The Ordway new era., 1921-03-04
LEGISLATIVE NEWS
UP-To-DATE REPORT OF WHAT
is TAKING PLACE At THE
STATE CAPITOL.
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-, 400 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 16
to z the Senate struck the enacting
clause from the bill, on Senator Sam
uel ID. De Busk's motion, and it 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 it favorable
consideration whatever.
The State Senate figuratively voted
against the ''joy rider" and the speed
maniac when it passed on second
reading Senators John l.. East and
Francis ]. 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 substitut-
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
inoculation as Il requirement for en-
I'M IN
leges or state universities, by passing
on second reading Senator John b.
Stephens bill, No. $50, 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 80, 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
| 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
on second reading, three of them
House bills, and five on third reading
Another doubt in section 1851 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,
which 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.. f. Girard, who has an.
other blue sky" bill pending, and Sen
ator Knauss talked against the meas.
ure.
A proposal that 5000, 600 be cut from
the State Highway Commissions 1921
budget is said to be under considera-
tiOn by members of the finance COM
mittees of the General Assembly as
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 S75O,0O0 gift for state medical
school and hospital for the poor of
Colorado.
Child insurance, considered by every
session of the Legislature since 1898,
when the present anti-child insurance
statute was passed, came before the |
State, Senate again in the form of bill |
$50, by Senators Alexander r. Young |
Hugh II. Steele and w. w. Booth. The
measure was passed on second reading |
after virtually a whole afternoon of |
discussion, in which the opposition was
led by Senator John McFadzean of Del |
Norte, IL physician.
Another bill passed on third read
ing is intended to relieve taxpayers |
and provides that no penalties will be |
attached If taxes are paid In full by |
the last day of May. Representatives |
udolph johnson and William b. Reed
of Boulder county introduced the bill