The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1921-04-16
LEGISLATIVE NEWS
UP-To.oArE REPORT OF WHAT
Is TAKING PLACE AT THE
STATE CAPITOL.

bills. Twenty-nine additional Senate
bills weEe acted upon. but were killed
In House or Senate or died In House
committees. Forty-sIx. additional House
bills also were considered, but were
killed by Senate or House or ssnOth-
cred In Senate committees. These to-
tails make q grand totai OF ITO Senate
bills and 1871 House bills taken up ut
the session. That means total OF $40
were considered In both houses. Eleven
hundred were introduced ut the ses-
sion In the two houses, 40 there were
100 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 H. Wilder us the
governors special prohibition law en-
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 1t
out Of committee.
The four chief constitutional amend
ments to be submitted to the people ut
the next general election propose hold
ing OF constitutional convention, ex-
tending to four years the terms OF
county and state elective officers md
permitting medical students Of the
tntx TYs.ix IN .roSk.
dent years In Denver, where the med.
ical school is situated. instead OF two
at Denver and two at Boulder, AZ now
required.
Methods employed in assessing and
collecting the state oil inspection fees,
especially the tux for highway uses,
Of cent gallon on gasoline sold, are
"obsolete and Ineffective" State Sen
ntOrs w. W. Booth, chairman; X. C..
CalIcn nnd W. II. Adams declared In
their report ns u special senatorial In
vestiGuting committee on the business
Of the state oil inspectOe's collections,
submitted to the Stnte Sennte.
Several, organizations Of farmers
sent d resolution to the House OF Rep
resentntives and Senate expressing
their appreciation for the Legislation
enacted to help the farmers of the
state. The resolution wns presented
by the Farmers Congress, Colorado
Farmers Educational and Cooperative
Union nnd tile Colorado State Farm
Bureau.
Appropriations Of this session, In.
Guiding approximately 81 $4,000 In the
long appropriation bill ind 100000 In
the short appropriation bill, totnled So
S7s,S1s, Inclusive OF the $1,S45,0OO NIL
itary program, covered by the extern
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-
malned In session for several hours In
an effort to thresh out the differences
between the two houses over the high
way commission bill.
hbNeTuoI SIpup III hupIt speeth
before the House said educational blps
were not being neglected and that soon
every town In the state would have a
school. He nlso served notice TINT he
would have to veto several OF the bills
establishing new schools.
The passage Of the Elllott-McFad.
Hean bill abolishing the State Railroad
Commission on third and final reading
wns the outstanding feature Of the nc
ton of the state House of Representa-
tivcs ut the last daylight session.
The Senate bill establishing state.
owned cement plant nj the penitcn-
tIary and nppropriniing S5.O.OW out Of
the road fund for It's construction was
defeated when IL came before the state
House of Representatives on second
reading.
Bills crcntng normal schools ut Ala.
mosa, Trinidad, La Juntn and Lamar
passed on final reading. Bills author
izing II branch of the Agricultural Col
lege ut Rifle and junior college ut
Grand Junction also were passed.
lHt
was passed. but instead OF fixing q
minimum of 500, MS urged by the gov
crnor. 1t makes the minimum $50 II
month and $1,000 and 81 200 year.
A bill npproprintins. 1880 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
" the session.
Bills establishing the Denver, Ante
Iope, Spanish Peaks and Pixies Peak
game refugees were passed on finul
reading.
Three Legislative Investigations were
ordered by the session-One Into the