The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-03-09

work Of examining weights and meas
ures with the auditors and clerks Of
the various counties. Both urged the
necessity of consolidation Of such Of
fees as boiler, mine and coal mine
inspectors; various departments such
as agriculture, labor and industry;
and they stood hard for the elimina-
ton of extravaganza.
In considering the appropriations,
both men from northeastern Montana
urged the Importance of not spend
ing money in excess of the probable
income. They favored a more equitable
and just distribution of the burdens
of taxation, supporting the senate
measure providing for a tax of one
per cent on the net income of all cor
porations in the state having an an
nual business in excess of $4,000, and
bills proposing taxes for express COM
panies and private car concerns, such
as the Pullman company and the re-
frigerator car operators.
Both took an active interest in the
question of roads and aided in passing
the new general highway law and the
highway commission bill as we'll as
a measure intended to make it easier
for counties far from the state prison
to secure the assistance of convicts
in the construction of good roads by
making the fare to be charged for
transportation of pri1oners to and
from road work one cent per mile.
Working in the interest Of the live
stock development and a better ad-
ministration of the state laws upon
livestock subjects, both supported the
senate bills consolidating the boards
of livestock commissioners and sheep
commissioners and creating the live
stock commission to be composed OF
six members to be appointed by the
governor; amending the bounty laws
and making the bounty on coyotes
and wolf puppies $3.50; increasing
the powers of the livestock sanitary
board; providing for the inspection of
livestock in transporting between
counties; regulating the running of
stations and bulls upon the public
ranges so as to protect the standard
Of the states livestock.
In the interests Of the farmers, they
supported bills providing for better
grain inspection laws, abolishing the
present department and establishing a
grain laboratory at Bozeman expert
mental station; providing that rail-
road companies must furnish car in
good repair and properly coopered for
the hauling of grain; compelling the
companies to mail bills of lading to
the consignee when shipments are
made at sidings or places where there
are no agents; and providing that it
is optional with boards of county
commissioners to establish public
markets at the various county seats.
It is believed that the latter men,
toned law will prove valuable in
bringing consumer and producer to-
gether.
Of general interest are the eight
hour law for women, the free text
book law, the public Fairgrounds act,
! the law compelling railroads to re-
l port on delayed trains, the extension
of agricultural training to high schools
and the installation of normal and
junior college courses in high schools,
the new fish and game law codifyine
the old laws and making better reg
ulations for the preservation of the
wild game in Montana, the division
of the state into congressional dis.
f tricts, the submission of a project tc
bond the state for $250,O00 for the
construction of an elevator terminal
at Great Falls, which it is hoped will
!, be one Of a series to be built in the
state, the collection of data on the
r early history of the state, the regu'
e lation of motor traffic and the in
crease of the tax on automobiles, al
t measures which received the support
r of northeastern Montana's two sen
ators.
S Both Senator Clay and Senator
Fishbeck supported the proposition
to make an appropriation for thu
maintenance and upkeep of the North
ern Montana Agricultural college a
Fort Assiniboine, where the formel
r fort buildings are to be utilized fol
the establishment of a college and al
q experimental station.
v Both Senator Fishbeck and Sena
tor Clay worked for the passage O.
laws extending the benefits of tn
farm loan law and placing within tn
O reach of the farmers of Montana a
a low rate of interest the $6,000,0 O|
" in trust and school funds held b!
' the state and now invested in low
v priced securities. They supported
a measure providing that the stat
q funds may also be invested in fed