The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-27


bill covers - printed pages and contains
20 sections, and almost every one was the
subject of heated debate. Tue main
provisions of the bill as it finally passed
the committee of the whole, are as fol-
lows:
Auctioneers are divided into nine classes
and they are required to pay a licene from
81 per quarter to S5 per quarter, according
to the amount of their bus mess. Persons
engaged in banking. loanIng money at in
terest, buying or selling notes, bonds, etc,
or other evidences of Indebtedness, are
divided into six classes and must pay
a license from 81 per quarter to SO per
quarter, according to the amount of busi-
ness done. Other licenses are to be paid
as follows: Billiard tables, $3.50 per quar-
ter. Bowling alleys, $40 per quarter.
Thea;ers, So per day or SIS per
month. Variety theaters, $40 per
month. Circus or menagerie, including
side shows, $50 per day. Pawnhrokers,
$50 per quarter. Intelligence office, $40
per quarter. Shooting gallery, SIS per
quarter Retail liquor dealers, less than
one quart, in cities of 10000 or over, 1910
sem-annually; towns of over 5000 and
less than 10000, $685. so semi-annually; ;
towns of $500 to 5000, S275 semi-annually;
to 1000, $3.50 semi-annually; under
800, $40 semi-annually. All clubs
where liquor is sold are included
under these provisions. Merchants of all
classes are TO pay S110 per month where
the average monthly business amounts
to 100000; where the average is $4,000,
they must pay $3.50 per month; if the
average is $4,000, the merchant must pay
$50; $4,000, $33 per month; $4,000, $3.50
per months: $4,000, SO per month; S1o,-
600, Sl6.50 per month; 5000, S1l
per month; $500, $3.50 per month; +;
Sl.250, $3.50 per month";; less than
Sl,250 monthly sales, Si.40 per month; ;
oleomargarine or imitation cheese dealers,
$50 per quarter; public weighing or plat
form scale, SO per year; dealers in ciga-
rettes, cigarette paper or tobacco, $40 per
year, every merchant, hawker or peddler
who vends goods from house to house, $40
a year; when using a wagon and one
horse, SD per year; when using a wagon
and two horses, Sl2) per year; for the
selling of auction pools on races, S25.
Brewers or manufacturers are licensed
according to the amount of their sales,
the licenses ranging from $50 per month
on sales of 81 900, $50 per month on sales
of $500 per month, and so on in ratio to
the business done, down to $3.50 per
month. Manufacturers of soda water,
pop, etc.. S25 in cities of 100000
population to SO in cities of $1,000. Dis
tillers, $500 per year. Owners of stations.
bulls or jacks are licensed from $40 to SO
per year for each animal. Telephone,
telegraph, water and electric light COM
panies as follows:
Gas, water and electric light companies
in cities of 10000 or more, $500 per year.
In towns of more than 5000 and less than
10000, 500 per year. In towns of less
than 5000, 500 per year. Telephone COM
panies 81 per year on each instrument.
Telegraph companies SO per year on each
instrument.
Lawyers. physicians, dentists and sur
geons, insurance and real estate agents,
So per quarter. Livery stable keepers and
stage companies engaged in the convey
ing of gold dust gold or silver coin and bull
lion, are licensed according to the amount
of business transacted, from s. to Sl5 per
quarter. Restaurant keepers are licensed
in the same manner from $3.50 per quar-
ter upward. Assayers from SO to S2J per
quarter Roller or ice skating rinks and
merry-go-rounds Sl5 to SO per quarter.
Cinnamon engaged In the laundry busi-
ness. S25 per quarter, and steam laundries
the same.
Street car lines must pay $50 per quar-
ter. Architects, builders, ETC., doing a
business of over Sl5o.000 per year, must
pay $50 per year. Every manufacturer of
malt must pay Slo0 per quarter.
The following bills were introduced:
3i6. Booth. to amend sections 2075 and
2O7S of the political code, relating to game
and fish wardens; 3i7, Booth, TO
add a section to chapter six, title
II, part >, of the code of civil
procedure, taxing jury fees in civil
action to the losing party of the suit; 3IS,
Booth, to amend section 3176 of political
code, relating to coroners and reducing
the fees $40. Booth. to amend chapter -,
fifth division, compiled statutes. relating
to municipal corporations. The house
then took a recess till p. IN.
The house held a session tonight which
lasted until IL o'clock. The tide of elo-
quence which has been pent up for a few
days while business was being transacted
broke loose with renewed force, and but
one bill was considered, and this was not
completed when the committee arose.
Won Tobel was called to the chair and
house bill sS, joys school book bill, which
was the special order for the evening, was
calleu UP. Iue udJoIity report OF the cd
ucation committee, IN favor of sweeping
changes in the school books now in use,
was read and also the minority report in
favor of no changes.
Glasscock moved the adoption of the
majority report, and this brought on tho
difficulty.
Joy, in a brief speech, stated his position
in favor of no change.
Kennedy gave a set speech of five
minutes IN oratorical style in favor of the
changes, suggested by the majority which
have already been fully reported in these
columns.
Craven supported the Joy bill for no
changes and Glasscock took the opposite
view, stating that a change in text books
meant a saving to the people instead of an
additional expense.
In order to make a prelimina ry test of