The Arvada enterprise., 1923-03-08
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STATE CAPITOL
NEWS LETTER
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The measure creating the Grand
Junction drainage district was passed
on final reading by the House.
A measure appropriating Sl,IOO 10
pay the deficiency of the law enforce.
ment department Of the stute was
passed ON second reading.
Democrats In the State Legislature
have started their campaign to force
the Republicans To take action on the
measure introduced ut the request Of
Governor Sweet.
The hin creating the office of state
market director did not meet with op.
position. This measure was passed
once before On second reading and
then re-referred to the agricultural.
committee when opposition de>el
oped.
Another measure adopted On third
and final reading makes drunkenness
in public places, outside of the corl'or-
ate limits of II town or city, II misde.
meanor. punishable by fine or impris.
onment, or both. Only six senators
voted against this bill.
Coal companies operating upon
leased land would be compelled to post
II bond to guarantee the payment of
labor, under the provisions of meas.
ure by Representative T.. {. Johnson
of Moffat county that passed the
House on second reading.
in a al,
by II vote of ~ to IL the bill by Rep.
resentutive AXcl 4. johnson Of Denver.
designed To stop the CLOSED hospital"
system. Under its provisions hospi-
tals not open to all doctors holding II
license from the State Board Of Med-
ical Examiners would be forced To
pay taxes.
After extended discussion, the
House passed On second reading II
measure intended to do away with the
CLOSED hospital" system. Under it,
provisions hospitals that would not
open their doors to all doctors huvIn:
II license from the State Board of
Medical Examiners would not be eX.
empt from taxation.
The ,inii-compulsnry vaccination
bill, one of the most widely discussed
measures before the State Legislature
was killed by the State House of Rep
T., scniatiyes when IL came up on sec.
"nd reading. The vote was ~ To -
The bill brought forth II heated argu-
mcni duriau which The medical profcs.
Let. Ia.
praised.
The House upproyed ON sccor,
reading n bill creating the Grand
Junction drainage district. The bill
allows the land In the district TO M
assessed for the work ON the basis oi
present law allows only valuation OIL
acreage and us the proposed dis,ric,
takes IN Inc cities al Grand Junction
and Pnlis;'dc this would not be- n fnli
basis for assessing the cost. The pr"
posed drainage district viii be n NIL
lion-d"llnr undertaking and will brini
under cultivation many acres OF vain
able land that is now worthless. Rep
resentntivc Sterling u. Lacy Of Crane
Junction Is the author Of the bill.
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