The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-07

on an aye and nay vote on party lines, tne
republicans voting to suspend, with one
or two exceptions.
Resolutions adopted by the trustees OF
Helena school district No. 1, protesting
against changing the text books except to
secure a better grammar and geography
with a map of Montana up to date, we're
read and referred to the educational COM
mittee.
The committee on towns and highways
reported back house bill No. ?, to create
Broadwater county, with the recommen-
dation Of five of the committee of nine
that it do not pass.
Winter moved the adoption of the re-
port. THIS would have killed the bill and
Spriggs raised the point of order that, un-
der the rules, the bill must go to gen.
eral orders. Tine chair ruled the point well
taken and the measure was so referred.
The same committee reported the Car
bon county bill back without recommend
alton.
Yegan moved the report be laid on the
table and the bill indefinitely postponed.
Meyer raised the same point of order as
that raised by Spriggs, which was decided
to have been we'll taken, and the bill went
to general orders.
The enrolling committee reported that
house bill No. 43 appriating 5000 for the
purchase of supplies for the senate and
house had been handed to the governor
at 1908 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and
house bill No. creating the eleventh ju-
dicial district at 0:25 o'clock this morn
ing. The speaker signed house joint
memorial No. relating to the restoration
of the constitutional value of gold and
| silver.
The house then took n recess till 2
| o'clock.
At the afternoon session of the house a
message was received from the governor
announcing that he had signed house bill
No. AZ and house joint memorial No.
relative to the opening of the Fort Shaw
military reservation. The representatives
seemed to have experienced a change of
| heart during recess as to the resolution to
refer bills to the appropriate committees
before printing them.
On motion of Won Tobel the vote by
which the resolution was passed was re-
considered and the bills will go to the
printing committee as heretofore imme-
diately after they have been introduced
and read twice.
Knippenberg introduced a resolution
providing that the house hold evening
sessions from o'clock on Monday,
| w
! nj @ next week.
House bill No. 80, which is Knippen-
berg's American flag bill, was made a
special order for tomorrow afternoon at
2p.m m. There will be a hot fight over this
measure. The house then went into COM
IN ttee of the whole, Won Tobel in the
clair.
House bill AZ, introduced by Shober for
the relief of insolvent debtors, for the
protection of creditors, and for the pun
ishment of fraudulent debtors, was taken
up but it's consideration was postponed
on account of the absence of Shober.
House bill No. was taken up and rec
commended for passage. This bill amends
the law creating the Office of comm s.
sioner of agriculture and labor by provid
ing that the latter shall run free public
employment agency in connection with it
Hedges bill, No. 81, providing for the pay
ment of bounty OF So each on wolves anC
coyotes, was then taken up and Hedges
took the floor in support of 1t. He said
that the stock industry was of vast i'm
portance and second in the state only to
the mining industry. From GO to 70 PEI
cent. of the calves born on ranges annu
ally were lost on account of wolves and
coyotes. He figured the loss as follows
Calves. 80 per cent; cattle, 8 per cent,
colts. 50 per cent; sheep, 3 to per cent
horses, % per cent. The value of range
horses in the state he estimated at 1913,
867; cows, S5S2. 1913; cattle, $4,000
sheep, So, ,338, 42l, making grand total o
, S14, ,28J, 900. The increase in cattle on the
range every year ought to be 10000, anC
, of calves 175 900. Figured at S4 per heaC
the loss to the state in taxable propert!
in calves alone was S245, ,8i) per year. lie
, figured the total loss of the entire stool
industry from wolves and coyotes at S80l,
coo annually.
. Joy, Knippenberg, Meyer, Losee ant
, Booth all advocated the passage of the
, bill, while Oker and Anderson opposed
} it. The grounds of opposition were tha
: the bill requires the various counties "a
t pay in an extra per cent. of all Licenses
collected, to be credited to the bounty
fund. The bill also provides that Their
, shall be tax of ~ mills on stock to b.
paid into the bounty fund. 1t is estim ltet
: that the licenses will create a revenue o
, 81. 500, and the tax a revenue of 5000
, for the county fund.
3 At the close of the discussion a risin
D vote was taken and the bill recommends,
!. to pass by a vote of % to 20.
|, The following bills we're introduced:
: Won Tobel, 1910 amend section 279-
political code.
Won Tobel, 2O0-To repeal section 30.
penal code.
: Cook, .0-To amend section 790, poll
ical code.
! Ways and means committee, 202-PrC
! vidin. for the support of the state govern
= ment for the years 1895 and 1896.
: Lesser, 203-To protect associations an
!, persons i their labels, trademarks an
K forms of advertising.
n Shropshire, 20i-Repealing sections Il
( and 81. code of civil procedure.
, Appropriation committee. 205-Appr'
: priating $500 to reward Stephen Bywate
for his part in the arrest of the train rot
: Der-.
;, Aud, 2J7-To amend sections ojji
I 255o and 2603. political code: 2D3,
Y amend sections 645, 2660 and z66l, p,
4 litlcal c. de.
n Aud. 2JJ-To amend sections 1865, 266
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