The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-02-14

| packing perishable foodstuffs, is en-
| acted, was the assertion made by OPP
ponents Of the bill at a hearing befor,
the house committee on labor
Contested Democrats Get Pay.
State Auditor George Porter wa.
ordered in a decision by the supreme
court to pay the nine members of The
Silver Bow county legislative delega
! tion whose seats in the house have
been contested.
The court holds, in an opinion by
Associate Justice Holloway, that the
house, by passing the resolution seat
| ing the members until the contest is
decided, has entitled such members e
the emoluments and salaries of the
| position until such time as the house
determines otherwise.
Chief Justice Braneiy dissented
upon the grounds he did not think a
writ of mandamus should issue on the
state of facts presented.
Employees of the lower house of, the
state legislature must earn their pay,
Siieh " tilcli ldSh anu De on TIE JUD
or the sergeant-at-arms will remove
their names from the pay roll under
resolution passed in the lower house
bearing the names of Speaker Belden
and Chairman Roberts of the commit
tee on house members
Immediately after the adoption of
the resolution Speaker Belden in is
suing instructions TO the seargeant-ai-
arms to carry out its provisions made
it clear that the legislature expects
efficiency from all its employees and
that incompetents will not be tolerated.
Later, under provisions of the resolu-
tions, two names We're chopped from
the list of employees.
Taking the view as expressed by
Meigs, of Cascade, that the returning
Montana soldier does not desire to be
looked upon as an object of charity,
that he does not desire advantages
over his fellow citizens, the house de-
clined to concur in senate bill 23,
by Edwards, which would give dis
abled soldiers, sailors and marines the
preference to appointive offices of the
state.
The bill as passed by the senate
provided that whenever a vancancy
shall occur in any appointive state of
flee, notice of the vacancy shall be
published, together with the time for
hearing of applicants for the filling of
such office, and that appointment shall
be limited to persons who shall have
been honorably discharged after hav-
ing been injured or disabled in the
service of the United States.
Senator Vernon f. Lewis of Chou
teau county has prepared for introduce
ton in the senate a bill designed TO
clarity the provisions of the dry law
relating to the sale of extracts, med-
cal preparations and similar concoc-
tons that are not intended for use
as beverage and to permit their sale
The bill, which he proposes to intro |
luce, is understood to have the back |
ng of the Anti-saloon league and other |
organizations and to have |
been submitted to some of the leading |
druggists of the state for their criti- |
)roval. 1t is designed to protect all
legitimate drugs, medicines, extracts
md compounds and at the same time
preserve the letter and spirit of the
law
Planning on Time Record.
If plans of the leaders of the Six
eli |
led out the business will be cleaned
p on the 59th day and the only work
efore the solons on the final day of
he session will be to adjourn sine
lie, according to an announcement by
peaker o. w. Belden.
The speaker said that after q Con
arence with chairmen of the impor-
mt committees ON revenue and taxa
on and appropriations, it had been
earned that the revenue measures
nd the general appropriation bills
,ould be recommended to the house
ithin the next few Gays, thereby
taking a record for such action in a
Lontana legislature.
Attention was also called to the fact
lat the session has now started on the {
st. half and thai under the so day /
lie in which bills may be transferred
ON one house to another there are t
# less than two weeks, eliminat- 7
g Sundays and holidays, in which G
embers may introduce and pass !
easures so that they may get into {
e senate before the bars go up. Con- L
quently he urged all members hav- v
g bills under preparation to rush !
cir introduction. Over 200 bills have
EN- introduced in the house.
That the state legislature plans to a
Ike cognizance of the wide criticism Il
at has been made of the Montana t;
imary law, became evident when r,
1 by Representative E. II. Cooney
Cascade county, chairman of the +,
use committee on privileges and p
actions, was introduced in both c,
uses. The measure, it is understood
fashioned after the Iowa primary
v, and will eliminate the objection h
lie features of the present primary el
v. The bill is the result of confer z
res of the senate and house commit al