The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-21
THE 81 t. FAIR.
Tallant's RilI Was Passed Without OPP
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Special Dispatch 10 the Standard.
HELENA. Feb. 2O-The house met at 10
o'clock. Petitions were read from the
Miners assembly of Cokedale and district
assembly %. X. Of L., asking that law be
passed providing for state inspector of
coal mnes.
Boojn offered tho following resolution,
which was adopted:
RcSolrcd. That the printing committee Of the
house hc and is hereby auth srlZed TO take such
acton as it may Hcem necessary to expedite the
printing OF house bills now or those that may
hereafter come into its hands, to the end that
tue several hous5 bills may be returned TO the
house printed at as early day as possible.
The governor reported that he had
signed the penal aud civil codes.
Tallant's bill locating the state fair at
Great Falls was passed without any oppo-
siton. The following bills we're intro
duced: No. 30i, regulating the sale of
oleomargarIne and imitation cheese, by
G. w. Oker; to amend section 275, chap
ter 1, penal code, defining the age of con-
sent. Hedges; TO prevent the spreading of
forest and prairie fires, Rompauer; to
amend sections % and 26. code of civil
procedure, to include the Eleventh judi
cial district in the list of districts, by the
code committee; to amend sections 43
and "A, code of civil procedure, relating to
Justices jurisdiction and terms of office,
code committee; to form a bureau of in
vestigation in each county for the preven-
ton of cruelty to children, Paschal; to
repeal sections 20 to "a, title 9, political
code, relating to the seat of government,
code committee; TO amend sections 81, sS
and SO, political code, relating to the cleo
Af lat noAn 70
amend section &C, political code, relating
TO judicial districts, code committee; to
amend section 80. political code, relating
to the meeting and organization of the
legislature, code committees; 3l5, to
amend subdivision 2 of section 3O61, polit-
ical code, relating to county attorneys,
code committee.
In committe of the whole. Bennett in
the chair, Cooper's bill making the Bitter
Root the state floral emblem passed. The
bill appropriating $500 for the reward of
the men who captured the Great Northern
train robbers, was paised.
Appropriation bills were passed as fol-
lows: For Mitchell q Mussigbrod, 8, 1881.
For G. r. Metten, $50. For transporta-
ton of prisoners to the reform school by
sheriffs, S44i.05. For supplies furnished
the reform school, S17S22. For building
stable at the reform school, 500. For
payment of certain persons for services
rendered the reform school, S75S SO. For
the payments of sheriffs for transporting
convicts to the state prison, S2,5i6.S1. The
bill providing for the support of the state
government in 1895 and 1896 also passed.
The house then took a recess until 5 p. m.
At the afternoon session the speaker
signed Monteath's corrupt practices act
nj to tho Tho III
lowing bills were indefinitely postponed:
No. Il. providing for the deposit of state
and county funds in state banks; 14l. con-
cernihg the filing of cert ificates of all CO.
partnerships with county clerks. Senate
bills SO and 56 were read and referred. The
following bills were recommended for
passage: No. 1S3. to pay sheriffs for
transporting convicts TO state prison, S12,-
546S0; 206, TO pay assessors for statistics
furnished the state, S2,i4S.41; PIC, for
money advanced TO the orphans home,
Sl,74317; 217. state board of charities.
S2l.70; is. for ". j. Kennedy. deputy
clerk of the suprem court, $50; 2l9.
Bernard Brown, for exporting the state
treasurer's books. 5000; 22l, for John z.
Forbis, member of the state board of ed
ucation, Sl2.40; DO, Thomas Matthews,
state purchasing 1board, Sli.40: 222, TO re-
pay the banks for money advanced for the
mineral exhibit at the midwinter fair,
S41s5.5S.
In committee Of the whole, Bennett in
the chair. 102. appropriating money for
tie state reform school. was COnsidcre1
and recommended for passage with an
amendment placing the institution under
the control Of the state board OF prison
managers; 132, in relation to accepting