The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-01-27
Bills Locating Educational Institu-
lions Made a Special Order
in the Senate.
The Teton County Bill Went
Through the Lower House
Yesterday.
House Com mittee Believe $4,000 Adj
ditionnl Enough for tho World's
Fair Managers

The first discussion over tho educationa
Institutions bills occu red in the senat
Yesterday in committee of the whole
Senator Mstts was anxious to have the bill
taken W and disposed of ~ rapidly rs pos
sible; other senators, while not desiring Il
delay consideration, wanted more tins Il
consider the bills, and as a result the bill
we're made a special order for next Tuesday
An attsmpt was made in the senate to in
crease the compensation OF ssrReant.at-
arms from Sc. fixed in the house bill. to SIS.
1t failed, however, as The senators did not
think the ssrgeant-st-arms should receive
more nay than the members OF the lecisla-
rive assembly.
difference Of opinion appears TO prevail
betwssn the senate and the house as TO the
smount OF money that should be voted to
carry on the Montana exhibit as the Worlds
fnir. The committee on finance and claims
in the senate reported in favor OF allowing
the amoant of the estimates flu nished by
the board of Worlds fair managers, some
thing over $s5,00o In the houss this report
of the special joint committee, app op lat
ing $75, 900. had been referred to the COM
mittee OH appropriations and claims. with
q bill to that effect. The bin WAS reported
back Yesterday carrying an appropriation
of only $50, 900. The committee said they
didn't think the state could stand any more.
The bill and the report will come up in the
house as a special order this morning.
The house, in committee of the whole.
considered the bill for the creation of a
bureau of agriculture. labor and industry.
Representative Jockey raised solne question
about the size of the salaries. S3.0 oO for the
commissioner and ST. 500 for the clerk, and
wanted to lower them. but found no one to
second his efforts. He has a bill in COM
mittee now creating the bureau of immigra-
ton, and his attention was called TO that
fact. with q suggestion by Representative
SWEET. the author Of the agricultural bu-
reau bill, that the two be consolidated.
This will vely likely be done, as Represen-
tative SWEET will add All amendment to the
section prescribing the duties Of the com
missioner of the bureau of agriculture, add
ing to his duties the following: HE shall
open correspondence with bureaus of emf
grafton. boar ds of trade and other organi-
cations in this country and Europe,
who are willing to disseminate in
III lCkhAu W II III
and productive resources of Montana, and
its desirability as a home for the worthy
smigrant. He shall furnish facts relating
to public lands and methods and costs of
securing them, costs of labor and living,
railroad rates. access to markets, prices of
products. He shall arrange for such rea-
sonable rates for Transportation from rail
roads, steamships and other lines of trans
fer, as will be most conducive to the best
interests Of the state and tbs emigrant. He
shall correspond with elnigrant gazeteers
and other literary and news journals. He
shall advertise rates OF trans o%rtation to
lished in New York and Chicago and one in
Europe" If this amendment is added to
the bill it will practically do away with the
necessity of a separate bureau of immigra-
tion. 1t ia proposed also, as soon as the
bill ia again taken up in committee of the
whole. to increase the annual Appropriation
for the bureau from $4,000 to $4,000. This
amount will include the sala les of the
commissioner and his clerk, Office rent, and
pay of assistants in getting statistics.
The Teton county bill, which originated
in the senate, was passed by the house
without opposition. Its next stage will be
in the hands of the governor. Consider
able opposition, however, developed to the
Flathead county bill, a house measure. The
fight was on the location of the temporary
county seat at kalispell and the distribu-
ton of the offices. The old rivalry be-
tween Kalispell and Columbia Falls cut a
big figure in the matte. Thu kalispell
people appeared to have the most friends
and had the bill fixed as they wanted it,
amendments to allow the governor OF the
state to designate the temporary county
seat and to name the officers being voted
at the tute OF two to one. The bill
WIS perfected in comm ttee of the who'll
and favo ably repo ted. There will likely
De anothe. fight when it comcs up for final
In the joint assembly thers was not a
change in til vote for senator. TIL sena-
to lal fight now seems to have taken third
place III the matte of ubiic interest, the
county division bills coming first and the
educational institution bills next. About
twenty mInntes each dRy 10 spent in Joint
session. and few 20 now e1presaly to heag
the result.
IL SENATE.