The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-18
A PRELIMINARY FIGHT
The Powell County Bill Post
poned Until Tuesday.
MORE TIME is DEMANDED
Advocates Of the Bill Realized That Thew
Wt.s Beaten Had Vote Been
Taken-A Lot OF Routine
in the House.
Special Dispatch to the Standard.

Special Dispatch to the Standard.
| Helena, Feb. l1.-ln the senate this
morning preliminary fight occurred
over the Powell county bill The meas
use was scheduled to come up and its
| advocates realized that if it did it was
beaten, and by making an urgent ap-
| peal to some of the senators they sue
ceeded in postponing it's consideration
! until Tuesday. When the general file
| was reached Riddell asked unanimous
| consent to make the bill a special order
! for next Tuesday afternoon at 2 O'Clock,
Eggleston objected, and asked on
what grounds the request was made
Riddell replied that the Anaconda peo-
pie had sprung an eleventh-hour cir
cular that was full of misstatements,
and the Deer Lodge people wanted time
to reply to it. Eggleston said the cir
cu1ar had been distributed in the SEN
ate last Monday. He objected to any
further delay, declaring that the mer-
it's of the bill had been under discus
sion for two weeks He moved that
the senate go into committee Of the
whole to take up the bill. The motion
was seconded by Hoffman. Riddell
moved, seconded by Phillips, that the
bill be special order for Tuesday aft
L
ried by a vote of IA to 10.
The committee on public buildings
presented a majority and a minority
report on Geiger's bill providing for
state control of the penitentiary at the
expiration of Conley & McTague's con-
tract. The majority report, signed by
Worden, Eggleston, Courtney, Norris
and Hoffman. recommended the indef-
mite postponement of the bill. The
minority report, by Riddell and War
ner recommended that the bill be
printed with amendments as to the sal
aries to be paid the officers. The ma
jority report was adopted.
The judiciary committee reported on
the following bills:
S. b. Exchanging the pharmaceu-
teal laws SO that doctors may com
pound drugs, be printed. Z
Substitute for III. B. 36--Relating to
the bonds of surety companies, pass as
amended.
S. B. 93-Relating to the sale of per-
sonal property for taxes, be indefn-
itely postponed.
The report of the. committee was
adopted, the only difference of opin-
ion being on S. B. 93. Worden, the au-
thor, making a futile effort to have
the bill printed. The committee on
printing of S. B. SO, anneXing a portion
of Deer Lodge county to Flathead. The
committee on military affairs reported
adversely upon the resolution for the
disposition of the 100000 Doodle fund,
recommending it be indefinitely post
poned, as it was not within the legis-
lature's province to make the DISPOSE
tion proposed of the money.
The mines and mining committee re-
ported in favor of concurrence in H.
B. l, Shovlin's mining bill.
A debate ensued over concurring in
the house amendments to Stanton's
bill changing the laws in regard to nat
uralization papers. making the fee $25
for first and second papers instead of
IS for each, as the bill passed the SEN
ate.
In committee of the whole, Geiger in
the chair, Stanton's bill abolishing the
office of supreme court reporter and
giving the supreme court judges $500
each additional compensation for do
ing the work, was considered. The bill
was amended so as to make the figures