Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-01-03
WATER MEASURE
is SUBJECT FOR
SOLONS' DEBATE
Gambling Bill Rejected BY
Senate; Cooney Signs
More Measures

VII liz AKK&A 49,
Legislature, the water %conserva-
ton board measure was a matter
for conjecture, as the 3Sth day OF
the special session opened this
morning.
A proposal that the state rail-
road and public service commits
| sion should serve as the water
conservation board, once denied
by the senate, was approved Tues
day. The measure was then seq
regated and returned to general
file, and an attempt to restore the
bill to its original provisions, as it
came from the house, was to have
been made.
House bill No. 10, to legalize
and license gambling in Montana,
was choked to death by the state
senate Monday, after an hours
debate that was rather warm.
The bill cleared the house only
after it had been trimmed down
to apply only to punchboards and
slot machines, but was restored
to its original form by a senate
committee before introduction in
to the upper house.
Before the senate chamber was
cleared of the smoke of battle,
packed galleries had heard of or
ganized racketeering and gamb-
ling under Al Capone; of wide
spread gambling in Montana; of
Nevada as the lone state licensing
gaming, and suggestions that
brides were being paid in Mon
tana for the protection of gamb-
ling resorts.
Answering an assertion that
from S75O,000 to $1,O00,000 might
be the yearly relief revenue, Sen
ator James t. Sparkling from Dan
iels county declared:
"To produce s750,0OO in relief
as much as $7,500,000 would pass
over Montana card tables and
through slot machines in a year
| say this would be a queer stu
alton in view of our demands fol
relief. If gambling is wrong, you
can't make it right by licensing
, it, and if a sheriff takes a bride
now, he will take it after the law
is passed"
{ Senator John D. CARRIER of San
J ders county, declaring the law
would bring gamblers and gam
bling out into the open," charact-
erized the antigambling statute a:
being as unenforceable as the
eighteenth amendment.
l Senator H. A. Simmons of Rec
Lodge, assailing the plan and of.
ficers who do not enforce the anti.
gambling statute, which he sale
d had been on the books for q
: years, suggested that enforce.
g ment of the law through the levy
ing fines might net more than thu
? licensing scheme. The vote wa
81 to 10 against the measure.
y The senate Monday voted to up
set the report of the judiciar,
committee which proposed tina
the state railroad and public ser
J vice commission should serve a
It the water conservation board i
! handling $5,000,00O in fedora
II loans and grants to smaller irri
y cation and water conservation dis
tricts. The water conservation BIZ
: came up before the senate as j
IF passed the house, with provisio
F. for appointment of its board mem
r bers by the governor subject t
ratification by the senate.
st In refusing to consider tn
n recommendations of the judiciar
,e committee, the senate assaile
" " plans to take the formation of tn
Of board out of the governors hand
i The committee did not favor tn
creation of new boards or con
missions, and opined that the stat
IN railroad commission was comp,
tent and had plenty of time I
carry out the water c~onservatio
program.
Four more legislative acts b.
came laws Monday night with IL
signature of Governor Coone
They were:
n S. J.>R. Requesting federi
he ALLEGATION for highway fro.
rs Broadus through Crow agency.
rs S. J. M. 3-Requesting continr
3, ance of civilian conservation pr
st gram to afford employment
~ Montana.
q: S. ]. M. Urging establish
he ment of a branch in Montana
$ Spokane federal land bank.
% S. ]. M. 5-Urging continuanI
of reclamation program of e,
n tending aid to distressed irrigi
F. ton and drainage districts.