Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1929-02-07
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LEGISLATIVE
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OF the institution was complimented,
several of its employees were char
acterized as inefficient and incap-
aole." The committee declared that
the state fire marshal had been
grossly negligent" in his attention
toward the school and that the state
board of education was guilty of ZAP
parent neglect"
Restoration of mortgages to the
tax roll, change in the law which
provides that no deduction l. made
for debts in assessment of credits and
the defining of money capital as that
which comes into substantial compe-
tition with banking institutions, are
asked in the report of the state COM
mission appointed by Governor Erick
son to study the bank tax situation.
The report was transmitted to both
houses last week.
Montana house of representatives
approved a. memorial appealing to
congress to protect the beet sugar in
dustry.
Appropriations totaling S306.509
were recommended to the senate by
the committee which viewed the state
hospital for the insane at Warm
Springs, the state prison at Deer
Lodge and the tuberculosis sanitar-
ium at Galen. The report said that
the greatest need is at the state in
sance hospital. The total expenditure
recommended for the hospital is
$239000. The house committee which
reported on conditions at the hospital
asked appropriations totaling sl12,-
900. Appropriations amounting to
S1I,500 were favored for the state
prison. The house committee recon-
mended an expenditure of $4,000 at
the prison. Construction OF hospital
at the Galen sanitarium at a cost of
$4,000 and equipment to cost $780,
900 was recommended. The house
committees recommendations were
S24,201 for the building and s17,304
for equipment
The house has a bill by Leavitt of
Custer which will, if passed, increase
taxes On Montana property for the
next ten years by Il of a mill on
each dollar of valuation, with the total
at 81 mills, and the appropriation
OF Ia mills of the levy to the sup
port Of units of the greater uniyer-
sity, subject to referendum in 1880.
Senator S. II. Porter has designed
bill which designates Fort Benton
as the site for the erection of me-
mortal concentrating the explora-
ton Of Lewis and Clark.
The proposal to pay $4,000 in old
insurance claims and the measure to
permit Us Of electric and air whistles
on locomo ives were approved by the
senate.
Of the bills before the assembly
affecting the livestock industry, one
would raise the inspection fee from
10 to Is cents per hide. Another would
require reregistration Of brands, and
third would tax livestock not to
exceed Ia mills on cattle and horses,
and | mill on sheep, to pay salaries,
office expenses, detective expense,
prosecution expense in connection
with the campaign against rustlers.
The senate committee which in
vestigated conditions at the state hos
pital for the insane at Warm Springs,
reported the institution is crowded.
The house committee already has rec
ommended additional construction.
Rep. Grant Reed of Broadwater
county, is sponsor Of proposal to
establish a state bureau of natural
resources. The duties Of the depart
ment would be to investigate the To-
cation and extent of all deposits of
minerals, coal, clays, oil, gas and 9TH
er physical features which enter into
the industrial LIE of the state, with
the view to interesting capital and
labor in their development.
Among the measures passed by the
house are extending absent voters
privilege to the aged, sick and injured
fixing compensation for boards Of
election-relating to the sale of land
for taxes-relating to duties of coun-
ty clerk and recorder and providing
for an open and closed season on
muskrats.
When it became generally known
among Legislators that horse meat
packers were releasing hundreds Of
stations in eastern Montana to prop
agate and continue the cayuse indus
try, moves were Immediately started
to frame legislation which will clear
the plains OF the roaming cayuses or
penalize their owners to such an ex-
tent as will protect stockmen and ag-
riculturlsts.
Gasoline refunds have not been exz
cessive, and there has been no fraud
in connection with applications for
refunds, Senator Schhitzler of Roose-
welt, chairman of the senate special
committee, says. Refund totals are
large, he says, because the applica-
tions have been allowed to accumulate.
Several prominent members Of both
the senate and house have promised
to support a proposal to re-establish
the state bureau Of mines and metal
lurrv. The plan would call for an