Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1901-02-27

lou ShlOOu HCense Dlll, WDlCH H1uhte
grocers pay the same license for sell
ing liquors as do liquor dealers; omit.
ting Uld soldiers from the provisions
OF the license law as regardspeddlers;
providing for the appointment OF a
state game and fish warden and dep
uty gume and fish wardens; prohibit
Ing the grazing oi sheep within one
and one-half miles OF incorporated
towns or homesteads; for the sub
mission OF a constitutional amend
ment regarding the rights OF labor;
appropriating Sllj for &. c. Willis,
sheep Inspector.
The substitute for the Ticrney
gambling bill, which passed the sen
ate so smoothly, though with but a
narrow margin, will have plenty OF
opposition In the house.
Apportionmeut has already occu-
pied a considerable time in the house
and what the result Will becannot be
foretold. The latest attempt is the
following, which will be reported
from the committee in n few days, II
in the meantime the opponents OF the
scheme do not get in their work:
Beaverhead, |; Broadwater. l; Cas-
cade, 4; Carbon, l; Custer, /; ;Choteau.
2; Dawson, i; Deer Lodge, =; Fergus,
/; Flathead, 2; Gallatin, .; Granite, |:
Jefferson, |; Lewis and Clarke, 3: Mad
ison. /; Meagher, L; Missoula, .; Park,
|; Powell, /; Rosebud, /: Ravalli, !:
Silver Bow, 5; Sweet Grass, /: Teton,
|; Valley, |; Yellowstone, !.
Senator Stanton's meat and milk
inspection bill, which il almost a
duplicate OF the Hedges bill and was
introduced and pushed after the
Hedges measure had struck what ap-
peared to be insurmountable snags,
received senate Endorsement.
Dixon has introduced bill in the
house reducing the amount to he al
lowed sherifis for the board of pris
Oners from 80 to 30 cents a day and
tie mileage of allcounty officers from
ten to five cents mile. It's provis-
ions would not effect present sheriffs,
but it will meet with strong OppUsi-
tion.
The bill providing that all execu-
tions shall hereafter take place MT the
penitentiary instead OF In the county
jail yards passed committee of the
whole in the senate but only by q
small majority. 1t is being opposed
by the prison contractors.
The senate spent the better part of
one day on the Geiger road bill and
finally sent II buck to the printing
committee to be reprinted as amend
ed. II provides tur the government
OF road districts by boards ofdistrict
trustees of three each, who shall be
paid $2j year each, much after the
manner OF school district trustees. 1t
places all road matters entirely In
their hands. Each member is TO
serve for three years. One trustee
may be designated to collect road
taxes at compensation not to ex-
ceed ten per cent OF the amount col
lected. 1t is provided that district
road meetings Of electors In each dis
trict shall be held on the last Satur-
day of September, December and
March, which meetings may instruct
the trustees US to what improvements
are to be undertaken. The bill was
coplously amended, the roads COM
mittee having prepared the amend
nents. One provides that the county
mmissioners shall act as trustees
until regular trustees are elected.
The time for electfng trustees was
fixed at the first Saturday In
April instead Of the last Saturday
In March. Another amendment pro-
vides that the trustees shall each give
bonds In the sum OF $1,000. Still an
other allows the county commission
ers to remove trustees for cause. Al.
so 1t was provided by amendment
that the commissioners shall audit
the accounts Of the districts; still an
other amendment provides that the
commissioners shall lay general
road tax of not less than nor more
than . mills each year and that spec
ial levies may be laid in II district.
Fifty per cent of the revenue derived
from the general levy shall be appor-
toned equally among the districts
and the remaining 80 per cent shall he
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