The Raymer enterprise., 1923-03-22
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STATE CAPITOL
NEWS LETTER
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The House defeated u measure that
would fix the term Of public trustees
at two years.
A debate between members from
the mining and from the farming dis.
tricts over bill raising the pay Of
tie state commissioner of mines, fea.
tured recent session Of the State
House Of Representatives The meas.
ure raises the salary Of the mining
commissioner from $l,8OO year to S.
500.
The House passed on final reading,
with only a few dissenting votes, the
bill creating a state fuel administra.
uon under the public utilities commits.
sion. The bill allows the commission
to fix proper margin of profit for
coal operators and retailers and al.
lows it to regulate the equitable dis
tributiOn Of fuel.
A detective squad Of its own is now
the proud claim of the State House of
Representatives. Speaker c. c. Sack
mann has appointed Representative
Earl kouns OF Pueblo, A. p. Johnson
OF Denver, and Samuel 4. Chapman Of
Colorado Springs as II special investi.
eating body TO prevent petty thefts
from tn, House chamber.
A bill, similar to the one killed last
week aid intended to keep Edwin NJ.
Sabin In his position as public trustee
OF Denver was passed by the State
House of Representatives with amend.
ments. The measure was changed so
that the clause that would keep pub
lie trustees now In office in their pres.
ent positions for two more years was
stricken.
A row developed in the House over
the fact that Representative Mabel
Ruth Baker Of Denver was having the
stenographers write several hundred
letters replying TO persons who had
written her In support Of the anti
compulsory vaccination bill which was
killed two weeks ago. The House
passed with almost u unanimous vote
motion by Representative Calklns
that in the future representatives lin
1t themselves to ten letters a day.
s. b. 425, by Senator l.. Il. Girard,
Republican, Boulder, Is known as the
blue sky law, though legally intended
to be known as the securities act, was
passed. 1t Ia designed to end all stock
selling schemes In Colorado and has
been declared to be most effective
bill. The main point Is that pros.
pectus must be filed with the secretary
of state setting forth all the facts
about the firm, money to be paid the
promoters, officers, capitalization and
the like.
A saving of many thousands of dol
lurs in the expense of running the
state government penal and educatiOn
al institutions the next two years Is
predicted by members of the appro
priations committee of the State House
Of Representatives which is drawing
the long appropriation bill for the BIZ
ennial period. While the bill will be
one of the last ones acted upon during
the session, the members have been
working on 1t since the General AS
sembly convened.
The House debated for long pc
riod over bill awarding damages of
$1,000 to farmer whose horses were
killed by eating poisoned grain placed
to eradicate ground squirrels. Four
horses were killed and the farmer lost
Il contract for work because Of the
death of the animals. The validity of
the claim was not questioned but
many representatives felt that the loss
should be borne by the county and not
by the state. The vote on the measure
was 2S to 2S, and Representative c.
A. Linkins Of Canon City, who was
serving as chairman, declared 1t passed
on second reading.
Passage of the cooperative market
ing bill by the State Senate means that
Colorado farmers will be given oppor-
tunlty to form a statewide cOmbina-
tion, the operation Of which will be
watched with intense interest by agri-
culturists throughout the nation.
The administration code bill, intend
ed to reorganize the state government
by abolishing seventy-two boards and
bureaus and consolidating the work un-
der nine departments was defeated in
the State House Of Representatives
The failure Of the bill to pass on Sec
ond reading leaves it on the table and
1t will take a tw0-thlrds vote of the
House to bring 1t up for consideration
again. Democrats will not attempt to
do this as they consider the action
taken by the Republicans as final. The
administrative code bill, having been
defeated, Republicans will rush the re-.