The Colorado statesman., 1919-02-01
ACTIONS
iooD ROADS BILL STILL HOLDS
CENTER OF STAGE.
)ne Bill Would Prevent weighing
riands With Provisions.

DenVer.-GOod ROADS leBlsIdtioh
probably will not be reached in the
legislature until the middle OF next
month, according to tentative
agreement reached. following
)oint meeting of the constitutional
amendments committe of the Senate
md the roads and bridges committee
IF the House. Hearings, however
will be given to those who are inter
,sted in the $20.000,000 bond issue,
)r those who are opposing the pas
Iage of such measure. Legislators
IF both houses will be guests at a
luncheon to be given by the Colorado
Good Roads Association on Lincoln's
birthday. The matter of good roads
will be discussed in detail. State Of
Icials and others will be invited to
lttend.
Legislators say they have first
1and knowledge of some grocers
weighing the scoop with the sugar
md then removing the receptacle be-
,ore tying the paper sack. Represen-
ative Charles A. Foster proposes
legal operation against the grocery
clerk who weighs his hand with the
article purchased and thereby short
weights the purchaser. His met
weight" bill would compel whole
salers and retailers and all others to
mark every package. large or small.
with the actual weight of the net
contents. He says he has facts to
prove that in some instances the
bags or burlap or other covering
used in the purchase of hams. for ex-
ample. total s per cent of the gross
weight, and that the consumer pays
FOR something which he does not get.
Chickens in the vicinity of Pueblo
may bring 500 apiece in fines-pro-
vided the bill of Senator W. o. Peter
son becomes law. The chickens
must be caught trespassing on ANY
cemetery in, adjacent to or within
three miles" of Pueblo or any other
city of 10000 population or more.
A bill by Representatives Girard
and Dolan. both of Boulder, to create
4 new judicial district to consist of
Boulder county, was referred by the
House to the committee on state az
fairs and reapportionment. Several
proposals for Encouragement OF the
judicial and representative districts
are before this committee and viii
be considered together.
Representative Ernest owen of
Leadville, author of the bill to re-
peal the Sunday closing act, issued a
reply to the criticism of him by G..
Arthur Holloway. acting superin-
tendent of the Colorado Anti-SalooD
League, in which he says the fight
Mr. Holloway threatened to make
against him and his colleagues is
merely an excuse to keep the league
in existence after it's work of max
Ing Colorado dry" has been done.
The practice of passing resolutions
in approval or disapproval of various
actions of Congress was criticised by
Representative Downing, a Repub-
lican, in a debate on such a resolu-
tionS introduced by William Mellen.
Mellen asked the House to indorse
the action of Congress in authoriZ-
ing medals for men who served on
legal advisory boards in the draft.
The short appropriation bills of
five state institutions were passed on
third reading, and the emergency
clause added without any objection.
The Industrial Workshop for the
Blind. the State Industrial School
the Training School for Mental De,
fectives. the penitentiary and the
Home for Dependent Children arc
granted appropriations totaling 500.
900.
The House declined to incorporate
in bilL for the preparation OF a di-
gest of Colorado laws an amendment
proposed by Representative John F.
Rotruck that the. authors of the book
must be attorneys of ten years prac-
tice in Colorado. Several attorney
members replied that ten years IN
the law business might put a good
man in such a rut that he would be
incapable of doing as well as he
could when fresh from college. and
objected to limiting the governor, to
whom the appointing power is given,
as to the class of attorneys he could
select from.
Among those passed on second
reading was Representative ]. A.
Phelps bill changing the method OF
payment of justices of the peace and
constables. At present they are paid
from the fees of the office, which re-
suits, according to Phelps, in consta-
bles drumming up business. I'm
der this bill their salaries will come
from the general fund. Thesbill only
applies to justice precincts of more
than $4,000 population, which prob
ably limits it to Pueblo, as Denver's
justice courts are regulated by the
city charter.
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