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

Business in the Committee OF the Whole,
Fills Introduced, Etc.
The senate amendments TO the bill fix
ing the number and compensation of the
officers and employees of the legislature,
came near going through the house y%ester-
day without question. They increase the
pay of the speaker pro tenn of the house
and the president plo tenn of the senate to
$40 "a day, and provide also for a senate
stenographer. The amendments were about
to be concurred III when Monteath and
Jockey asked to have the questions divided
and it was decided TO consider the changes
separately in committee of the Whole.
Shortly after this A. f. b ay, tn sueaker
FRO tem, aIose, he said, on Il delicate mis-
sion. Beng Al interested party he dis
liked to mention the matter. The employees
bIll. he sand, after having once been pressed
by the house, had been placed on general
0 de s. He made the point that this was
entirely out Of order, and aske4 that the
bill be taken from gene al orders and the
senate amendments concurred IN. AS the
mntter stood, with the session nearly half
over, not a single employe could
get anything except from the money
brokers. 10 those who had plenty this
counted for little, but there we o Others
who knew what 1t was to be very POOR. as
tie had been, and he wasn't very rich now.
4 uA1Rt lp'NI hohSSA VIVA u t4Sslca DS u
vid d. He might be willing to favor the
one taking the Dill from general orders,
and might not want to concur in the
amen ments. Before the question was set.
tied one way OF the other the time arrived for
the special O der, the Worlds fair appropria-
tion bill, and the employees bill was left on
general orders.
The Worlds fair bill went into committee
Of the whole for the second time and Will
have to 20 again If it Is to be worth any
thing, az, when the committee rose. the
measure had been shorn of its head and the
body and tail were in danger Of mutilatlou
also. Loring, of Aisaoula, was in the chair,
aud when he called the committee to order
the pending question WAS a motion by A.
i. Bray, made the day before, to reject the
repo of the committee on appropriation
and claims, which was Il substitute bill
giving the boafd of managers $50
00J, instead of $4,000. Babcoek,
Chairman OF Il pro ~rlations and
claims, said the joint committee on worlds
fair matters, OF which he hal been a mem
ber, aftet consultation with the board and
Investigating their estimates, had decided
to recommend allowing $75, 600. A blli to
that effect had be II introduced and re erred
TO the committee on appropriations and
CLAIMS. That committee desired to appro-
prlhte sufficient money to enable the board
TO carry on the exhibit. They were con
fronted by the fact that after making nee
ebshrY PROVISION Tor the maintenance of the
state government, there would bs $67, 600 in
the t teasury available for other urposes.
Additional appropriations for $15, OJ0 OF
$1,000 would very likely be made. Sc the
committee could not see their way clear to
give more than $4,000. At the same time
they were satisfied that all the worlds fail
managers were making every effort to hay.
! the exhibit a success.
SWEET offered an amendment to the Bra,
{ motion that the committee of the whol.
! accept tue substitute. He SAID that wouId
appear strange ground 10 a small ~tRxpaye
; TO take. asking Tor the smaller amount. II
l was go frequently the case that tn,
. smallest ta1psyers, OF those paving nc
l taxes, were IN favor OF libe al appropr!a
. tons. IGls amendment RAISED the point al
l TO what position the cominittee of til,
. whole would bs IN with reference TO th,
; blll should the report be accepted. Tn,
Z chair SAID his understanding WAS that /
would only place the substitute bill befor,
l the committee. In order to get the matte
3 IN proper shape AID carry his point. A. +
. Bray sent I'D ID substitute motion to til
I elect that whom the committee Gross it rec