The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1919-03-08
WORKING TOWARD END
LEGISLATURE WILL ADJOURN
ABOUT MARCH 90.
Much Important Work Yet Unfinished
With only Few Days Left.

n general feeling that about twenty
days more Is sufficient to pass the re-
construction measures advocated by
the administration, and, in many in
stances, by both Republicans and
Democrats. Up to date none of the
big issues, including good roads
program, the budget system of eXpen-
dtures by the state, soldiers set
Element plan and blue-sky legislation,
has been passed by either House.
The Steele bill, calling for
railroad commission to take over
the Moffat railroad and build the
James peak tunnel. is an important
bit of legislation to be considered.
There is the general money pay bill
for administration expenses for the
next two years, and the consideration
of legislation to make operative the
civil service amendment to the consti-
tuition adopted by the voters last No
vember.
Passage of the Booth bill for col
onization and soldier settlement on
Colorado lands is demanded by the
people OF southern Colorado, accord
ing to Secretary David w. Thomas of
the agricultural and livestock bureau
of the Denver Civic and Commercial
Association.
Colorado is assured of getting ST.
100000 federal hospital within the
next year. according to a telegram re-
ceived by the Colorado Development
federation from w. Macdonald Lee,
an influential Virginia newspaper pub
Usher, now in Washington co-operat-
ing with Executive Secretary Carl
Hinton of the federation. The hos
pital will be built and operated by
the United States Public Health Serv-
ice, and will be for discharged sol
diers under the war risk insurance act.
The Senate passed on final reading
the Warren-Andrew bill creating
game refuge out of parts of Larimer
and Boulder counties, as well as the
Napier bill to validate purchases of
Liberty bonds made with state funds
by Robert III. Higgins, former treas
urer. The Thompson House bill, pro
viding for an exchange of tracts
owned respectively by the normal
school and the high school in Gunni-
son county, was given final approval
Measures adopted on second reading
included the Andrew-Peterson classi-
fication bill for fees of county Off
| Gals, the Knauss bill. providing an in
| crease in the percentage of gross
premiums of foreign fire insurance
companies for the maintenance of the
firemen's pension fund, and the Rid
dle-Tobin bill calling for additional
| facilities for the State Dairy Commits
sioner's Department.
The House considered favorably, on
| final reading, the Stephen bill prohib-
| iting the display of the red flag" in
| public. There was no discussion, the
representatives being unit in guard
| ing against the encouragement of
| anarchistic propaganda through the
waving of the red flag of terrorism.
Colorado is on the point of getting
| away from the "hoodoo" of thirteen
| judicial districts, the House giving
| final approval to the Girard House
| bill for establishment of another dis
| trict to comprise the county of Boul-
| der. The court will sit in Boulder.
The Dunlap Hattenbach Senate bill
to compel corporations to pay en-
| ployes twice month. was adopted on
second reading, after it was amended
to read that employers could pay on
any two days they chose, and not on
| the 9th and goth, as was provided in
the original bill.
The lower House of the Assembly
gave its final approval to a bill for n
constitutional amendment which, il
| adopted by the voters two years hence,
| will. revolutionize to considerable eX-
tent the administration of educational
| affairs in Colorado. The proposed
amendment provides for the establish
ment of state board of education to
| be composed of seven members, which
will take the place of the present eX-
| officio board and will be empowered
| to appoint n state commissioner of
| education, who will take over the
| duties at present performed by the
state superintendent of public instruc-
ton. thus abolishing as an elective po-
sition the office of state superintend-
emf.
The. needs of the various state instl-
| buttons during the biennial period.
which began Dec. last, were under
! discussion at meeting of the Senate
| finance committee. The demands of
the heads of the various institutions
| for money were gone over in detail, as
were the recommendations of the spe-
cial Senate visiting committee, com
posed of Senators Puffer and Dunk
lee. who visited the various institu-
tions and investigated the claims adj
vanced.
The House has passed on third read-
| ing Senate bill No. CT, by Senator
! Hetherington, granting officials of the