Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-09
WORK OF
BOTH HOUSES
WHAT THE MONTANA LEGISLA-
TURE ACCOMPLISHED AT
LAST SESSION.
LIST OF BILLS
SENT TO GOV. TO0LE.
Many Measures Slipped Through Dur
ing the Closing Hours of the
Session.

During the c,or ing hours of the sew
enth le gislative session when for all hour
or more the assembly chamber resembled
the grand stand at a race track Il larse
number of measures We're slipped
through and sent to the senate which
many of the members did not know they
had voted on. Several OF these were
killed in the senate and three have oeeH
vetoed by the governor-the bill granting
a change of venue in civil actions, the
beet sugar bounty bin and an appropria-
ton bill refunding to residents of rcrtalM
counties money un.aWruily collected III
taxes.
The list of bills which passed both
houses during the closing hours or the
session and were sent 10 Governor Toole
for his signature is as follows:
Appropratng 100000 for the state
expenses and state institutions.
Appropratng $7o,46o for the expenses
OF the legislature.
Appropriatng 81, 600 to pay deficiency
hills.
Making eight hours days work for
miners and smeltermen.
Requiring the employment of check
Neighmen at coal mines.
Authorizing school trustees to repay
moneys borrowed to maintain the
schools.
Creating Powell county. the name of
which was subSequ1 ntly changed to Deer
Lodge.
Creating Rosebud county.
Changing the name of the division of
the county which Anaconda is the coun-
ty seat to DAILY.
Requiring charges of judges to be CIV
en- the jury before the arguments OF
counsel.
Curing defects in the present law re-
curing justices of the peace and con-
stables to give bonds.
Allowing honorably discharged soldiers
to peddle without licenses.
I.egalizng the practice of osteopathy.
Requiring the publication of sums of
money received by the board of stock
commissioners from the sale of estrays.
Submitting a constitutional amend
ment making the terms of county COM
missioners six years
Requiring the publication of delinquent
personal taxes.
Prohibiting travel charges" by rail-
roads.
Permitting notaries public to be bond
ed by security companies.
Increasing the cost of. examination of
applicants for dental certificates.
Providing for the semi-annual exam
ination of county and township officers
bo.ds.
Permitting common carriers to sell
goods for storage after 80 days.
Creating the Twelfth judicial district
Valley and Choteau counties.
Fixing bounty of s. on mountain lion,
s. on grown wolf, s. on grown coyote,
S. wolf or coyote pup, and providing
a SHxrial levy of 3 mills on all live
sf,,ck for the state bounty fund.
Requiring the publication of lists of
estraY stock.
Giving the county attorney of Silver
Bow a third deputy.
Permitting change of venue from
biased district judges in civil actions.
and appeals from denials of motions for
change of venue.
Making a uniform license for the sale
of liquor, whether by grocers or saloon
KEEPERS
Requiring of intending participants in
primaries, an oath that they intend to
affiliate with the party.
Regulating district court terms.
Providing park commissioners for first
Class cities.
Prohibiting the payment of wages in
anything but cash or checks-the COM
pany store" bill.
Legalizing $4,000 issue of Cascade
county bonds.
Cbviating the necessity of fling a
lien every 80 days, where bills are rem
dered monthly, the Jaw applies to mer-
chants. mechanics and material men.
Removing the circle from the ballot.
Turning the $4,000 of so-called "brib-
cry money" into the school funds
Amending the defeat in the levy CIV
ing the income of the Agricultural COL
lege land grant to the college.