The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-02-19
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Legislature Doings

require an Qealer 70 nanuAe
commercial paper in the financing OF
cars sold on the. partial payment plan
through a designated finance company.
The senate put It's stamp of approval
s6n al bill designed to check rubber
Tired" cattle rustiers in their activities
TO truck, animals from the state.
. The house appropriation bill pro-
tvides the following amounts. for the
various custodial institutions each year:
school for deaf and blind Great Falls,
$4,000; state training school, Boulder,
sos, 900; orphans home, Twin Bridges,
So, 500; industrial school, Miles City,
.$54,426; vocational school, Helena, ST.
500. state prison, Deer Lodge, S150,O00;
state hospital, Warm Springs, $685., 600;
tuberculosis hospital Galen, 500, 500;
soldiers. home, Columbia Falls, $32,500.
:. Taxation of mortgages or real and
personal property, which have been
exempt from taxation in Montana since
1918, is provided in H. B. 26, approved
by the house. The measure recites the
classes of property which are exempt
from taxation, but eliminates the clause
which heretofore has allowed evidences
of debt to go tax free.
Merchandise made by children under
Is years Of age would be S o labeled
before being sold in this state, accord
ing to provisions of a proposal Senator
Harry Meyer of Silver Bow has sub
mitted to the assembly.
The house has voted down the fol-
lowing: a flat S. fee for all cars, re-
gardless of weight; a proposal to regu-
late the license fee on the age of the
car, instead of its weight, with new
cars $40, and others $3.50 and S.; a
proposal to give all incorporated cities
a share in county auto license receipts;
q proposal to increase ~trailers of over
one-ton capacity to 500; a proposal to
increase the fee for cars over 1850
pounds to SIS instead of $40.
The measure to provide that: miners
goito work, eat lunch and return to the;
mine outlet on company time was ap-
proved in the house labor committee
yesterday. The measure, lib. II, was
sent to the printer and3wil1 be, debated
in the house in a fewAdays. =:
The two women members of the
house, Mrs. Hamilton of. Fergus and
Mrs. Cruickshank of.Gallatin, were OBJ
served standing in favor of the women
JURY bill when the house voted on
adoption of the minority report of the
judiciary committee.
Montana voters will have the issue
of free textbooks for private as well az
public school pupils before them next
election of H. B. 81 negotiates the SEN
ate. Late yesterday the house adopted
an amendment providing for submits
sion of the bill to the people before it
car become a law. On the ballot will
appear the words: "For Tor against)
furnishing free textbooks to pupils
attending private as we'll as public
schools" " .
Montana restaurants will not be Ii
censed and drugstores and department
stol es which have restaurants as a part
of their businesses will not be forced
to eliminate them as the result of action
taken after an hour of fiery debate by
the house Of representatives this morn
ing The action killed H. B. 20, by a
vote of As to % in committee of the
whole, and later on roll call the house
approved the previous action by a 40
to IS vote.
Yearly. liquor purchase permits for
individuals went on sale February 2
at SO cents, the price cut from So, when
Gov. Roy E. Ayers signed substitute
senate bill four, by Senator Harry Har-
len, Blaine. The new law also fixes the
price ;of 30-day permits at Is cents,
instead of the former 81.
Full approval by the house and sen.
ate OF a measure to give broad powers
to Governor Ayers in matters of hiring
and firing assistants in state depart
ments headed by appointive officers
was no surprise to onlookers at the
assembly as it appears there is real
need for such legislation.
A bill to increase the tax rate on
electrical energy from five-eighths of
1 per cent to 2 per cent Of the gross
annual income of the producer was in
troduced in the house by Rep. Sam
Spiegel, Silver Bow. The measure would
redistribute the revenue to give equal
one-fourth shares to the general fund,
common school interest and income
fund, social security fund and public
school fund.
One of the keen issues in the house
was settled with the death on third
reading of H. B. SO, which had the
innocent title of defining who may be
made party defendants" The bill pro-
vided that auto insurance companies
might. be made joint defendants with
the driver of q car which had caused
injury. The author Of the bill Metcalf
Of Ravalli, declared that at the present
time under Montana court procedure,
the jury In a damage suit is not allowed
to learn whether the defendant is in
sured. He said that the insurance COM
panies should be made parties to the
suit On the other hand opponents Of