The Butte inter mountain., 1903-01-20
Measure to Increase Number
of Deputies Allowed Sher-
iff Of Silver Bow.
SAID THAT ANOTHER BILL
is TO BE PUT UP SOON
O'keefe's Bill for Taxing Attorneys
Fees Causes a Lively Dssension-
Dempster Talks Plain on Measure
Grow Reservation and Other Matters
OF Importance Discussed by House.
SPECIAL TO THE INTER MOUNTAIN.

SPECIAL TO THE INTER MOUNTAIN.
Helena, Jan. 2o.-Seventy thousand dol
lars we're appropriated by two bills which
finally passed the house yesterday after
noon.
The first of these, introduced by Mr..
Hetferlin, carried $4,000 for the payment
OF the per diem OF members and 5000
additional for the payment of clerks and
attaches OF the two branches OF the legis-
lature.
The second, introduced by Mr.. McCone,
appropriates $4,000 to deffay the Incl
dental expenses of the house and senate
which includes stationery, postage, etc.
Through an error the first of these had
been read without the enacting clause, but
this was quickly remedied and correctly
printed.
The house then went into committee OF
the whole for the consideration of these
measures, reporting them favoraby and
referring them to the engrossing commit
tee.
A short recess was then taken to enable
the bills to be prepared for final action and
upon their return, engrossed and enrolled,
they were finally passed and sent to the
senate for confirmation. As there is little
likelihood of these bills meeting with any
delay in the upper house, il is presumed
that they will be finally disposed of by to-
morrow, when the per diem and mileage OF
the members will become available.
Pelletier's Bill Put Of.
Mr.. Pelleter's bill increasing the num-
Der of deputies allowed the sheriff and
county clerk of Silver Bow county was the
first to meet its fate in the house. Upon
the recommendation of the committee upon
county affairs 1t was indefinitely post
poned. Mr.. Pelletier made no attempt to
save the bill, stating that it had been in
troduced at the request of the county oifi-
ata al....
tion to supplant it with another.
Mr.. Lynch pointed out that the proposed
measure provided for an increase of the
number of deputies i'm the county clerks
Office from eight to thirteen, and added one
to the force of deputy sheriifs. He de-
clared that there had been no increase in
litigation in Silver Bow within the past
two years in fact there had been a falling
off, if anything, and he could not see any
excuse for the attempt to increase the costs
OF the county government. The bill was
laid to final rest without a dissenting voice.
A bill providing for an appeal from the
county board of equalization was also
killed as one by Mr.. Lanstrum regulating
the recording of sales of bills of goods, etc.
The first committee dissension came with
Mr.. O'keefe's bill providing for taxing
attorneys fees upon judgments of moneys
due for labor or wages, Mr.. Self, chairman
of the judiciary committee submitting a
definitely postponed.
Mr.. Dempster presented a minority re-
port in support OF which he argued that
there were many rich men in Butte who
had made their money by cheating work
men of small sums due them" and he
urged that the bill receive favorable con-
sideration at the hands of the house. Mr..
Stapleton explained that the mechanics
lien law covered all that it was sought to
do in the present bill in that it provided
that reasonable attorneys fee should be
allowed persons who commenced action for
the recovery of wages. The present bill,
he declared, would offer opportunities for
collection agencies and others to promote
much unnecessary litigation, and the views
| of the legal member of the committee were
| concurred in by the house.
House Bill No. a4-Providing for the
| aboishment of the board of appraisers of
| real estate was reported from the ways
| and means committee with the recommen-
| dation that it pass.
On Crow Reservation.
A petition in congress urging the open
| ing of the Crow Indian reservation was
| favorably reported to the house and was
ordered placed on general orders, but
when the house resolved itself into
| committee of the whole to pass the appro-
priation bills the resolution was lost in
| the shuttle.
| upon the motion or Mr.. IonnOr, Gov
| ernor Toole was called upon to furnish
the house with all reports of state Off
GERS upon the matter of arid lands.
Only two bills were introduced during
the day, as follows:
| House Bill No. 6o-By Lanstrum, ex-
tending and regulating the liability of em-
ployers.
| House Bill No. 7o-By Arthur, regulat-
ing the heating of passenger coaches.
Notices of the introduction of bills was
given as follows:
Misunderstanding married inmates