The Dolores star., 1921-04-08
LEGISLATIVE NEWS
JP-To=DATE REPORT OF WHAT
is TAKING PLACE AT THE
STATE CAPITOL.
Western Newspaper Union News s.rioej


ing the number of cars which may be
hauled upon a freight train upon
grades of more than l per cent to
forty, and on grades of less than
per cent to sixty.
BY Representative Love-ApprOpri-
ating $4,000 for the support and main
tenance of the state detention home for
women suffering from social diseases.
By Representative Spooner--Provid-
ing for the submission to the voters at
the next election of a constitutional
amendment fixing the terms Of county
officers at four years.
By Representative Dickerman-Re-
vising the law pertaining to the mining
commission.
Two of the most important bills in
trOduccd at the present session of the
Legislature passed the State House of
Representatives on final reading They
were the Pollock bill repeating the
present direct primary law and re-
establishing the convention system of
selecting party candidates with the
provisions that primary election can
be called If it is requested by petitions
signed by 20 per cent of the .umher
who voted for the party candidate for
governor at the preceding election, and
the bill providing for tax levy of two
tenths of mill for two years to raise
100000 for the securing of the Rookie
feller gift of 100000 TO establish
Sl,5OO,OOO hospital and medical school
branch of the University of Colorado.
The long appropriation bill provid-
ing funds for the running of the state
government for the next two years
waS passed on second reading by The
State House of Representatives. 'Ap-
preparations made by the bill approXi-
mate $1,S0O,0O0. The appropriations
committee of the House cut 100000
from the estimate submitted by {. A.
Lemmers, budget and efficiency com.
missioner. The amount is practically
the same as WAS appropriated by the
Legislature two years ago.
Over opposition of Senators John L.
Slattery, George II. Colgate, Walter +.
O'Brien, Francis J. Knauss, NJ L.
Bashor, Samuel w. DeBusk, o. L. Ban.
mister and others, proponents in the
State Senate of the Booth Callen-Yo Young
bill to establish state-owned and
operated cement and cruslIed-stone
| making plant put their measure
through on second reading. 10 to Is.
| Senator Knauss obtained segregation
of the bill from the report of the com
mittee of the whole.
With thirteen of the twenty-four
| Republican senators standing by him
| to the last ditch, John +. Vivian, in a
| letter to Senator Booth, released his
| friends on the final roll call on the
| confirmation of former Lieutenant
J Governor Stephan, thereby making the
confirmation possible. The vote at the
| time of the release was seventeen for
| Vivian and eighteen for Stephan. The
| Vivian vote at the last was made up
of thirteen Republicans and four Dem.
ocrats.
The Senate adopted unanimously a
| joint resolution presented by Senator
| Frank l.. Dodge, Adams and Samuel
| w. De Busk and given unanimous con.
| sent for immediate consideration by
| which Il memorial window is ordered
| placed in the Senate chamber in
tribute to the late Senator Cashmere
Barela, for more than forty years a
legislator and public official Of the
state from Las Animas county.
Colorado senators declined to ap
| propriate money for oil shale expert
| ments at the Colorado School of Mines
The measure fixing the minimum
wage of school teachers at $50 Il
| month was passed on final reading. A
companion bill, changing the law 50
that school districts will not have to
obtain the permission of the tax com
mission to raise their tax leries up 10
% per cent passed the House on final
reading.
The House of Representatives prob.
ably will not act upon the Senate
amendment to the resolution fixing
date of final adjournment for several
days. 1t is predicted that when the
House does act it will be to delay the
date to April or 0 to permit the pas.
sage of needed legislation.
| Immediately upon confirmation of
| former Lieut. Gov. George Stephan as
| registrar of the Land Board, Governor
Shoup sent letter to William Il. Muc-
ply, engineer of the State Land Board
and the only remaining Republican on
| the board, requesting his resignation.
With a minimum of discussion, the
| State Senate adopted joint resolution
fixing 6 O'Clock, April 2, as the date
for adjournment sine die Of the
| Twenty-third General Assembly.
Final passage was given by the lower
house of the bill appropriating S6OO,OOO
to meet the Rockefeller 100000 gift
for state hospital and medical school.