The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1919-03-07
WOULD CUT BOARDS
WOULD CONSOLIDATE ADMINS.
TRATIvE AFFAIRS.
Eishty-three Bureaus and Commits.
sions Now In State.

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Denver.-The committee on commits
'ions of the House Of Representatives
nns decided to recommend to the leg
slators n constitutional convention as
he first step necessary to bring about
consolidation of administrative du.
Ties of the commonwealth. The COM
mittee was appointed several weeks
ago to prevent, IL possible, the crea-
lion of new bureaus and commissions.
After many conferences with state Of
dcials 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-
lstence. There are eighty-three boards,
bureaus and commissions under state
Affairs at present, and a state board
OF control would reduce this to per-
haps fifteen. The readjustment would
also do away with something like 800
appointments, many of which are po-
sltions that carry no remuneration for
services.
Fourteen bills have been passed in
the House on final reading in the past
few days. They are as follows:
Thompson bill, calling for a transfer
Of property rights between the Gunni-
son high school and the Gunnison nor
NAL school; Rockwell bill, calling for
minimum speed of cattle trains of
twelve miles an hour; Morris bill, in
creasing salaries Of county clerks
pose Of armory sites of the Colorado
National Guard; Rockwell bill, state
purchase of public camping sites
Rockwell bill, extra appropriation to
fight 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
Nom u per cent to 10 per cent; Card
ner bill, exempting certain high
schools districts from county taxation !;
Robson bill, permitting an increased
mill levy for the city of Georgetown !;
Rockwell bill, providing free instruc-
ton 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
lnl,n tn
cordance with certain conditions,
would exempt such securities from
further taxation within the state, I'M
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
be filed with the county clerk as we'll
as with the sherifrs office, while the
McWilliams bill increases the maxi
mum number of directors of 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 $500 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
Board of Health and pay Il yearly H.
cense fee of So There are no such
restrictions ut present.
Backed by residents of Grand Juno
ton, 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 fol
the mental detectives whose care falls
upon the state.
The State Inheritance Tax Depart
ment has received S26,34S2S from the
estate of William II. Owen, who be
fore his death was manager Of the
Denver Dry Goods Company, and the
sum of 81, 1890 from the estate of the
late Beulah Talbot. The two tax pay
fnents brought the total of inheritance
collections from Feb. to Feb. Is tt
$40, 12349.
The Warren bill makes cattle steal
ing a felony instead of either mis-
demeanor or felony, as Mt present
The Coldren bill authorizes towns and
cities greater privileges in increasing
the bonded Indebtedness of the com
munities, while the Andrew bill re
luces the time for the adjudication oil
probated wills from one year to- six
| months.
House bill No. 2O6 providing for 6
commission of five men with power tc
submit to the voters bond issue fol
the purpose of purchasing the proper
| ties of the Moffat road and empowered
with authority to condemn any intra
state railroad, was reported favorabl.
in the House by the committee on ii
nance, ways and means.
Probation of persons prosecuted fol