The new North-west., 1897-01-29

| passed as soon as engrossed, when II
will go to the senate
Some work was done in the direction
of killing bills during the week, too. The
bill requiring mining companies to make
reports to assessors, under penalty OF
jail sentence, was killed off Tuesday,
the committee on judiciary reporting
that it would be ineffective as to COM
panies having their origin outside of the
state. Bills for the payment of extra
services in the office Of the state auditor
and the supreme court reporter were in
definitely postponed, as also was the bill
for the printing of the reports of the
state horticultural society. The senate
killed the bills providing for the election
of county commissioners by districts, and
also the bill providing for the election
of the same officers by the Cumulative
vote. The bill introduced into the
house by Mr.. China, providing that no
debt can be collected for liquor sold by
the drink, which was last week referred
to its author for revision, came into the
house this week and took a palce on the
regular calendar.
The county division schemes that were
expected to make the session interesting,
still hang on. The committee of the
house towns and counties held a
public hearing Thursday evening in the
Powell county division matter, and rec
commended that the bill be printed and
placed on the calendar, without recon-
mendation as to whether it pass or not.
The Broadwater county division bill
will be reached early next week.
During the week bills were introduced
as follows:
IN the house: Amending the law re-
lating to the time of filing bonds, en-
poWering county commissioners to levy
a special tax or a bounty fund, requiring
the county treasurer to publish a list of
all licenses issued by him, providing
tax on the excess premiums of fire in
surance companies, to amend the game
law. to create a board of examiners to ex-
anime mine foremen and shift bosses to
stock the streams Of Montana with l.
G00,oo0 young fish, to tax inheritances to
compel railroads to keep their rights of
way clear of dry grass and leaves, to
abolish the office of county auditor, to
admit veterans of the Mexican war to
the soldiers home, to establish a board
OF railroad commissioners, to prohibit
the sale of Intoxicating liquors on Sun
day, to require election officers to pre-
serve unused ballots, to make the amount
OIL wages exempt from attachment S75
instead of 5000 as now, to provide for the
incorporation of co-operati associa-
tlons, to allow county commissioners Is
cents mile for every mile travelled. to
admit attorneys at law from other states
without new examination before the
supreme court
In the senate: To include county com
mlssoners on the state board of euualiz-
alton, to provide for the payment of tax
es under protest when deemed unlawful
ana providing remedy at law when it is
proved that they We're unlawful, to pre-
vent the formation of trusts, to provide
for the collection of vital statistics by
school district clerks and regulating saw
lngs and loan corporations.
There are two anti-gambling laws be-
fore the legislature now, and one of them
WILL it is not doubted pass. The senate
bill makes it a felony to conduct game
and a misdemeanor to be one of the play
ers, while an officer who does not sup
press gambling he knows to exist may be
impeached, and there are explicit direc-
1ons as to the destruction of layouts and
minute directions empowering officers to
enter gambling houses without the for
mality of search warrants The house bill
IS not SO strict, although it makes it a
felony to conduct the game 1t is a
shorter BILL being copy of the Johnson
anti-gambling bill now in force in Mis-
souri,. The house and senate committees
on Judiciary are expected to get together
soon to consider the anti-gambling meas
ures in joint session and agree upon some
thing for both houses.