The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1927-01-20


70 repeal the law which permits COM
uasrcial fishing in Flathead lake.
Senator S. H. Porter of Big Sandy,
following the introduction of judi
oial district measure which would
eliminate Choteau county as a separ-
ate district, gave notice of measure
70 serve Judith Basin and its adjoin-
ing counties.
Repeal of the Sunday closing act,
20 that country dances will not violate
the new law if they remain open after
midnight Saturday, is proposed by
Senator L. F. Greenup of Daniels
county.
Albert Holton, Garfield county rep
rssentative, has submitted to the
house a bill which provides for the
taking from the state highway fund
Of the money now going into it from
the states share of oil royalties from
production on federal lands within
the state.
= Mrs. Lucy A. Curran, the only wo-
man member of the assembly, repre-
sehtiRg Roosevelt county in the house,
is sat the head of. the committee Oh
libraries and is member Of SIX other
committees.
Senator Eaton of Yellowstone eoun-
ty has offered a bill which provides
for the ratification of the action of
the board of education IN designating
Billings as the site for the new East
ern Montana Normal school. So
:. Representative Troy of Hill county
is nursing bill which carries a stamp
tax on cigarettes OF mill and a half
on each cigarette weighing up to three
pounds and two mills on the varieties
weighing in excess of three pounds to
the thousand. Cigarette papers would
be taxed a half cent on each fifty. He
figures the state would receive a rev.
enue of 100000 year from the
source, which would be divided be-
tween schools of the state and the
general fund.
Considerable interest is manifest in
. measure submitted by Dudley Jones
If Dodson to the house for the re-
mission of penalties and interest on
delinquent taxes for the years 1928,
1S24 and 1925.
Commercial fishing in Montana, re-
ducing judicial districts, normal
schools, Sunday dancing, prohibition
and non bipartisan elections, all of
which have been before the body in
previous sessions and which have
brought on outbursts of oratory, have
appeared on the horizon in the pres
ent assembly.
The report of the bank code com
nittee has been printed and placed on
desks of the members of the legisla-
ture. This is the first work of the
printing committee of which Charles
Il. Taylor Of Sheridan is chairman.
The senate went on record as IA
voring economy when it decided that
1t was unnecessary to prepare status
sheet this session. The lowest cost
would have required an expenditure
Of $500.
Numerous changes in the state
banking laws, tending, it is claimed,
towards strengthening the protection
for stockholders without nnnecessart
ny restricting the operation OF tho
banks, are contained in a measure
sent to the Legislature in connection
with the report of the Montana bank
code commission.
Members Of the house and senate
committees on highways will have q
great deal to do with Legislation af-
fecting the Scent gasoline tax law
which was given a huge vote at the
last general election. Frank A. Haz-
slbacker of Reaverhead is chairman
u the senate highway committee and
G. N. Moss heads like committee in
he house.
Both Republican and Democratic
f.>or leaders in the house signed TIL
hi introduced by $. C. Arnold o.
saltwater which is designed to rsmov'
all obstacles in the way Of the 3-cen
gas tax law.
Senator Church Of Helena has in
trodueed a bill, recommended by Gov
srnor Erickson, which will place OF
the counties the cost of transporta
ton Of prisoners convicted of felonie
and return of fugitives from justice
which expense Is now borne by tn
state.
Patriotic instruction in all Montan;
schools is proposed to the house in
bill offered by Hugh Adair of Levi
and Clark county. The measure woul,
require instruction in patriotism AM
good citizenship in all public and pri
vate elementary schools in the state
During the first week of the sessio,
Two bills were introduced in the sen
ats and nine in the house. The ava
lanche Of measures did not get wei
under way until the past week.
Ratification Of the child labo