The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-01-18


ernment for cities.
H. B. 81, relating to fishing licen.
ses.
H. B. 63, to protect liens on prop.
erty OF dissolved corpor ations.
H. B. 81, in relation to the liquor
traffic.
a. B. IS, regulating telephone,
water and other public utility com.
papies.
H. B. 66. Stevens, governing the
investment of capital of insur ance
companies.
H. B. 81, Tolman, to regulate live.
stock transfers.
HELENA, Jan. l2.-1n the third bal
lot for United States senator taken
today, Senator Carter again led all
the candidates, having IS against 81
for Walsh and 18 for Conrad.
The feature OF todsy's meeting OF
the senate was the introduction of q
bill by Donlan providing for the man.
agement Of the state fair by q board
of directors to be appointed by the
governor.
Favorable committee reports were
submitted on Everett's bill ceding
jurisdiction over Glacier park to the
national government and S. B. No.
%, exempting from tax alton the prop.
erty Of old soldiers and sailors to the
extent of $500. The reports were
adopted, after which the following
bills were introduced and referred:
S. B. No. A., relative to school cen.
sus.
S. B. No. 48. creating the Office of
receiver of the state land department
and fixing his bond at S25, 900.
S. B. No. 49,relating to qualifca.
tion of teachers.
S. B. No. so, to regulate telegraph
and telephone companies, control be-
ing placed with the railroad commits.
zion.
8. B. No. 81, providing for direct
management of the Montana state fair
by the board of examiners.
S. B. 81, to prevent the seduction
and prostitution of women and girls.
S. B. So, to provide for the regis.
tration of trained nurses.
S. B. No. 81, creating the Office OF
scaler OF weights and measures for
counties and towns.
Under q suspension of the rules,
Everett's resolution praying for the
passage of the bill granting the state
$4,000 acres as an insane asylum
grant, was introduced and placed on
final passage in q single day, and the
secretary of state Is directed to trans.
nit it to congress-.
One important bill and two impor.
tant resolutions were favorably re.
ported by committees of the house to-
day, and will now be printed. Aside
from the introduction of the usual
number of bills and the notices of
others. the session was dry and brief.
The committee on federal relations
favorably reported house joint reso.
luton No. 2 by Whaley, ratifying the
sixteenth amendment of the constitu.
tion, which provides for an income
tax. This amendment must be ratified
by the legislature of two.thirds of the
states.
The committee on livestock reported
for concurrence senate concurrent res
olution No. 2, calling for an investi-
CATION into the affairs of the state
board of stock commissioners from
the date of its creation to the present
time.
HELENA, Jan. 13.-There was no
material change in the ballot for Unit
ed States sen ator today. There were
two absentees, Territt and Tolman,
and 100 out OF the lO2 votes In the leg.
islature were cast.
The following bills were introduced
in the senate:
S. B. IS, changing the bound aries
of Beaverhead and Madison counties,
S. B. So. to promote industrial edu.
cation.
S. B. 81, relative to the enforcing
of liens on seeds.
S. B. So, for constitutional amend.
ment to tax mines and mining proper.
ty the same as other property.
Burlingsme INTRODUCED senate join,
memorial No. 4, which asks congress
to make Fort Shaw q park, and to
provide for parks upon irrig alton
projects In Montana.
In the house the following bills
were introduced:
81. B. IS. to put paddle wheels In
streams.
H. B. 86, relative to assignment OF
wages.
h. B. 81, governing qualifications
OF teachers and standing of graduates
from colleges.
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