The Elk Mountain pilot., 1921-03-17
LEGISLATIVE NEWS
UP-To-DATE REPORT OF WHAT
is TAKING PLACE AT THE
STATE CAPITOL.
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Bills passed on third reading were:
S. b. 429, by Senators Church,
Bashor and Burke, relating to irriga.
ton.
H. b. 12S, by Representatives VIII
liam ID. McGinnis and Lorenzo NJ.
Sutton, to exempt from county high
school taxes school districts maintain.
ing individual high schools.
IL. b. 39S, by Representatives Thorn
as E. Moore and w. b. Gordon,
broadening the term 'consolidated' In
a 1909 session law relating to consoli.
dated school districts and transporta.
tion of pupils therein.
III. B. 415, by Representative Sut.
ton, to amend 1917 session law rela-
tive to loans out of the school fund on
cultivated land.
H. B. 426, by Representatives
Charles w. Bowles and George r.
Smith. to authorize towns with In
debtedness of one-fourth of their as.
sessed valuation or more to provide
taxation for paying such debt.
II. B. 454, by Representative Gordon,
to authorize drainage districts to eN
ercise right of eminent domain in OBJ
tanning rights-of-way.
II. b. 516 by Representatives George
A. Pughe and Bowles, to permit ad-
mission of district engineers records
as evidence in. court cases involving
irrigation questions upon certification
of the state engineer as to the gen.
uineness of the records
The following bills were read and
passed:
A group of five bills by Senators
Colwell, Peterson, Warren, Rockwell,
Tobin, Bashor, Burke and Wilson, pro-
viding for commissions to negotiate
treaties or agreements with the states
of Arizona, California, Nevada, New
Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska and
Kansas respecting the use of the wa
ters of the Colorado, La Plata, South
Platte, Arakansas and Laramie rivers,
all of which have their sources in
Colorado and flow thence in the states
enumerated. These bills are designed
to permit the arbitration of the many
perplexing irrigation problems existing
between the states mentioned and the
state of Colorado.
Some bills passed by the House on
third reading were:
S. b. 16S by Senators Golding Fair
field and Francis j. Knauss, imposing
penalties on notaries public who know
ingly administer false ouths.
II. B. $40, by Representative John f.
Rotruck, providing the amount to be
paid administrators of estates.
S. b. 4, by Senators Fairfield and
g.. 4. l-s~~ IL
suits by personal representatives of de-
ceased persons.
S. B. 81, by Senator David w. Jones,
providing penalties for cutting fences
S. b. $3.50. by Senator David Elliott,
providing for the punishment of those
guilty of election frauds in home rule
cities.
Senator Francis J. Knauss, chair
man of the calendar committee, re-
ported out five Senate bills and two
House bills on special orders for the
calendar
They include Senate bills 73 to pro-
vide for publishing the compiled stat
utes of 1921, 145 to appropriate for
the state hospital, 142 to, submit to the
voters proposed amendment of Section
27, Article IL of the state constitution
regarding property rights of aliens,
10 and 125 to appropriate for the
state penitentiary and state fair
grounds. respectively, and House bills,
80 to place convict labor under direc-
tion of the State Board of Correc-
tions, rather than the warden Of the
penitentiary, and 3O6 relating to con-
tracing of Indebtedness by school dis
tricts.
The House concurred In Senate
amendments to a House concurrent
resolution urging Congress to adopt q
high protective tariff on potato flour
The resolution was introduced by Rep
resentative Headlee, acting Democratic
House floor leader. 1t was supported
by Democrats in both House and SEN
ate. 1t is the second time this session
that Colorado Democrats have gone on
record as favoring high protective
tariff.
Amendments offered by Senator w.
II. Adams to Senator Peterson's con-
gressional reapportionment bill failed
OF pussage. and the bill was passed on
second reading as originally reported
out. The bill transfers Ell Paso coun-
ty from the Second to the Third dis
trict; Clear Creek, Jefferson and Gil.
pin from the Third to the Second, and
Park from the Third to the Fourth.
Included in six appropriation bills
reported out favorably by the Senate
finance committee. Senator L. A. Puff
fer, chairman, was Senator John b.
Stephens bill, No. 50, to establish
state retirement board and pension
state employees of twenty years serv-
ice or more when they reach the ago
of GO years.
Approval was given to bill thar