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Vol. XXXIII.
LAW MAKING BEGINS.
Workman's Compensation Act Is First
Measure Introduced.
Work of Carey Land Board Is Un
der Suspicion.
Helena , Jan. 7. — The leading
feature of the second day's session of
the Thirteenth legislative assembly
was the introduction In the house of a
workmen's compensation act which has
the endorsement of the Montana Fed
eration of Labor. The bill was pre
sented by Representative Dennis Mur
phy, of Silver Bow county, who Is
president of the Butte Miners' union.
The house gave unanimous consent to
its Introduction.
In the senate the feature was the
notice given by Senator Thomas Stout
of Fergus county that he would intro
duce a bill providing for the submis
sion to the voters of Montana of an
amendment to the constitution grant
ing equal suffrage. Senator Stout
also offered a resolution calling upon
the federal government to make some
provision for Chief Rocky Boy's tribe
of Indians.
Senator George of Yellowstone coun
ty gave notice of a bill relating to the
state penitentiary.
Senator Leary of Lincoln county
gave notice of a bill relating to the
tenure of office of the warden of the
state penitentiary.
The f aot that but three constitutional
amendments may be submitted at a
single session seems to be the only fly
just now in the equal suffrage oint
ment. Women's suffrage has been en
dorsed by all political parties, and
members of the legislature are un
animous in professing a desire to sub
mit the issue. The suffragettes, how
ever, fear that the equal suffrage
amendment may be crowded out by
others on the legislative program and
their opponents are seizing upon this
line of attack with avidity.
The "third house" this year appears
to be as well organized as ever. It
has even more members than the other
two houses combined. There are lob
byists gathered here from all parts of
the state and representing every in
terest which has something to ask or
something to fear from the lawmakers.
Helena , Jan. 8. —A resolution was
introduced in the senate this morning
by Whiteside of Flathead and in the
house Jewell of Fergus, providing for
the investigation by a joint committee
of charges that, in the releasing to the
government of certain Carey lands,
discrimination had been exercised in
favor of land speculators and against
actual settlers. Senators Whiteside,
Abbott of Gallatin and Brownlee of
Sweetgrass were appointed members
of a committee of three to act with a
similar committee from the house. In
the house, on motion of Representative
Day of Lewis and Clark, the resolu
tion was referred to the committee on
appropriations. The resolution auth
orizes the joint committee to sub
poena witnesses and to compel the pro
duction of books and other records
bearing on the investigation.
The fight started on the openlnp day
by the progressives to strip the speak
er of his power to name committees
was renewed in the house this morn
ing. Annin of Yellowstone moved
that the speaker be required to name
the committee on rules before the end
of the legislative day and that the
committee be directed to report a rule
providing for the appointment of a
committee on committees, to consist
of five members, three democrats and
two from the minority. Day of Lewis
and Clark moved that the motion be
laid on the table and on roll oall the
motion to table was carried, 59 to 29.
Notices were given in the house for
the introduction of about 30 bills,
about half of them by progressive
members, bills designed to carry out
the planks in their platform.
Five bills were introduced in the
house, three of which provide for the
expenses of the legislative session.
Higgins of Missoula offered the other
two, one of which provides for the
establishment of a fish hatchery at
Missoula, and the other for the crea
tion of a school of forestry at the state
university.
The committee on privileges and
elections reported unanimously in fa
vor of dismissing the contest brought
by John H. Cole of Deer Lodge coun
ty against the seat of Harold Blake.
The report was adopted. This was
the only contest before the house.
A communication was received from
the governor this morning, giving a
list of prisoners pardoned and paroled
during the last three years. Among
these was one man released having
tuberculosis, it being feared thsî the
other prisoners would contract the
disease. Representative Conner of
Lincoln county, the only socialist in
the house, wanted to know what be
River Press.
came of the man after he left the peni
tentiary, saying that, if he was a
menace to the inmates of the prison,
he was a greater menace to the citizens
of Montana.
