The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-02-11

""'e' - -. 1T introduced ny NC
Mahon. This btu provided for the
building 81 structure at the state fair
for women and educational exhibits.
The committee recommended that ac-
ton on it,be indefinitely postponed and
while the bill II not exactly dead its
state of health Is not OF the best.
II. II. 200. by Belden. providing for
n commission on uniform state laws
was killed by the appropriation COM
mittee. H. B. 251. by Spain. regard
Ing the enumeration Of county officers
was killed by the judiciary committee.
A petition was read from the cleo
trical workers Of Helena asking for
passage OF H. n. 1se. by Higgins which
provides safeguards over electrical
construction and maintenance.
The sscats.
After Strengthening Fl. T. g. by Mrs.
Hathaway. providing that matrons
shall be employed. to look after all fe-
male prisoners. in committee of the
whole. the senate yielded to the plea
"f Senator Kane, and amended the re-
rort to refer the bill to the committee
on dairying. of which he is chairman
IT also rcsurrected H. y. 9S. relating
TO the practice of optomctry and re-
ferred 1t to the committee on sanitary
affairs.
After the report of the committee Of
ha hn1 hal
segregation Of n. b. 60 and that 1t be
referred to the committee on town
ships and counties. Dwight. chairman
Of that committee. said townships and
counties didn't want it. He added
Kane was merely trying to placate the
author of the bill. Smith of Lewis
and Clark suggested Kane's motion
was made to secure a roll call for the
rcrusal Of the women. Kane replied
he did not intend to ask for a roll call,
and believed the bill had merit. Ar
,oh raised laugh when he offered a
substitute motion that tho bill be re-
fcrred to the dairying committee, Of
which Kane is chairman. The substi-
tute prevailed.
On third reading the senate killed S.
p. 50. by whiteside. creating a state
warehouse commission. 1t passed S.
y. 4s. amending the grain inspection
vt Prairie county: II. ]. NJ. ). asking
for national prohibition II. b. %. pro-
hibiting gambling in pool halls: II. B.
~ permitting county health office to
care for county patients: H. 3. IS. en-
Iarging boundaries OF silver Bow
county: II. =. 113, exempting under
takers from jury duty: II. B. 123, de-
filming boundaries OF Rosebud and
Dawson counties: H. =. 127, .authoriz-
ing cities to maintain swimming POOLS
Argument Arises.
In committee Of the whole Edwards
assailed II. B. 1903, making available to
the state board of health certain
moneys collected by it in fines. He
charged the bill Is line with policy
that has been condemned because it
has resulted in unbusinesslike meth
DDS. He said receipts from every de-
partment should be placed In the gen.
cral fund and the expenses of each
department provided for by appropria-
ton. Senator Morris agreed with the
Rosebud solon, but said the policy had
never been adopted. citing the fact
that the fees OF the state bank exami-
IN no 81,
Whiteside disagreed with the state
ment. saying there is a constitutional
provision that no, moneys can be paid
out except as they are appropriated by
the legislature Edwards retorted
| that If this was the case, the constl-
tuition had been violated for many
years past.
DR.. Clay explained to the senate the
bill did not provide for a continuation
OF this policy: that it simply enabled
the maintenance fund to secure some
fees that now cannot be drawn out.
The senate. however. killed the bill
just the same.
Amin bitterly assailed the op-
tometry bill upon the grounds 1t was
designed to benefit few practition-
ers to the exclusion of others who had
been registered to transact business.
Bills Recommended.
Bills favorably recommended IN
/ committee OF the whole were as fol-
lows: II. J. NJ. ;, asking for national
prohibition: r. B. %, to stop gamb-
ling in pool halls: II. b. AZ. relating to
furnishing OF medical supplies to the
county: II. r, IS. charging bounarics
Of Silver Bow county: H. II. ll3. ex-
cmpting undertakers and .cmbalmcrs
from jury duty: II. B. 123. fixing
boundaries of Dawson and Rosebud