The Colorado statesman., 1923-04-28
COST OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY is
APPROXIMATELY
$4,000
2O4 BILLS PASSED
SIXTY EIGHT APPROPRIATION
MEASURES INCLUDED IN
TOTAL

Denver.-The Twenty-fourth General
Assembly of Colorado was in session
107 days.
The cost of the session is estimated
to be approximately $4,000.
Bills totallng 1,Ol6 were introduced
Into both houses in the first fifteen
days.
Important measures that have been
passed are: The Colorado and La
Plata river pacts, the Lindsey child
welfare bills, the cooperative market
ing act and the director or markets
bill, the abolishment of the State
Board of Pardons and the abolishment
Of the State Board of Charities and
Correction, the blue sky law, the SOL
diers' bonus resolution, the director OF
markets law.
Important measures that have been
killed are: Governor Sweets admin
istrative code bill, the Lambert Con-
solidation bill, vetoed by Governor
Sweet; the state income tax and in
tangible property tax bills, the bill Gre
ating u state boxing commission, the
pari-mutuel racing bill, the anti-com-
pulsory vaccination bill, the bill plac-
ing trucks under the State Public IT'LL
tiles Commission, the optional inspec-
ton of produce bill.
The Twenty-fourth General Assem-
bly, came to an end at 10: :37 o'clock
April 20 with the breaking of tho
twenty-eight-hour deadlock over the
tax on gasoline and its twin In legis-
lation, the repeal of the 1a-mill levy
for the State Highway Department.
The two bills really held the legisIa-
tors In more or less of tangle for the
last six weeks, and the end came when
the Senate passed the gasoline tax bill
at 500 o'clock fixing the tax at 2
cents a gallon, by a vote of IS to IL,
followed at 8 o'clock by the House
passing the half-mill levy repeal bill.
The summary of the concluding
hours of the Legislature show that the
long appropriation bill was passed in
the House as amended by the Senate.
The following is a list of bills orig.
mating in the state senate, which have
been signed by Governor Sweet, after
having been passed by the Twenty
fourth General assembly.
9O1-Repealing pardon board law.
165-Malsing laws 1921 prima facie
evidence.
305-Fixing places, trials District
l11--Amending law reinvestment ss-
i12-Amending law trust companies
investment trust funds.
~ Amending law savings banks.
l15~-Amending laws Investment cap
72--Amending law Automobile IL
censes.
4s-Prohibiting solicitation personal
injury or death claims.
261-Reposting election returns.
300-Relating to chattel mortgages.
365-Exchange certain land by state
land board.
3Ss---Re right OF way through Durango
fish hatchery.
2Os-Reissuance OF bonds by public
water works districts
240--Prohibiting injury to signs.
3S6---AmendinS code of civil procedure
To- IRE fees and salaries of county Of
1877 Re declaratory judgments and
150--Amending code of civil procedure.
S04-Amending law re probate matters.
350-Amending law re probate matters.
l36-Amending act re elections.
I41--Amending law re warehouses.
241-Relating to taxation of automo-
biles.
263-Amending act re relations be-
tween employer and employee.
392-Amending law re water commits
sioners.
34-Re salaries of deputy district at
torneys.
14-Amending act re drainage dis
tricts.
76-Appropriation certain indebted
ness Soldiers and Sailors Home.
l33-Amendtng law re relations be-
tween employer and employee
231-Re right of way through Clea-
Creek
23s-To secure claims against con-
tractors.
i21-Colorado commissioner for Rio
Grande river.
high school districts of third class.
}07-Co-operative marketing. etc,
55-Re publication of legal notices.
35-Relief estate Harry Hall.
73-Appropriations purchase real es-
tate by Soldiers and Sailors
.17-Concerning chattel mortgages.
s5-Re Colorado state game refugee.
25S-Relating to stations and jacks.
.6S-Creating Royal gorge state game
refuge.
.24-changing Liberty Day" to AR
mistice Day"
}25-Relief Josephine F. Leonard and
Mary Leonard.
I40-Providing method of proving
,s7-Re Investment public school funds.
sgS-Providing for licensing of archi-
tects.
i1O-Approving Colorado river COM
pact.
2s-Appropriations for water de-
fense.
.22-Re continuation negotiations Kan
sas and Nebraska.
23-Appropriations Alamosa state
Normal school.