Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-20
PUBLIC LANDS,

This afternoon the house passed sem
ate joint memorial No. /. introduced by
Mahon, relative to the leasing of public
ranges. The text of the bill is as fol-
lows:
To the Honorable the Senate and the
House of Representatives of the Unit
ed States in Congress Assembled:
Whereas, Certain laws have been pro-
posed in the past looking to the leasing
of the public ranges: and
Whereas Agitation of the subject
still claims the attention of the people
in the west, therefore be it
Resolved, That we, your memoralists,
the seventh Legislative assembly OF the
state of Montana, earnestly protest
against the enactment of any measure
providing for the leasing of public
ranges, believing it to be menace to
the public welfare, and we pray and
petition the congress of the United
States to protect the rights of the peo-
pie to enter and use the public domain
for legitimate purposes to the exclusion
of none; and it is further
Resolved, That the secretary of state
of Montana be and he is hereby ordered
to furnish copy of this memorial to
each of our senators and representa-
tives-elect in congress.
GAMBLING CONSIDERED.
The senate passed the substitute for
the Tierney gambling bill, reducing the
nature of the ofTense from that of felo-
ny to a misdemeanor, this afternoon, by
vote of 13 to 9. Those voting in the
negative were: Connolly, Conrow. Geiger,
Hobson, Mahon, Meyer. Mitchell. MUIR
ray and Worden. The bill will now go to
the house. What will be its fate there
is hard question to answer for no.
body feels sure of the sentiment of the
house on the question.
SENATE BUSHES WORK.
At this afternoons session the senate
passed or concurred in the following
bills: Relating to free tuition of pupils in
high schools; relating to the filling Of
contracts: for inspection OF horses: for
farmers institutes; authorizing supreme
and district court judges to render YER
diets in certain specified cases without
sending them back for new trials; for the
remedying of educa tional defects; rela-
tive to declaratory statements and loca-
ton of mining claims: substitute for
Tierney gambling bill: requiring the
publication Of moneys received by the
sale of estrays: changing the name of
Deer Lodge to DAILY county: changing the
name of Powell to Deer Lodge county:
classifying school districts; licensing
the practice of osteopathy: the $50, 900
"bribe-money" bill, with an amendment
that the money be paid in the general in
stead of the school fund; house Joint
memorial No. 2. for constitutional
amendment for the election of senator's
by direct vote; making woven wire a
legal fence; relative to duties and salar-
les of justices of the peace: relative to
the disqualificatiOns of judges.
HOUSE HAS REFORMED.
The house has evidently arrived at the
conclusion that il must get move on
or be left far behind when its record is
compared with that of the senate for ex-
petition. When the afternoon session
was called to order and routine business
transacted, Dixon arose and moved that
the bill introduced by Gilchrist. provid-
ing for two assistant attorneys general
be reconsidered. Attorney General Dom
ovan was given the floor andspermitted
to explain the necessity for assistants.
After a good deal OF debate the bill was
once again placed on general orders for
future consideration.
In committee Of the whole first with
Lannin and then with Swindlehurst in
the chair. the following bills were passed
or concurred in: