The Elbert County tribune., 1919-02-07
ACTIONS
food ROADS BILL STILL FOLDS
CENTER OF STAGE.
)ne eiiI Would Prevent weighing
riands With Provisions

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probably will not be reached In the
legislature until the middle OF next
month. according to tentative
agreement reached. following
,oint meeting of the constitutional
amendments committe of the Senate
ind the roads and bridges committee
IF the House. Hearings. however
vilI he given to those who are inter
.sted in the $20,O00,0O0 bond Issue.
,r those who are opposing the pas
age of such a measure. Legislators
II both houses will be guests at
luncheon to be given by the Colorado
food Roads Association on Lincoln
birthday. The matter OF good roads
yill be discussed in detail. State Of
fcials and others will be invited to
lttend.
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
egal operation against the grocery
,lerk who weighs his hand with the
irticle purchased and thereby short
weights the purchaser. His met
weight" bill would compel whole
,alers 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
In, ~ the
bags or burlap or other covering
lsed in the purchase of hams. for ex-
ample, total 8 per cent of the gross
weight, and that the consumer pays
Tor something which he does not get.
Chickens in the vicinity of Pueblo
nay bring 500 apiece in fines-pro-
gided 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 or any other
city of 10000 population or more.
A bill by Representatives Girard
and Dolan, both of Boulder. to create
new judicial district to consist OF
Boulder county. was referred by the
House to the committee on state af-
fairs and reapportionment. Several
proposals for Encouragement OF the
judicial and representative districts
are before this committee and will
be considered together.
Representative Ernest Owen of
Leadville, author of the bill to re-
peal the Sunday closing act, issued
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. Repub-
lican, in debate on such 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
the Training School for Mental Do
fectives, the penitentiary and the
Home for Dependent Children are
,ranted appropriations totaling $685..
300.
The House declined to incorporate
n a bill for the preparation OF di.
sest of Colorado laws an amendment
proposed by Representative John F
3otruck that the authors of the book
must be attorneys of ten years prac-
ice In Colorado. Several attorney
members replied that ten years in
the law business might put a good
nan Id such a rut that he would be
incapable of doing as well 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 be could
select from.
Among those passed on second
reading was Representative j. A
Phelps bill changing the method oi
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.
oles drumming up" business. Un.
Ter this bill their salaries will come
from the general fund. The bill only
applies to justice precincts of more
than $4,000 population. which prob.
ably limits it to Pueblo, as Denver.