The Carbon County news., 1925-02-26

no.
The bill provided that the counties
should have the power to exercise the
right of county option by election to
determine whether they should have
pari-mutuel. betting on horse races at
county and other fairs.
The senate also passed ON third
reading S. ]. R., Griffin, which author
ICES and instructs the state board of
examiners to pay back to the common
school funds from the general fund
the sum of $1,s05.o00 illegally con-
verted from the school funds to the
use Of the state. and empowering the
board to issue refunding certificates
in favor of the school fund.
Four senate bills passed on third
reading.
Scofield's bill, 106, which would bar
from voting any person in Montana
unable to read and write, was killed
in the committee of the whole yester-
day, following short but emphatic
speech by Senator Tom Walker of
Silver Bow. An attempt to kill the
bill few minutes before by Senator
Stewart who moved to strike the en-
acting clause failed by few voteq,
after he made a strong talk, saying
among other things, that the bills
purpose was to disfranchise goodly
number of voters of old country origin,
who were denied educational oppor-
tunities in their youth, but who were
intelligent.
Cowan defended the committee re-
port for passage on the ground that
the president, having enf4anchised
number of Indians in the state, it had
been found that few of them could
read or write, and they apparently had
no idea as to party principles or about
candidates, excepting, perhaps, one
or two out of long list of them.
He admitted that few naturalized
citizens from Europe, who had re-
sided here for a considerable time
might be embarras. ed, but action was
needed in order to force the Indians to
take advantage of the educational fa-
cilities offered them by the govern
ment.
Il can only say for this bill that it
it simply damnable in principle and
vicious in the extreme declared SEN
ator Walker. 'If you pass it, you will
disfranchise some of the best of our
pioneers who, unfortunately, were un-
able to receive education in their
youth, but who are, nevertheless,
highly intelligent and who have voted
for years. The bill is not only damn
able in thought and principle, but in
my opinion it is unconstitutional.
Consider for moment, what you
are doing before you vote for this
measure"
BY standing vote. the bill was killed
on the motion for passage % to 26.
The House
Amended 50 that a tax Of 81 is as
sessed to each prescription and SI.0O
to each sale Of liquor, the Graybill
measure, H. B. 313, designed to cut
the number Of prescriptions to be al
lowed under the law, was recon-
mended for passage by the house to-
night.
Holton's resolution, H. J. r. 8, which
would authorize reimbursement of the
school fund of the state similar to the
Griffin resolution passed by the sem
ate yesterday, was recommended for
passage.
Distribution Of the gasoline license
proceeds of this state was left "up-in-
the air" when the house of representa-
tives adjourned after long and
heated session over the merits of
House Bill $40, which is Scent gaso-
line measure designed to bring enough
money to the state highway commits
sion to match the bulk of the federal
aid money offered this state by the
federal government.
The republican members of the
house who are working with the good
roads enthusiasts, succeeded in having
House Bill 31l automobile license
measure, considered before House Bill
$50 was taken up. The result of this
manipulation was that House Bill 331
is recommended for passage providing
that DO per cent of the proceeds shall
be distributed among the Sc counties
equally, and so per cent be returned
to the counties in proportion to the
registration Of automobiles from that
county. This was accomplished over
the determined opposition of almost
the entire Silver Bow delegation.
which claimed the county would suffer
to the tune of about $4,000 under the
arrangement.
A saving Of about $4,000 in the
next two years on the salaries and ex-
penses of district Judges and Of county