The Dolores star., 1921-03-04
LEGISLATIVE NEWS
UP-To-oATE REPORT OF WHAT
is TAKING PLACE AT THE
STATE CAPITOL.
Western Newspaper Union News s,r,l,. ,

proposing to increase to S5ODD frnrn
sl,3Oo the annual compensation Of thr
state coal mine Inspector and to in
crease the salaries Of his deputies in
proportion. The proposed Increase
would CIV" the Inspector the same sat- ,
ary as the governor. BY Il vote of l6 .
10 the Senate struck the ennctfng
clause from the bill, on Senator sam |
uel d. DE Busks motion, and it was |
only after the bill had been Scgre-
gated from the report Of the commit
tee of the whole and Senator John l.. |
East of Walsenburg proposed amend |
ihehts eliminating all sa,ary increases
that the senator's gave il favorable |
consideration whatever.
The State Senate figuratfveIy voted
against the ''.fy rider and the speed
maninc" when it passed on second
reading Senators John l.. East and
Francis J. Knauss' bill which empow-
crs courts to impose body Judgment
against defendants in suits for per-
sonal damages or property loss who
are held responsible by Judge or jury
Tor negligence through reckless or
| willful disregard of the rights of 9TH
ers.' This phraseoIogy was substitute
ed for criminal negligence" by an
amendment presented by Senator East
| to make imposition of such Judgment
more attainable, he said. courts finding
| it difficult to define criminal ncgli-
eence' in many cases.
The State Senate has taken the first
step toward aboliShiug vaccination or
| incubation as Il requirement for en-
| trance into public schools, state col
leges or state universities, by passing
on second reading Senator John B.
Stephens bill, No. go, providing
against such requirements. As orig
inally drawn, the bill declared that
| no vaccination, inoculation or other
medical treatment shall be required
employment in "any public or private
school, college, institution or Office
Senate Bill 5s, by Senator's Fairfield
and knauss, was passed on second
reading, amending chapter 15l of an
1899 statute and repeating chapter $50,
to make them conform with an amend
ment of 1901 which provides that as
sessments for street improvements
must be based on the benefit conferred
rather than upon foot frontage. SEN
atOr w. o. Peterson explained the bill.
The 1890 law was passed to apply par
ticularly 10 Pueblo and Colorado
Springs, which since have became char
ter cities.
Despite opposition from Senator
Walter F. O'Brien and others, Scna-
tor W. w. Kings bill, to remove from
game wardens and their deputies un-
der regular salary their present privi-
lege of receiving half the court
fines and costs of all game and fish
violation cases in which they are COM
plainants, went through on second
reading.
The Senate passed eight other bills
on second reading, three of them
House bills, and five on third reading.
Another doubt in section 1881 of the
revised statutes of 1908 was removed
by Senator's Fairfield and Knauss bill
amending this provision which was
| IiSSp'l bll SeCblu ISuulle diSo. ht
amendment changes to "immateriaf
the word material" in the section
which stipulates that defendants
charged jointly with crime may OBJ
tain separate trial by showing evi
dence relating to them not material
to the case.
Senator L. E. Girard, who has an
other blue sky bill pending, and Sen
atOr Knauss talked against the meas
ure.
A proposal that S6OO,OOO be cut from
the State Highway Commissions 1921
budget is said to he under considera
tion by members of the finance com
mittecs of the General Assembly as 9
means of putting an end TO the cOntrO
versy now raging between heads oi
state educational institutions over the
acceptance of the Rockefeller founda
ton S750,0O0 gift for a state medica
school and hospital for the poor ol
Colorado.
, Child insurance, considered by every
session of the Legislature since 1888
when the present anti-child insurance
: statute was passed, came before thu
$ State Senate again in the form of bill
q $50, by Senators Alexander r. Young
Hugh Il. Steele and w. w. Booth. Th'
measure was passed on second readin;
:. after virtually whole afternoon o
n discussion in which the opposition wa
g led by Senator John McFadzean of DE
o Norte, a physician.
Another bill passed on third read
ing Is intended to relieve taxpayer
s and provides that no penalties Will ID
e attached il taxes are paid in full D.
e the last day of May Representative
o udolph johnson and William II. Ree
of Boulder county introduced the Dill
After a lengthy wrangle, the Hous
II struck the epncting clause from bil
n providing for the pensloning of sch0O
's teachers. Before being killed, the bil