The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-03-11
LEGISLATIVE NEWS
uP-To-DATE REPORT OF WHAT
is TAKING PLACE AT THE
STATE CAPITOL.
Western Newspaper Union News Service ,

PAVNSSSSc VI uOCuluCutS.
s. b. BOG, by Senator NJ. e. Bashor,
fixing the boundaries of water dis
tricts II and IS.
s. B. IT'S, by Senator John l.. East,
providing for the raising of the allow
| ance of district judges for travelling
expenses from $3 to IS day.
S. B. DDS. by Senators John McFad-
sean and K. +. Rockwell, fixing tie
minimum speed within which live stock
must be transported ut an average of
ten miles an hour.
S. b. PIT, by Senator Francis j.
Knauss, providing for the drawing of
jury list twice annually by the jury
commissioner in Denver.
Bills approved on second reading
were:
s. B. 4, by Senators Golding Fair
field and Knauss, providing for the
bringing of suits by personal represen-
tatives of deceased persons.
H. B. 80, by Representative John f.
Rotruck, relating to the amounts to be
allowed administrators of estates.
| S. B. 81, by Senator David w. Jones,
providing penalties for the cutting of
| fences.
S. b. 32S, by Senator John p. Dick
inson, providing that probation officers
shall be appointed only in counties of
less than 25,000 population when the
board of county commissioners agree
to the appointment.
| s. B. 339, by Senator David Elliot
prescribing punishment for election
| frauds in home rule cities.
The Senate passed nine bills in all
on third reading. Among them were:
S. B. 359, and 361, by Senator Gold
ing Fairfield, to make the 1915 and
1917 state prohibition acts conform
with the VOlstead act and placing
penalty on the selling possession, ad
vertIsing or manufacturing Of any
utensils used In making Intoxicating
liquors.
S. B. 113, by Senator John McFad-
zean, to extend to drainage districts
provisions in the irrigation law of 1881
against damaging of irrigation district
property.
S. B. 21S. by Senator Willim Z. Rem
shaw. to amend the old state law ex-
empting four counties from the prOvi-
sion that lode mining claims shall be
COO feet wide and making this width
apply to all Counties $50
S. B. 2S9, by Senators Fairfield and
Francis J. Knauss, to amend sections
5416, 543O, 5431 of the revised statutes
of 1908 and make the state foreign cor
poration law embrace all corporations
alike and not exclude all railroads
save those in this and adjoining states,
ms provided in these sections.
S. B. All, by Senators Colwell, NJ. e.
Bashor and J. L. Morrison, appropriat-
ing $4,000 for commission to repre-
sent Colorado In suits regarding rights
to water in streams common to this
and adjoining states.
The committee on agriculture of the
State House of Representatives has or
dered out for printing bill that is In
| tended to promote the development Of
the Colorado fruit and vegetable In
dustry and to protect the states repu-
tation by providing standards or
grades, standard packages and inspec-
ton for fresh fruits and vegetables
Senate bills No. 90 by Senator J. F.
Church, No. so by Senator Colgate, and
No. 1874 by Senator John McFadzean.
to appropriate for the maintenance Of
the Industrial school for boys, the penf-
tentiary and the soldiers and sailors
home, also were passed on third read
| Ing.
House proponents of Representatives
Elmer C. Abbey and H. II. Harbaugh's
bill to create the new county of Paw
nee out of northeastern Weld county
| began an active movement to gain fav-
orable action for the measure in the
State Senate, where 1t has been re-
ported out without recommendation by
the county affairs committee. The bill
has been passed finally by the lower
House. Supporters of the bill point
out that the new county would have an
assessed valuation OF S13, ,500,O00 and
Weld county's valuation would, even
then, remain larger than that of any
other Colorado county except Denver.
| Charges that railroads which, from
selfish motives desire to prevent the
building and Improvement of other
railroads in Colorado, and certain cori-
oanfes which desire to have monop-
| ply on the coal production in the state,
ire trying to bring about the repeal
4 If the State Railroad Commission law
gere made by Chairman Paul B. Gods
nan of the state affairs committee of
he State House of Representatives, in
report explaining why The Elliot-Mc-
Fadzean bill had been tabled by the
committee.
House bill SIT, by Representatives
I smbblefield, Pughe and Irwin. extend
ng the time in which irrigation engi-
leers may file their reports with the
Hate engineer, and House bill 425, by
+ Representative William T.. Reed, rails
ng the amount of bonds which a eoun-
Y may issue, were passed on second
.aa ding