The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-26
CODES BY THE CORD
The Laws Of Montana Should Soon Be
in Shape.
PLENTY OF TALK ABOUT Fem
In the State Senate Yesterday the
Grave and August Members
We're Taken in By an Enter
prlsing Plumbing Concern.
Special Dispatch to the Standard.

| Northern Pacific land grant. Bills IL, IL
| and Is were reported as correctly printed
| and placed on the general file. Bills 20,
| IL and "a were reported and recommended
| to pass. The committee on agriculture
asked for further time for the considera-
| ton of bill No. s which was granted.
A petition was read from residents of
the neighborhood of Canyon Ferry asking
that that district be segregated from
MeaGher county and annexed to Lewis
and Clarke.
Considerable amusement was caused
by the reading of a memorial to the sem
ate which turned out to be long winded
! advertisement of an eastern plumbing
outfit. The colossal nerve of the memo
rialists staggered the senate for time
but the rea1ing was speedily shut off. Tie
following bills were introduced:
By Hoffman-For an act to amend an
act concerning the construction of toll
roads and bridges. Referred to the COM
mittee on roads.
BY Steele-An act to annex portions of
Meagher and Cascade counties to Lewis
and Clarke. Referred to the counties and
towns committee.
House bill No. l, creating the eleventh
judicial district, was read and referred TO
the judiciary committee.
House bill No. 10, for the payment of
the officers and attaches of the house
and senate, was read and referred to the
finance committee.
Babcock gave notice of bill TO amend
section 10l, fifth division of the general
laws. The senate then went into commit
tee of the whole to consider the military
code bill. Folsom in the chair. The com
mittee adopted the bill and it was sent to
the engrossing committee.
Miss Maud Cudhy was selected as q
committee clerk.
The senate then adjourned until to-
morrow morning at 10 O'Clock.
IN THE HOUSE.
In the house the committee on rules re-
ported the following house bills ordered
To- be engrossed and read third time I;
shall be rewritten in a plain hand or
neatly typewriter, unless because of the
length of the bills rewriting is impractical
be, as in house bills 81, 80, 36 and 81. The
/ engrossed bill or bills may be printed bill
| or bills or such other carefully prepared
copy as the committee on engrossment
may prepare. This resolution was re-
ported in order to change the rules so
that tho code bills could be passed with
out the reading of the entire codes, and it
| was adopted.
Booth, chairman of the code commit
tee, offered resolution to amend section
| 631, code of civil procedure, relating to
| jury trials. The resolution was adopted.
Booth then offered resolution providing
that the code bills be considered en-
crossed provided the committee on en-
grossment shall have typewriter copies
of all amendments suggested by the code
committee placed in their proper places
in the respective bills. This also pre-
vailed.
Rombauer introduced mem orial to
congress asking the enactment of an act
for the free coinage of silver at an early
date at a ratio of 16 to l. The memorial
sets forth that a metallic currency gold
and silver has been and always must re-
main the only international money.
Notices of bills we're given as follows:
Huseby-A joint memorial relative to
proceedings in the United States courts.
Metcalf-ProhibitIngg gambling and pro-
viding a penalty.
Knippenberg-To amend section 6 of an
act concerning licenses.
Hedges-To amend chapter 46 fourth
division compiled statutes.
DLatimer-Prohiblting the collection of
toll on bridges and roads to be hereafter
constructed in Montana.
Sparks-Providing for the appropriation
Of 81 600 for rewards offered by the gov
ernor for the capture of certain Indians.
Hershey-Empowering county commits
sioners to purchase toll roads and bridges.
Horsky-An act concerning redemp-
tions on foreclosures.
Bills we're introduced as follows:
Winter. house bill 10l--Appropriating
money for the deaf and dumb school at
Boulder.
Gordon, house bill 102-An act relating
to the state reform school.
Losee, house bill l03-An act prohibiting
the entry of horses in speed contests I'M
der false names or out of proper class.
Huseby. house bill 10i-An act TO
provide for the election of roa super
visor.
Isdell. house bill 105-To create a COM
missioner for consideration of county di-
vision bills.
Joy, house bill 1O6-To amend tho 10th
subdivision of section 321, first division,
compiled statutes.
When the afternoon session opened the
engrossing committee reported the four
code bills correctly engrossed under the
special rule above referred to.
Booth then moved that the third read
ing of the bills be begun and continued
under special order until finished. There
arc about 100 printed pages of these
codes. but Chief Clerk Stetson tackled the
JOB and read about six chapters of the
code OF the civil procedure. HIS elocu-
tionary powers were evidently not appre-
ciated for. at tho conclusion of the sixth
chapter, Shropshire moved that, in Wow
OF the fact that one-third Of the members
had already been driven out and the re-
maiuder we're paying no attention. tina;
the further reading Of the code be dis
pensed with; that they be read By title
and placed on their final passage. This
brought on quite an eNtended discussion.