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Show DECISION IN DENVER Legislature May Repeal or Change Laws Initiated Initi-ated by Voters Denver, Feb 28. The state supreme su-preme court today rendered an opinion opin-ion holding I hat the legislature could i i c peal a law initiated and adopted by the voters and could Insert in any law a so-called 'savins clause," which would prevent its being referred re-ferred to the voters. The decision was reudered in response re-sponse to questions by the .--tate senate, sen-ate, relative to the status of two miners' eight-hour law6. One of these laws, passed by the eighteenth general assembly and referred to the votfrs at the elftctiorj last November. rd:fl heW repealed on Tan Initiated law. both haUnLT been approved at the election No questions were submitted to the court after the Introduction of a bill similar to the eleht-ho-ir law passed by the elchteenth general assembly with a view to determining the possi-blllts possi-blllts of re-enacting the law at this time with a clause which would prevent pre-vent it being referred to the voters. |