The Arvada enterprise., 1921-04-14
LEGISLATIVE news
uP.To-oArE REPORT OF WHAT
10 TAKING PLACE At THE
STATE CAPITOL.
tw.,~. s.,.e.ps u.,s. M, s.,,s.l


One hun lred and fifteen House bills
were enacted into law, and $50 Senate
bills. Twenty-nine additional Senate
bills were acted upon, but were killed
In House or Senate or died In House
committees. Forty-slx additional House
bills also were considered. hut were
killed by Senate or House or smoth-
cred In Senate committees. These to-
tails make a grand total Of ITO Senate
bills and 161 House bills taken up at
the session. That means total of $40
were considered In both houses. Eleven
hundred were introduced ut the SEES
sion In the two houses, 70 there were
760 which never got into print or out
Of committee.
Among the bills passed In the House
but smothered In Senate committees
were those fixing the maximum mum.
Der Of cars for freight trains and pro-
hibiting running Of trains backward.
Another was to appropriate $4,000 for
the use of Col. Clifton H. Wilder rs the
governors special prohibition law en-.
forcing officer. Colonel Wilder and
one Of his two lleutenants spent the
last three days in the Senate lobbying
for the measure, but failed to get It
out of committee.
The four chief constitutional amend
ments to be submitted to the people ut
the next general election propose hold.
Ing Of q constitutional convention, ex-
tending to four years the terms Of
county and state elective officers and
permitting medical students Of tbs
State University to spend four rest
dent years In Denver. where the med
ical school 10 situated, instead Of two
at Denver and two at Boulder, a. now
required.
Methods employed In assessing and
collecting the state oil inspection fees,
especially the tax for highway USES,
Of cent gallon on gasoline sold. are
"obsolete and Ineffective" State SEN
ators w. w. Booth, chairman; r. @.
Callen and w. H. Adams declared In
their report a. q special senatorial in
vsstigating committee on the business
Of the state oil inspectors collections,
submitted to the State Senate.
Several organizations Of farmers
sent resolution to the House Of Rep
resentatives and Senate expressing
their appreciation for the legislation
enacted to help the farmers Of the
state. The resolution was presented
by the Farmers' Congress, Colorado
State Grange, Colorado branch Of the
Farmers' Educational and Cooperative
Union and the Colorado State Farm
Bureau.
Appropriations q this session, -
Guiding approximately 81 10000 In the
long appropriation bill and 500. 900 In
the short appropriation bill, totaled a.
S76.sla, Inclusive Of the $l.S45,00O mil.
itary program, covered by the extsa.
sion for two years OF the 1917 national
defense bond issue, which 10 retired By
fiat taxes % corporations.
Fifteen minutes before midaight
Tuesday, the hour set for adjousnmsat
sine die, the clocks In both houses
were stopped and the Legislators ~
NAMED In session for several hours u
an effort to thresh out The differences
bstWeen the two houses over The high
way eommission blu.
Governor Shoup IL Q short spsech
bsfoss the Hsase said sducatioaal bills
were not being neglected and that soon
evosy town Ia the state would have q
scAoel. He also served notics that ~
would have - veto several ef ths billa
sotablisAlng asw schools.
TAs passage q The n,liott.AcFad.
sean bill abolishiag the STATE RailreaA
Ooo0lasioa O third and final reading
was ~ sutstandisg feature Of the &C.
ties q tAs stats House Of Rsprsssata.
tivss at he last daylight ssssioo.
TAs sssats bsll establishing . stass.
ownsd cement plant at ~ psaitsa.
tiasy and appropriating $3.50. 900 out Of
the road fund for IT. construction was
defeated when II cane before the stats
House Of Representatives % sscoad
reading.
Bllls creating normal schools at Ala.
mesa, Trinidad, La Junta and Lamar
passed on final reading. Bills author.
ixing branch Of the Agricultural Oo,.
lees at Rife and . Junior college at
Grand Junction also were passed.
The tsachers' minimum salary blu
was passed, but instead Of fixing Q
minimum Of 500. a. urged BY the eov.
ernor. II makes the minimum 376 q
month and $1,000 and $1,000 q year.
A bin appropriating $500 to pay
the deficit In the state law enforcement
department, headed by Col. Clifton
Wilder. passed on final reading.
The tax for the Rockefeller gift
probably will stand out ~ the para.
mount piece Of constructive legisistion
Of the session.
Bills establishing the Denver. Ante
lope. Spanish Peaks and Pixies Peak
game refugees were passed on final
reading.
Three legislative Investigations wsrs
OFterefl nv the session-nns into the