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Show LEGISLATURE LOCKED ON SEVERAL BILLS DENVER, Colo.. April 7. One of th-i three bills which had ausd a deadlock in the final hours of the Twenty-second general assembly was settled just before midnight, when the senate, by a vote of 20 to 1-', adopted the Hrecii; bill pro-: pro-: vidinc for state ownership of intrastate railroads as it passed the houe. the senate sen-ate receding from its position. The other measures the return appruprin t km bill and the "blue sky" bill were still in conference. con-ference. The conference agreement was reached on the Steele bill by elimination of the amendments proposed in the senate, yiipf. were provisions for an additional tunnel under Marshall pasa on the Denver Den-ver & Rio Grande, and an appropriation of J-.-K'O for the work of the state mil- road commission created by the bill. This action assure the placing of the question of rehabilitation of ' the Denver & Salt I-ake railn-ad before t he voters in the fomi of a bond is.-tie for ytate- purchase of the road, an Governor Oliver II. Shoup is an advocate of the. measure. At midnipht there was no prospect of agreement on the other two measures. |