Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-09

The subs titute for the Tierney gambling
bill, which was killed recently is now on
general orders and within a short period
will come up for consideration. 1t makes
gambling a msdemeanor instead of a
felony, and as there seems to be hnt
little opposition it is probable that the
substitute bill will be enacted into p law.
1t is understood that if the bill is passed
the governor will append his signature.
STULL IN WAR PAINT.
Representative Stull has donned tie
habll1mentS of war and is hot on the trail
OF certain persons he believes have not
carried out their duties in proper style
at the Warm Springs insanity asylum.
MIR. Stull declares with perfervid utter
alce that every time committee is sent
to investigate the condition of affairs3atr
state institution the members of ne
committee are wined and dined until.
they think it an insult if anybody re-S
minds them OF the fact that they have a
duty to perform. Accordingly he has
outlined what he deems should be the
policy of the members comprising the
committee appointed yesterday by
Speaker Corbett, and has formulated in
an open letter the following list of
queries which he wishes them to have
answered by the officials and others at
the asylum.
Have they warden to each seven
male patients and one to each five female
patients as required in modern institu-
tons? Are the attendants bona fide. or
are they employees of the hotel?
Is there woman physician and If
there is not, why not?
Have naln nf tc
upon to assist in dressing and undress-
ing female patients?
Are the female patients given baths
separately and was there ever a time
when there was no lock on the ba throor,
door?
Have insane patients ever been sent to
points distant from the institution alone
without attendants. to work?
Are able bodied patients ever deluded
with the belief that they We're on the
Iayroll and required to perform har
manual labor in that belief?
Are patients ever employed by the day
in the bayfield,?
Are patients ever buried in graves con-
tanning water and wrapped in worn-out
comforters that are replaced at the ex-
pense of the state?
Are burials ever conducted by insane
men unaccompanied by attendants?
Are patients allowed to visit a saloon
nearby, and was a patient who got
drunk ever assaulted by the "bouncer"
of the institution?
Were two patients ever burned at the
institution through the carelessness Of
the attendants?
Was the institution ever threatened
with damage suit for maltreatment of
q patient who was afterward. commits
stoned officer in the Philippine cam
raign?
Was there time when one warden
had the sole care of eighteen female pa
TENTS. except for the assistance given
her occasionally blythe male warden? y.
If the contractors can afford large OUT
lays, why cannot the state save money
by caring for it's own insanec Har l..
Would the members of the committee
like to have their insane friends if they
had any, cared for by the week?
WEEKLY SUMMARY.
During the week good deal of i'm
portant business has been transacted BY
both houses. The senate has worked
more eXpeditiousiy than the assembly
and its calendar is in fairly good condi-
tion but that of the lower house is con-
next week in order TO clear it or a least
to bring it to a point where the menu
bers can see something but chaos ahead.
Perhaps the most interesting occuc-
renee of the week. from a popular stand
point. was the killing of the Tierney
gambling bill The Rosebud county bill
went through, after being regularly be-
fore the Legislature for six years.
Two bills advocated exclusively by the
rank and file of labor, introduced by
Lannin, We're laid in their graves--the
famous antitrust bill and the company
storebill, which was killed in the senate
this morning. q
Hoffman's pure food bill was passed
by the senate, after il had been amended
by the elimination of the drug clause.
but several senators are now convincerd
that their action was haSty, and there
seems to be Il sentiment to reconsider it.
The house has not yet acted on this bill.
Meuniers bill providing that admin
istrators shall receive the same rates of
compensation for administering real
property as personal died an unnatural
death in the house. The bills providing
for new judge in Silver Bow county,
check weighman in Goa: mines, repaling
the law requiring old soldiers to assign
tWO-thirdS the amounts of their pensions
OH entering the Soldiers home and max.
ing 1000 pounds a ton instead of 2,24O
pounds also passed the lower house.
Another measure of importance which
passed the senate was the bill creating
the twelfth judicial district of Choteau
and Fergus counties. The senate also
passed the bill creating a supreme court
commission. Meyers bill prohibiting the
IL, of Sla into cta
Bigg's bill amending the law relative to
the state board of dental examiners and
requiring applicants to furnish their own
gold for experimental purposes, but
killed Clark's bill for an amendment to
the constitution for the purpose of rem
dering the eight hour law and similar.
measures constitutional. COnnollys
measure providing for the determination