The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1911-03-01
EVERETT BILL is TABLED BY
SENATE AND WILL PROBABLY
DIE A NATURAL DEATH.
ON COCKRELL'S MOTION.
House Debates Over insane Asylum
Measure, Providing for Purchase Of
Property Of Mitchell g. Mussisbrod
at Warm Sprinas--1ili Passes, But Is
Freed From the Amalaamated.

Helena. Feb. aS.-tSpecal The |
primary bin introduced by Senator |
Everett for the conference committee
appointed for the purpose of draw Ing
IA measure, was put to sleep in the
senate this morning, on the table. by
vote OF 16 TO 10. While this was
taking place In the upper house the
lower house was passing senate bin
No. 145 providing for an appraisal
commission to investigate and report
with respect to the reasonable value
OF the insane hospital at Warm
Springs.
Senate bin No. 200 the primary bill,
on being introduced yesterday In the
senate was referred to the committee
on privileges and elections. That
committee Is presided over by Senator
Survant. 1t was the purpose of Sen-
ator Everett TO have his bill reported
out this morning, but two attempts
to get together having failed he made
! Il minority report to the senate this
morning, when, to his surprise, ma
jority report, recommending indefinite
| postponement was brought In. The
| question WAS raised us to whether or
not the committee met for the con-
slderation of the bill. Senator Nc
carthy declared that ho hud heard OF
no such meeting. So did others.
Messrs. Everett and Meyer made an
aggressive fight TO have the senate
declare In favor of the passage of the
bin. Mr.. Everett said the bill had not
been acted upon In the committee. On
this admission Senator Mccarthy
moved that 1t be referred back, hut
Senator Edwards offered as sub
stitute that the report be indefinitely
postponed. Senator George said that
he was In favor of primary law but
he did not know where he was "at'
on this bill. In the very thick Of The
battle of words Senator coci,re.l
moved as substitute for all m ,tions
before the house that the majority and
minority reports be laid on tho table
This" said President Allen, car
ries with 1t the BILL"
Nearly Dead Now.
A vote was taken and resulted Ii
l6 ayes and 10 noes. Those voting
To table were: Burlingame, cockrell
Dearborn. Donlan. Duncan. Dunnigan
Edwards, Gallwey. Kessler, Leary
Leighton. Mcdonnell, Muffly. Selway
Survant and Tooey, and those In tn,
negative conrow, Everett. George
Croft, Larson, Mccarthy, Mccone
Meyer. Stout and Whiteside. Christie
pher and Sykes were absent
The bill can be brought back by j
, motion to reconsider, but that wi!
} hardly follow. The general lmpres
sion here Is that the primary measure
I is dead.
Higgins and O'Hern.
Representatives Higgins and O'Heri
led I'm the fight to amend the insant
hospital bill. The former charged that
n member of the state board of ex-
amlners had been lobbying on the
floor OF the house for the bin III be-
half OF Mitchell and Mussigbrod, tht
proprietors of the property. IL Is un-
derstood that he referred to Attorney
General Galen.
Mr.. Higgins moved to further afnerd
the bill so as To permit the governor
to name five instead of three citizen,
to make the investigation and eaami-
nation into the value OF the prop
erty,
Mr.. Grubb joined the fight with AIR
Higgins. lie did not see why the
owners of the property the state
wanted To buy should be on the board
of appraisers, and declared In favor o.
/. tho governor appointing five men tt
do the work. In fairness to botl
sides, he argued, Mitchell and Mussig
brod should be left Off lie said tina
such a scheme did not look well AM
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