Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-01-27
With Montana's
Legislature

| m1ttee to investigate all state boards,
| offices, bureaus, commissions and de-
| partments, has reported the committee
, is steadily at work on its assignment.
The Montana liquor control board re-
ported to the senate its net revenue for
1 the last two years totaled S5,423 1866 49,
The water conservation and flood
control committee recommended pas
sage for S. ]. M. a, requesting the fed
eral government to continue develop
ment of the Buffalo Rapids project on
the Yellowstone river The senate ap-
proved the report. The joint memorial
\ was introduced by Senators Kroman of
Custer, Baker of Dawson and Calder
of Prairie.
A third recommendation that the as
| sembly enact work-relief law to re-
place the present direct aid statute was
| submitted to the senate. 1t was from
! the county commissioners of Phillips
| county, and was similar to recon-
mendations submitted by boards of
county commissioners of Park and Bea-
verhead counties.
Senator Plumer of Treasure has in
troduced a bill which would exempt
from payment of Montana railroad
commission licenses farmers who haul
| produce and other goods to and from
markets for themselves and their
! neighbors
There is now before the house a bill
two previous legislative sessions. This
bill is sponsored by Representative
Sherman Smith of Lewis and Clark
county and would cut from one year
to 80 days the time person must re-
side in the state before beginning suit
for divorce
More discussion and interest has been
manifest over House Bill % than any
measure that has come before the as
sembly this session. This is the pro-
posed wage hour legislation which is
purported to correlate Montana indus
tries with the present federal regula-
tons for interstate industry on rate Of
pay per hour and the weekly maximum
hour requirements.
Of the more than so bills introduced
in the house II were brought out by
the committee on revenue and taxation
and are sponsored by the state board
of equalization to remedy defects and
inequalities in tax statutes.
Four-year terms for city officials in
the alderman.c form of government is
proposed in bill sponsored by LAM
bert and Hess of Hill county.
The bulky wage hour bill known as
House Roll No. % contains IA mimeo-
graphed pages. Besides providing the
establishment of state department OF
labor for the enforcement of the act,
if enacted into law it will force every
employer after July l, 1899 and until
October %, 1945 TO pay not less than
40 cents per hour, and after October
"a, 1945, so cents per hour.
Carl Lehrkind. Jr, of Gallatin, has
been appointed chairman OF the in-
portant highways committee Of the
house, and Freshman of Silver Bow
chairman of the insurance committee
The house revenue and taxation COM
mittee has brought out a bill that would
require officials and employees of the
United States government, residing
within the state, to pay state income
tax.
A new soil conservation measure
before the legislature would replace
the one enacted two years ago which
has been found unavoidable The pres
ent measure would establish state soil
conservation committee. which would
have power to define the boundaries
of each district and to coordinate the
programs of each district.
Indications are that Representative
Anderson's bill to provide a maximum
speed of IS miles per hour by day and
As miles per by night on Montana
highways is not destined to meet the
approval of the state legislature.
Members of the finance and claims
committee of the senate have under
consideration plan for appointment
of business manager to correlate all
business of the six units of the Greater
University of Montana. Officials of the
Montana Taxpayers association have
indicated they would support the bus
mess manager plan.
SCIIdlC "Cil ltSOlu ldNOl
of bill to repeal the law giving the
governor power to appoint or discharge
employees in appointive state offices
after the judiciary committee had
amended it to provide that repeal would
not be effective until January l, 1911.
Under provisions of H. B. 6. which
is well on the way to become state
law, all income from the corporation
license tax, electric energy producers
license tax, metalliferous mines tax,
telegraph tax. oil producers tax, natural
gas distributors tax, store license tax.
telephone tax. movie theater tax, liquor
license tax. inheritance tax. Montana
beer act and profits from the state
liquor control act of Montana will go
into the general fund from VIII !, allo-
cations for various departments and
bureaus will be made by the appro-
priations committee. A recommended
ton that such bill be passed was
made IN Gov. Roy E. Ayers message