Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-05
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corporations or an association from
making tunnel charges or an additional
charge for or on account of tunnels.
Approved February 26.
Senate bill No 27-Requiring the pub
LEGATION of delinquent personal as well
as delinquent real property taxes. APP
proved February %.
Senate bill No. 31-Allowing notaries
public to be bonded by surety companies.
Approved February 2S.
Senate bill No. 41-The board of dental
examiners bill, increasing the cost of
examinations and providing a treasurer
for the board Approved February 25
Senate bill No. 5O-Providing that
storage companies. warehouse men and
common carriers may sell goods held for
storage when unpaid more than 80 days.
Approved February 25.
Senate bill No. 51-Providing that a
shipper shall be furnished "any reason
able number of bills of lading. APP
proved February %.
Senate bill No. 55-Creating the
Twelfth judicial district composed of the
counties of Valley and Choteau. APP
| proved February %.
| Substitute f or senate bill No. IL
Amending the bounty law SO as to pro-
| vide a bounty of s. on mountain lion,
| IS on wolf or coyote pup, and providing
a special levy of mills on all live stock
| for the state bounty fund. Effective
without the governors approval March
| by expiration of five days time allow
| ed for approval.
! , The senate practically cleared up all
! the business within it's power to dis
pose of during the latter part of last
! week. and since then the members have
been expectantly waiting for the house
to pass bills and transfer them to the
| senatorial solons for action. Both on
Friday and Saturday nights sessions of
the senate We're called to take action
on bills that might be disposed of by
the house. but the dilatory tactics of
the MacGinniss forces in endeavoring
to delay or prevent the passage of SEN
ate bill No. 81 granting a change of
venue in cases where the prejudice OF
a judge to any party in civil action
was proved, held legislation at stand
| still, and nothing was accomplished un
| It'll late Saturday night, when senate
bill No. 81, senate bill! No. IS, the Gull
! len company store bill, house bill No.
| S. Richardson's fellow servant bill, and
"a number of small appropriation bills
| were recommended for passage in COM
mittee of the whole and the reports
afterward adopted by the house in reg
! ular session.
|, This morning the assembly passed all
| these measures. None of them has as
yet been acted on by the senate except
the fellow-servant bill, which was killed
by decisive vote fifteen minutes after
it passed the house. 1t was prophesied
by the Inter Mountain several days ago
that knives enough We're unsheathed in
| ~ ia To It'll oil fo1l0
measures that could ne extended in
line from Dan to Beersheba, and after
this prophet may be appreciated in
his own country.
Mr.. Dixon assured his confreres that
he had the promise of sufficient votes
to pass his fellow-servant bill in the
senate. on account of the fact that it
was conservative feasure. Accord
ingly he pleaded with the representa-
tives to pass his bill instead of Rich
ardson's radical bill, saying that half
loaf was better than none, and if the
friends of the measure had its true
interests at heart they would not be
blinded by prejudice in voting. But it
proved case Of the blind leading the
blind, and no fellow-servant bill will
he placed upon the statutes as the re-
suit of the Donnybrook revels of the
| Die
state of Montana
THE "WINGLEsS ANGELS" COUP.
The waning reputation of Represent
tative Baker of Lewis and Clarke.
yclept the "Wingless Angel of the as
sembly, as humorist has taken a
fires hitch in its overalls, moistened
its hands with the product of the salt
wary gland and is busily engaged in
throwing out ballast incident to re-
trieving itself and rising in it's multi
colored balloon to it's old position
around Parnassian peaks
President Higgins had risen in Joint
assembly to announce the senatorial
vote today, when Mr.. Baker asked that
before the result of the balIoting was
announced he be given an opportunity
ITO free his mind Of the many weighty
thoughts pressing so heavily on the
gray matter of his cerebum that several
oOnvolutions had become insists. BY
remaining silent President Higgins
tacitly consented to Mr.. Bakers un-
burdening his mind.
With the assistance of lengthy
typewriter document kindly provided
for him by Mr.. Conrad of Great Falls
and his advisory board-said document
being utilized as an inclined flume
whereby the Thoughts flowing from Mr.
Bakers vat of thought should not be
allowed to form cross currents and in
terfere with the size of the verbal
stream, which frequently occurs as i:
taught by the science of physcs-the
orator from Lewis and Clarke skillfully
. manipulated the faucet and the fun be.
gan.
One who has delved into physiological
ZONES in search of natural truth, is
, familiar with the fact that the "gif,
of gab' is said to originate in the third
left frontal cOnvolution of the cere.
Drum. Ere long it was a fact easy OF
) perception that the burden of Mr., Ba.
ker's brain did not interfere with the
: function of this particular convolution
| scientifically expressed, that convolu