The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-02-07
HOUSE WOULD RAISE
SALARIES OF JUDGES
GOES ON RECORD FAvoRING IN.
CREASE FROM $4,000 TO 5000
IN YEARLY PAY
SOME COUNTY BILLS PASSED
Half of Legislative Session Has Elk
pired-Joint Committee of Both
House Agrees on New
Herd Measure

Herd Measure
| Helena.-By the close vote of A t,
AZ the house has gone on record ii
favor of increasing the salaries of dis
trict judges from $4,000 to $1,000 {
| year. The vote was preceded by 6
| rather lively tilt in which Higgins ant
| Sinclair favored the adoption of mi
nority report of the judiciary commit
tee recommending the indefinite post
pOnement of the measure, which was
supported by Meyers. Higgins con
tended that economy was the watch
word and that it was not always the
best lawyer who won the election, but
the best vOte-getter or good mixer
Meyers asserted that the trend of the
times demanded judges should be paid
living wage.
1t is becoming more and more ap-
parent as the Sixteenth assembly con-
sumes its allotted 60-day period, that
il will be for Governor s. V. Stewart
to decide whether or not there shall
be many, few or no new counties Gre
ated in the state.
The senate has passed the house
bills creating Garfield from western
Dawson county, and Treasure from
Rosebud, and they now go to the ex-
ecutive for his signature or veto.
Judith County Bill Killed.
The proposed new county of Judith
was killed in the house through the
adoption of an adverse committee re-
port.
Four other new county bills have
been sent on their way to the senate
when the house passed on third read
ing measures providing for the crea-
ton of Glacier county out of the
northern part of Teton; Pondera out
of the central part of Teton and the
western end of Choteau counties;
Roosevelt out of the southern part of
Sheridan, and McCone out of Rich
land and Dawson
There was practically no opposition
to the latter two counties while the
vote on Glacier county was 65 to 81,
and % were recorded as voting against
the creation of POndera county.
Agree on Herd Law.
That which has been deemed impos-
sible in the past seems to have been
accomplished by the joint committee
of the senate on agriculture and live.
stock in that it has framed herd
law which seems satisfactory to both
interests.
Herd laws have been hone of con-
tention in every assembly from the
time that the agricultural industry be-
gan to develop on a considerable scale,
and the farmers and stockinen have
been at loggerheads over law that
would not work irreparable injury to
one or the other, according to the
viewpoint. The senate, at |
the suggestion of Edwards, united |
these two committees and Hll,herd law |
measures were sent to it with the re-
suit that bill was produced which |
the support of both factions. |
1t was amended so as to make districts |
consist of "a instead of SO square miles.
The senate has requested the house |
20 name a joint committee to act with |
)ne named in the upper branch for
The consideration of normal school |
egislation.
House Uses Axe.
Among the measures to meet their
ate in the house through the adop-
ion of adverse committee reports was
hat to deprive the railroad commission
# jurisdiction regarding certain mu-
licipal utilities. such as waterworks,
tic. This would have included Bill
ings, Livingston, Great Falls and 9TH
r cities of the state. Others killed
we're: Creating Basin county; relat-
ne to carrying concealed weapons
roviding for the submission of the
uestion as to whether there shall be
constitutional convention: Meyers
i'll relating TO the powers and judg-
lents of the supreme court; authoriz-
lg cities to increase their tax levy to
mills; changing the boundaries of
,ewis and Clark so ais to include por-
ons of Broadwater and Jefferson
ounties; creating Grant county from
ellowstone, Saltwater and Mussel-
hell counties; creating the office of
tate fire marshal; providing compen-
alton for certain Missoula livestock
illed by state authorities; Arnold's
III for a constitutional convention;
nd DOMAINS bill for relief of soldiers. !
There was a rather spirited debate
yer the report on the city taxation I
easure, Mccormick insisting that 7
lis was not the proper method of G
REAT FALLS WILL CREATE
EMPLOYMENT EQR SOLDIERS