The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1923-02-02
IL MEASURES ARE TOSSED IN
TO HOPPER IN FIRST FOUR
WEEKS OF SESSION.
FIRST FOUR WEEKS WORK =
IN ASSEMBLY'S LOWER BODY. :

Bills killed IA
Bills signed by governor. 4
Senate bills passed, 1 FL
Bills sent to senate .........-.......... Is >
With record of 1877 bills introduce
ed, of which IA have been killed in the
house and one in the senate, Is pass
ed and sent to the senate for consid-
Grafton, four passed by the senate and
house and signed by the governor and
the balance on general orders waiting
consideration or in the hands of COM
mittees, the lower branch of the
Eighteenth legislative assembly open
ed its fifth week last Monday morn
ing.
Noteworthy in the work of the house
during this week was passage of house
bill No. 5, creating the state tax COM
mission, and transmittal of this bill
to the senate for consideration. At
tempt in the committee of the whole
session in the house to amend the bill
by cutting the salaries of the three
members of the commission from
$4,000 to $4,000 annually, failed and
the measure now comes up in the
senate in practically the same form
as brought to the house from the
committee on revenue and taxation.
Minor amendments largely to correct
stenOgraphic errors, were made in the
house. The bill passed on third read
ing in the lower branch of the assem-
bly, by an overwhelming vote, only IL
members voting against it.
Only one bill, other than three ap-
preparation measures, providing for
pay and expenses of the legislators,
has gone from the house and senate
to the governors desk for signing and
actual enactment into law. This meas
ure is House bill No. 1, extending the
time for payment of delinquent taxes.
One senate bill, a measure regulat-
ing the practice of podiatory, or corn
doctOring, has passed the house.
Maury of Silver Bow, voted against
this bill, claiming it was of such minor
Importance that it should not take I'D
the lawmakers time and clutter up
the statutes.
One house measure, House bill No.
z, relating to the redemption of pro-
perty from execution sales, has been
faxed" in the house.
House Bills Killed.
House bills killed are as follows:
No. IL by Goodman, relating to the
consolidation Of county and city high
! schools.
No. 19 by Goodman, relating to the
qualifications of jurors.
No. Is by McCarty, relating to liens
on growing crops.
No. Fl by Pope, providing that the
death penalty shall be executed at
the state prison.
No. % by Pilgeram, relating to the
qualifications of clerks of school
boards.
No. 25 by Bosley, providing for IL
censing operators of motor cars.
No. 81 by Gullidge, relating to resi-
dence Of the judges of the Sixteenth
judicial district.
No. al by CrOnk, relating to fore
closure of threshermen's liens.
No. 4S by Cowley, relating to pub
LEGATION of the state treasurer's report.
No. 48 by Denny, abolishing the
chancellOrship of the University of
Montana.
No. SO by Facey, amending the laws
relating to the powers and duties of
school trustees.
No. II by Andrus, pertaining to the
duties of city treasurers.
No. 50 by Bosley, defining judicial
districts.
No. 100 by McCarty providing main
tenance for INDECENT persons while in
vocational training.
House Joint Memorial No. 2 bv
Carlson of McCone, relating to relief
for farmers, was killed in the senate.
Fifteen Through.
During the four week period Is bills
have been passed in the house and
transmitted to the senate. Other than
house bill No. 1, signed by the gov
ernor and now law, these are:
No. by Swift, creating a tax com
mission.
No. 9 by Kenyon, authorizing school
endowment funds.
No. 10 by Pope, relating to sinking
funds.
No. IA by BrandiOrd, relating to the
sale of state lands.
No. 10 by scharnikOw, relating to