The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-02-21
4 BILL PROVIDING FOR CLERK HIRE,
A Bill introduced Creating the Office
Of Mineral Land Commits
siOner.
Congress to be MemOrialized to Pre-.
serve Mineral Land Within Rail.
road Limits for the People.

HELENA, Feb. l4.-[Special to the TRI-
BUNE.l-In the senate this morning the
president signed the senate committee
report 4, requiring the county officials to
report their fees to this legislature.
Several bills we're reported from the COM
mittees and placed on the calendar.
The committee on finance and claims
introduced house bill Al, providing for
$500 per annum for clerk hire for the |
state boErd of examinatOrs.
The committee on mines and mining
introduced senate bill 40, creating the
office of mineral land commissioner. The
Office is to expire in February 1893, and
is to have $1,000 salary and the COM
missioner is to be allowed $1,000 for ex-
penses. The duties of the commissioners
are 10 prepare statement of the mineral
lands in controversy, with the decisions
of courts bearing upon the subject, to be
presented to congress.
Senate joint memorial 5, was intro
duced by the committee on mines and
mining The memorial recites facts In
the contest between the people and the
Northern Pacific railroad company over
mineral lands, and requests congress to
pass au act "as will forever preserve to
the people not only the discovered but
also the undiscovered mines of Montana,
bearing gold, silver, copper, lead and all
other valuable minerals except coal and
IRON" The same committee also intro
duced senate joint resolution 2. The
resolution is addressed to the governors
of Idaho, Washington, California. Oregon,
Arizona and New Mexico. 1t urges joint
action with the Montana legislature in
memorializing congress to take such
action as will preserve the people all
, mineral lands within the limits of rail
, road grants. The same COMMITTEES also
introduced senate JOINT memorial q, ask
ing congress what authority the land Of
fees of the country have for taking action
in mineral land matter. After short
recess the senate went into COMMITTEES
of the whole, Becker in the char.
The substitute for senate bill %,
. ame nding school laws relating to the
. number of trustees and defining the
qualifications of votes at school elections,
was considered and reported back to the
:, senate with the recommendation that II
do pass when the senate resumed.
Hennessey from the committee on cor
:, porations, reported senate bill 36, provid
ing for the creation of railroad com
mission with recommendation that 1t DC
not pass. Matt, who introduced the
bill. objected to so speedily disposiug o.
: the bill and on his request it was ordered
"a printed
The senate took recess until O'Clock
Although the house commenced it
= days routine at the usual hour, there wa
more qlibbling upon unimportant mat
ters than there WAS actual business
= There was preserved three petitions TO
: and one against the eight hour bill from
the miners and employers respectively
Notice was given of the introduction
:e of the following bills:
ID BY Holter-To repeal the law estab
IN fishing the office of boiler inspector, al
< act to amend an act Incorporating tn
S city of Helena.
le Bv Woodson--An act for the incOrpora
n ticu of mortgage and loan corporations.
ss By Twohy-An act to provide for
A. state insane asylum and location Of tn
N same.
IN Bills were introduced In the house thi
Of afternoon as follows:
,e No. 1lO, Woodson--To provide for tn
80 election of presidential electors.
No. III, Woodson-To provide for tn
election of representatives in congress.
10 No. liz, Toole-TO appropriate none
as for the care of cOnvicts, and No. 113, fo
n the reliet of ]. p Stafford for service
~ rendered the state; also ia, for the relit
OF of A. p. Brown.
be No. 115, Blakely-To provide for a
ly agricultural college and to locate th
ne same at Bozeman.
lis No. 116, Judiciary Committee-Col
". cern,ng fees to be collected by distri
cd and county officers for the performan'
er of certain official duties.
BY Phillips-An act to amend and r
wise the military code.
on The following bills we're then intr
~, duced:
oo' House bill 1O7, Loud-An act to amer
IN, m section 1860, fifth division, compile
.at statutes, relating TO notaries public.
House bill 1OS, Hughes-An act