The Ordway new era., 1919-02-07
STATE CAPITOL
NEWS
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war-torn Flanders and other dis
tricts of the European conflict mark
| the resting places of some of Colo
RADIOS bravest soldiers, who. unless
their relatives come to the rescue.
will be recorded in Washington as
| having been either delinquents in re-
| sponse to the call of arms or desert
ers from the selective service army.
This condition of affairs was called
to the attention of the Senate Mill
tary Committee by Capt. Miles G.
| Saunders, provost marshal of Colo
rado, and was accompanied by an
| appeal for an appropriation of S25.-
| 900 to perfect Colorado's enviable
war program through the wiping out
of erroneous Stacker records.
Governor Shoup has appointed a
new Civil Service Commission. This
commission is appointed under the
| 1915 law, and comprises Cassius f.
Clay and Miss Eleanor F. Young, Re
publicans. and John Leo Stack, a
Democrat, all of whom reside in
Denver. They are to serve during
the Shoup regime. The Republic
cans take the position that the con-
stitutionar amendment adopted by
the voters last November. and by
reason of which the outgoing gov
ernor. julius c. Gunter. appointed
commission, did not repeal the 1915
law. 1t is under this premise that
Governor Oliver II. Shoup appointed
commission to succeed another
commission, appointed by Governor
Gunter in the early days of his ad-
ministration.
Five bills were discussed on sec
ond reading. four of which were
adopted. The fifth bill, by Senator
Booth. calling for a road brigade. so
as to bring employment to able-bod-
led men and to those who were
found by authorities to be loafing in
pool halls, was discussed and finally
put over until later. The bills acted
upon We're Senator Coldren's bill
providing for n census of school chill
dren which shall include their ma
tionality; Senator Tobin's bills in
creasing the salary of the state su-
perintendent of public instruction
from $4,000 to $4 200 a year, and
the establishment of a uniform grad
ing system of teachers and the issu-
ance of certificates, and Senator
Hetherington's bill for the granting
of diplomas by the Colorado State
Normal School at Gunnison.
The Owen house bill. calling for
| repeal of the Sunday closing law,
was. sidetracked in the Senate on the
| ground that the title did not give the
entire substance of the measure. Re
! publicans declared that the bill, II
passed, would not only do away with
restrictions on theaters and shows,
the primary purpose of the Owen
bill, but allow circuses to operate on
| Sundays and in many instances go
untaxed.
The Knauss bill, setting out the
| power of charter cities under the
twentieth amendment to the consti-
tuition. was reported out favorably by
the city and county of Denver conf
| mittee. The measure proposes to re-
move any doubt as to Denver's right
to regulate its utilities corporations,
in accordance with what the author
believes to have been the intent of
the Legislature which created the
public utilities act.
Proposed legislation relating to ir-
rigation districts of Colorado was
considered at an open hearing of the
committees on agriculture of the Sem
ate and the House of Representa-
tives at the capitol. Senator John
| j.. Tobin is chairman of the senate
1 n. tot
Bashor chairman of the house COM
mittee.
Six bills were adopted when
called up for final consideration in
the Senate. One was by Senator Ell
lliot. extending the Saturday half
holiday of public offices and banks
to cities of $4,000 population. The
present law pertains only to cities of
100000 population or more. Com
mercial paper due on Saturday may
be collected on Monday during this
period, which includes the months OF
June, July and August. Another bill
is by Senator Agnes Riddle. provid-
ing for the deposit of county funds
daily in banks that give sufficient
security to protect the taxpayers.
The banks are required to pay inter-
est at the rate of 2 per cent per an
mum. Another bill is that by Sen
ator Hetherington. providing that
priorities of appropriation of waters
for irrigation purposes are not legal
until copies of the agreements have
been filed with the state engineers
office. Three other bills were by
Senator Andrew. providing for
changes in the laws respecting the
estates of minors and mental incom-
petents in probate matters, and au-