The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-30
THEY MUST LOOK OUT
BOOilerS Are To Be Punished Without
Mercy.
ONLY THE PURE MAY VOTE
The House Discussing Monteath's
BilI-In The senate Sligh's
Bill Stirred Up the Ire
of Steele.
ONLY THE PURE MAY VOTE
Special Dispatch to the Standard.

Special Dispatch to the Standard.
HELENA, Jan. 29.-The senate met at 3
o'clock this afternoon and heard the first
debate of the session on Sligh's bill to
enable the county commissioners OF
Granite county to pay for the rental of
their county buildings and other expenses
of the past two years. The senate had
gone into committee of tue whole
Leonard in the chair, when the bill came
up. A few clerical errors had been cor
rected by amendment and the bill reached
the recommendation stage when Steele
attracted the attention of the senate by
an attack on the bill and the men who
would be benefited by its passage. He
expressed a great deal of indig-
nation at the attempt of the old
board of county commissioners
of e. ranite county to perpetuate
their rule through some irregularity in the
election of their successors. Stories had
come to his ears in which the old board
had been charged with having drawn
large amounts from the treasury, which
the courts had compelled them to dis
gorge. They had leased the building from
one of their NUMBER, contrary to law, and
audited their own bills. He was opposed
to the passage of the bill.
Folsom, chairman of the committee
which made a favorable report on the
measure, said that the committee had
heard committees for and against the
measure and the evidence had all gone to
show that the bill for rent, presented by
Morse, had been disallowed by tho courts
on a technically of law and not because
it was not just. Everything taken into
consideration, the fact renamed that
k.I 81 hull f@r
two and one-half years and never paid its
debt and the judge who tried the case
had remarked at the time that he wished
the law was such that the claim might be
allowed.
After a tilt between Steele and Folsom
as to the wisdom of passing such a law.
Sigh took the floor TO defend the integrity
of Colonel Morse, which had been at
tackled in Steele's onslaught on the bill,
After alluding to the facts in the case,
which had been before the public for some
time, he said that the gentleman who
owned the building was a man who bad
! lived in the state for 30 years and in thai
/ time his name had never been mentioned
! by those who knew him without respect
and this was the first time that his hon
| esty had ever been impugned in public.
| The bill was then voted on in commit
| tee of the whole and passed.
House bill No. l, creating the eleventh
! judicial district. was concurred in. The
| testimonial regarding the Flathead In
| dian reservation and the senate bill tC
| legaize the proceedings of the Grea
Falls city council was recommended tC
pass.
The medical bill was reported by the
| special committee with slight amend
ments, with the recommendation that i
be passed. 1t was referred to the printing
committee. The following bills were in
troduced:
BY Metzel-Maxing appropriations fo
the orphans home.
| By Cullen-For a soldiers home at Glen
| dive.
| Notices of bills were given as follows:
BY Steele, by request-Attaching par
| of jefferson to Lewis and Clarke.
BY Metzel-Against discrimination il
changes of corporations having publ,
| functions. Also to provide for the print
| ing of public documents.
| Senate bill No. Ia, providing for tht
| duties and compensation of the employees
| of the two houses; senate bill No. l.
amending an act concerning roads anC
highways, and the military code bill wer,
read for the third time and passed. TIL,
senate then adjourned until 10 o'clock to
| morrow.