Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-08-31 | Page 1 | Colorado Legislators May Receive No Salary

COLORADO LEGISLATORS MAY RECEIVE NO SALARY DENVER, Aug. 30. Membore or the special session of tho Colorado legislature, legisla-ture, In session here, discovered today that they stand a good chance of not gulling any money for their sorvlccs unless un-less some future legislature appropriates appropri-ates It. Thorc is no m6noy available in tho general fund. To romedy this situation, the Democratic majority passed a bill appropriating $110,000 from the supreme court library fund, but could not. get the necessary two-thirds majority" to make tho bill an emergency measure, and tho money available no soon as It becomes a law. The law. therefore, would not bc-comoeffcctlvc bc-comoeffcctlvc for ninety days, and unless un-less Goverlw Shafroth signs It tomorrow tomor-row tho ninety days' period lapses over Into tho next biennial term. It being legally lmposslblo for ono general Jissom-bly Jissom-bly to appropriate money for uso during the term of the next, the law would then be void. Feelings of conlldcnce that the governor's gover-nor's signature could bo had waned perceptibly per-ceptibly tonight when It was learned that former Chlof Justlco Hayt of the Colorado Colo-rado supremo court had addrescd a memorial me-morial to Ihe governor and the legislature, legisla-ture, declaring that tho library fund, which Is made up of fees collected from attorneys, Is therefore solely for library uso, "by mutual contract' with the attorneys, at-torneys, and that ho will seek to soo that It is not diverted." In this he Is understood to havo the backing of attorneys of the state and a legal war Is considered Inevitable If the bill guts the governor's signature.