The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-03-07

0AOlN JdrA OCANNO ~
Ature adjourned We're the following:
Senate bill 80. by GPeenIng, fixing the
limit ~ stOp-payment orders ON checks
and DRIFTS; senate bill lat, providing
penalties for the possession and sale
Of narcotics; senate bill 122. by
RhOads, to establish bird preserve in
! Teton county; senate bill 106, by
Greening, relating Il chattel mort
cages senate bill %, by Greening, re
curing bank checks to be presented
for payment within a year; senate bill
So, by DOwlin. providing for publica-
ton of state examiners report on
county officers by county commission
ers; senate bill 1915, ny Church, provid-
ing for the appointment of park com
'n~iSsiOners.
Bringing TO life OF house bill No.
358 by Smethurst of Musselshell coun
~, which increases payments and adds
TO o~ccupatfonal diseases under which
claims nre filed under the state work
mems compensation act, paved the
way In the house for what promises 70
he a hot battle. The bill died on the
house board ON the fiftleth day OF the
session, rules of the body providing
that bills other than appropriations
measures shall not be transferred from
house to house after the fiftieth
day.
-Four bills were signed by Governor
Dixon Saturday. They were to pro-
hibit traffic in "fnescAl buttons or
pellOte; to govern provisions for sale
or removal OF mOrtgaged property: to
appropriate S25, 900 for the Industrial
accident insurance board and no pro
vide for county appropriations to kill
rodents to control Rocky Mountain
: spotted fever. He also signed a mem
orial to congress indOrsing the Great
Lakes-St. Lawrence River Waterway
project
BY 8 senate vote OF 20 to %. the
metal mines license tax hill. considered
the principale tax Measure in the pTo-
gram Gov. Dixon urged upon the pres
i n legislature in his message ST the
beginning of the session, was killed
g The measure came out OF the senate
n committee on revenue and taxation
with an adverse report signed by seven
~ the nine cOmmitteemen and a IA
vorable report from the minority OF
two members.
The following senate bills were
among those which were concUuTed In
on third reading in the house thi:
week No. 1877. by Walker. relating II
lease. sales and mortgages of railwa!
equipment; No. 81. by Haley, releasing
cities from liability for damages SOugh
by persons injured by falls in streets
and alleys; No. 50. by Greening relat
10 Ing to increase Of livestock covere'
by chattel mortgage.
Two state departments. the oil an'
gas Inspection department and tn,
> bureau for the registration Of 7 ITO
vehicles. both under the direction O
Secretary Of State G. T. Stewart. wer
warmly endorsed ny the house commit
tee. composed of Hanson, CrOnk an
ID Brandjord. appointed to inveStigat
executive departments of the state, Fl
a report submitted to the house re
GENTLY.
WIN N-SlA biiiS anu Vtit NfIidtt INSN
luton were signed by Speaker Crun
H. baker OF the house on Monday morn
ing. Among the measures signed wa
senate hill No. 4 by Duncan, whic
provides for the abolition of the Offic
nd Of state parole commissioner. Thi
measure has already been signed b
the president of the senate and ha
-o- - A. e.
. The inheritance tax measure. on
Of those recommended by Gov. Dixo
In his message to the legislature on II
opening day. was given passage by til
A senate with 81 amendments. and wi
go hack TO the house for concurrent
in the amendments.
The house hill by Representative p
ward ScharnikOw Of Powell county
amend the laws relating to profess
90 against improvements by areas en-
braced in special improvement di
tricts, was given final passage by Il
senate.
Senator Siegfriedt's hin to prOhib
aliens owning or leasing land In Mo
tana known as the anti Japanese mea
ure. was recommended for c%oncurren,
by the house committee of the who
es without a dissenting vote.
m A measure to add to the states Il
nd income by increasing the ratio Of Ia
ar. able value to assessed value of q
classes Of property, introduced in Il
10 house the first Of the week, was kiIle
The house appropriations commit,
has reported favOrably on a bill
= appropriate $4,000 for a World W,
veterans monument to he placed
the rotunda of the capitol.
A bin carrying appropriations a
gregatinR S2,565.432 for Montana's ed
cational Institutions In the next tv
years was introduced in the hou
Wednesday.
A senate bill providing for a budg
system in cities and counties W
recommended for concurrence ~ &