The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1907-01-30

boards and officers on q bill relative
to distribution of public report was
adopted.
The report of the committee on at.
fairs OF cities recommending the pass.
age OF the bill relative to the collec.
ton of taxes by city treasurers was
adopted.
Miller, OF Lewis and Clark, offered
a resolution that the Woolgrowers'
association and Stockmen's associa.
ton were trusts and should be investi.
gated by the attorney general. The
josh was completed when Marshall
moved, and the motion was carried,
that it be made a special order Of
business for 3 o'clock on the last af-
ternoon of the session.
The committee on education recon-.
mended an amendment to the Weed
bill. relating to the purchasing of 500
maps for school use, to the effect that
the maps should be purchased at a
sum not to exceed 81. SO each.
HELENA, Jan. 26. - The general
opinion here seems to be that the SEN
ate, at least, will favor q high license
law to regulate gambling, with local
option provision. The indefinite post.
ponement of the Mclean bill yester-
day Is said to show definitely that
such is the cas- A bill indefinitely
postponed must be re~considered the
next day, if at all, and the Mclean
bill is therefore dead beyond revival.
The bill noticed by Representative
Patten provides that taxes collected
on livestock shall be divided among
the various counties in which they are
kept during the year. At present one
county collects the tax and keeps it.
This will greatly affect Valley and
other counties where stock is grazed
in two or three counties in the curse
Of a year.
Representative Logan's bill for
mutual, homemade insurance compa-
MES provides that any number of per-
sons owning S25, 600 worth of property
may incorporate an insurance COM
pany to insure its members in the
county where the property is located.
The corporations so formed can not
exceed a life time of twenty years.
No policies may be issued till appli-
cations for $50, 200 worth have been
received. The bill outlines the legal
steps which must be taken, similar to
those governing the formation of
other corporations.
The bill introduced in the senate by
Senator Mufiy to provide for the es-
tablishment of guide boards at the
forks of public roads, provides that
''the several boards Of county COM
m~issioners in the state of Montana
must erect, or cause to be erected and
maintained at the expense of the
county, suitable guide.boards at, or
within 100 feet from, forks Of all coun.
ty roads within their respective coun.
ties. Said guide.boards shall contain
a suitable inscription indicating the
way and naming the distance to such
cities, towns, villages, or other known
points, as are situated on said road.
Said posts shall be at least six
inches in diameter at the butt and ten
feet in length, and planted in the
ground at least two feet, so that said
post shall be, when erected, eight feet
high above the ground. Said guide.
board must be Of suitable size to con.
tain the inscription, the back ground
of which shall be white. The letters
contained in the inscription thereon
shall be black, at least two inches in
height and length.
HELENA, Jan. 28.-At the begin
ming of the fourth week of the SEES
sion, the record shows the introduce
ton of 1853 bills in the house, and Al
in the senate. The following bills
were introduced in the house today:
Weed-Preventing misrepresenta
ton by life insurance companies.
Shaw-Allowing travelling expenses
to superintendents of schools.
Shaw-Deining warehouses ant
warehouse receipts.
Miller, of Lewis aud Clsrk-Requir
ing all railroad companies to keel
watchmen at crossings over whicl
trains pass az often IS every thre
hours from six o'clock in the mornin,
until six o'clock at night, in all town
Of 1000 OF more.
Boorman-Requiring all saloons t
close at midnight and remain close
until six o'clock in the morning.
:. Duncsn-Compelling railroads t
furnish cars for stock shipments an
for the recovery Of damages and t
. prevent discrimina alton.
Marshall-Creating . state text boo
commission.
, Siedler-Relating to the expenses
/. county superintendents Of schools.
acCauley-Raising the compens'
: ton of the governor to $1,000 an