The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-01-20
THE HOUSE,

Two Sessions Hold and tho Files Cleared
of Business.
The house OF representatives hold two
sessions Yesterday, morning and afternoon,
and cleared its flss of all business before
1t. The most rapid pieco Of Legislative
work this session was on a joint memorial
to congress- introduced by Van Cleve. OF
Park county. 1t asks congress to pass a
bill which has gotten through the national
senate and 10 o in the house Of represen-
the National park for y railroad to Cooke
City. II was read twice, placed on general
orders, considered in Committee Of the
whole and reported favorably, engrossed
I and placed on the third reading file. all in
the same day. under suspension OF tho
sage.
Bills we're introduced as follows: BY
Tallant. amending the license law to allow
transfers. etc.; regulating issue of school
bonds; by Ash. for a state normal school at
Livingston; by Babcock. making %appropria-
tlons for the fiscal wears 1898 and 1894. az
follows: Office and travelling expenses
board Of equalization $1,000. clerk hire
$3.50; expenses board Of pnrdons $500.
clerk hire 81. 200; expenses board of p ison
commissioned $500. clerk hire 81, 200; clerk
to attorney general $1,000; expenses state
insane commission $500. clerk hire 81. 200;
office expenses board Of land commission
ers 81, 800, clerk hire 81, 500; extra Gle, ical
help for secretary of state $500; state
librarian $40, $500; land commission, secur-
ing patents and salary of agent $40, 600; re-
pairs to state arsenal $3.50; stationery and
supplies for state officers, 81, 900; by Car
psnter. punishina administrators executors
and guardians by not over $500 fine or
thirty days i'm prisonment for failing to
make reports; by SWEET, establishing a
bureau of agriculture and labor. and
to provide for a commissioner,
among whose duties it shall be
to get up statistics of labor
the state in 1895 and every ten years there
after; by Fitchen, providing for the APP
pointment of q game and fish warden, who
is to select three assistants to help enforce
existing laws; by G. II. Bray. to pay salar-
les and fees of county. township and dis
trict officers every month instead of quar-
terly,
Notices of bills were given as follows:
BY Truman. amending the roads and high
ways laws; by A. F. Bray. concerning the
liability of employers to employees; by
Scharnikow. creating the state board of
medical examiners; to establish a state
prison; for the registration of electors; and
amending the law concerning revenue
The committee on towns, counties and
highways made a favorable report on the
Valley county bill, with an amendment
changing some of the officers selected to
serve until the next election. The bill was
taken up in committee of the whole later
on, changed as suggested. and reported
back to the house with a recommendation
that it be referred to the judiciary commit
tee to be perfected in certain legal features.
The anti-Pinkerton bill was, on motion
of klllgallon, its author. referred back to
the labor committee for the purpose, il was
stated, of rectifying an omission in the or
iginal draft. Inc change was in the title of
the bill. which was subsequently reported
back perfected, conside ed in committee of
the whole, recommended for passage and
sent to the engrossinR committee.
The legislative employees bill was not con-
sidered in the house owing to some omis-
sion in the engrossed copy. 1t was sent
back to the engrossing committee for cor
%reotion.
The house adjourned until 10 o'clock !
this morning.