The Dolores star., 1921-03-18
LEGISLATIVE NEWS
uP-To-DATE REPORT OF WHAT
is TAKING PLACE AT THE
STATE CAPITOL.
Wes'ern Newspaper Union News Service

49, ny SeiitOrS Church,
hhsiior and Burke, relating to irriga-
ton.
ii. i. 12S, by Representatives Will
nam ID. McGinnis and Lorenzo NJ
sutton, to exempt from county high
school taxes school districts maintain.
ing individual high schools.
ii. b. 39S, by Representatives Tbom.
as Il. Moore and w. B. Gordon,
broadening the term consolidated" in
1903 session law relating to copsoIi.
dated school districts and transporta-
ton of pupils therein.
ii. b. 415, by Representative Sut.
ton, to amend 1917 session law rela-
tive to loans out of the school fund op
cultivated land.
II. b. 426, by Representatives
| Charles w. Bowles and George II.
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 ex-
ercise right of eminent domain in OBJ
tanning rights-of-way.
ii. b. $40, by Representatives George
A. Pughe and Bowles, to permit adj
mission of district engineers records
as evidence in court cases involving
irrigation questions upon ccrtification
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. 1853, by Senators Golding Fair
field and Francis J. Knauss, imposing
penalties on notaries public who know
ingly administer false ouths.
III. b. 80, by Representative John F.
Rptruck, providing the amount to be
paid administrators of estates.
S. b. 4, by Senators Fairfield and
Knauss, providing for the bringing of
suits by personal representatives of de-
ceased persons.
S. Is. 81, by Senator David w. Jones.
providing penalties for cutting fences.
S. B. 800, 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, Las to appropriate for
the state hospital, 142 to submit to the
voters proposed amendment of Section
81, Article IL % 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,
90 to place convict labor under direc-
ton of the State Board of Correc-
tions, rather than the warden of the
penitentiary, and 306 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
high protective tariff on potato flour.
The resolution was introduced by Rep.
resentative Headiee, 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.
III. Adams to Senator PetersOn's con.
gressOnal reapportionment bill failed
of passag ge, and the bill was passed on
second reading as originally reported
out. The bill transfers I'll PasO coun-
ty from the Second to the Third dis.
trict; Clear Creek, jefferson and Gil.
min 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 age
of 60 years.
Approval was given to bill thnt
will place the appointment of proba
tion officer in counties of less thah
o5,OOO population in the hands OF the
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