The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-03-01

age Of doctors attending insanity
hearings.
S. B. III, relative to the changing
Of names of rivers and sire ANS in the
state.
S. B. 160, salaries OF deputy county
officers.
S. B. 165, to forbid the sale or
drinking of liquor on school grounds.
HELENA, Feb. 24.-House bill No.
427, introduced by the joint conference
committee, providing for the nomina.
tion OF senators by state conventions
and by petition, was passed in the
house this morning by vote of 81 to
10. It's passage produced more ora
tory than any other bill OF the present
session.
"This bill Is no more primary bill
than was the bounty bill we passed the
other day." declared Word in voting
against the measure. "We're not 60.
ing to fool the people. This bill pro-
vides for the same old system, the
same old log rolling. We should ask
for the recall of the bill we sent over
to the senate and recast that bill into
such form that a primary law will be
enacted. This talk OF primary bill
coming from the joint conference COM
mittee is simply to induce US to vote
for this measure"
Woody, replying to a remark of
Eliel's that the bill would not impair
political organic ations, said tha
when the government was created, it
was created for the people and not for
political parties. Continuing, he said
that he was going to support the bill
because be believed it was all that
could be obtained, and that it was
necessary to bow in submission to the
will of the corporate influence" tha,
controls the political m achinery of the
state. He asserted that the ''corpor.
ate interests have dictated every nom
ination in every state convention o1
both the democratic and republic ar
parties"
Moore OF Valley, republican mem
Der OF the joint conference committee
said that in no event could the people
elect senators by direct choice of the
voters. and that it's enactment would
be direction to congress that Mon
tana wished to have the laws amended
so az to permit of the direct election
. of members.
"Some members seem to have sus
! picion that the conference committee
will not report primary bill," h'
said. II wish to say that the com
mittee is now drafting such measure
will meet tomorrow and will probabl!
; present the bill Monday. l admit tina
' this bill does not give all the people
are asking for, but it certainly give
them something of what they are ask
ing for.'
4 Governor Norris today vetoed S
: B. LOG, providing for the payment tt
1 the existing state examiner of certain
? back pay as covered in the genera
I appropri alton bill of two years ago
j. holding the measure to be in contra
= vention of the constitution. Under th
rules, action on the veto went owe
). until tomorrow.
a The senate recalled from the hous
! S. B. l24, control and supervision c
I priva banks and it was indefnitel
8 postponed, substitute being intro
: duced which will bring about the sam
ends, the work to be performed by th
% state examiner. The usual amount {
g routine business was trans acted.
e HELENA, Feb. 25.-Beginning Nor
day the joint session will take NOR
o than one ballot for United State
% sen ator. A petition circulated
q Senator Mccarthy OF Gallatin today
was signed by fifty democratic men
y bers Of the assembly, which provide
that after today five ballots will /
t. taken each day until Thursday moo,
when, if no election is arrived at, tt
'e mainder of the session will be sper
z in balloting for senator. All but thre
u democrats in the assembly have signe
this resolution. The democrats hoI
D. by this drastic move to force the ele
rs ton of q senator early in the weeI
If no election is had by Thursda
ID noon undoubtedly many pendiu
measures which otherwise would +
Of enacted during the last hours of Il
u eession will fail.
The senate today with only four di
b. senting votes, passed the bill givir
the state examiner the same authorit
Of for supervision and control of priva
banks as he has with respect to sta
ee banks, ut this action was precede
by one or rather several of the mo