The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-03-27
PENSION -FoA PIONEERS
HOUSE TAkEs FINAL ACTION ON
MANY MgAsvREs.
Senate Wersslns Hard - Pass Cen.
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Dsnvsr.-The House has taken final
steps to care for Colombo pienosrD
and their widows and widowed mssA-
ers unable to care for their childrsa,
whom It paseed q number Of bills ON
final reading.
Ths Noonan-Stssle-Ow Owen bill pro-
vides 4 pension Of @e0 quarterly for
all persons who settled in Colorado by
Jan. /, 1881, or widows Of such per-
sons. The bill calls for an appropria-
ton Of $4,000. or any part Of that
amount that may be necessary to car
~ out the pension provisions. Pho
neers receiving q pensien from the
government will be excluded from the
provisions Of the bin.
Final provision for the education of
aliens In citizenship duties was made
with the passage on final reading of
the Steele bill. The measure carries
an appropriation Of $4,000 to carry
on the work for the biennial period
ahead. The governor may, II he
deems It advisable, appoint a commit
tee of citizens to supervise the Amer
fcanlzation work, the committee being
given power to select Instructors
The Glrard bill, creating q state geo-
logical survey. to be under the 0rec-
ton Of an advisory board composed Of
the governor and the presidents Of
several state institutions, also passed
I'm In h~ ~,
also provides for the appointment of
an assistant state geologist, and aims
to promote the mining industry by
finding markets for products.
The RockweilLacy ball, authorizing
boards of county commissioners, with
the approval OF the State Highway
Commission, to purchase sites along
the state highways for free use. as
public camping grounds was killed in
the State Senate on second reading by
vote Of IA to 6.
Another bill which passed final read
ing in the House was the Allen bill,
calling for the appointment of COM
mittee by the governor to select a
shield or tablet upon which Is to be in
scribed the names Of the territorial
governors and the years they served
in office. The shield is to be placed
upon the walls of the main floor in the
capitol. The bill carries an appropria-
tIon Of 5000.
The State Senate enacted much leg
islation, putting through on final read
ing seventeen measures, Of which six
were House bills. Among the princi-
pal measures adopted were the Finch
er-O'Brien industrial compensation
bill. the erHetherington-Kn -Knauss
adult probation bin. and the Baker
House bill increasing teachers' mini
mum salaries.
Appropriations approved on second
reading In the Senate, after being
amended in the main to meet the rec
concentrations OF the finance commit
tee, were ~ follows: For the purchase
Of grounds for additional state build
ings, $4,000. together with S16,406 re-
manning In fund appropriated for
General Assembly. For the support
and maintenance Of the State Indus
trial School ut Golden for the 1919
1870 biennial period. S185,00O For ad-
titional ma chinery for that Institution,
5000. For general repairs, 5000. For
additional lands, $4,000 For the sup
port and maintenance Of the State In
dustrial School for Girls at Morrison
for the 1910-102O biennial period. $780,
0oO.' For constructing and repairing
cottage at the school. $4,000.
For enlarEing and repairing n
cottage now at the school for a hos
pItaI, $4,000. For an additional farm
building. $1,000. For general repairs
to the buildings, $500. For the pur-
chase of additional lands. 5000.
The military measures favorably
acted upon in the Senate were House
bills 419 and 40. by Representative
Bert II. Lake of Denver-one author
izIng, the state military board to dis
pose Of real estate formerly acquired
for military purposes and now insult
able for such use the other providing
that moneys returned to the state by
the federal government in reimburse
msnt for expenses of mobilixing Ma
tional Guard troops during the Mexi-
can border troubles in 1916 shall be al
located partly to the military poll tax
fund and partly to special fund up
on which the adjutant general may Is
sue vouchers to cover those expenses.
Passage of the Rottuck- Bond bill
calling for 1-cent tax on gasoline on
second reading in the House of Repre-
sentatives came after II stormy discus
sion in which certain representatives
endeavored to discourage the idea of
federal aid In the construction OF Colo