The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-02-10
THE STATE LEGISLATURE.
Three Sessions Were Held Yesterday
Various Measures Disposed of.

Ihree SESSIONS were heiu hestsfuaN-
Various Measures Disposed of.
HELENA, Feb. Especial to TUT
TRIBUNE There is no change in the
ballot for senator. There were nine
pairs again, but zone of them included
Dixon men. Clark 16, Sanders "A, Dixon
l.. The governor sent a message to
both houses giving revised estimates
of the needs Of the state government for
the fiscal year 1891. In them is not
included the salaries Of possible new Of
ticers, legislative expenses, the worlds
fair appropriations, or items that may be
passed at this session. For 1893 he says
Si2S,905 will be needed ana 1894 S44l.lO5.
The senate had but one session and
did little. The Gibson bill extending
the life of corporations to fifty years was
passed. Swift gave notice of bills Great
ing the Twelfth judicial district and es-
tablishing the state reform school.
\ communication was received from
the Pan-American Bi-Metallic associa-
tion asking the state TO send twenty
delegates to the Bi-Metallic league meet
ing in Washington. Feb. 222, and to APP
propriate $4,000 to pay their expenses.
Each house had three sessions today.
The governor sent in a veto TO the bill
fixing the pay of officers of the present
legislature. The grounds of tie veto
were that the increase of pay for prcsi-
dent pro tenn of the senate and speaker
pro TEN of the house were unconstitu-
tional under the clause prohibiting any
member from getting an increase of sal
AIRY during his term. The governor ap-
proved the bills for llathead and Valley
counties.
The house bill limiting the hours of
labor of stationary engineers to eight
hours "A day was tavorably acted on IN
committee of the whole.
The committee on public institutions
reported favorably senate bills for the
university at Missoula, the school of
mines at Butte. the agricultural college
Glendive. and house bill for the peniten-
grounds are given free to the state.
The latter was amended to make the
ponitcntiary within three instead of two
miles of Billings. and increasing the
size Of the site TO forty acres ;also another
requiring Billings to pay all over $1,000
of expenses of moving the convicts from
Deer Lodge to Billings.
The committee on irrigation reported
unfavorable on the bill taking from the
county commissioners the right to fix
water charges.
y. +. Broz introduced a bill requiring
state aud county treasurers to deposit
public funds in banks which pay six
per cent interest for their use. and pun
ishing such officers for making any per
sonal profit ont of such deposits: also one
for an amendment to the constitution
providing that the right to approve state
laws shall rest with a majority of the
voters of the state and with the majority
III any political subdivision. the right to
propose laws to rest with anywhere
from five to twenty-five per cent of the
voters as may be determined on.
Jockey introduced a bill prohibiting
the sale of liquors within three miles Of
universities or schools of learning. which
IS not to apply TO saloons already IN
Incorporated tOTrS. GlbSOn's senate
bill allowing school districts 20 issue
bonds with the amendment that they
a!e no, it, exceed sol eco was passed be
the h.usc,
At the night session the house APP
pointed \. +. Bray. Murphy and Logan
d committee to act with IA similar com
mittec from the senate. to select a de-
sign for the state seal. Ia committee of
the whole favorable reports were ordered
on bills eyempting Il thousand dollars
worth of widows aud orphans prop
erty from taxation, and making county
boards of assessment consist Of three tax
payprs and no county officials.