The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-02-07
u HELENA LETTER.
Committee Of the Whole Report on
the FOrbis Bill.
Saturday, the 21st Day Of February,
Fixed for the Final Adjourn
ment Of the Assembly.


Fixed for the Final Adjourn
ment Of the Assembly.
HELENA, M. T., Feb. 5, 1885.
The gambling bill came up again.
wien the chairman of the committee
Of the whole reported the bill back
to the House with the recommends.
ton that it do pass.
Baldwin,, who returned from Butte
last evening. took a lending part In
the. discussion of the bill to-day.
When the rep )rt Of the committee
vas presented. Baldwin questioned
the constitutionality of the bill and
argued that sections 3 and 4 were in
conflict with the organic act Of the
Territory, and moved that the bill be
recommltted to the judiciary COM
mittee for amendment.
Forbis and Tingle replied, and
upon a call of the yeas and nays, the
motion was lost--ayes S, nays IS.
Baldwin then moved that the bill
be referred to a select committee to
examine into its constitutionality,
and report next Saturday morning.
Motion lost.
Baldwin moved that the considera-
ton of the report of the committee of
the whole be postponed until Satur-
day morning. Motion lost.
The report of the committee OF the
whole was then adopted 49, ayes Is,
nays 2.
Potts offered an amendment SINH
lar to the amendment he proposed
yesterday, prohibiting betting on
any horse race or election, under pen
atty of q fine Of not more than 500
or Imprisonment Of not less than ten
days nor nor than six months.
The amendment was defeated, ayes
8, nays Is.
Forbis moved that the rules be GUS
pended and the bill passed on its
third reading.
Baldwin asked leave to present q
substitute, and Potts moved an adj
%journment, but was ruled out of or.
der.
Forbis' motion was put and carried.
ayes Is, nays s.
The bill will be placed on its final
passage in the house tomorrow.
Speer arrived tonight and is liable
to be heard from in the debate to-mor-
row.
The five who voted against the &C.
ceptance of the report of the commit
tee were Baldwin, Potts, Kohrs. Tay-
lor and Seligman.
NOTICES OF COUNCIL BILLS.
By Kennedy-An act to lnco1po-
rate the city of Missoula, amending
the present act incorporating it as a
town so as to provide for / s incorpo-
ration as a city.
BY Armstrong-A hill to amend
sections 374, 37s and 399, third divis-
ion of the revised statutes, in relation
to appeals in cases OF capital offenses.
Also of a bill for the relief of Jo-
sephus P. Martin; for money ex-
pende / as probate judge for the year
1883.
Also Of an act to amend an act con-
corning the fees of jurors in civil
cases.
COUNCIL BILLS INTRODUCED.
Bv Buck-To amend section 253 of
of the code of civil procedure, relat-
ing to instructions to ~juries.
BY DeWolfe-To amend section
428 of the first division Of the revised
statutes, relating to appellate courts.
DeWolfe also introduced the fol-
lowing joint resolution:
Resohved, By the Legislative Coun-
Gil and The House Of Representatives
concurring, that Saturday, February
81, 1886, be and the same is hereby
fixed as the day of final adjournment
of the present session of the Legisla-
i've Assembly.
On motion of Mitchell, the rules
were suspended and the resolution
read the third time, and passed by q
unanimous vote.
Members of the House say that
they cannot finish the business al
ready before them by that time, and
that the session will last the full
term of sixty days.
The House bill relating to toll
roads, ferries and bridges, introduced
by Eu,igh and passed in the House
was to-day defeated in the Council
by a unanimous vote.
On the other hand, DeWolfe':
Oil Ill IeSdIu W OoIuo VI VAAANo
which received but one opposing vot'
in the council was to-day retnrne
from the house, having been defeated
| there by a unanimous vote.
In committee of the whole, til
council voted to recommend the pas
sage of the resolution appropriatinl
$ll1.72 to Geo. P. Reeves & Co., TO
wood cuts of marks and brands. Thi!
bill passed both houses at the las
session but was vetoed by Governo
Crosby.
THE JUMBO COMMITTEE.
The Joint committee on ways ant
means, or the Jumbo Committee, a
1t is ir~reverently styled, consisting o
thirteen members from both hcu 9.
has been in session all the afternoon
The subject discussed by them at thi
meeting was the proposition to pa
all county officers x pit count,
commissioners by salary instead 9
fees, to cut down the present rates Q
fees. and provide for their being pai