The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-02-04

is hoped that the fund will reach $1,000.
USenate joint memorial No. l passed tn
house Yesterday by . unanimous vote. /
provides for the survey from Milk river t
st. Mary's river.
The following notices we're given:
BY Mr.. Breen--A bill to prevent black
listing; a bill to prevent the issuance o
worthless checks.
BY Mr.. Wallace-An act prescribing whel
laws shall take effect; concerning notarie
fees; concerning interest; defining embez'
element; concerning executions; to provide
an index to district court records; concern
ing fish; regulating payment OF labor don
or materials furnished to railways.
BY MIR. Hoffman--To amend section 1,79
of the fifth division of the compiled stat
utes.
BY Mr.. Howey-To fix the number O
school trustees in cities and towns.
BY Mr.. Lockray-Regulating the mining
of coal and for the protection of employees
Of coal mines.
By Mr.. Loud-To create state and county
canvassing boards and to prescribe the du-
ties of the same; a bill for an act to amend
an act entitled an act to provide for the
payment of bounties for the killing of Ger :
tain stock destroying . animals; to protect
the grasses and forests from destruction by
fire.
By Mr.. Barrows-An act continuing the
code commission and amending an act OF
the Sixteenth legislative assembly approved
March 4, 1889, entitled, San act to provide
for the appointment of a commission to
coSdify the criminal and civic law and pro-
dedure and to revise, compile and arrange
the statute laws of Montana.
BY Mr.. Carnegie define the power and
prescribe the duties of the state board of
land commissioners.
The following. introduced by Chairman
Loud, of the committee, was passed on mo-
ton of Mr.. Blakely:
Having laid to rest in the bleak grave
for which nature furnished the winding
sheet. with the companion of his life, the
companion of his death. all that was mortal
of our late associate, Aaron G. Witter, we,
his bereaved associates of the house of rep
resentatives of the first and second sessions
of the legislative assembly of the state of
Montana, desire to record our deep sense OF
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darken with its gloomy shadow the first
moments of our satisfaction in the organi-
cation of q united house wherein the ex-
perienced skill of deceased would have
proved so invaluable to our commonwealth.
We further desire that our record should
testify to his children thus left fatherless
and motherless at a single blow, when ar
rived at maturity, that their father was
honored and beloved by those who knew
best his manly. worth n courage; his de-
voted services to the state of his adoption
till some worthier monument is erected to
the memory of the lamented Witter, we
ask that the tribute of our affectionate es-
TEEN be entered upon our records.
The following bills were introduced yes
terday in the house and referred:
BY MI. Harlan-H. b. IS; for an act pro-
viding for the submission to this qualified
electors of the state of an amendment to
the constitution fixing the terms of county
commissioners
BY Mr.. Wallace-H. B. "a; providing for a
bureau of labor, agriculture and industry,
and defining the powers and duties of its
commissioners.
By Mr.. Dussault-H. B. 18; for an act
concerning cruelty to animals, providing
penalties against persons who neglect or
treat the same.
BY Mr.. Breen-H. B. 90; an act creating
the Office of coal mine inspector and defin-
ing his duties.
By Mr.. Wallace-H. B. 81; prescribing
the compensation and duties of the clerk of
the supreme court.
By Mr.. Holter-H. B. 26; relating to the
assessment of mortgages and other prop
erty.
By Mr.. Howey-H. B. %; to provide for
a bureau of agriculture, labor ~and.industry.
BY Mr.. Penrose-H. b. q, %, %; acts to
repeal sections 252, 253, 254 of the fourth
division of the compiled statutes.
BY Mr.. Wallace-H. b. 20; prohibiting
trusts.
By Mr.. Frank-H. B. IA; defining pow
ers and prescribing duties OF additional dis
trict judges.
BY Ways and Means-H. b. 10; an act to
provide for the appointment and to pre-
scribe the duties of a state examiner.
By Ways and Means Committee-H. B.
-: fixing the compensation for board of
prisoners confined in county iails.
By Ways and Means Committee-H. B.
IL; concerning compensation of county,
district and township officers.
BY Mr.. Day-H. B. 10; regulating state
and county printing with provisions for vi
olation of same.
ninth judicial district of the state of Mon
tana.
BY Mr.. Twohy-H. I. II; establishing the
office of state inspector of Illuminating
oils; fixing the mode of appointment, the
fees for inspection, the salary, the COM
pensation of deputies aud the penalties for
violation.
BY Mr.. Carney-H. B. Is. to allow the
rising of the waters of the Jefferson river
for irrigation purposes.
The INDEPENDENTS recent oil exposure
has resulted in q bill providing for the ap-
pointment of an oil inspector and deputies.
1t was introduced by Mr.. Twohy and re-
ferred to the committee on corporations
and manufactures. The provisions seem to
comprehend all the requirements. Briefly
it provides for the appointment by the gov
ernor of a state inspector of oils at q salary
of $4,000 a year, with a deputy in each coun-
ty who shall receive fees. All oils must be
inspected and branded. To sell oils brand
ed unsafe" will be a misdemeanor. This
brand will be placed on oils which at a tenn,
perature of no degrees Fahrenheit are ex-
plosive gas or vapor or its inferior foi
illuminating purposes. TIT fees of depu-
ties are so arranged that the state will de-
rive a revenue while the cost of inspection
will not increase the cost of oil more thar
one-half cent a gallon. When the fees OF
deputies are more than fifty dollars a month
they retain a percentage of the increase.
This is arranged on a graduated scale tol
higher amounts. The bill is one of the best
yet introduced and should be passed with.
out opposition.
Two bills were introduced yesterday pro.
viding for Ii bureau of labor, agricultur,
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