The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-02-06
LEGISLATIVE DOINGS.
Several Proposed Laws Are Killed BY
Committee Reports.


HELENA, Jan. 29.-Both the senate
and house held only morning sessions
today, a%djourning this afternoon so as
to attend the Greater Montana con-
vention. The senate was the place of
interest, owing to a sharp debate over
the bill introduced by Senator White
to pay M. S. Gum $1,000 for services
rendered in connection with the bond
litig a After considerable discus.
sion the bill was ordered favorably
reported.
Senator Everett's bill for q consti.
tutional amendment providing for the
tax alton of mines came near dying,
on an unfavorable report from the
mines and mining committee. It wss
saved, however, by the author getting
It re-referred to the judiciary commit.
tee.
Several other bills we're considered
in committee of the whole. The DAILY
county bill was sent to the printing
committee without q recommend alton
from the committee on towns and
counties. The stock grazing commit
tee killed two of Senator Truscott's
bills, one exacting payment for stock
owned in q county and grazed in
another, and the other to require the
inspection of stock before being
shipped to Chicago.
In the house. the committee on
towns and counties reported on the
bill relating to the time of collection
of property taxes and recommended
that it be indefinitely postponed.
The same committee reported on the
bill relative to the changing of the
southern boundary of Sanders coun.
ty and recommended that it be passed,
with the condition that Missoula coun-
ty pay Sanders county for the loss of
territory.
The following bills were introduced:
Relating to the payment of licenses.
Relating to the number Of deputies
to be allowed county officers.
Relating to the compensation of
deputies in county offices.
Relating to the establishment Of a
library and extension of the heating
plant at the state university.
Relating to witnesses.
Relating to the indebtedness of
cities and the levying of taxes to re-
lieve the same.
Relative to the civil jurisdiction of
justices of the peace.
Relative to the payment OF claims of
ranchers who lost stock through the
crusade against tuberculosis by state
otfici ais.
Relative to the witness fees of ex-
perts.
Providing for a penalty of one to
fourteen years Imprisonment for any
one attempting to circulat / bills, notes
or papers of any description, pur-
porting to be on a bank or banking
institution not in existence.
Relative to the duties of the super
intendents of schools and a school
census. by Seidler)
Regul ating the sale of merchandise
in bulk.
Relative TO the issue of court pro.
cesses.
Relative to the taking of a school
census.
Establishing a sub-station at the
agricultural college for experiments
in horticulture. BY Whiteside).
Relative to the time in which GER
tain game fowl may be shot.
HELENA, Jan. 30.--This was. a busy
but uneventful day in the legislature.
Morris, OF Yellowstone, gave notice
that he will introduce his gambling
license and local option bill in the
house o This bill is understood
to be favored in the senate. Its
chances in the house are more difieult
to determine. The gamblers are said
to object to the heavy licenses i'm
posed iu the bill, but to favor The
measure. There is also an anti
gambling bill in the house, introduced
by Griffin several days ago. The OPP
ponents Of gambling will vote for tina
bill. The Legislators favoring licensed
gambling will vote for the Morris bill.
The following bills were introduced
ia the house:
No. l72, appropriation committee
To pay milk inspectors deficiency.
No. lib, anne committee-To pay
state veterinarians deficiency.
No. la, Marshall-To redeem local
government warrants.
No. lbs, Weed-Annual reports
from life insurance companies.
No. l76, Rlake-F'ees of witnesses.
No. III, misunderstanding
false reports relative to stock values
from corporations.
No. 17S, Blake-To pay expenses of