Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-03-04
LEGISLATIVE NEWS
uP-To-DATE REPORT OF WHAT
is TAKING PLACE AT THE
STATE CAPITOL.

crease the salaries or his deputies In
proportion The proposed Increase
would give the Inspector the same sal
airy as the governor. BY vote of 10
to Z the Senate struck tho enacting
clause from the bill, on Senator Sam
uel D. De Busk's motion, and 1t was
only after the bin had been segre-
gated from the report OF the commit
tee Of the whole and Senator John l..
East of Walsenburg proposed amend.
ments eliminating all salary Increases
that the senators gave 1t favorable
consideration whatever.
The State Senate figuratively voted
against the "joy rider" and the speed
maniac" when 1t passed on second
reading Senators John l.. East and
Francis ]. Knauss' bill which empow-
ers courts to impose body Judgment
against defendants in suits for per-
sonal damages or property loss who
are held responsible by judge or jury
for negligence through reckless or
willful disregard OF the rights of 9TH
ers." This phraseology 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
1t difficult to define criminal negll-
gence' in many cases.
The State Senate has taken the first
step toward abolshing vaccination or
incubation as a requirement for en-
trance into public schools, state col
| leges or state universities, by passing
on second reading Senator John Il.
Stephens bill. No. $50, providing
| against such requirements. As orig
inally drawn, the bin declared that
mo vaccination, incubation or other
medical treatment" shall be required
for admittance to, attendance at or
employment in "any public or private
school, college, institution or office"
Senate Bill So, by Senator'S Fairfield
and Rnauss, was passed on second
reading, amending chapter 151 of an
1899 statute and repeating chapter $50,
to make them conform with nm 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 1899 law was passed to apply par
ticularly to Pueblo and Colorado
Springs, which since have became char
ter cities.
Despite opposition from Senator
Walter II. o'Brien and others, Sena-
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 Senators Fairfield and Knauss' bill
amending this provision which was
passed on second reading also. The
| amendment changes to "immaterial"
the word material" In the section,
which stipulates that defendants
charged Jointly with n crime may OBJ
tain separate trial by showing evil
dence relating to them not material"
to the case.
Senator l.. K. Girard, who has an
other blue sky" bill pending, and SEN
ator Knauss talked against the meas.
ure.
A proposal that 5000, 900 be cut from
the State Highway Commissions 1921
budget Is said to be under considera-
ton by members of the finance COM
mittees of the General Assembly as
means of putting an end to the contro-
versy now raging between heads of
state educational institutions over the
acceptance of the Rockefeller founda-
ton ST5O,000 gift for state medical
school and hospital for the poor of
Colorado.
Child insurance, considered by every
session of the Legislature since 1893,
when the present anti-child insurance
statute was passed, came before the
State Senate again In the form of bill
$50, by Senators Alexander II. Young,
Hugh r. Steele and w. W. Booth. The
measure was passed on second reading
after virtually whole afternoon of
discussion, in which the opposition was
led by Senator John McFadzean of Del
Norte, physician.
Another bill passed on third read
ing is intended to relieve taxpayers
and provides that no penalties will be
attached IL taxes are paid In full by
the last day OF May. Representatives
udolph Johnson and William Il. Reed
of Boulder county introduced the bill.
After n lengthy wrangle, the House
struck the enacting clause from bill
providing for the pensloning of school
teachers. Before being killed, the bill