The Elk Mountain pilot., 1921-04-07
LEGISLATIVE NEWS
UP-To-DATE REPORT OF WHAT
Is TAKING PLACE AT THE
STATE CAPITOL.
tw...ern x...p.per Union New. ss,lc.l

bills. Twenty-nine additional Senate
bills were acted upon, but were killed
in House or Senate or died in House
committees. Forty-six additional House
bills also were considered, but We're
killed by Senate or House or smoth-
cred in Senate committees. These to-
tails make a grand total of 1T9 Senate
bills and 16l House bills taken up at
the session That means total of 340
We're considered in both houses. Eleven
hundred were introduced at the ses-
sion in the two HOUSES, SO there We're
100 which never got into print or out
of committee l,,e
Among the bills passed in the House
but snoiliered in Senate committees
were those fixing the maximum num-
her of curs for freight trains and pro-
hibiting running of trains backward.
Another was TO appropriate S40,OOO for
The use. of Col. Clifton H. Wilder as the
governors special prohibition law ell
forcing officer. Colonel Wilder and
ore of his two lieuienants spent the
iast three days i'll The Senate lobbying
for the measure, bui failed TO get it
out of committee.
The,four chief constitutional amend
menIs to be submitted to the people at
the next general election propose hold
ing of IL constitutional convention, ex-
tending 10 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
at Denver and two ut Boulder, as now
required.
Methods employed in assessing and
collecting the state oil inspection fees,
especially the laA lor highway uses,
of / cent a gallon on gasoline sold, are
obsolete and Ineffective" State Sen
ators w. ". Booth. chairman; II. c.
Callen and w. H. -Adai.s 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 II 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
ruiiners Educational and Cooperative
onion and the Colorado State Farm
Bureau.
Appropriations of this session, in
Guiding approximately Sl.S50,O00 in the
long appropriation hi and S400,000 in
the short appropriation hill, totaled &c.
SIS.S1S. inclusive of the 81, ,S45. 900 mil.
.tary program. covered by the exten-
sion for two years of lhe 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
between the two houses over the high.
way commission bill.
Governor Shoup in 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-
tion OF the state House of Representa-.
tives M the last daylight session.
Tive Senate bill establishing state.
owned cement plant at the peniteh-
tiary and appropriating $3.50, 900 out of
the road fund for its construction was
defeated when 1t 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 Junior college at
Grand Junction also We're passed.
The teachers minimum salary bin
was passed, but instead of fixing
minimum of 500, as urged by the gov.
ernor, 1t makes the minimum $T5 n
month and $1,000 and 81 200 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 as the para
mount piece Of constructive legislation
of the session.
Bills establishing the Denver Ante
lope, Spanish Peaks and Pixies Peak
game refugees were passed on final
reading
Three legislative Investigations were
ordered by the session-one into the