The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-02-24
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The Same Dreary, Monotonous Senatorial
v~ote-Other Notes.

The Same Dreary, Monotonous Senatorial
vote-Other Notes.
HELENA, Feb. 17.-lSpecial to THE
TRlBUNE.l-All the se~venty-one votes
we're again cast in joint assembly for
United States senator today. The bal
loting was practically without incident
except that the chief clerk understood
Tierney to vote for Clark where instead
he had voted for Judge w. II. Hunt.
The mistake was corrected before the
vote was announced. The result was:
Clark %, Mantle 30, Dixon IL, Couch 2,
Hunt =. For tomorrow Coder (repub.
lican) is paired with Davidson, as the
latter did not care to come out too much
in this soft weather.
Rose introduced a bill furnishing bur.
glary in the first degree by from four to
fifteen years imprisonment and in the
second degree by from two to ten years;
A. f. Bray introduced a bill to form
Sweet Grass county. 1t is identically
the same bill defeated in the senate yes.
terday. The design is stated to be to
keep the Livingston lobby jumping side.
ways the remainder of the session,
Bray also gave notice of a bill regulating
the payment Of wages; Tallant intro
duced a Joint memorial to congress ask
ing the establishment Of a department
of ROADS. The committee on counties
reported fayurably on the bill for the
formation of Granite county out of part
of Deer Lodge. \ special committee re.
ported a sort Of compromise between
Deer Lodge and Billings IN the penitcn-
tiary bill.
1t locates d new prison at Billings. to
be known as the eastern state prison,
and retains the one ut Deer Lodge, to be
known ds the western state prison. The
committee Of the whole ordered favor
able report on the senate bill estab.
fishing a state board of education with
an amendment by TallRut that no more
than four Of the eight members
appointed 10y the governor will be of the
same political party. Tho house bill
proposing a new style Of ballot for cleo
tons was taken up in committee of the
whole. An amendment 10y fallant was
adopted. that where no objections were
made to a nomination before election il
be considered valid. When the para.
graph was reached regarding Il definite
style OF ballot, a difference arose over the
amendment offered by Scharnikow, The
bill provides Tor grouping candidates in
columns according to party. The amend
mont somewhat complicated the ballot
Further action On the bill was post
poncd to give the members time to lool
over.
Nhe registration bill was also taker
l but a disagreement was rea chet
when it was sought to amend it so as tC
relieve those in the country districts
from travelling to the registration offices
every year. One proposition was to dc
away with the necessity of registering
more than once when the voter remains
in the same precinct, except within II
miles of cities and 20 miles of railroads
Another was to compel registers to visi'
every precinct. Without adopting either
the bill was referred to a special com
mitte-Bach, Scharnikow and Tallant-
to perfect.
The senate passed the following house
bills: Fixing bounties on stock de
stroying animals with an amendment in
creasing the price for coyote scalps from
81 to 50; appropriating $4,000 for thu
worlds fair exhibits; providing for tht
appointment of county boards of ap
p~raisers by district judges, and to pun
ish bribery of members of the Legislature
Tho house bill to exempt $1,000 O
widows and orphans was defeated
Brown being the only one voting for il
The ground of the defeat was that it wa,
unconstitutional.
McDermott introduced the bill pre-
pared by the mayors to amend the gen
eral Incorporation act on the lines al
ready published. 1t fills fifty pages O
type written pages, being the longes
bill introduced. McDermott also intro
duccd a bill authorizing cities and coun
ties to issue bonds for sanitary purposes
Its object is tt allow Butte to experiment
with the smoke nuisance. Cullcn intro
duced "a hill regulating licenses for tot
bridges and water companies.