The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-01-29

ommend that the house reject the rsrort.
The committee divided on this. and it was
defeated, by yeas fifteen. nays twentv-four.
The reading OF the bill was then pro-
ceeded with and Walkup otfer cd an amend
ment to the first section increasing the A.
prop iRtlon by 1900. which extra amount,
he stated, he meant, by a subsequent
amendment should be added to the S5.W0
set aside for printing. He said he wou
follow this up with an smendmsut requirlng
tbs work to bs lone in che state. aud not in
the Cheap John shops of st. Louis. st. Paul
and Chicago. He wanted the men who
lived in the state and helped build it II to
get the benefit OF the expenditure for print
ing. The amendment lncreasinRthe appro-
p%ristion 81, 800 was adopted.
A. +. Bras then offered a substitute for
the first section. increasing the total appro-
~rriation to $65, 600, of which 10 pc cent
was to go to the women's department.
Seharnikow fnvo ed the amendment. Either
the legislature should make ample pro-
vision for the exhibit, or the state should
tear down or sell its Building and say that
Montana was too poor to mako a display
At this ioint Bach raised a point as to
whether the committee WAS in shape to act
on a substitute which had not been printed.
The chair decided that it was not necessary
to have the report printed in order to act ON
Ii. The substitute for the fl st section WAS
then defeated on division by yeas sixteen.
nays twenty three.
A motion to adopt section one as
amended resulted. on division, in a tie vote,
nineteen on each side. he chairman was
asked to break the tic and did 80 by voting
in favor of the section. Bach and Matthews
both questioned the light of the chairman
of the committee of the whole to cast Il de-
ciding vote, and in order to straiQhten the
matter out @. H. Bray. Of Lewis and
Clarke. moved to reconsider the vote, which
WAS done. Another viva voce vote was taken
on the adoption of the first section and it was
decided lost. At this point the committee
rose.
Bills were introduced as follows: BY
Jockey. giving the consent OF the state to
the purchase of land by the general gov
eminent for public buildings or wot ks; by
Truman. providing that superintendent of
schools shall be elected annually on the
first Saturday in Al ril; by BHrreli. requis-
ing chair indicators and safety signalling
apparatus in mining shafts: making taxes
delinquent after Dec. l, and providing that
if one-halt is paid by that time the other
half shall not be d%slinquent until after
June l following; by Huffman. for
an agricultural college and expert
mental station at Miles City;
by the committee on education.
at schools; by A. i. Bay, making all debts
payable in government notes. silver coin
or gold. A.. F.. Bray introduced a joint
memorial lnstructing the Montana delega-
ton in congress to oppose the passage of
the bill repeating the silver law of 1891.
Notices of bills were given as follows:
By Burrell, to amend SEQ. 800, third divi-
sion, compiled statutes. relating to sever
ance of trials for felony; by Goodell, fixing
licenses of auctionee s; by committee on
ways and means, the appropriation bills
for 1898 and 1894.
Favot able reports from committees were
made as follows: From education, regu-
lating issue of bonds for school pnrposes;
from elections, allowing only tax ayers to
vote on questions involving the raising Of
money; from public institutions, providing
for an insane asylum at Boulder; ON judi
ciary, to pay Stephed Carpenter and W. M.
Blackboard for services to the code commits
sion.
The bill taking from county commission
ers the right to regulate the charges for
water was reported from the committee OIL
labor with a recommendation that it be
sent t. the committee Oh irrigation and
water rights.