The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-01-29
AATHEAD ALL RIGHT.
lhs Bill Creating the New County
Passed the Senate Unani-
mously Yesterday.
some Important Measures Intro.
duced In the Upper Branch
OF the Assembly.
The Worlds Fair Appropriation Consid-
ered In tho House Without Any
Definite Determination.

1hc senate did moro business yesterday
than on any previous day during the Sos
sion. II was the first time affairs were ii
such shape az to justify the holding of twt
sessions, and they were held. Among the
important bills introduced was one by
Cardwell to locate an insane asylum al
Boulder, and one by Hatch to create ths
sounty Of Sweet Grass, Another was b'
Senator Bayliessto provide for the puhllea-
tion of the decisions of the supreme court
Senator Goddard also introduced "a bill TIC
provide for the appointment of a state
architect. The senators did not take
kindly to the Valley county bill. and it was
made a special order for Monday. Inc
Flathead county bill, however, had better
luck. II was favorably III
committee Of the whole. taken up later IN
the senate, read a third time ana passed
unanimo usly. Montesth's bill to prevent
illegal voting at primaries was ordered RS
ported un%favorably. The gambling ques-
tion made its first appearance in the lecis-
lature in the form of d petition from the
Methodist conference praying that gam
bling be not licensed, Senator Steele
touched a popular chord i'll a little speech
he made endorsing the resolutions intro
duced by Senator lggleston euloRlstlo OF
James q. Blaine. He cited an incident in
the history Of the south in which Blaine
won the regard of the people of that sec
tion. and put the dead statesman in a new
light before many OF his hearers.
Divine aid was invoked in the house yes
terday TO aettls tho senatorial deadlock.
The members of the house have always
been pretty prompt in their attendance and
have listened to the morning prayer OF the
chaplain, Rev. S. E.. snider. with devout
attention. They listened with unusual at
tsntion yesterday morning, and this Is
what they heard She chaplain say:
20, thou, who art from everlasting to
everlasting; who dost rule in the heavens
and hath revealed thy will concerning us,
our duty to each other and to thee. endow-
ing us with the unalienable rights Of life.
liberty and the pursuit of happiness; we
thank thee for these God given powers that
elevate as in the scale of being. Help US
to realize the great responsibility of our
existence. to live III this day and age of
Christian civilization of the nineteenth
century, with its grand possibilities. made
such by the9toil and sacrifice of Others who
preceded us; others who counted not their
lives dear unto themselves when duty
called them in defense of their country.
This heritage of freedom, 80 dearly pur-
chased. help us to prize above all national
blessings, n may we all have a common
interest in the welfare of thisn nation and
Its institutions, and this state especially,
an interest that towers above all sectional
or political interest. We have been earn
estly requested to pray that the minority
of this house may see the error OF their
E@Nfsnd- fall into line with the majority.
UGod, thou knowest we would not ap-
proach thee with selfish or partisan pray
ors, but we stand before thee as intelligent
citizens endowed with consciences and
will power, and are res onsible to thee for
our acts. Help US, O, God, to honor thee
with those God gwen powers, and thine
shall be the praise, world without end.
Amen"
The house got the Worlds fair appropri-
alton bill into a state resembling a dog
with his tail cut off close up behind she
ears. After Intellectual efforts to have she
committee of the whole reject the substi-
tute bill, cutting down the appropriation
from $4,000 to $50, 900, its conside alton
10y sections was begun. The first section
car ies-or it did carry-the appropriation.
Efforts to have the amount of the appro-
p~riation increased didn't get any further
than adding So, 800 which was meant to go
to the printing account. Then the first
section was adopted. its adoption afterwaId
reconsidered, and then it WIS rejected. No
action was taken on the other sections of
the bill, but when the committee of the
whole gets together again they will have to
restore thai first section to the measure, or
there will be no fu ther use to consider the
matte. That section makes the a propri-
alton. Without the Gp. reputation the re-
mainder of the bill will not do the Worl4's
fair boa of managers much good.