The Elk Mountain pilot., 1921-03-03
LEGISLATIVE NEWS
UP-To-DATE REPORT OF WHAr
is TAKING PLACE At THE
STATE CAPITOL.
Western Newspaper pu,o. New. Service,

State senator's baked when Senator
David w. Jones bill, No. 9S, came up,
proposing to increase to $1,000 from
4,4OO the annual compensation of the
state coal mine inspector and to in
crease the salaries of his deputies in
proportion. The proposed increase
would give the inspector the same sal
ary as the governor. By vote of 10
to Z the Senate struck the enacting
clause from the bill, on Senator Sam
uel ID. De Busk's motion, and 1t was
only after the bill 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 II passed on second
reading Senators John L. East and
Francis J. 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 negli-
gence" in many cases.
The State Senate has taken the first
step toward abolishing vaccination or
incubation as requirement for en-
trance into public schools, state col.
leges or state universities by passing
on second reading Senator John b.
Stephens bill, No. 250, providing
against such requirements. As orig
inally drawn, the bill declared that
mo vaccination, inoculation 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 Senators Fairfield
and knauss, was passed on second
reading, amending chapter 151 of an
1899 statute and repeating chapter $50,
to make them conform with an amend
ment of 1901 which provides that as
sessments for street improvements
must be based on the benefit conferred
rather than upon foot frontage. Sem
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 f. 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
IN 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,
='hich stipulates that defendants
charged Jointly with crime may OBJ
tain separate trial by showing evil
dence relating to them not material"
to the case.
Senator l.. Il. Girard, who has an.
other blue sky" bill pending, and Sen
ator Knauss talked against the meas.
ure.
A proposal that $6OO,OOO be cut from
the State Highway Commissions 1921
budget Is said to he under considera-
lion by members of the finance COM
mittees of the General Assembly as a
means of putting an end to the contro-
versy now raging between heads of
state educational institutions over the
acceptance of the Rockefeller founda-
tion sT50,00O 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
330. by Senators Alexander II. Young,
Hugh II. 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 B. Reed
of Boulder county introduced the bill.
After II lengthy wrangle, the House
Il u. 1.tl1