Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-14
THE VOTE FOR SENATOR.
SHORT TERM.
Twenty-Sixth Ballot.

Special to the Inter Mountain.
Helena, Feb. 1.-THE senatorial vote
Was practically unchanged, though only
three members were absent today. A r.
Spriggs, mentioned for dark horse. is
said to be favored by W. A. Clark. be-
cause he thinks his vind!cation would be
complete should he 60 to the senate ac-
cnmpanied by the man who appointed
him senator after the investigation in
Washington. C!ark's friends deny the
rumor, and Charley Clark is working
hard for II. l.. Frank.
Cooper's men wish him to quit the con-
test. but he refuses. No new members
entered the MacGinnis caucus, which
looks like lizzle. An effort was made
to gain caucus converts by the threats OF
a stampede to Governor Toole.
In the senate this morning. Myers fell
lcw-servant bill excited heated debate.
ard was passed by vote of 10 to l,
Clark voting no. while four were absent
or not voting. The following also passed:
Cullen's bill, relative to free county high
schools.
Meyers bill prescribing the method of
assessment collection and division of
taxes receivedt from live stock brought
into the state.
Stanton's bill providing the conditions
under which foreign corporations may do
business
The following house bills were con-
CURED in and passed:
BY Jensen. authorizing trustees or
school districts to levy taxes and repay
borrowed moneys.
BY Conner, providing that justices of
the peaca and constablas shall give bonds
before entering office.
BY Swindlchurst, providing for check
weighman at coal mines
In committee fthe whole the subsI-
tue for Ge:gers bill regarding location OF
mining claims was recommended for
passage.
Il House bill 10, by Stull, providing street
Gears, shall have vastibules for the protec-
tons,of motermen was rejected for the
reason that Kennedy's bill of the same
nature passed the senate.
Adjourned until p. m.
4 In the house this morning, Janitor
Skelly was discharged for going to Great
Falls and employing man named Stod-
-dard to do his work for 81 per day Tor
which Skelly received Sc. Stoddard was
given the position.
Notices of bills were given as follows:
bv the state auditor Of ten thousand
folding maps of the state, showing the
counties.
b by misunderstanding that stocks or
bonds of corporations he issued only for
money paid, labor performed, or prop
erty actually received. and making void
all fictitious issues and increases in
stocks of corporations.
BY Notwithstanding the grazing or
lerding of cattle within one and one
half miles of any Incorporated town.
Bills were introduced as follows:
BY misunderstanding the method OF
drawing juries i'm civil actions.
Bv Dixon-A chidren'S finding
society bill.
BY Hedges-A midnight and Sunday
81 loon closing bill.
Nv Hedges-Allowing damages to be
recovered for the sale OF liquor to habit
ual drunkards.
BY a shrewd bit of diplomacy, Newton
so1 his bill. providing that $4,000 "bribe-
money" now in the state treasury, he
| placed in the school fund, put at the
! head of the list ON general orders, where
| il would be taken up first in committee
| Of the whole.
! The senate has promised favorable ac-
! tion if the bill passes the house.
Witnesses in the meat and milk inspec-
/ tom bribery charges have been subpoen
aed and the investigation will begin to-
/ morrow.
j Adjourned to 2:30 p. m.
! In the senate this afternoon. the com
! mittee of the whole killed the hubstitutt
d, for Tierney's gambling bill. making gam
| hing misdem aanor. 1t was by viva
! voce vote. and some who voted for sucl
! ACTON are now said to favor a raconsid
! tratlon.
! Courtney's bill changing the name o
Powell county to Deer Lodga and tn
name of the present county of Dee
| Lodge TO DAILY, was passed.
The senate substitute for Cullen
school bill was passed.
In the house, in committee of tn
whole, Newtons bill to cover the 5000
rbl iba money into the school fund, wa
I commended for passage.
C0IINCIL ADJOURNED.