The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-22

the ballot The voter is to place cross
on the place left blank for that pur-
pose between the name of the candidate
and the party. In the arrangement of
the candidates and the party names and
the space for making the cross, the bill
provides:
''The lists of the candidates of the
different parties, as well as the names
of independent candidates, shall be
printed in the same column on the bal
lot in the alpha bctical order of the
names of the parties or principle for
which they stand. When there are sew
eral persons to be elected to the same
Office the candidates of each party shall
be arranged in separate groups, and in
each group the names shall be ar
ranged alphabetically After the name
of each candidate there shall be printed
the name or names of the party or par
ties which have placed him in nomina-
ton or the name of the principle for
which he stands, but no party name
shall consist of more than two words.
Between the name of each candidate
and the party name there shall he
printed blank square, in which
the elector may mark his cross"
The bill was read by sections. No
amendments We're offered and Worden
moved that when the committee rise it
report the bill back with the recon-
mendation that it do pass. Hannah
seconded the motion and pointed ont
the need for legislation of this charac-
ter.
Clark moved as substitute that the
bill be indefinitely postponed. He de-
clared the bill to be unconstitutional. 1t
would disfranchise 10000 voters and en-
tail an educational qualification. There
We're lots of good citizens who were un-
able to read and write. They would
never be able to go over the ballot and
pick out their candidates without maxi
ing the mistake occasionally of voting
for two running for the same office.
Governor Richards had vetoed the ball
lot law and he believed that if the pres
ent bill We're enacted Governor Smith
would Veto it.
Hannah said that the constitutional
DugabOO was the largest creature ever
turned loose in lawmaking body. t
always bobbed UP al convenient periods
for the opponents of merltorious meas
ures to use means to accomplish it's
defeat. He felt that he was generally
right when he supported a bill that had
raised against it the old cry of unconsti-
tutionality. He hoped the senate would
pass the bill.
Replying to Hannah, Clark reiterated
what he had said about the bills un-
constitutionality. The recent contest for
a Montana senator's seat had shown
that even as the law does now stand
there We're in Flathead county a num-
Der of voters who could not vote intelli
gently. Under the proposed bill matters
| would be considerably more compli-
Gated.
Anderson, followed by Stanton, en-
larged upon the defects and weak fea-
lures of the bill. The vote occurring
upon the substitute motion to Indefinite
| ly postpone, was beaten by IL noes to
ayes. Those voting for the substitute
and to indefinitely postpone the bill
| were: Anderson, Stanton, Campbell,
| Clark. Eggleston, Courtney, Norris and
! Tierney.
Geiger's joint memorial asking fed
| eral appropriation to make the koote-
mai river navigabla then passed the
! committee.
S. B. 10, regulating fire insurance
| companies, determining the value of
| property totally destroyed by fire, and
regula ting the removal of causes from
| state to federal courts, was then con-
| sidered and recommended for passage,
| S. 3. sc and S. B. 81, providing re-
| spectively for attachments before debt
| is due and fling of contracts, We're rec
! commended for passage. So was Han
nahs bill extending the time of liens.
| Stantons initiative and referendum
bill went to it's third reading. and al
able strength The vote stood: Ayes
Anderson. Bowlen, Campbell, Connolly,
Courtney, Cullen, Eggleston, Hannah,
Mahan, Riddell, Stanton; II. Noes
Clark, Geiger, Gruwell, Hobson, Hoff-
man. Mckay, Mitchell, Myers, Norris,
Phillips, Tierney, Warner, Worden: Is.
There was a suspicion that some Of
.hose who voted aye did so more as
joke than anything else.
Andersons memorial to congress for
the election of United States senators by
popular vote passed with but one dis
santing vote. that of Geiger.
The committee on corporations recon-
mended the indefinite postponement of
S. b. 80, Senator Warmers bill. pre-
venting tunnel charges by railroads
| running through Montana.
| The committee on towns and counties
| recommended for passage Tlerney's BILL
| S. B. 96. for a, classification of farming,
| meadow and grazing lands.
| The public morals committee recon-
| mended the indefinite postponement of
Anderson's bill changing the age of con-
| sent.