The Colorado statesman., 1919-03-22
PENSION FOR PIONEERS
HOUSE TAKES FINAL ACTION ON
MANY MEASURES.
Senate Working Hard to Pass Con.
struetlve Legislation of
Interest.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Denver.-The House has taken final
steps to care for Colorado pioneers
and their widows and widowed moth
ers unable to care for their children,
when 1t passed a number of bills on
final reading.
The Noonan-Steele Owen bill pro-
vides a pension of 500 quarterly for
all persons who settled in Colorado by
Jan. l, 1861, or widows of such per-
sons. The bill calls for an approprla-
ton of $4,000, or any part of that
amount that may be necessary to car
ry out the pension provisions. Pho
neers receiving q pension from the
government will be excluded from the
provisions of the bill.
Final provision for the education of
aliens in citizenship duties was made
with the passage on final reading of
the Steele bill. The measure carries
an appropriation of $4,000 to carry
on the work for the biennial period
ahead. The governor may, If he
deems 1t advisable, appoint a commit
tee of citizens to supervise the Amer
icanization work, the committee being
given power to select instructors.
The Girard bill, creating state geo.
logical survey, TO be under the direc-
ton of an advisory board composed of
the governor and the presidents of
several state institutions, also passed
final reading in the House. The bill
also provides for the appointment of
an assistant state geologist, and aims
to promote the mining industry by
finding markets for products.
The Rockwell-Lacy bill, authorizing
boards of county commissioners, with
the approval of the State Highway
Commission, to purchase sites along
the state highways for free use as
public camping grounds was killed in
the State Senate on second reading by
a vote of ID to 6.
Another bill which passed final read
ing in the House was the Allen bill,
calling for the appointment of COM
mittee by the governor to select a
shield or tablet upon which is to he in
scribed the names of the territorial
in office The shield is to be placed
upon the walls of the main floor in the
capitol The bill carries an appropria-
ton of 5000.
The State Senate enacted much leg
islation, putting through on final read
ing seventeen measures, of which six
were House bills. Among the princi-
IL IA,
er-O'Brien industrial compensation
bin, the Napier Hetherington-k nauss
adult probation bill, and the Baker
House bill increasing teachers mini
mum salaries.
Appropriations approved on second
reading in the Senate, after being
amended in the main to meet the rec
concentrations of the finance commit
tee, were as follows: For the purchase
of grounds for additional state build
ings, $4,000, together with S16,496 re-
naming in a fund appropriated for
similar purposes by the Twenty-first
General Assembly. For the support
and maintenance of the State Indus
trial School at Golden for the 1919
1920 biennial period, $1S5,000. For adj
ditional machinery for that institution,
$4,000 For general repairs, $4,000. For
additional lands, $4,000. For the sup
port and maintenance of the State In
dustrial School for Girls at Morrison
for the 1919-1920 biennial period, $780,
600. For constructing and repairing
cottage at the school, 100000.
For enlarging and repairing a
cottage now at the school for hos
pital, $4,000. For an additional farm
building, $1,000. For general repairs
to the buildings, $500 For the pur-
chase of additional lands, $4,000.
The military measures favorabiy
acted upon in the Senate were House
bills 419 and 400, by Representative
Bert NJ. Lake of Denver-one author
izing the state military board to dis
pose of real estate formerly acquired
for military purposes and now insult
able for such use; the other providing
that moneys returned to the state by
the federal government in reimburse
ment for expenses of modifying Ma
tional Guard troops during the Mexi-
can border troubles in 1916 shall be al
located partly to the military poll tax
fund and partly TO special fund up
on which the adjutant general may is
sue vouchers to cover those expenses.
Passage of the R0truck-Bond bill
calling for 1-cent tax on gasoline on
second reading in the House of Repre-
sentatives came after II stormy discus
sion in which certain representatives
endeavored to discourage the idea of
federal aid in the construction of Colo
RADIO highways. The bin provides that
funds raised through this means
for the next three years 90 to-
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