Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-15
THE BRIDE MONEY
PLANS OF Representative NEW
TON FOR MAKING USE
OF 1T.
monument TO MARCUS DAILY.
Two Bills Affecting Saloons-The
Asylum Management All Right
Senatorial Situation,
Special Correspondence Inter Mountain.

Special Correspondence Inter Mountain.
Helena, Feb. 1.-THE sum of $50, 900 is
large amount of money to be lying
around without a claimant. and yet for
the space of two years that sum has
been incarcerated in the vaults of the
state treasurer, without friend on
earth. Nobody claimed relationship: no
BODY tried to swear out a writ of habeaS
corpus and secure it's release from
thralldom; nobody cared even to the ex-
tent of a sigh whether it was ever again
brought out to basl in the sunshine or
not. An explanation of this condition
of affairs may lie in the fact that it was
called "brlbe money" and, therefore,
the good politicians did not care to risk
contamination--yot they say that a rose
by any other name would smell as sweet.
In the seventh legislature has arisen
Il Good Samaritan in the person of Rep
rcsentative Newton. He thought it
shame that good coin, without blemish
on it's shining face, no matter what
might be the scars on it's character,
should be put to no use; so he introduced
bill for the amelioratiOn of it's hard
condition. The bill was for an act en-
titled AN act FORGETTING to the state of
Montana thirty thousand dollars $780,
100000 deposited with the state treasurer
by an investigating committee of the
sixth Legislative assembly, and covering
same into the public school income fund.-"
and Its language was as follows:
BE it enacted by the Legislative Assem-
bly, of the State of Montana:
Section 1. The thirty thousand dollars
($3OOOO) deposited with the state treas
urer by an Investigating committee of
the sixth legislative assembly, is hereby
declared to be and is hereby forfeited to
the state of Montana. and the state
treasurer is hereby ordered to cover said
thirty thousand dollars (s3O,0O0) into the
pubic school income fund, for the pur-
pose of appOrtiOnment and distribution
among the several school districts of the
state 1t is hereby made the duty of
the proper officer to appOrtion and dis
tribute said thirty thousand dollars
among the several school districts of the
state as other moneys in said fund are
apportioned and distributed.
Section 2. This act shall be in force
and effect from and after it's passage
and approval by the governor.
The unanimty of sentiment as regards
the disposition of the bill in the house
was unquestioned. Everybody seemed to
regard the idea a godsend. There are
many peculiarties of human character
and this bill has brought one of them
into evidence. While nobody cared to
claim the money on account of the ques-
tionable reputation it had attained, all
We're willing to scatter it broadcast
throughout the state, without the least
fear that anybody would contract moral
leprosy from contact with it.
1t was made a special order for this
afternoon. and in committee of the whole
the measure was recommended for pass
age and afterward passed Even the
staid and dignified senate has promised
favorable action as regards the passage
of the bill. Therefore, the period of
Information of the sum of $50, 900 in good
gold coin of the realm has ended, and
the jngling pieces of money can now
take their rightful place in the great
artery of finance and go sweeping around
the state to the tune of you've Taken
Back Your Gold"