The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-02-28

The DAILY INDEP
Hollywood, Hughes, Kempiand. McEl wei
Poole, Schmidt and WoOdson voted wit
tho republicans.
House reports received yesterday wers
Favorable on 3. Il. n, for the encourage
msnt Of sugar beet culture; favorable 0l
H. i. 1O2. for the recording Of marks an,
brands; favorable on II, b. 1877, allowing
interest at six per cent. on certain claim
against the state; favorable on substitut,
for H. b. 14s. for relief Of Il. q. Humber
working day At eight hours for workmen Ol
state, county or municipal work; favorable
on II. b. lac, relating to life insurance.; IA
vorable on II. b. l39, to amend section
1.345, 1,34S, fifth division OF complied stat
utes.
The committee on appropriations ant
claims yesterday reported that II all the ap
preparations should pass the sum total viii
reach $1,000 0 for the years 1880 and 1891.
The substitute for house bill No. 8, or the
prison bill, was before the house committee
Of the whole Yesterday and was finally put
into shape for final passage. The only SEQ
ton that aroused discussion was on the
section fixing abe salaries of the warden
and employees Of the penitentiary. The
bill fixed the warden's salary vt $1,000.
Mr.. Breen introduced an amendment
changing this to $2,5OO. Mr.. Hollywood.
in supporting this, said That the house thus
far had appeared very n%iggardly in the
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much valuable time had thus been wasted
in talking about matters Of two or three
hundred dollars each. Other representa-
tives argued that the position WAS n Of
great responsibility and the officer should
therefore receive proper compensation.
The amendment was finally adopted.
There was n good deal of quibbling over
the salaries of the other offices before the
section was adopted.
Several days ago when the committee of
the whole senate had under consideration
the bill making an appropriation for an ex-
hibit ut the Worlds fair, the amount was cut
down from 800, 600 to $4,000. The chairman
of the committee enclosed the amendment in
the bill but did not attach it. So it was lost
somewhere in handling the bill. When the
question came up yesterday on the passage
of the bill, there was nothing to show that
such an amendment had been adopted.
The bill WAS therefore sent back to the en-
crossing committee fol correction.
Senator Redd has a bill providing simply
"that hereafter all persons desiring to conn.,
memo the practice Of medicine in the state
of Montana, shall pass an examination sat
isfactory to the state board Of medical OK
aminers." 1t came up in committee Of the
whole senate yesterday, but on objections
by Senator Parberry. was allowed to go
over for q time.
The senators who were appointed to take
part In the deliberations of the steering
"to map out a course of legisla-
tion for the remainder of the session and
to designate the bills which should be pre-
ferred for immediate action,' recommended
that the report of the mouse committee be
concurred in, which was done.
The unfavorable report of the committee
the whole on the state university bill
was laid over in the senate and will be CON-
to-day.
The senate passed house bill providing
for prosecuting criminal cases on in
There was a three-cornered fight before
the senate committee on counties yesterday
over the disposition Of the ceded portion of
the Crow reservation. +. H. Fos-
ter, ex-senator A. l.. Babcock and
Col. Rawley were there representing yell
lowstone's interests along with Senator
Goddard. Surveyor General Eaton, o. r.
Joy, and Representatives Eaton and Steb-
bins backed up Senator Thompson, of Park,
and W. T. Meyer and f. j. Lowrsy, of Red
Lodge, fought for the interests of those
who want the panhandle of Park and part
of the Grow cession made into Carbon
Thu Carbon county advocates rec
sion to get what they wan Still they pre-
fer that Park should have part of the reser-
walton rather than Yellowstone should have
it all. Their reasons for that are plain. If
it is given to Park then when it is taken
some day and made into Carbon
only have a portion of Parks 100000 debt
to shoulder instead of part of Yellowstone's
$4,000. Yellowstone meantime is satis-
fed to have nothing done, as in that case
she will get all the coded part of the reser-
walton under the act of 1884.
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Mr.. Penrose has received several letters
warning him not to return to Butte, pre-
sumably because he opposed the eight-hour
law. Nobody ever accused the Silver Bow
representative of lack of nerve, and he will
90 over to Butte as usual on Sat-
urday afternoon. Last evening he sent the
following telegram tt an intimate friend in
Have received several letters during the
last few days advising me not to come to
for q while, as the feeling is bitter
among certain classes on account of nv
position on the eight hour law. I will be
over Saturday evening. Get a good coffin
and see that my grave is kept green.
Mr.. Harlan's resolution that no rental be
paid for the house hall unless il is properly
heated met with the heartieat endorsement
of all in the house. The room last evening
was colder than the interior of a refrieer-
ator.
In the committee of the whole last even
ing the following bills we're recommended:
House bill 81. to allow Mitchell and Mussip-
brod interest at the rate of six per cent. on
their bill against the state; 14s, for the
relief of X. G. Humber; substitute for s. b.
IL. to enable colleges and universities under
religious patronage to change their names:
s.. b. concerning the historical society of
Montana, and appropriating money there
for; 3. b. concerning estrays on public
domain; 132, to attach certain portions of
the Northern Pacific and Rocky Fork q
Cooke City railroads to Yellowstone county,
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