The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-08
THE STATES LAWMAKERS
Five Petitions Presented in the
House of Representatives.
AGAINST GAMBLING LAWS
The State Board OF Horticulture Bill
Recommended for Passage by the
Committee Of the Whole, as
Was the Arid Land Bill.
Special Dispatch to the Standard,

gan BUSINESS lnlS morning, II was sur
prised by more general response than
usual to the speakers call for the pres
entation of petitions, the first call on
the order of business. Ordinarily there
are no petitions but this morning there
We're five. Johnson of Carbon county
presented long prayer from his con-
stituents in support of the bill forbid
ding the dumping of coal, slack and
mine debris in the streams of the state.
There were two long petitions asking
the legislature not to enact a gambling
law. There was another petition in
support of a bounty larger than 81 on
coyotes and still another from residents
of the Bald Butte and Lincoln gulch
districts asking that the bills intro
duced in the house by Plotting and in
the senate by Eggleston relative to the
change of the boundary between Lewis
and Clarke and Deer Lodge counties be
passed. These petitions were referred
to appropriate committees. But one no.
tice of the introduction of bills was
given, as follows:
BY Bywater-A bill for an act entitled
an act to amend sections 8, 3, and s
of an act approved March s, 1897, re-
pealing certain sections of the penal
code of the state of Montana and pro-
vide further protection to birds, fish
and fur-bearing animals and game and
to add two sections thereto.
The judiciary committee reported for
passage the following bills, which We're
ordered printed:
Longs bill forbidding officials holding
passes to collect mileage; Hedges bill
forbidding public officers to accept in
terest On public moneys in their keep
ing; Days bill fixing the interest on
judgments at per cent; Days bill con-
corning attachments; Senator Camp
bells bill regarding stealing rides on
trains; Hedges bill regarding the di-
vertng of county funds was ordered in
definitely postponed.
The committee on corporations and
manufactures recommended for pas
sage the following bills, which We're
ordered printed:
Lindsays bill regarding building and
loan associations; Crutchfields corpo-
ration bill.
The committee on townships and
counties reported favorably upon Pot
ting's bill changing the boundaries of
Lewis and Clarke county, and it was
ordered printed.
Bills were introduced as follows:
BY Sweeney-To purchase 800 maps
for state and school purposes.
By Potting-A bill in regard to coun-
ty appraisers.
BY Johnson-To prohibit the deposit
or dumping of coal, slack or debris in
the streams of water in this state,
By Day-Relating to the supreme
court Also to cure defects in deeds
and conyeyances heretofore made to
real property that are defective in exc
cution or acknowledgment and to cure
defects in judicial sales of real prop
erty and sales of lands and personal
property by executors, administrators
and guardians. EAls
BY Magee-Relating to quarterly re-
ports of county officers; also providing
a penalty for taking up, riding and
working horses without due author
ity.
BY Hedges-Reating to the collection
of property taxes and providing for the
sale of all real property to the estate
upon which taxes have been delin
quent.
BY Bywater-Relating to protection
of game and fish, and issuing permits
to hunt and fish in the state; prescrib-
ing penalties for violations and the pro-
visions thereof, and enacting other pro-
visions relating thereto, and providing
penalties for violation thereof.
By Notwithstanding to teachers in
stitutes.
BY Manipulating to licenses
By Ingersoll-To authorize and regu-
late the disposition of the property of
of dissenting stockholders.
The house adjourned at noon until
2 O'clock, when senate bills II and 40
We're taken up in committee of the
whole as a special order, with Crutch-
field of Ravalli county in the chair.
Senate bill ~, creating a state board of
horticulture, was under discussion for
an hour and was thoroughly discussed.
1t was finally recommended for pass
age, with one amendment. which makes
the fines collected under the provisions
of the bill apply to the payment of the
expenses of the board.
Senate bill 40, relating to the arid
land commission, was recommended for
passage, and the committee arose.
A communication from Governor
Smith was received, enclosing a cable
gram from Colonel Kessler. giving the
extent of casualties of the Montana
regiment in the battle of Manila. The
governor also inclosed a copy of a
joint resolution from the North Dakota
legislature relating to the election of
federal senators by popular vote, and
requested the legislature to take some
action regarding it. On motion of
Lamb the matter was referred to the
committee on privileges and elections,
with the request that a similar resolu-
ton be drafted for submission to the
house.
Before the house reached the general
orders an adjournment to morning was
moved and carried. The following joint
resolution was introduced by Carr to-
day and referred to the committee on
federal relations:
ITO the Honora BILE the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States in Congress Assembled
at Washington, D. c.:
Whereas, There exists a reef of
rocks from 10 to 80 feet high across the
Pend d Oreille river about one an one
half miles below it's debouchure from
Flathead lake: and.
whereas. BY reason of said reef act
ing as dam during the spring and
summer freshets the waters of said
Flathead lake are caused to back up,
thereby overlooking from 1000 to 5000
acres of agricultural land in the Flat
head valley, to the great detrment of
the owners Of said land, by destroying
their crops, drowning stock, etc;
therefore, be it
"Resolved, That we, your memorial
lists, the Sixth legislative assembly of
the state of Montana. earnestly pray
and petitioD he congress of the United