The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-02-04
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sembly. the house received and passed
a house Joint memorial introduced by
the committee on revenue n taxa
ton.
The resolution requests and directs
that the secretary of state withhold
issuance of licenses for motor vehicles
either until March 10, 1921, or until
the legislature acts upon some definite
policy.
State Owned Cement Plant.
Appointment Of a commission to in
vestigate the feasibility Of the erection
of a state owned cement plant and re-
port back to the next assembly was
contained in a bill introduced in the
senate Tuesday by Senator F. A. Long
of Lincoln county. He stated that
South Dakota, Texas and California.
have erected plants which will oon be
in operation and in South Dakota the
commission asserted the saving to tax
payers would be $3,000,000 a year.
HaIey's Nepotism Bill Passes.
On third reading, by a vote of 80 to
IS, the senate passed Haley's bill pro-
hibiting the employment by public Of
ficials of relatives or the employment
of wives of officers in other offices
and imposing citizenship as a ~qualifi-
cation for public employment.
Slattery's Bill Passes Committee
Slattery's bill extending the maxi
mum penalty for robbery to life i'm
prisonment was favorably reported by
a standing committee as were also the
r1a,., ,,o,e,o-. po1otinr to I,ana
riots; fixing dates Of fiscal years of
state and county,; constitutional
amendment for consolidation under the
commission form of city and county
government; authorizing issuance of
refunding bonds by school districts;
amending the farm loan law; estab-
fishing an agricultural sub-station
fishing an agricultural sub-eXperiment
station within $50 miles of the eastern
boundary Of the state.
First New County Bill.
In keeping with the plan to consoli-
date the offices of state engineer with
that of the Montana irrigation commits
sion Representative H. A. Johnson of
Silver Bow county gave notice in the
house Monday afternoon of a bill to
transfer the duties of the Carey land
board from that board to the proposed
combined offices. At present the Car
ey board is composed of the governor,
the attorney general and the state en-
gineer.
The first new county bill, to create
the county of Cruise out of Fergus,
appeared in notice given by Represen-
tative j. II. Charters of Fergus county,
Would Protect Rail Employees.
For the protection of railroad en-
ployes from property losses such as
have been .occasioned upon numerous
occasions in the past by the removal
from the towns in which they own pro-
perty of the division headquarters or
terminals of the railroads upon which
they are employed thereby resulting
in depreciation of the value of their
holdings, Representative 7. H. McDon-
aid of Flathead county, has introduced
a measure.
Under the provisions of the Melon
aid bill railroad companies moving a
division point or terminal from one
town to another shall be liable to it's
employees for damages by reason of
any resultant decrease in the value of
their real property if same be occu-
pied as a residence by such employees.
To Curb New County Movements.
Senator Paul's bill, making the pro-
visions much more drastic for the Gre
alton of new counties and permitting
the voters of all counties affected to
pass upon the question of a proposed
new county, was f~avorably recommend
ed for passage by the senate in COM
mittee of the whole Tuesday.
Goodland's bill, a constitutional
amendment to permit the consolidation
of county and city governments came
up but was re-referred to the judiciary
committee after objections had been
raised to a provision in the bill that
would permit the legislature to enact
a special law to carry out the purpose
of the enactment.
The Inheritance Tax Law.
introduced by the committee on rev.
enue and taxation the administration
inheritance tax measure made its ap-
pearance in the house Monday and up