The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1903-01-28

q. B. No. l0l-M -Miles-To, amend the
law on hours of hoisting engineers.
H. B. No. -Tooley-Providing a
penalty for malicious destruction of
fences.
| II. B. No. 1O3-Brownlee-
ing the boundaries of Sweet Grass
county and lessening those of Park
county.
Fl. B. No, O4-Self-Amending the
law on abstracting titles.
! H. B. No. 1O5-Self-To amend the
law on the time to begin civil actions.
Immediately after convening the
house went into committee of the whole,
with Swindlehurst in the chair. The
following measures were passed on
favorably:
H. B. No. 7-Miller-Providing for
appeals on realty assessments from
boards of equalization to district
courts.
Il. 8. No. 24-Miller-Repealing the
law on realty appraisers.
House joint memorial No. 1-For
the opening of the northerly part of
the Crow Indian reservation.
H. B. No. 27-V Vagg-Providing that
summons may be served by sheriff
or constable, on any male person
more than 18 years old. 1t changes
the age of service from 81 years to Is
years.
| The house passed a resolution from
the judiciary committee recommending
the passage of a resolution instructing
J. H. Calderhead, state auditor, to is
sue warrants and A. H. Barret, state
treasurer, to cash warrants, for the
pay of the Silver Bow delegates.
HELENA, Jan. 26.-The commence
ment of the fourth week of the session
finds Montana lawmakers with about
$50 bills on their hands, and notices
of Introduction of several others. In
the state senate today, most of the
time was occupied with discussion
OF the propriety of making the inspec'
torship of mines an elective Office, and
a majority appeared to favor the
proposition.
The house transacted considerable
routine business, after which the fol-
lowing bills were introduced:
H. B. No. Self-Relating to H.
B. No. lO8, to amend constitution on
boards of equalization.
H. B. No. l09-Demp mpster-Relating
to trustees of county free high schools.
H. B. No. Notwithstanding
milk inspector law.
H. B. No. 1l1-Sales-Appropri-
ating money for new buildings at the
agricultural college.
H. B. No. 1l2-Appropriations Con-
mittee-Appropriating $4,000 for H.
L. Frank on state capitol deficit.
H. B. No. 113-To amend law on
horticultural board.
H. B. No. -Giltinan-Imposing
penalty on banks not reporting re-
serve funds.
H. B. No. l15-Amending law on
otdte OrpndQS' nome.
H. B. No. 1l6-Tolman-To amend
law on bounties. 1t provides for a
bounty Of 81 on wolves and coyotes
and 81 on wolf pups and makes the
levy for the bounty fund four mills.
H. B. No. 1l7-Faust-To amend
law on free public libraries.
H. B. No. l1S-Cannon-To encour-
age and aid agricultural association.
i H. B. No. -NobIe-Fixing fees
for incorporating benevolent corpor-
ations.
H. B. No. 120-Schw end-To pre-
vent employment of boys on electric
motors for transporting ore and other
materials.
a motion by Miller that the com.
mittee TO visit state institutions visit
only the penitentiary and insane asy-
lum was carried by vote of 81 to %.
The following bills have passed both
houses since the session began, have
been signed by the governor and are
now laws:
House Bill No. l6, by Hefferlin-
Appropriating 100000 for the mileage
and per diem of members of the Eighth
assembly and the per diem of the en-
ployes.
House Bill No. II, by McCone-Ap-
propriating $4,000 for the incidental
expenses of the Eig1h legislative as.
sembly.