Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-02-01

the House. llllo, loWc'Si,
three Council bills which have passed ooth
branches and gone to the Governor LOT Ills
SIGNATURE. The four House bills winch nave
passed that body and reached the Co'hcli'
are House bill No. l, to pay Tor tle cure Vi
insane: No. ga bill to authorize the GOV
ernor to offer a reward for the capture OF
robbers-which has been tabled by lhe
Council =: No. II, which authorizes the care
of Territorial c%onvicts, has been referred 10
the committee ON Federal Relations in the
Council. No. Z is to repeal the Law III re-
card to administrators, approved May .,
1873.
The following bills have passed the Couf-
Gil up to this date: No. 8, to require 1le
owners of water bitches to keep them IN
repair No. lO-a bill in regard to trial Ju-
rors-allowing them $500 per day. rms
bill is amended so as to apply to Deer Lodge
county only. No. 1l-an act giving district
courts authority to employ stenographers.
No. u, for the benefit of common schools
1t a~ppropriates the money received 1rom the
sale of government lands within town limits
to the school funds Of such districts. a Dill
to prohibit the sale of Intoxicating liquors
on Sunday is favorably received by the
Council, but will probably be defeated i'll the
House. 1t is now in theh hands of the House
committee on Education. No. Il is q bill to
give Door men the right to prosecute civil
suits in courts without giving security. 1t
has passed the Council and will probably
become a law. No. is gives the citizens OF
school district No. Z, in Gallatin county,
authority to vote $4,000 for the erection OF
a building for a graded school in BoZeman.
No. %, to protect birds, fish, ETC., has also
passed the Council. 1t prohibits the killing
of grouse, prairie chickens, cartridges or
ouails by any person, at any time OF the
year, for sale or speculative purposes. An
other very good bill, which has passed the
Council, is n prohibiting saloon-keepers
from allowing minors under the age Of Il
years to gamble Or drink in their houses OF
saloons. 1t has been read the second time
in the House, and will probably become a
law. Mitchell's narrow gauge railroad bill
has been laid on the table in the Council. A
similar bill in the House, has been amended
so as to make the northern terminus at Boul-
der, in Jefferson county, and reduced the
subsidy to one million and one dollars.
Hays bill for a standard gauge railroad from
the head of navigation Oh the Yellowstone
river, to run three hundred miles westward
to the boundary of Deer Lodge county, asks
for a subsidy of one million and a half O
dollars. Th North Pacific railroad compa
ny are to have the preference of building
the road. This bill was treated with a goo(
deal of contempt when first introduced, bu
since it is found that it has SO many friends
the tide seems to be changing in its favor
1t can pass the Council, but what Will be
come of it in the House is difficult to tell
since it is almost impossible to pass any sor
of a bill in that body. | an inclined to tn,
belief that it will meet about the same fat
there that the narrow gauge bill would re
ceiye in the Council-a sad death. 1t is pos
sible, however, that there will be a cemprc
mise, and that both propositions win 90 be
: fore the people. Railroad matters seem t
: be in rather bad condition just now. Man
of the Helena and Lewis and Clarke peopl
are anxious to see the Benton road bull
: but they say that Lewis and Clarke count
!, canaot stand to be taxed for the Bento
: road and any other road; so il the Territor
undertakes to subsidise . road, the Bento
road project is defeated. The people {
: Measher county are certainly interested t
a considerable extent With Lewis and Clark
county. and should a proposition be presen
ed to them to vote a subsidy to a North an