Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-16
Committees Of the Legislature
Do Much Work.
THE RESOLUTION ADOPTED
IL Honor of the Bravery of the Men,
: bers of M0ntana's Regimentin
and Around Manila.
special to the Inter Mountain.

Helena, Feb. 16-According to a cable
gram received today from Lieut.. Col.
Bruce Wallace Private Meyersick of 1
Company is not dead, only wounded
Wallace's message was:
Governor, Helena: Hail. Briggs,
! Meyersick, badly wounded; will recover
"WALLACE."
The senate transacted all the work in
sight in less than two hours this morning
and adjourned until tomorrow Nothing
OF particular Importance transpired. The
Judiciary committee introduced bill
providing that reports of state officers be
printed only once in two years, unless
otherwise ordered by the board of exam
iners.
Geiger gave notice of a bill granting the
Montana State Fair franchise to hold
| fair for 20 years at Butte, and Courtney
Of a bill relating to free public libraries.
Tierney's gambling bill was ordered
printed. After transacting some work
| in committee of the whole the senate con-
Cured in these house bills:
No. 80, relating to county officers; the
| bill permits counties Of the fourth class
| Deer Lodge) to have an auditor; AZ, re-
! ducing interest on county warrants; AZ,
special constables; H. defining duties of
| county attorney.
| Two senate measures also passed third
| reading: Segregating portion OF
| Meagher and annexing it to Cascade, and
| Philips joint memorial regarding pas
| turing of animals on forest reserves.
| The morning session of the house was
| devoted largely to hearing and acting
upon committee reports, of which there
| We're many; the introduction of petitions
| and notices of bills.
Committee reports massacred number
| of measures.
Butte ministers sent petitions against
the gambling law
| Metlen gave notice of a bill anneXng
part of Madison to Beaverhead. Nine
bills in all met death at the hands OF
committees and the house stood by the
committee after some torrid debates.
The judiciary committee did a land
office business in destroying bills. These
went by the board at this committees S
hands: Senate bills two), relating to
| witnesses before Legislative investigation
committees; dividing counties into dis
| tlicts for election of commissioners
making rent lien upon personal prop
erty; relating to garnishment or olnclals
|'salaries. The same committee killed
the house bill approprating money for
the First Montana and several mousse
measures of less Importance. SIX Dllls
were introduced,
The select committee appointed to draft
| resolutions in relation to the bravery or
! Montana troops reported. The GesolutlohS
/ were adopted without debate
| The resolutions in part are:
| "{Ehereas, The soldiers are representa-
! tiyes of Montana's citizenship, coming
| from range ard ranch; from store ana
| smp1ter; from farm and forest; from mlne
and office, and
"Whereas, Their conspicous bravery
and gallantry upon the field of battle
! adds glory to their state, their nome, no
less than to themselves and the regiment
! therefore,
"Re it resolved, by the House of Repre-
Isentatives of the sixth legislative assem-
| bly. that we make formal expression or
our appreciaton of the heroic conduct OF
our boys in blue; that we rejoice in Their
\ victory so handsomely won; that we eX-
tend our sincere sympathy to the familles
! of those who fell in the battle and to the
| brave boys now lying in the hospitals IN
| that remote land, suffering from wounds
| received in the engagements around Ma
Mia: CHEERS for the living and tears for
! the dead and
| "Be It further resolved, that copies OF
4 these resolutions be transmitted to Colo
mel KesSler and the company command
ers of the regiment and that the house
4 ioi, in the cable message to be sent to
1 the regiment by the senate