Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1927-02-11
BUTTE REITERATE
MEMORIAL OFFER
S15O,OOO AUDITORIUM FOR LEWIS
AND CLARK WOULD BE
GIVEN
Fort Benton is Latest Entry in Race
for State Monument to Famous Ex-
plorers; Automobile Associations
Highway Bills Are Introduced
CBy Our Helena Correspondent

(By Our Helena Correspondence
Miles Cavanaugh, of Butte. presented
the claims of that city as the location of
a memorial to Lewis and Clark, before
the house uni on state ~institu-
tions, public buildings and grounds at
a largely attended hearing held In the
nail OF the house the other day, at
which the claims Of Great Falls were
presented by Il. H.. Cooney, those of
Three Forks by G.. w. Darlington, and
those Of Fort Benton, an added entry. by
W. A. Hedges, a member of the Society
of Montana Pioneers.
The committee had before ii II. B.. SO,
introduced by the Cascade and Gallatin
delegations, providing for the selection Of
Great Falls and Three Forks as the sites
for the proposed Lewis and Clark monu-
ment, and house joint resolution No. 3, by
Cayanaugh, fixing Butte as the site for a
memorial auditorium to be erected at the
expense of the citizens of that place.
Mr.. Cooney related the history of the
movement and the. results of the hearings
before the Lewis and Clark memorial COM
mission which resulted in the recommended
tons for Great Falls and Three Forks.
Mr.. Cavanaugh very ably presented the
auditorium to he built without cost to the
state, while Mr.. Hedges, presented by
Representative Donaldson, of Choteau coun-
ty, suggested that Fort Benton is the
proper historic point for such a memorial.
No action was taken at this meeting by
the standing committee, which will later
report its recommendations as to the two
measures before it.
Bills carrying out the intent of the
state highway commission and the Mon
tana Automobile association in the appli-
cation of the gasoline tax receipts and
federal aid upon Montana highways, as
provided for in initiative measure No. 81,
the three cents per gallon gasoline tax,
have been introduced by Bricker and
Besancon, the two floor leaders.
The ideas, which are to carry out the
promises made to the voters in advance Of
the election, and the plans since made
by the highways commission, are covered
In three measures described as follows.
An act requiring all persons and con-
Germs engaged in the business of selling,
handling or using gasoline, to pay to the
state treasurer a license fee for the
privilege of carrying on such business;
providing a method for the assessment
and collection and disposition of such
license fees, and prescribing penalties for
violation of the act.
An act providing a method by which
refunds may be obtained from license fees
paid to the state treasurer, and fixing the
duties of the state treasurer and the state
board Of equalization and establishing
penalties for the making Of false state
ments for refund.
An act dividing the state into districts
for the purpose of apportioning the ex-
penditures of the state highway commits
sion for construction purposes out OF
money arising from the gasoline dealers
and distributors license tax. prescribing
the composition of such districts and the
percentage of uncompleted federal high
way systems in each district, and the
manner in which said road moneys shall
be expended by the highway commission
for construction purposes.