Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-02-21
legislative Notes

in its entirety Friday OF the 40-day
Introductory neriod. Thereafter only
emergency measures may be intro
duced.
Though but 20 days remain of the
60-day session and but little major
legislation has been disposed of, the
end Of the Introductory period will
permit the two branches to devote
their entire time to committee of
the whole.
While the session may extend
slightly beyond the 60-day ALLEGATION
of time, legislative leaders believe the
assembly has made far better head
way than two years ago, and that the
heavy program of work yet to come
will be expeditiously disposed Of.
Governor Cooney has signed two
house bills and four senate measures.
One related to the admittance of the
wives or widows Of war veterans
e so to the soldiers home at Co.
lumbia Falls, while a house resolu-
ton urged adoption by congress Of
the Lundeen bill providing a form
of old age and social insurance.
The senate bills included one meas
ure authorizing banks and other in
stitutions to procure insurance under
the national housing act; another per-
hitting counties and other subdivis-
ions to refund their debts; a third
providing for the disposition of prop
erty by the liquidating officers of
closed banks, and the fourth requir-
ing pharmacists to keep registers Of
all poisons sold.
Highway patrolmen, in the event q
patrol is created, would be empowered
to halt cars for inspection, and a fee
up to $3.50 per car might be charged
for the inspection service. Violations
of any provisions of the act would be
punishable by a fine of $40 and up
to $500.
The house committee on a%ppropri-
ations has put it's approval on H. B.
204, by which the gallows would be
supplanted with a lethal gas cham
Der for executing the condemned at
the Deer Lodge prison.
The measure was once considered
on general file, but now goes back to
the house for final disposition.
1t carries a $4,000 appropriation for
erection of a lethal chamber and the
purchase of necessary equipment.
The method by which the state ex-
chequer hopes to find relief was con-
tanned in a house bill, Number 81,
which revised the interest require
ment to provide an optional agree
ment whereby the state treasurer may
negotiate with the banks of the state
in an effort to find a public deposit
tory for his funds.
Advocates of a state bank system
see in the measure a compromise
which would settle a vital question in
state official affairs.
The first bill to fall by the way
side on third reading thus far in the
session was H. B. 1874 by Lemmer of
Cascade, which would have limited
the open season on bear from Sep
TENDER ] to December / of each year.,
1t went down by a vote Of 81 to SO.
Advocates Of a plan to permit Mon
tana women to serve on juries of the
state are to have another chance to
impress the state senate with the ad-
visibility Of the innovation in the
Treasure state judicial procedure.
Though the measure met an in
glorious defeat several days ago, it
has been recalled by a vote Of 80 to
rs. Movers Of the act were confident
as they succeeded in reversing the
senate's previous action, that they
could muster still more strength to
pass it.
mastering a two-thirds vote where
only a majority was needed, the house
has added its final approval to a SEN
ate regulatory act whereby the as
semblymen would be disbarred from
holding appointive state positions
where the combined salaries from
both sources exceeded $1,000 a year.
By the slender margin of two votes,
the senate has put its semifinal ap-
prevail on a plan for creation Of a
system of state insurance on public
buildings. Rejected by the legislature
Of 1888, the measure came back into
the twenty-fourth session from the
same introducer, Senator l.. Ray
Carroll, republican of Roundup, who
succeeded in fighting off organized
opposition to take his bill ON to third
reading.
County commissioners would be
limited in their meetings, according
to q bill introduced by Burris and
Helding. The following schedule to
be provided: Counties Of the first
class, 20 days a month; second class,
10 days; third class, 16 days; fourth
class, Ia days; fifth class, IL days;
sixth class, 10 days; seventh class, 8
days. Furthermore, their mileage ON
inspections would be limited to seven
cents.
Far reaching changes in Montana's
Legislative system would be accom-
plished by companion acts formally
filed in the state senate. They were
proposals for creation of a legislative