The Colorado statesman., 1919-12-13
STATE CAPITOL
NEWS
Me.lern NeMananer Union News Service.

DenNer-COlOrado special session Is
getting into the swing and many meas
ures have already found their way
onto the calendar
\ resolution by Senator ii. o. An
drew calls upon state officials, includ-
ing Coy. Oliver H. Shoup to see that
Speaker Cole resigns as secretary of
the irrigation district finance commits
sion of Colorado, II position he has
held since the close of the regular ses-
sion.
The Andrew resolution points out
that legislator cannot be appointed
to IL state office during the time he II
Senator or Representative, in ac-
cordunce with section s or article V.
of the constitution. The resolution asks
the Legislature to consider the speak
er as being disqualified to retain the
office of secretary to the commission,
and that the salary payment of 500
"A month which he has received held
TO be Illegal.
Friends of Speaker Cole in the
House, ON hearing of the resolution
Introduced in the Senate, came To his
defense by saying that the constitu-
ton did not prohibit Il legislator from
accepting employment from the state.
They pointed out that he is not an
appointee of the governor, but was em-
ployed by IL commission and given the
designation of secretary.
The suffrage amendment was the
first concurrent resolution introduced,
being sponsored in the upper House
by Senator Agnes L. Riddle and by
Representatives May Il. Bigelow and
Mabel Ruth Baker in the lower House.
1t was approved in committee and or
dered printed, and will probably come
up ON final consideration tomorrow.
Speaker Cole ruled that it must take
the same course as bill.
In the regular session of the Twen
ty-Second Legislature House Republi-
cans were split over the efforts made
by Tom lyman, warden of the peniten-
tiary, TO have the prison farm retuin-
ed at Avondale indefinitely, and re-
currence of the fight which reached
To the Democrats, is expected in con
stitutiOnal amendment proposed by
the administration.
The amendment provides for salary
changes in elective and appointiye
places, this power TO be reposed in the
Legislature, and in considering that
phase of the measure regarding salar-
les of the land board, the penitentiary
farm fight may be reopened.
The governor recently recommended
the renewal of the lease of the state
land occupied by the farm, in accord
ance with the wishes of the State Board
OF Charities and Correction, but this
request was denied by the land board.
The board has Il Republican majority,
but declined to consider the governors
recommendation. The farm land will
be offered at public sale probably next
month
One of the administration measures
introduced in the House was by Rep
resentatives Phelps, Bashor and Rock
well, for the suppression of anarchy
and sedition. Persons convicted under
This act are subject to Imprisonment
for twenty years, or fine of $4,000
or both.
Resolutions and bills, other than the
suffrage amendment introduced in the
Senate, were the following:
A resolution by Senators Booth,
Staley and Knauss providing for an
initiated amendment TO the constitu-
ton of Colorado which would give the
power of regulating salaries of state
elective and appointive officers to the
State Legislature.
A bill by Senator w. o. Peterson to
provide funds for the Colorado State
hospital. likewise not provided by the
regular session.
An anti-autO theft bill was intro
duced by Representative William q.
jenkins, Central City, and IlalSey NJ.
Rhoads, Denver
The bill defines anarchy and sedi-
ton as any effort To encourage or
advise forcibe resistance to or the
forcible destruction of constituted gov
ernment in general. or of the govern
ment or laws of the United States or
of the state" Any person who, of his
own act, or who, ny melting another
to cause the death of any person,
while agitating anarchistic ideas, is
held under the act as guilty of first
degree murder.
Representative Wilson, FL Paso, in
troduced two bills. The first is 10
create an allotment for dependents OF
the enlisted personnel of the state
troops. The other is to defray the eN-
penses of this special session of the
Legislature.
A Senate bill sponsored by Senators
Peterson, Hattenbach, Dunklee, Cold
ren, Warren, O'Brien, King and
Bannister, provides for an appropria'
ton of $4,000 10 pay emergency eN-
m ~ - StrIIITinIl
period and for the development OF
Colorados resources in cooperation
with the federal government. The re
layalnnppant Nynrl.