The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1927-02-17

must De licensed, IL TIC iS4
saacts 4 bill introduced by Senator
Spencer of Bridger, Carbon county.
With hardly dissenting vote the
house approved the State far Dill
which carries an annual appropria-
zion of &35, 900 for salaries and prem
fvms and $4,000 for maintenance and
improvements.
Senator Shelver Of Livingston In
troduced a bill allowing veterans OF
tAs World war to be exempted in
certain cases from taking examin-
atoms for certified public accountant.
Veterans suffering from physical dis
ability would be exempt
Governor Erickson has signed
house bills fixing the requirements
for party participation in primary
election, appropriating $500 for the
Industrial insurance of Harry K.
Courier apprenriating for the SUI
nr<fne and district courts, county at
torneys and for transportation of
prisoners, permitting federal tax
liens and establishing a state map,
and the senate resolution urging q
treaty with Canada in furtheranee of
the st. Lawrence waterway.
Only four house members voted
against House Bill No. 118 dividing
the state into IL districts under the
good roads plan, as provided in the
good roads measure voted at the No
yember election. They are Benson of
Sheridan, Larson of Sheridan, Spar
hng Of Daniels and Ryder of Rooee-
wit.
Dry land farmers who object TO
hunting or fishing on their property
puts the skids under H. B. 122 intro
duced by the fish and game commit
tee, when Besancon's motion pre-
vailed that the enacting clause be
stricken.
Three constitutional amendments
are before the assembly. The first
would require that counties be dis
tricted and that each of the three
county commissioners be chosen from
one of the districts; the second pro-
poses that the member of the su-
preme court who has been longest on
the bench shall be the chief justice,
and the third provides that the state
superintendent of public instruction
shall be chosen by the state board of
education.
When the house passed S. B. 3 by
Church of Lewis and Clark, provid-
ing a heavy tax on dealers of oleo-
margarine, only two members voted
against the bill They were Earnest
Hardcastle Of Silver Bow and w. E.
Clarke of Rosebud county. The bill
passed, 1872 with II absent and not
voting.
Senator Julius J. Wuerthner of
Cascade county has introduced bill
making it a misdemeanor for oper-
ators or employees of public dance
halls to admit minors under the age
of Is years who are not chaperoned
Licensing Of farm dogs is proposed
in house bill by Dougherty of
Grantsdale, Woodcock of Fort Ben
ton, Jones of Phillips and Jones of
Ravalli. The bill is sponsored by
farmers and stockmen whose live
stock has been worried and killed by
stray dogs. The measure does not
affect dogs in cities and towns, where
they are controlled by city ordinance,
but has to do only with country can
ines. 4@'
A series of budget proposals for
local divisions of government which
have appeared in the senate with
Senators Cowan, Hazelbaker, Nc
Guilty., Walker and John Campbell as
sponsors, would require counties
school districts and cities to operate
under strict budget plan.
Two measures now before the leg
isiature would extend relief to six
farmers of Broadwater county for al
legged damage to their crops by elk
while the elk were protected by the
fish and game commission.
The houses attitude toward legis-
lation savoring of bank guarantee be-
came evident when H. B. 20, by Null
holland of Silver Bow, providing for
method by which depositors might
insure the deposits against loss, was
killed in adopting the report Of the
committee on banks and banking
that the bill do not pass.
Both the senate and the house have
given approval to the child labor
amendment to the. federal constitu-
ton, thus Montana is the fifth state
in the Union to sanction. the pro
posal. The resolution was sponsored
by Mrs. Lucy A. Curran of Roose-
velt county. Arkansas, Arizona, Cal
ifornia and Wisconsin have preceded
Montana in ratification Of the amend
ment.
People securing marriage licenses
in any county in Montana may be
married anywhere in the state, ac-
cording to a bill given the senate by
Wuerthner of Cascade.
Regulation of the hours of con-
slant employment of firemen in the
cities of the first and second class is
proposed in measure fathered BY
Knight of Anaconda.
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