The Raymer enterprise., 1921-03-17
LEG|sLAT|vENEWs.
up.To.DATE REPORT OF WHAT
10 TAKING PLACE AT THE
STATE CAPITOL.

Bills passed on third reading were:
3. b. 40, by Senators Church,
Bashor and Burke. relating to irriga-
ton.
h. B. i28, by Representatives vii.
Liam D. McGinnis and Lorenzo II.
Sutton, to exempt from county high
school taxes school districts maintain.
Ing individual high schools.
H. B. 800, by Representatives Thorn.
as E. Moore and w. B. Gordon,
broadening the term consolidated In
1909 session law relating to consoli.
dated school districts and transporta.
ton OF pupils therein.
h. B. AIS, by Representative Sut.
ton, to amend Z 1917 session law rela.
tive to loans out Of the school fund on
cultivated land.
H. b. 426 by Representatives
Charles w. Bowles and George 4.
Smith, to authorize towns with In.
debtedness Of one-fourth Of their as.
sessed valuation or more to provide
taxation for paying such debt.
Il. B. 454, by Representative Gordon,
to authorize drainage districts to ex.
ercise right Of eminent domain in OBJ
tanning rights.of.way.
II. b. SIC, by Representatives George
A. Pughe and Bowles, to permit ad-
mission Of district engineers records
a. evidence In court cases involving
irrigation questions upon certification
of the state engineer as to the gen.
uineness Of the records.
The following bills were read and
passed:
A group Of five bills By Senators
COlwell, Peterson, Warren, Rockwell,
Tobin. Bashor. Burke and Wilson, pro.
viding for commissions to negotiate
treaties or agreements with the states
Of Arizona, California, Nevada, New
Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska and
Kansas respecting the use Of the wa.
tiers Of the Colorado, La Plata, South
Platte, Arkansas and Laramie rivers,
all Of which have their sources In
Colorado and flow thence In the states
enumerated. These bills are designed
to permit the arbitration Of the many
perplexing irrigation problems existing
between the states mentioned and the
state Of Colorado.
Some bills passed BY the House on
third reading were:
8. B. 1853 BY Senators 0olding Fair
field and Francis J. Knauss, imposing
penalties on notaries public who know.
ingly administer false oaths.
81. B. $40. by Representative John y.
Rotruck, providing the amount to b.
paid administrators Of estates.
8. B. 4, BY Senators Fairfield and
Knauss, providing for the bringing Of
suits by personal representatives Of de.
ceased persons.
s. B. 81, by Senator David W. Jones.
providing penalties for cutting fences.
s. B. $3.50, by Senator David Elliott,
providing for the punishment Of those
Hguilty of election frauds In home rule
cities.
Senator Francis J. Knauss, schalr-
man Of the calendar committee, re-
ported out five Senate bills and two
House bills on special orders for the
calendar.
They include Senate bills 70 to pro-
vide for publishing the compiled stat
utes Of 1921, 145 to appropriate for
the state hospital, 142 to submit to the
voters proposed amendment Of Section
q, Article II Of the state constitution
regarding property rights Of aliens,
ITO and 125 to appropriate for the
state penitentiary and state fair.
grounds, respectively, and House bills,
30 to place convict labor under direc-
ton Of the STATE Board Of Corree-
lions, rather than the warden Of the
penitentiary, and sos relating to con.
tracing Of Indebtedness by school dis.
tricts.
The House concurred In Senate
amendments to a House concurrent
resolution urging Congress- to adopt
high protective tariff on potato flour.
The resolution was introduced by Rep
resentative Headlee, acting Democratic
House floor leader. !. It was supported
by Democrats in both House and SEN
ate. 1t Is the second time this session
that Colorado Democrats have gone on
record as fayoring high protective
tariff.
Amendments offered by Senator W.
81. Adams to Senator Peterson's con.
gressional reapportionment bill failed
of passage, and the bill was passed on
second reading as originally reported
out. The bill transfers III Pas0 coun-
ty from the Second to the Third dis
trict; Clear Creek, jefferson and GIL.
pin from the Third to the Second, and
Park from the Third to the Fourth.
Included In six appropriation bills
reported out favorably by the Senate
finance committee, Senator L. A. Puff
fer, chairman, was Senator John B.
Stephens bill, No. 81, to establish a
state retirement board and pension
state employees Of twenty years serv.
Ice or more when they reach the age
Of 90 years.
Approval was given to bill that