Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-03-25
LEGISLATIVE NEWS
UP-To-DATE REPORT OF WHAT
Is TAKING PLACE AT THE
STATE CAPITOL.
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alton for 1922 for agricultural exten-
sion work and make the annual ap-
preparation thereafter $4,000.
S. B. 170, by Senator George f. Col
gate. to appropriate $2S7 900 for the
state penitentiary for the biennial pc
riod.
S. b. 412. by Senator John McFad-
zean, to extend to drainage districts
provisions of the irrigation law of
1915. permitting purchase by the dis
tricts of delinquent tax certificates of
the districts.
S. B. 2S2, by Senator o. e. Bannis-
ter, to appropriate $4,000 for new
buildings at the State Home for Mental
Detectives at Grand Junction.
Fl. B. $40, by Representative Ro-
truck, relating to estates of deceased
persons, insane and other mental in
competents.
Representative III. II. Harbaugh and
Rudolph Johnson's bill, 333, to author
ize mutual insurance companies COM
posed of twenty or more persons to
carry on business in Colorado encoun-
tered unexpected opposition when it
came up on second reading in the State
Senate. Senator L. e. Girard, who
moved for its favorable consideration,
charged that all of this unfriendllness
to the measure came from old-line fire
insurance companies outside the state,
which take from $5,000,O00 70 $6,000,-
900 out of Colorado every year.
Senator Walter f. O'Brien's bill, 154,
to appropriate S137 900 for the state
reformatory at Buena Vista for the BIZ
ennial period was passed on second
reading as was House Bill 260, to ex-
tend Its part of the half mill levy for
educational institutions, voted by the
people last fall, to the Colorado School
for the Deaf and Blind.
Proposed changes in the state con-
stitution voted upon at a general cleo
ton would have to receive a majority
of all votes cast at the election to be
adopted under the provisions of bill
introduced by Representative Halsey
Rhoads of Denver, which appeared be-
fore the state House of Representa-
dves.
A bill appropriating 100000 to be
used by the governor as he sees fit In
case of threatened tumult or riot, was
approved by the House on second
reading. The money will not be used
unless an emergency arises, according
to Representative Bert NJ Lake, au-
thor of the bill.
One of the most bitter fights of the
present session of the Legislature oc-
Cured over House bill that would
require the installation of measuring
devices at the headgates of bitches as
the state engineer might direct.
An appropriation of 100000 to fin
ish construction of a building at the
School for the Deaf and Blind at Colo
RADIO Springs was approved when the
House passed bill by Representative
w. III. Mcintyre on final reading.
The House refused to excuse Repre-
sentative Minnie G. t. Love, chairman
of the House medical affairs commit
tee, from making a report on the Ste
phen characterization bill already
passed by the Senate.
bill by Representative Frank r.
Mortenson, appropriating $1,000 for
the correction of the names on the sol
diers and sailors monument on the
west lawn of the capitol was passed
on final reading.
The House passed on third and final
reading the bill approprlating s50O,O0O
for the construction of armories in the
state.
Over opposition from Senator Sam
uel w. De Busk, who suspected "a
benevolent attempt to help some finan-
cial interest and possibly keep the
cream out of ice cream" the Senate
adopted an amendment suggested by
State Dairy Inspector Morton to Sen
ator Golding Fairfield's bill, 4O7, by
which ice cream makers may buy bulk
condensed or evaporated SKINNED
milk If labeled as directed by the state
dairy inspector
The Senate state affairs committee,
Of which Senator David Elliot of Colo
RADIO Springs Is chairman, promoted
one of the biggest surprises of the
present session when 1t amended the
House highway commission bill so
drastically that 1t is not recognizable
as the measure was passed on final
reading by the representatives.
The Senate bill making the laws
more strict regarding pnre food and
sanitary inspection by the state was
passed on third reading. Senator Al
exander II. Young is the author of the
bill
The House passed on second reading
the bill establishing a division of mar
keting and providing for the grading
of produce raised in Colorado
The House passed on third and final
reading the measure appropriatlng
$4,000 for the establishment of de-
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