Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-16
TIE sLxTEENTH LEsIsLArURE.

What was Done the Fifty-Ninth Day O
the Session-The Sunday Bill.
HELENA, March 13.-House bill No. g.
reported from committee with recommend
alton 1t do not pass.
Il Conference committee on mine inspector
bill reported agreement. Report received
and adopted.
Message from the governor announced
he had approved and signed c. B. No. 80
relating to probate court act and G. B. No
%, to protect cemeteries. .-.....
Nomination Of Benjamin Rumley o.
Cascade, for stock commissioner, was re-
ceived and referred.
@. B. 80, with amendments, referred to
| committee for engrossment.
Brown, from committee ON judiciary, to
| whom was referred III. B. No. 26, relating
to municipal corporations, with instruc.
| tions to report before o'clock p. m, this
day, reported the same back with amend
ments, and as amended recommend it do
pass.
On motion OF Thompson of Silver Bow
the bill as amended referred to committee
on engrossment.
A message from the Governor announced
he had approved and signed C. B. No. g..
Middleton moved the rules be suspended
and Fl. B. 43 be placed on third reading;
read third time by title and placed on final
passage. Carried. Bead third time and
passed by unanimous vote.
Bickford moved @. B. So be taken up for
third reading and placed on final passage.
Carried: Rules suspended and bill read
third time by title and passed by unanl-
nous vote.
Recess until o'clock p. m.
HoUsE-MoRNNG SESSION.
When the House convened it went imme.
diately into committee of the whole.
The bill to close saloons ON Sunday (H.
R.) came up and caused considerable dis.
cussion. Joslyn made motion and then
a long speech, and Davis told Jcs.yn that
as an exponent OF law litera ture he sur
Matthews. He then went on to talk at
some length. After he had finished Moore
brought himself in a perpendicular position
and INDUCED in little Latin for the bene-
fit OF the House. Order was raped by the
chairman and then Mantle got in O. speech
and Joslyn was heard from again.
Then Murray got up and said that if the
gentlemen from Lewis and Clarke and
Deer Lodge were seeking to obstruct the
rc ssage of this bill, which the majority OF
the members had indicated they were in
favor OF, he would give notice that he
would stay by the bill all night and TO-
morrow.
This charge brought both Davis and
Joslyn to their feet, who very promptly
denied the charge.
Saxton then made q motion that drug
yists should not be allowed to sell drugs
and medicines on Sunday. This motion
was lost.
Davis moved that mines be closed on
Sunday. This was lost.
Whitney wanted to make it a misde-
neanor to 60 fishing on Sunday. All of
these were voted down and the bill was re-
to pass without impo tent
Fl. B. No. 81 was next taken up. Mantle
said the judiciary committee had recon-
mended that this bill be indefinitely post
poned. Davis opposed this and Hunt got
up and said that the bill opened up an un. |
limited discussion and h great field of law, |
and it ought to be considered more at |
ength than the limited time of the session |
,ow allowed. The bill was voted down.
III. B. No. 80, to appoint a secretary for |
,he Governor, was signed by the Gov |
'rnor.
The select conference committee on Fl. |
3. No. 16, mining inspector bill, reported |
hat the Council committee would recon- |
mend that the Council recede from it's |
amendments. Report was received and |
Idopted.
The judiciary committee reported II. B.
10. SO, Fergus county boundary bill, with |
ubstitute, which was made a special order \
II business for 2 o'clock
The speaker signed FL. B. IA, relating to l
insane married women; also G. B. !, steam II
roller bill.
The military committee recommended |
}. J. r. 16, for printing copies OF the Mon
ana constitution.
Haskell, upon suspension OF rules, intro
Iuced bill providing for the right-of-way
II railroads.
This bill has doubtless been brought |
lbout by the trouble in Jefferson canyon,
md is introduced to remedy defect in the /
aw which might be brought to bear be-
ween railroads in such cases.
When the House was about to adjourn,
Davis broached scheme for paying off the ]
lebts incurred by the House for hack fare /
md other incidents while entertaining the |
)akotians on the Great. Falls excursion.
lie had an envelope for each member, with /
postage stamps in it, and each member was /
10 buy an envelope with the stamps and Il
,ay 81 for 1T. He gave the page the en-
,elopes, and when the House took q recess /
he page proceeded to collect the funds.