The Ordway new era., 1921-03-18
LEGISLATIVE NEWS
uP.ro.pATE REPORT OF WHAT
is TAKING PLACE AT The
STATE CAPITOL.
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II Il. lbs, by Representatives WI
liam d. AIcGinnis and Lorenzo W.
sutton. TO exempt from county hish
school taxes school districts maintain
ing individual high schools.
IL. Is. 39S, by Representatives Ihom-
as Il. Moore and w. b. GORDON
broadening the term consolidated IN
1909 session law relating TO console
dated school districts and transporta-
ton of pupils therein.
III. b. 4ll, by Representative SUIT
ton, to amend u 1917 session law rela-
tive TO loans out of the school fund ON
cultivated land.
III. B. 42G, 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. Il. 454. by Representative Gordon,
to authorize drainage districts to eX-
ercise right of eminent domain in OBJ
tanning rights-of-way.
IL. B. $40, 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:
y 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
lers 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.
Itotruck, 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.
$. B. 81, by Senator David w. Jones,
providing penalties for cutting fences.
S. b. 339, by Senator David Elliott,
providing for the punishment of those
guilty of election frauds in home rule
cities.
Senator Francis ]. 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 II of the state constitution
regarding property rights of aliens
40 and 125 to appropriate for the
state penitentiary and state fair
grounds, respectively, and House bills
~ to place convict labor under direc
tion of the State Board of Correc
tions, rather than the warden of tn,
penitentiary, and BOG relating to con
tracing of Indebtedness by school dis
tricts.
The House concurred in Senat
amendments to a House concurren
resolution urging Congress to adopt
high protective tariff on potato flou1
The resolution was introduced by Rer
resentative Headlee, acting Democrati
House floor leader. 1t was supporte,
by Democrats in both House and Sen
ate. 1t is the second time this session
that Colorado Democrats have gone NJ
record as favoring high protectiy
tariff.
Amendments offered by Senator "
H. Auails TO Senator PeterSon's cor
gressional reappOrtionment bill faile
OF passage, and the bill was passed O
second reading as originally reporte
out. The bill transfers Ell Paso cour
ty from the Second to the Third di,
trict; Clear Creek, Jefferson and Gi
pin from the Third to the Second, an
Park from the Third to the Fourth.
Included in six appropriation bill
reported out favOrably by the Senat
finance committee. Senator l.. A. Pu
fer, chairman, was Senator John !
Stephens bill, No. 50, to establish
state retirement board and pensio
state employees of twenty years. ser,
ice or more when they reach the az
of 60 years.
Approval was given to a bill til,