Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-03-07


publication of deliquent tax lists.
Senate bill No. 81, relating to bills of
ladlng.
When third reading of bills was taken
up, the following were passed:
Senate bill No. Il, by Geiger. provid-
ing uniform system of road govern
ment aud road supervision by county
commissioners and road supervisors, and
remedylng many defects in the existing
law
Senate bin No. lO7, by Anderson, Civ
ing sheep inspectors more latitude III the |
discharge OF their duties and fixing their
compensation at IS per day.
III the house.
The following bills were passed by the
senate:
Senate bill No. Ill, authorizing boards
of county commissioners to purchase
blanks and forms for county officers.
Contracts to be let to the lowest bidder.
Senate bill No. 81, providing for re-
apportionment of the house legislative
district.
Senate bill No. 10l, providing that it
shall not be necessary to furnish printed
transc. lpts of evidence in appeal to the
supreme court.
SATURDAY MARCH 2.
In the senate.
The following bill was introduced:
Senate bill No. l16, by Conrow, in
creasing the number of judges on the
supreme bench to five, and fixing their
salary and method of appointment and
term of office.
! In the house.
The following new bills were intro
duced:
House bill No. $50, by Patterson, to
prevent fires from locomotives, and pro-
vide penalty for not affording proper
protection from sparks from engines.
House bill No. 1Sl, by the committee
on state institutions, providing for the
submission to the people of a constitu
tional amendment authorizing a bond
issue to provide funds with which to pur-
chase the Warm Springs insane asylum.
House bill No. 1872, by Brlen, requiring
that all penitentlary manufactured goods
brought to Montana for sale be classified
and labeled as such. Sent to the labor
committee.
House bill No. 1873, by Brownlee,
amending the ard land law. TO the
ways and means committee.
House bill No. 1877, by Hill, requiring
the bridging of irrigating canals.
MONDAY MARCH 4.
In the senate.
The senate, by narrow margin, this
afternoon adopted the report of the com
mittee on judiciary, recommending that
the Kllgalan bill eliminating the circle
from the ballot be concurrei IN.
The senate killed the bill providing for
the submission to the people Of IA CON
stltulional amendment for an increased
tax for the purpose of purchasing the
Warm Springs insane asylum.
Senator Kennedy arose to a question
i
glad if some senator could suggest way
10y which the senate could procure addi-
tiOnal copies of the report of the com.
missioner of agriculture, labor and in.
dustry.
The judiciary committed reported
house bill No. SO, by Ki;gallan, relating
to ballots and voting, eliminating the
circle from the ballot to be indefinitely
postponed. The report of the committee
was rejected and the bill placed on gen
eral orders.
In the house.
The committee on highways recon-
mended that senate bill No II, Geiger's
road law, be passed. The report was
adopted.
Th9 committee on mines and mining
recommended that the house concur in
senate bill No. log, creating the Office of
coal mine inspector, and the report was
adopted.
On the recommendation of the COM
mlttee on ways and means the following
bills were indefinitely postponed:
Senate bill No. so, providing fiscal
agent for the state In New York.
House bill No. 1873, by Brownlee's guar
anteeing ard land bonds.
Senate bill No. Ill permitting countits s
to contract for printing outside of the
stat..
Senate bill No 43, permitting banks
and trust cOmpanieS to loan money OF