The Daily Missoulian., 1913-03-02

| table the Jewell motion carried with
it all of the report of the committee
of the whole.
| The house adjourned until 10 o'clock
| Monday morning.
| OF the bills recommended for pas
sage by the senate, l3 were deficiency
mea sures. The others We're II. l5 53,
| by Harmon, authorizing the board of
| county commissioners to appropriate
money out of the general fund for the
purpose of paying part of the salary
of a county agricultural instructor: $,
B. ia, appropriating money to deiray
| the expense of committee Which in
vestigated the complaints of settlers
on public lands; s. B. No. 1879, by
Whiteside, authorizing the board Of
| county commissions to levy Il tax of
one mill or less for the establishment
of county fairs; S. h. l53, by Darroch,
to make the board of railroad commits
sioners appointive instead Of elective;
s b. No. III, by Dearborn, fixing sal
ary of county superintcndents; S. 3.
l73, by Donlan, prohibiting misrepre-
sentation of the class or grade OF arti-
cles Of merchandise; S. b. 159, By
of government in cities: H. b. 129 by
the committee on education, codifying
the school laws.
Two amendments were offered for
H. b. 129, relative to the school laws,
one, to take the examination out of
the control of boards of examiners, and
the other to continue the system of
having students take the examina-
tion before examining boards, but pro-
viding that they shall be marked so
per cent on the examination and so
per cent on their general class work.
The senate also passed Fl. Is. 1G0 by
Gould, creating the department of
agriculture and publicity; II. b. 159,
by Gould, creating the department of
labor and industry, and S. B 1913, by
Leighton, to prevent procreation by
idiots, feeble minded and insane.
The senate also voted to concur in
the house. amendments to S. b. lis,
by the committee on finance and
claims, providing that common car
riers may carry persons and freight
free of charge in certain cases.
Reports We're received frnm various
committees recommending that H. b.
'oD, NY 4Npl tofi, w Di ioSii ibi llt
protection of street car employees, be
concurred in.
That H. G. r. No. ., hy Lovelace re-
ating to the employment and compen-
sation of certain employees OF the as
, sembly be concurred in that II. B.
2To, by Stewart, relating to park COM
| missioners in first and second class
cities be concurred in. and that H. B.
200, by Holt, amending the law so
as to abolish double taxation on mort
cages, be not concurred in.
The senate agreed to conference
between the two houses on Fl. b. 81,
by McNally, limiting the hours Of en-
ployment for women, and II. b. l23,
by Stewart, relating to the limitation
of the debt t-incurring power of COM
missioners in irrigation districts. As
| senate members of the joint confer-
| ence committee on Fl. p. No. 81, presi-
| dent Mcdowell appointed Senators
| Muffly, Minor and Mckenzie, and as
senate members of the joint confer
| ence committee on II. b, 122, he ap-
pointed Senators Galway, Abbott and
Burlingame.
The committee on railroads and
transportation recommended that IT.
j. NJ Nos. ?, 3 and 4, by Lovelace,
/ the first relating to an investiga ton
! into the alleged monopoly of hotel,
| traffic and camp in the Yellowstone
nation park, and the second, to secure
| the construction of an electric railway
from Gardiner to Cook City, be con-
CURED in. Tho report of the commit
tee was adopted. Then the senate ad-
journed until o'clock Monday after-
| noon.
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