The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1937-02-11
Legislative Doings


require an automobile dealer to handle
commercial paper in the financing of
cars sold on the partial payment plan
through designated finance company.
The senate put its stamp of approval
on bill designed to check rubber
tired" cattle rustlers in their activities
to truck animals from the state.
The house appropriation bill pro-
vides the following amounts for the
various custodial institutions each year:
school for deaf and blind, Great Falls,
$4,000; state training school, Boulder,
$4,000; orphans home. Twin Bridges,
$500; industrial school, Miles City,
54,426; vocational school, Helena, ST.
500. state prison, Deer Lodge, $150, 900;
state hospital, Warm Springs, $685., 900;
tuberculosis hospital, Galen, $500;
soldiers home, Columbia Falls, $50, 500.
Taxation of mortgages ON 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 SO labeled
before being sold in this state, accord
Ing to provisions of 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-
CARELESS Of weight; 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.; q
proposal to give all incorporated cities
share in county auto license receipts;
a proposal to increase trailers Of over
one-ton capacity to $100; proposal to
increase the fee for cars over 1850
pounds to SIS instead Of $40
The measure to provide that miners
60 to work, eat lunch and return to the
mine outlet on company time was ap-
proved in the house labor committee
yesterday. The measure, H. B. IL, was
sent to the printer and will be debated
in the house in few days.
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 as
public school pupils before them next
election Of H B. 81 negotiates the sen
ate. Late yesterday the house adopted
an amendment providing for submis-
sion Of the bill to the people before II
can become law. On the ballot will
appear the words: For Tor against)
: furnishing free textbooks to pupils
attending private a. well a. public
schools"
Montana restaurants will not be IL
censed and drugstores and department
stol es which have restaurants as d 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 Fl. B. 20, by 8
votl Of as to AZ in committee of tbs
whole, and later on roll call the house
approved the previous action by a 4s
to As vote.
Yearly liquor purchase permits tol
individuals went ON sale February
at SO cents, the price cut from 81, wher
Gov. Roy E. Ayers signed substitut.
, senate bill four, by Senator Harry Har.
! len, Blaine. The new law also fixes Thu
, price of 30-day permits at Is cents
instead of the former 81.
/, Full approval by the house and SEN
ate of measure to give broad power.
to Governor Ayers in matters of hiring
| and firing assistants in state depart.
/ ments headed by appointive officer,
was no surprise to onlookers at ths
, assembly as it appears there is rea
! need for such legislation.
: a bill to increase the tax rate OF
electrical energy from five-e ighths o
] per cent to per cent of the gros
| annual income of the producer was In.
. PRODUCED in the house by Rep. San
! Spiegel, Silver Bow. The measure wouls
{ redistribute the revenue to give equa
one-fourth shares to the general fund
common school interest and incom,
fund, social security fund and publ
i, school fund.
One Of the keen issues in the hous,
, was settled with the death on thirs
: reading of Fl. B. SO, which had thu
} innocent title OF defining who may b,
! made party defendants The bill pro.
vided that auto insurance companie
might be made joint defendants witt
the driver OF car which had causet
injury. The author Of the bill, Metcal
OF Ravalli, declared that at the presen
time under Montana court procedure
the jury in damage suit is not allowe,
, to learn whether the defendant Ia in
sured- He said that the insurance com
panies should be made parties to TIL
suit On the other hand opponents o
, the measure declared that should In
surance companies be brought into tn
cases, luries would feel no hesitancy |,
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