The Raymer enterprise., 1923-03-01
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STATE CAPITOL
NEWS LETTER
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mails bred in Colorado, was passed on
final reading.
Party lines were entirely disre.
garded in the State Senate during
consideration of Senate bill No. 81, by
Senator Girard, DeBusk and Saunders,
amending the primary law.
The electrOcution bill was passed by
u unanimous vote, after brief eXpla.
nation. 1t is sponsored by Represen.
tatives Linkins, Hotchkiss and Cook,
who introduced it at the request Of
Warden Tom lyman Of the state peni-
tentiary.
Acts permitting county commission
ers to issue refunding bonds without
vote Of the people, and granting the
Grand Army Of the Republic permis.
sion to erect a memorial fountain on
the capitol grounds, passed by Senate
on second reading.
In Il speech ut Greeley when state
senators and representatives inspected
the State Teachers College, Governor
Sweet urged members of the Legisla-
ture to consider their junketing at an
end when they arrived back in Denver
and to settle down to business"
The Senate unanimously passed S. b.
2S1, by Senator N. C. Warren, Repub-
lican, Of Fort Collins. This is the bill
that compels judges of election to post
on the outside Of the booth an alb.
stract Of the votes cast, and there Is
q penalty for defacing or altering this
abstract.
Some Republicans say that the
hopes for short session are fast
glimmerlng The first week of the
session 1t was agreed to hold eau
Gus in thirty days and set time for
adjournment The caucus was not
held, and the Legislature is plodding
along with no definite end in sight.
The House passed a resolution call
ing upon Congress to recognize the
government OF Mexico. 1t was pointed
out by Representatives Carlos +. Ro.
nero of Las Animas county and Add
son B. Manning of Denver that re.
sumption Of trade relations would be
Of enormous benefit to Colorado.
Governor Sweet signed the bill
abolishing the State Board Of PardOns
He followed this action up with the
announcement that the work hereto
fore done by the board would be per-
formed by the State Board of Char.
tiles and Corrections. There Is now
pending In the General Assembly bill
also abolishing this board.
Despite the protests of Senator l..
A. Puffer, Republican. Of Colorado
Spring, the Senate, in committee Of
the whole, passed on second reading
s. B. 154, by Senator Golding Fair
field. Republican, of Denver. This Is
the bill authorizing corporations to es-
tablish unemployment insurance, So
cial welfare movements and the like
On second reading the Senate
passed s. b. No. 341. by Senator Fair.
field, preventing the sale of real es-
tate for delinquent personal property
taxes. S. B. No. 145, by Senator
Elliot, providing for the inspection Of
building and loan associations by the
state bank examiner, was recommitted
with the understanding that an early
report would follow.
or the series of bills introduced al
the present session Of the Legislature
at the request Of Governor Sweet, not
one has been passed by either branch
The bill establishing the office Of
state market director is the only one
that has been on the floor Of the
House for nctlon After being passed
on second reading It was referred back
TO the agricultural committee and now
rests there.
After debate lasting more than
two hours, the State House of Repre-
sentatives passed on second reading II
measure raising the tax on gasoline
from / cent to 9 cents gallon. The
bill passed without dissenting vote
Drunkenness In a public place is
made Il crime against the state under
s. B. No. 227, which was passed by
the Senate on second reading without
record vote. Passage followed Il
protracted debate In which the bill
was defended by Senator J. F. Church.
Republican, of BrOomfleld, and Sen
ator George E. Colgate, Republican, OF
Canon City, and was criticized by Sen
ator Henry Wolcott Toll. Republican,
Of Denver.
Senator william H.. Adams, Demo
crat, OF Alamosa made final protest in
the Senate against the continuation in
office of any public trustee appointed
In the closing days Of Oliver II.
Shoup's administration as governor of
Colorado. The protest was against a
line In the S. B. 62, by Senator Henry
WOlcott Toll, Republican. OF Denver,
making the terms Of office Of public
trustee two years instead Of four, to
conform with a recent decision of the
State Supreme Court.
General opposition to House bill No
100, which passed the State House of
Representatives on second reading
threatens to block it in the Senate
and perhaps to prevent its final pas.