Glacier County chief., 1939-02-10
PROSPECTIVE
LEGISLATION
KILL WAGE-HOUR BILL

KILL WAGE-HOUR BILL
The wage-hour bill for Montana was
killed in the house by a vote of 50
to a.
WHIPPING BILL KILLED
Senator Pauline. who seconded mo-
ton killing his cat-o'-nine-tails bill
as punishment for drunken drivers,
said the introduction had served a
purpose.
MARRIAGE BILL
Representative Marian A. Meline Of
Park and Representative Albert Nc
Gee Of jefferson introduced a bill
which will allow couple to get mar
ried in county other than the one
from which they procure their license.
VOLUNTEER FIREMEN
AS an echo of the past comes the
volunteer fire departments. Usually
considered a little on the out-moded
side. the bucket brigade boys have done
much meritorious work in the past.
WOULD REPEAL LAW
A house bill which was recommend
| ed for passage is one repeating the
cigaret license tax. The problem OF COL
Letting, it was disclosed, is costlier than
| the tax returns. And it has been stated
!
small licenses which fell pretty much
in the same category.
BILL is REDRAFTED
! The bill to prevent the marriage of
white girls to Filipinos, a measure in
PRODUCED by Representative Roy Col
| Inns of Richland county, who comes
| from the sugar beet country where the
intermarriage problem is somewhat
/ serious, was re-referred to the judiciary
/ committee for redrafting so that any
questions of constitutionality might be
Strengthened out.
/ TO CANCEL POWER
A group of representatives have in
troduced a bill in the Montana legis-
/ lature to cancel the federal govern
! ment's power to acquire additional
Montana land for either Yellowstone
or Glacier parks. The measure is spon-
sored by Representatives Wesley A.
Lewis and Clark and ]. Hugo Aronson
of Glacier.
FOR AVIATION BASE
! A memorial asking congress to build
an airplane base at Fort Peck, intro
duced in the senate, provided the first
tangible move to what rumor has been
providing for some time. Many believe
that a secondary purpose of the dam
was to use it as an amphibian base.
And with Hitler. Mussolini g. Co.
sharpening the ak, it looks like a good
idea.
BAN ON SIGNS
Have you ever been driving along
the road, possibly at night, and no.
and under it, in smaller letters, Don't
go any further until you've tried Joe
Doakes' liver pills." or some other ad-
vertising gag like that? If you have,
then you will be interested in a bill
in the house of representatives pro-
hibiting such advertising along high
ways.
ERRORS ARE DETECTED
Representative o. P. Balgord of
Golden Valley was no little chagrined
to find out that an entire section had
been left out of printed bill which
he was sponsoring. He made haste to
call attention to that little error and
was even more nonpulsed when some
body else called attention to the fact
there was no section l" in the bill
either. Well. the title was right any
how.
TO BOND BUS DRIVERS
SB At, by Martinson Of jefferson
and Lott of Madison, repeating the
law requiring bus drivers to post a
yearly bond, will be greeted with en-
thusiasm by the gents who haul stu
dents to and from schools. Senator
Martinson explained that, at present,
the drivers post bond of about $40
each year and asserted the bond
doesn't mean or accomplish thing"
How or why it got on the statute books
remains more or less an enigma.
NO PEYOTE BEANS
The Crow Indian peyote bean meas
ure was killed without so much as even
a friendly gesture. The Crows use the
peyote bean, a nonhabit forming slim
ulant, in religious ceremonies. A couple
of years ago the legislature prohibited
the sale of said bean and Frank Takes
the Gun and DELEGATE of Crows
asked the legislature this year if that
law couldn't be amended to permit the
sale of the bean for religious cere-
monies.
THREE DRIVERS BILLS
There are now three bills in the
house and senate relating to penalties
for drunken drivers, including a cat
o'-nine-tails bill, one which would put
man in Jail for 80 days who was
convicted of drunken driving and the
standard drivers license law which
would revoke license for one year.
All of these bills have been introduced
by members Of the Flathead county
delegation.
FOR DRUNKEN DRIVERS
A bill providing cat-o'-nine-tails
lashes to drunken drivers was placed
on notice before the senate some time
ago. Later the measure came I'D for
introduction. According to procedure