The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-01-28
WOULD RAISE
CRIME PENALTY
Senator Slattery's Bill Would
Eliminate Any Chance of
a Crime Wave in
Montana.
WILL RAISE TERM TO LIFE
Bachelors to Be Taxed. Banking
Laws Pass. Bill for One Assem- :.
bly, Every -Four Years. Jones
of Phillips Would Eliminate
ChancellOrship.

OF Phillips Would Eliminate
Chancellorship.
Helena, JAM 27.-To make the Mon
tana field less attractive and inviting
than it otherwise might be to high
waymen and robbers, by making the
penalty for that offense more drastic,
Senator John Slattery of Valley coun-
ty has introduced bill in the senate
amending the present punishment for
robbery, by leaving out the maximum
penalty and defining the minimum
penalty at not less than one years i'm
prisonment. Under general statute,
where the maximum penalty is not
specified, the judge can sentence man
for life.
eve have had little robbery in Mon
tana, and so far have escaped the
crime epidemic of other states," said
Senator Slattery. "It seems to me
that if we change the law now and
make it more stringent, criminals pro-
spectively looking toward Montana
will probably prefer to operate in the
states where they cannot get life. The
bill l have offered is undoubtedly in
trend with the spirit of the times"
Fraud Is Charged.
Charges that fraud has been enabled
to be practiced in the drawing Of jury
panels in Montana through the shape
of the box in which capsules containing
the names of veniremen are placed,
made by Senator J. Haaland of Liberty
in the senate Thursday. failed to pre-
vent the senate from adopting the ad
verse report of the judiciary commit
tee killing Haaland's bill amending the
present law. Senator Ed DOMAINS bill,
establishing the budget system in coun-
ty governments was likewise killed and
the efforts of the sponsor to save it
were unavailing.
{ Banking Were Approved.
The committee on banks and bank
ing favorably reported the four bills
of Senator Greening. One, providing
the state bank examiner shall be chos-
en- by the governor from list of three
to seven names recommended by the
executive committee of the Montana
Bankers association, was amended to
place the salary at $4,000 year in
stead of $4,000. Another lowers the
reserve requirements of state banks
from 25 per cent to Is per cent for
reserve banks, and from Is to 10 per
cent for banks not acting as reserve
agents. The third places building and
loan associations under the jurisdic-
tion of the state bank examiner. The
fourth relates to the law for the in
crease or decrease of boards of direc-
tors of state banks.
Other bills favorably reported by
standing committees include that re-
pealing the law extending civil rights
to soldiers; relating to execution of
mortgages orders of trust by corpor-
ations; amending the law to permit
formation of agricultural and horticul-
tural operations.
Would Tax Bachelors.
Bachelors are made targets for tax
collectors under the bill which was in
troduced in the house Thursday by
Representative T. H. Macdonald of
Flathead which provides for every
male, except bread winners, to pay an
additional poll tax of SIS year, to be
turned into the widows pension fund
of each county. The house also con-
Cured with little opposition in the
senate bill requiring all instructors of
whatever rank in the state and public
schools of Montana to take an oath of
loyalty to the state. There were 13
votes against the measure.
One Assembly Every Four Year.
Sessions of the Montana Legislature
every two years have commenced tC
pail upon Representative Joseph
Brooks of Park county and he is now
f~4 xr,hI oh hnc for
it's purpose the convening of the legis'
lature in regular session but once in
four years. In the house Monday he
gave notice of a measure providing
for the submission to the voters of &
constitutional amendment which woulc
provide for such a reduction in the
number of meetings of the legislature
To Eliminate ChancellOrship.
Dudley Jones of Phillips county tool
it upon himself Monday to start lit
tie trouble by giving notice of his in
tention to introduce bill which woult
eliminate Chancellor Elliott from th'
direction of the affairs of the greater
university of Montana.
Two years ago Mr.. Jones put in ;
bill to abolish the office of chancellor
but failed to get very far with thi
measure. He is still after the scalp o
Mr.. Elliott and the bill which he viii
now introduce would make the stat
superintendent of public instruction
ex-officio chancellor of the university
Regulate Hours of Women Labor.
Maximum hours and standard condi
tions of labor for women and minor
would be placed under the supervision
of the state industrial accident boar
by a measure which will be introduce
by the house committee on labor, &C
cording to notice given Tuesday. TIL
act also provides for the creation o
the office of field secretary of tn
board. carrying an annual salary o
$2,50O, the post to be filled by woma
appointed by the board.
Larson Road Bill Defeated.
Although Senator T. o. Larson O
Teton county made a hard fight i
behalf of his emergency road fun
measure before the senate committe
of the whole, it was defeated by vot
of % to 21.
The bill had provided for a tax Q
one-half mill for an emergency roa
fund which at no time should excee
$4,000.