The Dolores star., 1921-04-15
LEGISLATIVE NEWS
UP-To-DATE REPORT OF WHAT
is TAKING PLACE AT THE
STATE CAPITOL.
Western Newspaper Union New, Service }

bills were acted upon, but were killed
in House or Senate or died in House
committees. FOrty-siX additional House
bills also We're considered, but were
killed by Senate or House or snOth-
cred in Senate committees. These to-
tails make grand total of 179 Senate
bills and 16l House bills taken up ut
the session. That means n total of $40
were considered in both houses. Eleven
hundred were introduced at the ses-
sion in the two houses, so there were
T60 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 num-
| 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 II. Wilder AS the
governors special prohibition law ell
| forcing officer. Colonel Wilder and
one of his two lieutenants 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 mt
| the next general election propose hold
ing of a constitutional convention, eX-
| tending to four years the terms of
county and state elective officers and
| permitting medical students of the
| State University to spend four resi-
| dent years in Denver, where the med
| ical school is situated instead of two
ut Denver and two at Boulder as now
required.
Methods employed in assessing and
collecting the state oil inspection fees,
especially the tax for highway uses,
of / cent II gallon on gasoline sold, are
obsolete and ineffective" State Sen
ators w. w. Booth, chairman; Il. c.
| Callen and w. II. Adams declared in
their report as special senatorial in-
vestigating 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 of this session, in
Guiding approximately S1,S50,O00 in the
long appropriation bill and 100000 in
the short appropriation bill, totaled &c.
| S7S,S1S, inclusive of the S1.S4J,OO0 mil
ita.y program, covered by the exten
sion for two years of the 1917 national
defense bond issue. which is retired by
flat taxes on corporations.
Fifteen minutes before midnight
Tuesday, the hour set for adjournment
sine die, the clocks in both houses
were stopped and the legislators re-
manned in session for several hours in
an effort to thresh out the differences
way commission bill.
| Governor Shoup in a short speech
before the House said educational bills
were not being neglected and that soon
every town in the state would have a
school. He also served notice that he
would have to veto several of the bills
establishing new schools.
The passage of the Elliott-McFad
zean bill abolishing the State Railroad
Commission on third and final reading
was the outstanding feature of the ac-
ton of the state House of Representa-
tves at the last daylight session.
The Senate bill establishing state
owned cement plant at the peniten-
tiary and approprating S550,000 out of
the road fund for its construction was
defeated when it came before the state
House of Representatives on second
reading.
Bills creating normal schools at Ala
mOsa, Trinidad, La Junta and Lamar
passed on final reading. Bills author
izing branch of the Agricultural Col
lege at Rifle and n junior college at
Grand Junction also We're passed.
The teachers minimum salary bill
was passed, but instead of fixing
minimum of 500, as urged by the gov
| ernOr, 1t makes the minimum ST5 Il
month and $1,000 and $1,000 year.
A bill 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 us the para
mount piece of constructive legislation
| os the session.
Bills establishing the Denver, Ante
Iope, Spanish Peaks and Pixies Peak
! game refugees were passed on final
reading.
| Three legislative investigations were
ordered by the session-one into the
State School of Mines, one into affairs
of the oil inspectors office and one in
to the State Land Boards affairs. Pro-