The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-02-14
LEGISLATIVE NOTES

-Four bills designed to cut salaries
OF state employees appeared In the
house last week. Reductions win aver
age TO per cent, 1t was said, and en-
the state a sum estimated at $300,c00
annually. One Of the bills viii reduce
salaries OF state elective officers, an
other relates to salaries Of state depu-
ties and employees Of boards and COM
missions. a third concerns pay OF en-
ployeE at state institutions and the
fourth redistricts the states judicial
districts, eliminating six district judges
and six stenographers.
House bin Ne. 0 by D.. c. Kenyon,
Of Blaine county, which win allow
schools to create endowment funds,
house bin No. 10. by Walter Pope. Of
EissouIa county, win hold public Off
GERS personally liable for failure TO
provide sinking funds for bend issues,
and house bill No. II, by L IL Brand
tord, of Missoula county. providing DOr
amortization Of school bonds were
signed by the president Of the senate
and the speaker Of the kOuse Monday
and sent to the governor.
Favorable report ON the a~dnafnistra-
ton measur to put q three per cent
tax on crude oil produced in Montana
was made by the house committee 90
oil and gas. The bin had been amend
ed to eliminate from taxatioA erode oil
used In the field in operation 81 ma
OAsinery for development and produc-
ton and the penalties for failure 70
comply with the proposed law changed
slightly.
Included In the IS bTls introduced in
the lower house Tuesday three were
ny the ways and means committee,
which would cut the salary II the
chairman Of the Industrial accident
board from 5000 20 $1,000 yearly,
would abolish the office Of county
auditor, and would make the clerk OF
the state consolidated boards ex-OfficiC
parole commissioners.
Senator LeuthOld q Saltwater c0un
", was named by President Story 81
the senate to act with Representative
=. John G.. CrOnk of Elaine, and William
H. Buttelman of GallatiD, 10 invesu
gate the ACCESSIBILITY of buying the Val
> lton and the KOhz-s Bielenberg ranches
near the state ~peuitentiary IN Dee
Lodge county, for the use Of that Ia
) stitution-
Provision for a new fern Of huHsini
and fishing Heecse is made In n hons
bill sponsored by StoddArd. 0f Dee
Lodge. The new license Will he mara
ed departure from the form now !
use. and will be the meaRs NJ provSdan
the fish and game cOmmissfon with his
logical data that is new unavailable
House bill No. 70. by Nelson OF Mi
sOula, which proposed a constitution
amendment that would RADICAL
( change the present system Of tsxatio
IN Montana, was killed by the house
Z committee OF the whole Saturday, afft
a hard fought battle on the part Of j
< supporters.
> Appropriation @f $4,000 for coi
structiOn Of a tannery at the sta
p~enitentiary at Deer Lodge will be pr
y vided for in q bin introduced by Re
r~esentatives /. @. Denny, Lown6e
g Charles r. Swift and Mrs. F1OreOi
Kerr Facey Of Philips.
& The bill to regulate dancing Al
4 dance halls, which has been revannp'
By the committee on public moral
charities and reforms, has again ma
3 itm appearance. II would prOhia
B cheek-t0-cheek dancing and small
steps.
Efforts to secure definite postpog
IN ment Of consideration Of the met
mines tax bill, which would put a
II eense tax Of 1 per cent on gross pi
n ductIon of metal mines, failed in {
C senate By a vote Of 66 to %.
~ To cut the number Of JUDICIAL q
go tricts in the state from % to 1S and
10 number of Judges frOrn 80 to "A, Hoo
8 Bill 233 has been introduced by Carls
At Of GaIlatIn, Pope Of Missouia q
S~charnikOw of Powell.
Minority report Of the committee
judiciary on Senator Siegfriedts b
nv senate bill No. ~, to exclude ale
nd Including Japanese, from owning ~
" In Montana, was adopted by the sens
~ by a roll cali "a to 10.
m The house ways and means coanai
10 tee introduced a bin to abolish the
20 flee of county auditor. 1t would mt
NO provision for any other county
flee to do the work now performed
IN the auditors.
an A senate bill to give all receipts fr
NJ automobile license tax back to count
,rt instead Of dividing It between count
er- and the state highway commission,
been recommended for passage.
of The inheritance TAI bnl, recOmmoe
ps Ell by Gov. Dixon IN his message to
cd legislature, came out Of committee
rs MP In committee OF the whole a.
house Wednesday.
.rs The house without a Dissenting '
approved B~randjord's measur to
he haDlish the amortization plan for 2
a. wanf NJ iuSfallmenfz "a state Lard