The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-02-03
THE SCHOOL OF MINES.
II Will Go to Butte If the House
Endorses the Senate's
Action.
Twin Bridges Is in the Lead for
the Location of tho Normal
School
Much Rusiness Transacted In the House
Another Fruitiess Ballot for United
States Senator.

The senate hold two sessions yesterday
and transacted q great deal OF business
Two more state educational institutions
bills were formally acted upon In commit
tee OF the whole, the repot afterwards
adopted in the senate and the bills sent te
the enGrossing committee. These bills were
the one locating the school OF mines
at Butte, and that putting the state
normal school at Twin B iades. The sem
ate also passed the bill locating the aeri'
cultural college at Bozeman. Unlike the
days when the university and %agricultu a
college bills were under consideration,
there were no speeches for or against the
mining school or normal college bills. The
fight was made on tho frat two bills. and
~ the champions of consolidation were de-
fsatsd on them. they concluded II was no
use to oppose the bills up yesterday.
One Of the most important bills yet In
troduced in the senate came from Senator
Cullen. The title Of the bill ID Bill for an
act to regulate the sale and redemption of
transportation of tickets of common car
riers." 1t is a bill prepared by a commit
tee of the Order of Railway Conductors,
and is directed especially against the use Of
scalped tickets. In brief it provides that
all railroad or steamboat companies trans
porting passengers in Montana must pro-
vide each of its ticket agents with q ce tiff
cate of authority; these authorized agents
from the secretary of state. the fee
for a license being 81. No other
person than a licensed agent is to be al
lowed to sell the whole or any part Of a
ticket in the state, whether the railroad or
steamboat line is situated or operated with
in or without the state. The bill also pro-
vidss that the transportation companies
shall redeem at cost unused portions of .
ticket if presented to an agent Of the COM
pany before the time limit has expired.
The act ia to take effect thirty days from
its passage.
The twentieth joint ballot for United
States senator was taken yesterday without
any result. Counting the two taken in
separate session by the senate and the
house, it made the twenty-second ballot.
As prolonged sessions of the house have
prevented much committee work recently,
that body adjourned early yesterday. Num-
erous committee meetings were held in the
afternoon, and by to-day many bills will
be ready to report on. One of the bills
passed by the house was that creating Rn-
valli county out of that part OF Nissoula
south Of Lou Lou creek. AS first proposed
the new county was to have been called
Bitter Root, after the famous valley which
will com, ose most of its area. The change
Of name to Ravalli was a tribute to one Of
the pioneer priests of the locality. and it is
regarded as a much more euphonious title.
Several very important bills we're intro
duced. two of them by the committee Oh
railroads and transportation. One pro-
vides for the appointment of 4 railroad
commission. The other regulates the
charges for freight and passengers BY rail-
road com panies operating in the state, and
is intended to prevent discrimination in
rates, containing a long and short haul''
clause for that urpose. For the frat time
since the house was organized there was no
prayer yesterday, tho chaplain failing TO
show up.