The Elk Mountain pilot., 1919-02-20
WILL have "BLUE-SxY"
CERTAIN OF PASSAGE OF I'M
PoRTANT MEASURE.
Call Up Many Small Bills for Con-
sideration Past Week.

about blue-sky legislation is the first
serious obstacle in the adminiStration
program that is confronting the Leg
islature. The Senate favors a specu-
lative securities commission. while the
House is inclined to diseredft the idea
of three men passing upon the pur-
ported sale of stocks. Hope that the
trouble may be irOned out was ex-
pressed by legislators of the upper
house, who called meeting of the
judiciary committee and invited the
subcommittee of blue-sky legislation
of the House judiciary committee to
attend.
Salary increase for Supreme and
District CoYDt judges were favorably
acted upon, the Senate voting to fix
the salary of supreme judges at $4,000
and that of district Judges at $4,000.
The Slattery bill proposed to set the
salaries at $1,000 and $500. but the
Senate sustained IL report of the con-
stitutiOnal amendments committee
holding that those figures were too
high. The increase allowed will have
to be submitted TO the people and ap-
proved by them before becoming law.
The first Senate bill to receive the
No. 90, by Senators Dunlap and Hat
tenbach, providing for semi-monthly
pay day for employers of labor.
Chief of Police Hamilton Armstrong
of Denver sent to the judiciary conS
mittees of the two houses of the Leg
islature an appeal for favorable ac-
tIon on three bills which he believes
will aid in checking the wave of Juve-
nile crime. One bill is Senate bill No.
%, restoring the jurisdiction of the
Juvenile Court, which was partly TAX
Supreme Court. Another bill is House
bill No. 151, designed to supplement
the present laws against prostitution
and criminal assault and to cover
cases which old laws do not reach,
especially those affecting young girls.
House bill No. . to raise the age of
delinquency and dependency from 16
to 1S years is also favored by Chief
Armstrong. The passage of these
three bills Will materially aid the po-
lice in their work among young Of
Graduates OF the Colorado School of
Mines will direct the future destinles
of that institutions IL the Fincher bill.
passed on second reading In the Sen
ate, receives II favorable vote on fihaf
reading and is given the approval OF
the other branch OF the Legislature.
The bill provides that three of the
five members of the board of trustees
appointed by the governor. shall be
alumni of the school. At present. only
one member of the board IL gradu,
ate of the Institution.
The firsts tep towards the erection
of fitting memorial In commemorn-
tion of Colorndos part In the war was
taken when the Senate adopted. on
second reading. the Knauss-DOdge bill
setting aside $4,000 as II preliminary
appropriation for that purpose.
Problems between the land owners
and the bondholdcrs of irrigation dis
tricts that embrace 1,25O,UO acres of
land which is for the most part un-
workable Mt present We're discussed
by representatives of both sides be-
fore the Senate agricultural commit-
tee at the capitol The North Sterling.
Montexuma, Arkansas, Otero. Pruitt
and Greeley-Poudrc districts We're rep
resented. The bill calls for n commits
sion which is to act as mediator he
tween the landowners aud bontiholhcrs
In districts TINT are in financial dis
tress for the purpose of liquidntina
the bonded Indebtedness.
Representative Mabel Ruth Baker's
bill establishing IL graduated minimum
wage for school teachers passed on
third reading by vote of 40 to 81
Senate bills passed on second read
Ing were: The McFadZean bill. allow
ing District Court reporters actual
travelling costs and So II day additional
expense allowance while on duty at
court sessions held outside their dis
irct. A..f
The camp-site bili before the State
!.egislaturs. which authorizes county
commissioners to purchase camping
places for motor tourists within their
counties. introduced at the request of
the State Highway Commission. has
created considerable interest through
ont the country. II is unique in rela-
tiOn to state government. although
many Colorado cities, pioneered by
Denver, have maintained these camps
for several years. The motor tourist.
however, finds difficulty in securing
II suitable camping place along the
country roads. 1T is easy to secure
accommodations in the cities. The
farmers have protested, and with some
show of right, that their land should
not be violated by innumerable camp
Ing parties. -, sta.
The Stephen bill, under which pub
lie display of the red flag in Colorado,
except -as II railroad signal would be
made a Mis,lemeanOr. aud the COldren