The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-04

on motion of Chairman E. H. Cooney.
of that committee, was ordered printed
and re-referred to his committee.
Designed to cover every possible
contingency concerning the nature OF
property to be transferred, and touch
ing the tanner of the collection Of the
inheritance tax, the bill is volumincus
in character, covering "a pages OF
typewriter matter. Under it's pro
visions, a tax is levied upon every class
of property interest which comes to =
beneficiary under a will or under the
interstate laws or which is transferred
in contemplation of death, and this tax
is levied if decedent died possessed of
the property while a resident of Mon
tana, or if the decedent was a non-res-
ident, but the property was within the
state.
Mrs. Hathaway's Law Killed.
Accepting the stand taken by q. k.
Allen of Madison county that the mea-
sure was directly in opposition to the
constitution of the state as bearing up
on removal of officers from public Of
flee, the house Monday afternoon kill
led H. B. 90 by Mrs. Maggie Smith
Hathaway of Ravalli county. providing
a new method for the removal of sher-
ifs and county attorneys for wllful ne
glect of their offices through recall Pc
titions to be signed by at least 400
| voters in counties of the first class
and ranging down to 100 voters in
counties of the lowest class.
Proposes a Substitute Law.
Having failed in her attempt to put
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the Ohio law, Representative Maggie
Smith Hathaway is %undaunted in her
determination to provide some means
for the punishment of officers who fail
in their duty in connection with the
prohibition laws and has now given
notice of another measure of like char
acter but which will require an am
endment to the constitution by which
recall of public officers, similar to that
Of the state of Washington, may be
made.
Malfeasance or misfeasance or vio-
lation of the oath of office are made
the grounds for recall under the pro-
visions Of the bill which will require
the fling of petitions stating the com
plant and in the cases of state officers
carrying the signatures of 25 per cent
of the qualified electors, and in the
case of county or municipal officers.
35 per cent.
100 Members for Lower House.
There will be 100 members in the
lower house of Montana's next legis-
lature if the seventeenth assembly up
holds the decision of the house COM
mittee on apportionment and repre-
! sentation, which announced its recon-
mendations Wednesday afternoon after
a hearing held in the house chamber.
One hundred out of the present house
membership of 108 appeared before the
committee and gave their views.
Each county in the state will have at
least one representative under the
committees plan, and the larger coun-
ties will be given a member for each
5000 of population or major fraction
thereof.
The committee announced that of
the 100 representatives who appeared
at the hearing 43 favored a member
ship of 80; eleven spoke in favor of a
membership of So, and As favored a
membership of 100.
All who appeared supported the plan
of at least one representative for each
county. No discussion was held upon
the probable strength of the senate.
North Dakota Memorial.
The house received a copy of a me-
mortal from the North Dakota legis-
~lature urging congress to give federal
aid Immediately in supplying seed for
corn, wheat and potatoes in assisting
drouth-stricken farmers over a bad
year and aiding them during the 1921
season.
New 3 Cent Fare Bill.
With a view precluding possibility
of technicalities in the courts taking
away Montana's 3 cent passenger fare
statute, Representative H. A. Johnson
of Silver Bow county introduced in the
house Tuesday morning a bill which
re-enacts on the present 3 cent fare
law now on the statute books. Mr..
%Johnson's bill is prompted by the legal
battle which is now proceeding in the
state supreme court and the federal
court over right of railroads to enforce
a 20 per cent increase in rates of this
state.
The aim of the bill is to re-enact the
three cent fare law in Montana so that
the old law may not be lost if its con-
st~itutionality is questioned in the
courts.
Under the terms of Johnson's meas
ure, it is unlawful for any railroad