Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-12-27

cA~NeJ oAAose 49,
After the recess Friday, Repre-
sentatives Herman e. Kuhl Of
Luther, John C. Abrahamson and
James j. O'Shea of Roberts, and
Senator H. A. Simmons of Red
Lodge came home to spend the
holiday season. They returned to
Helena Tuesday.
As in the last regular session,
Mr.. Simmons has been occupied
for the most part in committee
work, as a member of the judici-
airy, labor and capital, education,
insurance, and privileges commit
tee. He has devoted considerable
time and effort to work in the jul
dietary group, part of which was
the redrawing of me entire, bill,
senate bill No. 8.
According to the Legislators, the
special session has been even more
lively than is indicated by a daily
newspaper reports from Helena,
and the legislature has found itself
with a bigger and more complex
job on its hands than had been
originally intended. A total of 81
bills, and a large number of reso-
lutions and memorials, have been
presented to the solons.
Besides the measure to create
the board for development and
conservation of the states water
supply, a number of revenue meas
ures, designed to net the state APP
proximately S1,500,000, have been
received by the senate. To the tax
alton committee were referred: H.
B. IL, the hydro-electric tax; H.
B. 81, a tax on collection agencies;
H. B. 81, telephone license tax of
So; H. B. 81, levying tax Of / per
cent on gross receipts of telephone
and telegraph companies; H. B.
60, levying a l per cent tax on the
gross incomes of contractors from
projects costing $4,000 or more;
H. B. II, levying tax on Montana
products handled by ou~t-of-state
brokers and resold in Montana by
them, and H. B. Al, increasing
chain store tax.
The bill to license gambling,
greatly toned down, was referred
to the senate committee on public
morals. AS worked over by the
house, the bill would now license
only punchboards and slot ma
chimes, to bring in an estimated
yearly revenue of 100000. In its
purified and weakened condition
the bill is expected to meet little
opposition in the senate.
Two liquor measures passed by
the senate have been introduced
and referred to the judiciary com
mittee of the lower house. S. B
% fixes the salaries of employees
of the state liquor stores, and S. B
23 enables druggists to sell liquor
under regulations fixed by the
liquor control board. Many legis-
lators have made efforts to per-
nit other outlets for liquor than
through the states stores, but
most attempts, such as the Shan
non bill, have been baked.
The house Saturday morning
sent on to the senate II more bills
some related wholly to the produc.
ton of much needed revenue.
Herewith is a recapitulation OF
the entire house docket showing
where each bill rested when the re-
cess was taken. 1t includes none
of the important senate measures
such as the bank bills, the liquor
appropriations bill for 500, 900,
or the act designating drug stores
as supplemental state liquor
stores.
The list, including number, title
and status of the bills, follows:
Motor vehicle license reduc-
ton, senate conference committee.
2-Salaries for assembly, signed
by governor.
billings Normal construction,
signed by governor.
4-Extending payment of taxes,
signed by governor.
5-Inheritance tax, in the SEN
ate.
Substitute for H. B. Sin the
senate.
6 - Amortization delinquent
taxes, in the senate.
7--Constitutionai amendment,
hours of labor, deferred.
S-Validating elections, signed
by governor.
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