The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-03-11
OUR HELENA LETTER.
The Famous Bill No. 23-P Passage OF
Buls-Disposition Of Other Bills
The Butte and Bozeman
Railroad Bill-De-
feat Of the Wife
Beating Bill,
ETC., Etc.

ETC., Etc.
HELENA, March 8, 1886.
The day has been occupied princi-
pally in committee work and In per-
fecting the many bills not yet dis
posed of. Three days only are left
and Thursday at midnight the legi~.
lature will adjourn.
In the Council several bills were
reported tack from committees and
placed on the general orders or passed
to q third reading. Among them
was the substitute for the famous
HOUSE BILL NO. q,
to suppress gambling, which was re-
ported from the judiciary committee
with the recommendation that it do
pass, and placed on general orders
for consideration In committee of the
| whole.
No new bills We're introduced In
| the Council.
The following bills were passed by
the Council:
House bill by Robinson, relating to
water rights.
House bill by Wells. to supply the
public schools with Webster's die
tiOnarieS.
House bill by Kohrs, to apply sur
plus funds of Silver Bow and Deer
Lodge counties to the payment of
the outstanding bonds of said coun-
ties not yet due, in cas- the holders
OF such bonds are willing to accept
payment.
House bill by Forbis, relating to
notaries public. The bill covers the
ground of the bill on the same SUBJ
ject vetoed by the Governor, but is
drawn in such a way as to remove
the objections urged to the previous
bill.
All of the preceding bills had pre-
viously passed the House.
The Council also passed the follow
ing Council bills:
A joint memorial to Congress rela-
tive 10 the insufficient accommoda-
tons of the penitentiary at Deer
Lodge.
A bill by Greene, to enable the
county of Yellowstone to build q
courthouse.
A bill by Kennedy, regulating
the publication Of certain mat.
tiers, and requiring the publication
of licenses and warrants issued and a
synopsis of the proceedings of the
boards of County Commissioners.
A bill by Kennedy to provide for
the teaching Of a trade to INDECENT
blind persons.
A bill by Kennedy relative to indl-
gent persons brought into the Terri
tory or taken from one county to
another.
A bill by De Wolfe relative to the
poor tax.
A bill by Kennedy, to enable the
county OF Missoula to erect a Jail.
A bill by Mitchell, to provide for
the incorporation of villages.
The afternoon was occupied by the
Council in discussing Potts bill for
paying county officers by salary.
The consideration of tie bill was not
finished.
THE HOUSE.
Jurgens introduced a bill to enable
the county of Lewis and Clarke to
to build a court house.
Forbis introduced a bill to enable
the College of Montana at Deer
Lodge to perfect the title t, certain
land.
The substitute fer Kepnedy's print
ing bill proposed by the committee
on ways and means and passed by
the council was referred iii tle house
along with Fisk's printing bill to the
committee on ways and means.
khrhISv hill tnR fbn .ucotor 49,
Montana penitentiary was on his
own motion Indefinitely postponed
fer want of time to properly consider
the bill at this session.
Fortis' bill limiting the compqnsa-
ton OF justices of the leace and con-
stables was favorably reported and
passed to a third reading. 1t relates
only to criminal business, and pro-
vides that the fees of justice or con-
stable for which the county shall be
chargeable shall not exceed$6OO per
annum.
The Butte and Bozem.n railroad
bill has not been reported back from
the committee. A substitute has
been prepared which, instead of pro-
viding for aid from the counties of
Silver Bow and Gallatin, simply ex-
empts the road and all IMPROVE
meut, from all local, school and
county taxation for twenty years.
Mitchell's bill to prevent woman
teating was indeinit ,ly postponed
by q vote of IL to 10. Some surprise
was expressed that some of the re-
formers who have opposed gambling
and prize fighting were not opposed
to wife beating, or at any rate did
not believe in the mode of punish
ment proposed by the bill.
The House in committee of the
whole recommended the passage of
the following bills:
BY kohrs, to provide for the pay
ment of damages to stock and from
fires occasioned by operated rail-
by Robinson, to suppress hurdy-
gurdy and dence houses.
BY Forbis, to protect gaslight and
companies.
BY Dew life, in relation to the
road taxes.
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durable ailments, DIAL with them