The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-02-27
MOULD CUT BOARDS
WOULD CONSOLIDATE ADMINS
TRATivE AFFAIRS.
Eighty three Bureaus and commis'
sions Now In State.

sions of the House of Representatives
mas decided to recommend to the leg
slators Il constitutional convention as
he first step necessary to bring about
consolidation of administrative du-
lies of the commonwealth. The com
nittee was appointed several weeks
ago to prevent, If possible, the crea-
Ion of new bureaus and commissions.
After many conferences with state Of
ficials 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 ex-
istence. There are eighty-three boards.
bureaus and commissions under state
Affairs at present, and state board
Of control would reduce this to per-
Taps fifteen. The readjustment would
also do away with something like 300
appointments, many of which are p0-
sitions that carry no remuneration for
services.
Fourteen bills have been passed in
ihe House on final reading In the past
few days. They are us follows:
Thompson hill, calling for Il transfer
son high school and the GunnisOn nor
nal school; Rockwell bill, calling for
a minimum speed of cattle trains of
twelve miles an hour; Morris bill. in
creaslng 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 IL per cent to 10 per cent Gard
ner bill. exempting certain high
schools districts from county taxation;
Robeson bill permitting an increased
mill levy for the city of Georgetown;
Rockwell bill, providing free instruc-
iion to soldiers in state institutions,
and the Lambert bill, providing for the
readjustment of salaries of commits
sioners of Douglas county.
Payment of maximum tax of Sc
on every $1,000 worth of secured
bonds. notes and debentures, in ac-
cordance with certain conditions,
would exempt such securities from
further taxation within the state, un-
der the terms of bill passed on sec
ond reading in the lower house Of the
Legislature.
A bill by Senator Andrew provides
that writs OF execution shall hereafter
he filed with the county clerk as well
as with the sheriffs office, while the
McWilliams bill increases the maxi
mum number of directors of a 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 2,50O 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
cense fee of 50. There are no such
restrictions Mt present.
Backed by residents of Grand juno
tion, 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 $26,34s.2s from the
estate of William II. Owen, who be-
fore his death was manager of the
Denver Dry Goods Company, and the
sum Of $1.77D.3O from the estate OF the
late Beulah Talbot The two tax pay
nents brought the total of Inheritance
collections from Feb. l to Feb. Is to
S40. .123.49.
The Warren bill makes cattle steal
ing a felony instead of either mis-
demeanor or felony, as at present.
The Coldren bill authorizes towns and
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. 2O8 providing for 4
commission of five men with power to
submit to the voters bond Issue for
the purpose of purchasing the proper
ties of the MOffat road and empowered
with authority to condemn any intra-
state railroad, was reported favorably
in the House by the committee on H.
nance, ways and means. N