The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-02-13
LEGISLATURE IS ACTIVE
PASS MANY GOOD LAWS At PRES
EMIT SESSION.
Eliminate Poor Bills and Discuss
Many Big Measures.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Agitation for increased salaries FOR
The teachers III the public schools OF
Colorado was begun in the House OF
Representatives by Representative
Mabel Ruth Bnkcr of Denver. Her
bill would make $50 u month the min
imum salary in third-ciass school dis
tricts, and provide graduated min-
imum salary, ranging from $75 the
first year to 500 after five years
service id first and second-class dis
iricts.
The employees Of the Senate were
paid for their January services
through an arrangement whereby
Lieut.. Gov. George Stephan assumed
the responsibility of later having their
vouchers cashed. The pay roll
amounted to $A2OO.-
House employees have received their
wages, and now the only employees
of the short pay bill are the clerks
and stenographers ON the regular pay
roll of the state.
The Knauss Senate bill, which seeks
to clearly define the duties OF the
Colorado Utilities Commission AMI
thereby remove any further doubt as
to the right of Denver to regulate the
rates of its public utilities, was final
ly adopted on second reading by u
vote of 10 to IL in the Senate.
House Bill No. $40, bearing on the
game and fish laws. was passed On
second reading. 1t had been before
hsA Il MI a tad
to provide u closed season OH deer,
doves and sage chickens. The Iues-
tion of permitting hunters to shoot
bear without license was solved by
the insertion of clause giving any
one the right TO kill grizzly or other
stOck-killing bears without a.license."
With. little discussion and virtually
10 opposition, the State Senate gave
its approval to eight bills. The four
bills which received final passage, and
which go to the House. were: Sen
ate bill No. 10, by Senator Coldren,
providing thaes every school census
taken hereafter shall include the
place and date of birth of each pupil
and the nationality of the pupils par
ents; Senate bill No. 40. by Senator
Tobin, increasing the SALARY of the
stnte superintendent of public instruc-
ton from $1,000 to $4,000 per year
Senate bill No. Al. also by Senator
Tobln, providing for a uniform grad
ing of county teachers certificates In
Colorado by placing that work under
direct charge of the State Department
of Education, and Senate bill No. 81,
by Senator HetherinSton, which pro
vidss that diplomas in, the State Nor.
NAL School ut Gunnison INDY be is
sued independently of the State Teach
ers' College In Greeley. Other bills
passed on second reading were: Sen.
rte bill No. 21S. by Senator Haten.
bach, simplifying and making less ex'
pcnsive the procedure in special cleo
tions for bond issues in school dis
irfcts Senate bill No. 100. by Senator
HetheringtOn, deciding surplus land'op
The State Normal School campus back
to its donor. the city of GunnisOn, foi
high school site, and Senate bill No
263, by Senator Booth. embodyinp
recommendations of the Denver board
of school directors, affecting the pow
crs and duties OF school district Off
GERS.
The Senate passed on second read
ing bin changing the law with ref
erence 10 mutual fire insurapce com
unnies. Instead OF compelling mutua'
companies to put up $4,000 I'm casf
with the State Insurance Commission
~ before It is permitted TO do busl
ness. mutual company. under the
hill. viii he licensed whenever II car
show 100 risks and has on hrnd nrc
m'ums double the amount Of the max
imnm risk.
For the first time during the pres
ent ss.on II woman presided over the
deliberations of the House. JDr. May
Bigelow- being called to the chair b.!
Speaker Cole when the House re-
solved itself Sinto committee of til;
whole.
The Colorado Equal Suffrage Asso
ciution went on record in support OF
The pending hill relating to minimum
wages for women nad minors ut it,
regular meeting in Denver. \ resOlu
ton was adopted endorsing the meas
ure before the State Legislature.
Due to the fact that number OF
automobile manufacturers have de
creased the size of the cylinder bort
Of their pI,Ssines and thus have re
duceJ ..,e horsepower rating of them.
Senators Booth and McWilliams, spOn-
sors of the proposed motor vehicle
l,.w now pending in the Senate. have
discarded the, horsepower rating OF
automobiles as n basis for license fees
for autos. If the bill is enacted intu
Il law auto owners I'm Colorado will
ray license based upon the purchase
price of their cars. AS the bill stands
now Il license fee of n per cent of the