OF max
ing Colorado "dry" has been done.
The practice of passing resolutions
in approval or disapproval OF various
actions of Congress was criticised by
Representative Downing. a Repub-
lican, in a debate on such q resolu-
ton introduced by william Mellen.
Mellen asked the House to indorse
the action of Congress in authoriz-
ing medals for men who served on
legal advisory boards in the draft.
- The short appropriation bills OF
five state institutions were passed or
third reading. and the emergency
clause added without any objection.
The Industrial Workshop for the
Blind. the State Industrial School,
he Training School for Mental Do
fectives. the nenitentiary and the
Home for Dependent Children arc
,ranted appropriations totaling $685.
700.
The House declined to incorporate
in bill for the preparation OF d.
yest of Colorado laws an amendment
proposed by Representative John F.
Votruck that the authors Of the book
must be attorneys of ten years prsc-
tice in Colorado. Several attorney
members replied that ten years in
the law business might put good
man.in such a rut that hA would be
incapable OF doing as we'll as he
could when fresh from college. and
objected to limiting the governor. to
whom the appointing power is given.
as to the class of attorneys he could
select from. -s.l
Among those passed on second
reading Was Representative j. A.
Phelps bill changing the, method OF
nayment of justices of the peace and
constables. At present they are paid
from the fees Of the office. which re-
suits, according to Phelps. in consta-
bles drumming up business. Un-
Ter this bill their salaries will come
from the general fund. The bin only
applies to Justice precincts of more
than 1000 population. which prob