The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-26
LEGISLATIVE NEWS
UP-TO-DATE REPORT OF WHAT
is TAKING, PLACE AT THE
STATE CAPITOL.
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railroad commissioner that they intend
to request committee action on Sen
| ntors Elliott and McFadZeans bill to
abolish the commission, and announce
ment from another group that opposi-
tiOn TO the thirteen so-called Lindsey
bills" will be waged Immediately when
they are brought up for second read
ing, promise an interesting session of
the State House of Representatives.
The railroad commission abolish
ment bill has lain in II plgeonhole of
the state affairs and apportionment
committee since it was sent over from
the Senate
Representative Paul b. Godsman's
reapportionment bill is reposing there
also, and since friend and foe alike of
| both measures are members of this
committee, action on either has not
been pressed.
Another fight in the lower House is
impending over Representative Morris
A. Penter's bill to penalize giving or
| seeking of prediction pledges when
1t comes up for third reading.
Supporters of blue sky" bill intro
duced by title by Senator l.. +. Girard
of Boulder threaten to start an erup-
ton in the upper House when Senator
| w. o. Peterson's speculative securities
commission bill comes up for third
reading.
Passage of the Peterson bill, they
believe, would mean virtual end of
the Girard proposal, at least for this
session.
This is the only so-called administra
tion measure on the Senate calendar.
BY deleting by amendment eight
simple words from House bill 1876, by
Representatives A. NJ Wilson and w,
ii. Mcintyre, both of El Paso county,
friends in the Legislature of the Den
yer city hall machine have transformed
the bill into one of the most obviously
pork barrel measures in the Twenty.
third General Assembly, members from
outside counties declared as they be-
gan organizing opposition to be fired
at the proposal when it comes up for
third reading. The bill, as amended
| and passed on second reading by the
| lower House last week, provides that
| for any four months of each year the
| county clerk of every county may hire.
| for the purpose of issuing automobile
| licenses, one clerk at 500 month for
each 1000 automobile licenses issued
in his county.
Originally the provisions read "ex'
cept in the city and county of Den
ver."
BY amendment these eight simple
words were cut out, making the pro
visions apply to Denver, as well as
| other counties.
At the end of bitter fight in which
charges of politics" and "pernicious
lobbying" were freely exchanged, the
State Senate adopted Senator w. o.
Peterson's amendment to Senate Bill
| 315, to empower the State Industrial
| Commission, rather than the state
| treasurer, as now, to direct investment
| of money in the state workmen's COM
pensation fund above those needed for
payment of immediate claims.
A bill providing for the leasing by
| the state of land dedicated to public
purposes for the use of highways was
| passed on second reading. Represen-
| tative Harbaugh is the author of the
bill. Under provisions of the bill, if
the road was changed because of the
land being put to some other use by
the owner, it would be necessary for
| the owner to change and rebuild the
| highway.
A bill by Senators ]. F. Church and
r. c. Callen allowing the state to re-
ceive gifts and legacies was passed
on final reading by the House.
Final passage was given to bill by
| Representative Minnie c. Il. Love OF
| Denver, preventing courts from send
| ing children to sectarian institutions
| for n home or for committing crimes
The bill allowing for the selling of
| state land to veterans of the world war
| and giving them twenty years in which
to pay was put over when it came up
for hearing.
| The House passed on final reading
the bill by Representative Bert NJ.
Lake of Denver, that will reorganize
the Colorado National Guard.
A bill by Senator r. C. Callen, pro
viding for the brand inspection of live
stock shipped out of the state, was
passed on third reading.
The bill creating the Fourteenth jul
| Icial district out of Routt, Moffat
and Grand counties also passed on
final reading.
The fee charged for each permit
would be raised to 500, If the bill be-
comes law. The bill was put over for
action.
Representative George A. Pughe, au-
thor of the bill, made the request to
lay the bill over.