Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1917-02-23

said they were guilty of "skulldug-
gerry" Mr.. Cults introduced a reso-
luton to bar the paper and all it's
representatives from the floor, and a
warm discussion followed. The reso-
luton was finally sent to the judici-
airy committee.
Mr.. Cults did not let the Nilsson
liam get away with its compliments,
but said, while debating his desolu-
ton, that it's article was "vile, con-
temptible journalism" and that it's
editor had been lone of the most no.
torious members of the United States
senate that had ever disgraced that
body" Harsh words for harsh words
appeared to be his motto, and when
he was done with his speech to his
colleagues, 1t was about fifty-fifty be-
tween him and the Missoulian. An ut
the appointment of Representative
|. Cults the argument breaks about the
same, one side saying there is no law
for the appointment, while the other
side says the house is the absolute
Judge of who shall sit in it's body and
can seat whom it ~pleases.
Senator Whiteside is one of the
most active members of the senate,
and while it cannot be said hat he
is ever handled with gloves by his
compeers of hat august body, he is
fairly successful in securing the pas
sage of legislation. He is the intro
Queer of many bills, SO it cannot fail
that some of them shall receive the
axe. One m~eritorious measure the
senate passed for him was a bill for a
dormitory at the%Old Soldiers home
at Columbia Falls, for which an ap-
preparation of $4,000 is made in the
measure. His bill to consolidate CO.
operative associations also was
passed by the senate. However, that
body killed his measure to make the
state engineer ex-officio state geolo-
gist without more pay, and his legiti-
macy bill.
The latter measure, while of an ad-
vanced kind, was something of a ia
vorite offering of the senator. 1t
provided that mothers of illegitimate
children might by suit in court es-
tablish the paternity of the children
and when DEGREES should be issued
by the court to that end, they should
constitute legal marriages between
the women and the fathers of the
children, in case the latter were un-
married, while, if they were married
they at least legitimatized the chill
dren and made the fathers response
BILE for their support and the same
care given children born in wedlock
The senators feared that the pro,
posed law might MOI prove a just one
or, at least, might fail to operate
with profit to society. So they
turned it down.
If Senator Kane has his way flu
ture candidates for the judiciary will
be nominated on non-partisan tic
kets. He has introduced a bill pro.
viding for such procedure, and il
seems to meet with general approval
Has the legislature the authority
TO create new counties? Governor
Stewart contends that it has not, an6
a test case may he had on the bills
creating Wheatland and Carter coun
ties. These bills have passed botf
houses, and will become laws with
out the approving signature of thu
governor. who announces that HI
T will veto any other county division
measures.
The action of the house in killins
the Phelps liquor hill is taken Al
. final on n further LIQUOR legisla
a ton. which means that the leeis'a
. ture is moi inclined 70 go behind TIN
vote of the people last fall, and tina
prohibition will not go into effec
2 for the next two years.
With he governors signature I'll,
bill providing for the ~emrlovment o
, Granville Stewart in collecting his
! toricai data will become a law.