The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-02-03
TO BE CONSIDERED BY MONTANA
LEGISLATURE.
SOME BILLS NOW PENDING
Fellow Servant Act--To Provide for
the Better Care of Waits
Practice of Physicians.

Helena, Jan. 29.-One of the most
important bills before the Eighth as
Sembly is the fellow-servant meas
ure, introduced by Representative
Maddox and recommended by the up
per house for passage. 1t will be Wig
orously opposed by the railway in
terests of the state, as it probably
affects them more than any Other.
The bill is on the same lines as leg
islation enacted by other states and
involves a radical change in legal
practices. Under such a law railways
could not plead the almost universal
defense that injuries sustained by an
employee resulted from the negligence
of a co-worker, in bar of the recovery
Of damages.
The bill limits the amount of dam
ages for accidents occasioned by neg
ligence of employers at IS, 900 and for
death at $500, and n moneys re-
covered under the act are not subject
to payment of debt on legal liabilities.
Provision is made excepting employ
ers of domestic servants and farm
laborers from liability under the act.
Better Care of Waits.
Representative Teal of Madison is
fathering the orphans of the state.
He has introduced a bill looking to
the better care of the waits. 1t pro-
vides that:
Every orphan, founding or desti-
tute child, under IL years of age, of
sound mind and body, shall be en-
titled to be received into the State
Orphans home at the expense of the
state. Children over u years of age
and under 16 years of age and chill
dren with slight physical defects may
be admitted to the home, if deemed
advisable by the board of trustees.
''The board of trustees shall have
the general supervision of the home
and adopt rules for the government
thereof not inconsistent with law.
They shall employ a superintendent,
whose salary shall be 81, 800 per an
mum and who shall have personal
supervision of the home and grounds
and shall perform such duties as may
be prescribed by the board of trus-
IA fooc C,nh hoor1 cho1J o1co nnn1Oyv
a matron at a salary not exceeding
$3.50 per annum (The superinten-
dent o gets $1,000 per year,
"The county superintendent of
schools of each county in this state
is hereby made the agent of the board
of trustees of the State Orphans
home, and as such agent it shall be
his duty, under such rules and regu-
lations as shall be prescribed by the
ditions upon which any child taken
from said orphans home are complied
with by persons in his county who
adopt or undertake with the consent
Of said board of trustees, to nurture,
care for, maintain OR educate any
such child; and he shall on the first
Saturday in October in each year
make a report to said board of the
conditions and surroundings of al
such children in his county and O
all other facts relating thereto, as
may be required by said board.
Such county superintendent shall
keep a record, in a book to be kept il
his Office, and open to public inspec
ton, in such form as shall be prescrib
ed by said board of trustees of sait
orphans home, and of all children
placed in said orphans home from hi
county, and of all children adopted
or let out from said home, with tn,
consent of said board, by resident
of his county.
"When it is desired to place an.
child in said orphans home, appl.
cation shall first be made to sue
county superintendent of schools, VIII
shall make a full and complete inves
tigation of said application and tn
facts and circumstances relatin
thereto, and make a written report t
the chairman of the board Of count
commissioners of his county, givin
the results of his investigation; whic
report shall accompany the apple;
ton of the board of commissioner
for the admission of such child. Sal
report shall be upon blanks to be flu
nished by the board of trustees c
said orphans home.
whenever in divorce proceed
inrs the district court shall deem tn