The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-02-21
THE STATE LEGISLATURE
Pay Of Employees Acted on by the
House and tho
Senate.
Yellowstone and Park are Both
After the Coded Grow
Territory.
Bills Introduced sad P~assed-Giving he
lawyer . Chance ON this Land
Bill-Notcs.

Tho senate bill prescribing the number
and compensation Of the officers and en-
ploycs OF the two houses Of the Legislature,
provided for a president and president Pre-
em. OF the senate and n speaker and speak
Or pro TEN. OF the house; and fixed the en-
ployes and their pay as follows: Secretary
Of the senate and chief clerk Of the house,
each $40 per day; assistant secretary OF the
senate and assistant chief clerk Of the
house. each IS per day; sergeant-at-arms OF
each body. 81 per day; assistant sergeant.
at-arms Of each body. SIS per day; enRross-
ing and enrolling clerk Of each house. $6
per day; a doorkeeper, q janitor, u day
Waterman, q night Waterman Of each
house, &5 per day; q chaplain and two
pages for the senate and o chaplain SIX
pages for tho house. each - per
day; our committee clerks fcS
ut s. per day each. The bill was
~favorsbly acted on in committee OF the
whole, when an amendment by Senator
Thornton 10 increase the pay OF the ser-
ge~ant-at-arms to s. per day WAS voted
down. Those in favor OF it were Senators
Becker, Gibson, Hennessy, Mats and
Thornton. When the bill WAS reported
back to the senate another effort was made
to increase the pay OF the sergeant-at-arms.
Senator Parberry moved to increase The
per diem from 81 to ~. Senator Thomp-
SON moved to make it x6. This motion was
berry's amendment failed by reason of q
tie vote, seven to sever. On tho question
of accepting the report of the committee
another tie vote resulted and Lieut.. Gov.
Richards cast the first deciding vote OF
the session. He voted against TIE
increase we're Senators Becker.
Gibson, Hennessy, Mats, Parberry, Redd,
Thornton. Those opposed were Senators
Buford, Cardweii, Goddard, Hedges, HofE-
man. Power. Thompson. The bill was pass
cd under suspension Of the rules. The sen
employees, though the bill has not yet
passed the house. It elected Harry War
mineton. Of Madison county, asst
ant sergeant-at-arms. and G.. H..
Switzler, Of Helena. day %watchman.
The house at its night session went into
bill, and amended 1t verbally and otherwise
until the senate will hardly recognize it.
All references to the duties of officers were
stricken out, that matter beirg left to the
rules. The serReants-as-arms were cut
down on motion Of Representative Mon
the pay Of pages and chaplains from 81 to
SO, enrolling and enRrossinR clerks from
Sc to IS and chief clerk from $40 to So, and
TO raise the assistant sergeants-at-arms
from IS to sc were defeated. The limit on
the number of house committee clerks and
pages was removed. and the bill amended
to take effect thirty days after pagsage-a
provision for a possible extra session.
There is a very pretty fight going on in
the senate over the disposition of the coded
portion Of the Grow reservation. Yellow.
stone and Park counties both want it on &C.
count of the income which will be derived
from the taxation of railroad property.
Senator Goddard of Yellowstone. and sena-
tor r Dnpsop, Of Park.e o. intrcdc a. a bin
in the interest OF his county. They were re-
ferred. and the committee which got charge
of them. having no personal interest in the
matter. reported favOrably on the Yellow
stone bill. Senator Thompson had it sent
back in order to give Park county a show.
BY some inadvertance the bill got
into the hands of the printing com
mittee and on the general order file. 1t
came before the committee OF the whole
Ienate yesterday. Senator Goddard was
chairman of the committee and promptly
admitted that a mistake had been made
somewhere. He ruled that the bill WAS not
properly before the committee. Senators
Goddard and Thompson are now engaged
in watching each others measure.
The former says he doesn't care
whether his bill passes or not, 80
long as hhe other fails to get
through. Ia the event Of nc disposition be-
ing made OF the matter the coded portion
of the reservation goes to Yellowstone.
This is on account Of the act of March 5,
1885, which says that "alI the Grow reserya,
ton between the Wyoming line and the
Yellowstone river, and west of the Big
Horn river, that may hereafter be thrown
open shall form part of Yellowstone
county"
The following bills were passed by the
senate: Senate bill fixing the pay of men,
bers of the Legislature of SO per day, speak
er OF the house and president of the senate
$40 per day, and 20 cents mileage; senate
bill providing for examination of state
treasurer's books, and for his removal j in
case of default or deficiency; senate bill
making the historical society a state insti-
tuition; senate bill fixing the compensation
of employees OF the legislature; house bill
to pay for care and maintenance Of the in
sane; house bill to pay salary and expenses
of inspector Of mines and deputy; house
bill providing for the care and mainten-
ance Of the insane.
The bill providing for appraisal, sale Of
ease of the school lands WAS amended in
ommittee Of the whole senate by reducing
the price of leases from 10 per cent. OF ap-
praised value to five per cent. Senator Par
berry thought the section furnishing tres
pass likely to give trouble and that it would
need the services Of a lawyer to unrayel it.
In order 70 keep the lawyers out Of the az
fair, be moved to do away with the section.
The senate evidently wanted to give the
lawyers q chance, and declined TO remove
the objectionable feature.
The following bills were introduced in
the senate:
b. Senator Hedges-GivinQ the United
States jurisdiction over land used for gov
eminent buildings.
by Senator Goddard-To cure defects TO
the title to lands.
George E. Boos. treasurer and manager
of the Journal Publishing company. sent
hn answer to the senate in regard to the de.
lay in printing the bills. He said the con
Germ had but one bill to be printed, which
was sent prior to the 18th inst. This BEING
a large bill, required more time than or
binary ones. In conclusion he sayg: 20
couISe We appreciate the importance o
printing these bills within the required
time. and must beg to be excused for tht,
one instance, and can assure you that thu,
vii! not occur again."
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