The Ordway new era., 1921-04-15
LEGISLATIVE NEWS
UP-To-pArE REPORT OF WHAT
Is TAKING PLACE AT THE
STATE CAPITOL.
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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 were
killed by Senate or House or smoth
cred in Senate committees. These to-
tails make Il grand total of 179 Senate
bills and 161 House bills taken up at
the session. That means total of $40
were considered in both houses. Eleven
hundred We're introduced at the ses-
sion in the two houses, so there were
76O which never get into print or out
of committee.
Among the bills passed in the House
but smothered in Senate committees
were those fixing the maximum num-
ber of cars for freight trains and pro-
hibiting running of trains backward.
Another was to appropriate $4,000 for
the use of Col. Clifton ii. Wilder as the
governors special prohibition law en-
forcing officer. Colonel Wilder and
one of his two lieutenants spent the
last three days in the Senate lobbying
for the measure, but failed to get it
out of committee.
The four chief constitutional amend
ments to be submitted to the people at
the next general election propose hold
ing of Il constitutional convention, ex-
tending to four years the terms of
county and state elective officers and
permitting medical students of IT,,
State University to spend four resi-
dent years in Denver, where the med
ical school is situated, instead of two
at Denver and two at Boulder, as now
required.
Methods employed in assessing and
collecting the state oil inspection fees,
especially the tax for highway uses,
of L cent gallon on gasoline sold, are
Obsolete and Ineffective" State Sen
atOrS w. w. Booth, chairman Il. c.
Callen and w. Ii. Adams declared in
their report as a special senatorial in
vestigating committee on the business
of the state oil inspectors collections,
submitted to the State Senate.
Several organizations of farmers
sent 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
Farmers Educational and Cooperative
Union and the Colorado State Farm
Bureau.
Appropriations of this session, in
Guiding approximately $1,S5O,000 in the
long appropriation bill and 100000 in
the short appropriation bill, totaled &c.
S7S,S1S, inclusive of the 81, $4,000 mil
itary program, covered by the extern
sion for two years of the 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
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-
ton of the state House of Representa-
tives at the last daylight session.
The Senate bill establishing state
owned cement plant at the peniten-
tiary and apprOpriating $550,0OO out of
the road fund for its construction was
defeated when it came before the state
House of Representatives on second
reading.
Bills creating norlnai schools at Ala
mosa, Trinidad, La Junta and Lamar
passed on final reading. Bills author
iZing branch of the Agricultural Col
lege ut Rifle and Junior college at
Grand Junction also were passed.
The teachers minimum salary bill
was passed, but instead of fixing a
minimum of $100, as urged by the gov
ernor, it makes the minimum $T5 a
month and $1,000 and $1,000 year.
A bill appropriating $2,S0O to pay
tae 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 We're passed on final