The Western news. [volume] (Stevensville, Mont.) 1890-1977, 1907-02-27
PURE FOOD BILL IN
LEGISLATURE
Judgeship Bill Comes Up This
Week--News of the Past
Week--Bills Passed.

eo on Saturday, and after grinding
away from 1890 to 4, with a recess for
lunch. it adjourned without having
touched the long list of bills on gen.
eral file. The morning session was
devoted to routine business, which in
cluded an occasional scrap and result
ed in the death of a number of bills by
| indefinite postponement. Seven bills
were introduced, running the total
number of house bills to 4O3, including
the mo Treat" bill by McMauus and
a bill by O'Connor that will make the
proprietors of hotels and restaurants
SIT up and take notice, and at the same
time, If enacted into law will cause a
severe and protracted loss of appetite
in Montana.
1t is bill for AN act to protect the
travelling public from being compelled
to eat adulterated food stuffs served
in hotels, restaurants and boarding
houses in the state of Montana, with
out having due notice thereof.
HlSe DlllS were lnueHnltely post
poned, in accordance with committee
reports:
House bill 362, relating to the state
board of horticulture; SOL, for special
tax on fruit trees; 3S4. for the relief of
certain man named Stark, who
claims that he wrorgfully paid money
into the state land department; 129, re-
quiring railroads to furnish cars for
carlot shipments, and 284, regula ting
the confiscatiou of coal by railroads.
The suggested indefinite postpone
ment of house bill 129 and 294 by the
committee on railroads and transpor-
tation. without clear explanation
by the committee, might give color to
the suspicion that the committee has
had served on it by President James ].
Hill the same notice that has been
served on senate committee that has
charge of measure relating to rail
roads-that If the bill passes the peo-
pie of Montana will be punished by
President Hill. There are men in the
house as we'll as in the senate who
are always ready to dive under the
bed when ]. J. Hill says "Boo" 1t
might be easier to deal with railroad
measures if the Legislature would
make an appropriation for cyclone
cellar to which timid members could
retire when Jim Hills breath blows
hot over the state house.
There was warm rumpus over the
senate amendment to house bill IS,
the senate having extracted from the
bill one of the judgeships in Lewis
and Clark county. Weed said that
those in favor of having but one Judge
in this county want to cripple the
railroad commission. eff you take
away one of our Judges" he said,
1.-THE railroad commission will be
practically imperative, for practically
all of the suits against the railroad
commission will be filed and prosecuted
in this county"
Marshall said at while il might be
regarded as a backward step to put
the county back on a one-iudge diet.
he did not agree with Weed as to the
effect on the law business of the rail
road commission; and he asked his
colleagues from Missoula, Ravalli and
Sanders counties may have two judges,
as provided in the bill.
The committee Of the whole recon-
mended for passage senate bill 90, by
Mclean, to prevent frauds in the pay
ment of bounty claims; also senate bill
%, by Cowgirl, authorizing boards of
county commissioners to allow county
officers greater number of deputies
than the law allows, when in the
judgment of the board the greater
number is needed.
Rompey made a plea for his senate
bill 90, authorizing county commits
sioners to vacate parks, boulevards
and other public grounds in plats of
unincorporated townsites on petition
of interested freeholders.
Romney said the bill was introduced
to relieve certain residents of River
view addition to Hamilton of an un-
pleasant predicament. Provision was
made in the original plat for some
parks, but the parks were never made,
and by some error a lot of houses have
been built on the edges of some of the
parks. If the bill is not passed, said
Romney, some of the residents there
will have to move their houses. That
would be bad enough. but in addition
they will have to move their wells,
and there are no persons in Montana
engaged in the business of moving
wells. The committee being assured