The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-02-28
ALL NORMAL SCHOOL
BILLS MAY Be DlTCHED
MEASURES PROV @%>JNG FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF
NORMALs MAY b B4<&11DETRACKED IN INTER-
ESTS OF ECONOSS>~. STATE GOVERN
MENT SYSTEM WA4L BE REVOLU-
TIONIZED; H. C. L. COMMITTEE
SPRINGS SENSATIONAL RE-
PORT

With the final week of the session
of the sixteenth legislative assembly
at hand, the legislators find them
selves with their work we'll in hand,
and good prospects of completing con-
sideration of all measures long before
the constitutional limit of 60 DAYS ex-
pires, March G.
Both houses were in session late
Monday night and the house did not
adjourn until after midnight in order
that every bill printed might be given
consideration and no worthy measure
fail of being transmitted to the other
house before the expiration of the fiji
tieth legislative day. AS a result on
Tuesday morning of this week the
house had under consideration 129 SEN
ate bills, memorials and resolutions
and the senate had total of 154
house bills under consideration, max
283 measures to be acted upon in the
last ten days Of adjournment, not
counting the appropriation bills yet
to be introduced, and which may be
transmitted from one house to anoth-
er any time in the session.
This has been a week of committee
reports. The committee on privileges
and election in the house reported pro-
ho +p1 ~ 4nc ~,
the contest being conducted against
the seats Of nine democrats from Sill
ver Bow and it was given $1,500 to
buy transcripts of the testimony ta-
ken in Butte before notary public.
The capitol probe committee came out
with further probe on report deal
ing with the land office. The joint
committee on the Washington plan Of
reconstruction work for soldiers and
sailors urged the passage of some
kind of law that will provide for
the appointment of a veterans well
fare commission and the appro-
priation of sufficient sum of money
to enable the commission to do real
work. The joint committee on high
cost of living made partial report
Wednesday dealing with testimony ta-
ken and summarizing some of the
members. conclusions. The oil COM
panies, grain dealers and millers came
in for severe censure and the control
of their business was urged.
The five tax measures, proposed by
the state tax commission and intro
duced by Rasmussen of Dawson coun-
ty in the house, have been through
both houses and have been sent to the
governor. This week the normal school
fight looms on the horizon. Terry,
Billings and Lewistown have had bills
passed by the house creating normal
schools and in the senate bills for the
creation of normal schools at Terry,
Malta, Kalispell and Billings have
been passed. These normals would
have smooth sailing were the state in
good financial shape, but there is now
a movement to sidetrack them in the
interest of economy.
Some real changes are proposed in
the state government in some of the
bills that have been passed. The house
has sent to the senate bills providing
for the consolidation of the depart
ments of labor and industry, for the
creation of a board of control to have
charge of the states business, for the
elimination of the deputy game war
dens and the transferring of their du-
ties to the state, for the construction
somewhere in the state a vocation
al school for girls, for the erection OF
terminal elevator at Great Falls, es-
tablishing a national guard, providing
for the creation Of veterans welfare
commission and an appropriation OF
100000, amending the prohibition law
50 that foods and drugs containing
alcohol may be sold.
Among some of the radical laws pas.
SCu ny Vic SCI1dC W CllC IOuoC, eAAe%
is laws providing for changes of i'm
portance in government, are bills re
pealing the primary law and substi
tuting a close primary and state
convention, eliminating the campaign
book, for the classification of state
lands for assessment purposes, fol
the guarantee of bank deposits, amend
ing the farm loan law, amending thu
absent voters law, providing for tht
licensing of wholesalers and the con
troll of prices, making the public util
tiles commission also the grain ane
mill commission, repeating the steam
boat inspector act and abolishing thu
parole commissioner, and providing
for the grading of grain and for con
troll of the sale of gasoline and oils.
There are still two new county prop