Helena , Jan. 9.—At a caucus of
the progressive members of the legis
lature last night F. A.Carnal,the mem
ber from Hill county, was ousted from
the position of permanent caucus sec
retary. This action was taken be
cause Mr. Carnal yesterday morning
voted with the democrats to table the
resolution offered by Annin, stripping
the speaker of power to name the com
mittees.
In the house this morning the rules
were suspended and the first bills of
the session passed, one appropriating
$75,000 to pay the mileage and per
diem of members and another appro
priating 825,000 tolpayjthe per diem of
officers and attaches.
An estimate of the state's income
and expenses for the £next two years
was submitted to the house this after
noon by State Auditor Keating. It
places the income for 1913 at 81,466,
500 and expenses at 81 .900,860, and the
income for 1914 at 81,509,254 ;fand ex
pen see at 81,626,625. ^This will leave a
deficiency of overjhalf a million dol
lars.
The senate this morningiladopted a
joint resolution offered by Edwards of
Rosebud county, providing for an in
vestigation of railroad rates on wheat
shipments to eastern! Imarkets, and
Edwards of Rosebud, Abbott of Gal
latin and Survant of Valley were ap
pointed senate members of the joint
committee provided for In the résolu*
tlon.
Bills were Introduced as follows:
Larson, Teton county, dividing
oountiesllnto districts known as com
missioners' districts.
Larson, toiprohlbit unfair competi
tion and discrimination.
Larson, to2secure threshermen's
liens on crops threshed by them.
Larson, to prohlblt^thej sale, re
moval or concealment of mortgaged
crops.
Larson to amend the constitution so
as to prohibit the Introduction of bills
in the legislatuse after the 40th day.
Byrnes, Lewis and Clark, changing
the railroad commission «to n public
utilities commission.
Helena , Jan. 10.—The |house this
morning, after voting down a motion
by Higgins of Missoula county, repub
lican, directing the committees on
house employes to employ a steno
grapher at the rate of $6 a day by a
vote of 41 to35. adopted la resolution
offered by Kirschwing of Cascade pro
viding for the appointment of R. F.
Rose, secretary of the democratic state
central committee, as steaongrapher at
a salary of $20 a day. Members wish
Ing to have their speeches transcribed
must pay 15 cents a folio.
The wrangle laated£all3mornlng. It
cost the taxpayers of Montana, ac
cording to the announcement of Speak
er MacDonald, at the rate$of{ 8250 an
hour. At this rate 8500 was thrown
away this morning; about 8300Jyester
day when the house reconsidered its
action Wednesday, and about 8100
Wednesday, a total of 8900. But in
the words of Colonel Crull, Mussel
shell, the majority grabbed the spoils.
Meadors of Dawson county intro
duced a joint memorial designed to
relieve the settlers on the lower Yel
lowstone reel am atlonlf undjpro ject and
asking that they be required to return
to the reclamation fund no more than
the original estimate of the cost, 830
an acre; instead of the actual cost of
842.50, and also asking that settlers
be permitted to retain holdings of 160
acres Instead of only 80 acres, the size
of the farm units fixed by- the recla
mation service.
Among the bills introduced this
morning was one -by Cutts of Silver
Bow, for the bonding and regulation
of grain warehouses and placing them
under the supervision of the railway
commission; one by Kirschwing of
Cascade, fixing the fee of marriage
licenses at 83; Pope, Yellowstone, pro
viding for the payment of interest on
public moneys in counties and In oitles
of the first and second class: Camp,
Yellowstone, providing that cities
may bear part of the expense of street
improvements, with owners of abut
ting property.
W hitefish , Jan 9.— Thomas Mil
ler, old-time conductor on this divi
sion, was struck by a silk train and
instantly killed at Browning at 11:20
la6t night. Miller was in snow serv
ice and cleared the track from Essex
to Browning ahead of the fast express.
He stopped at Browning for orders
and then stepped out and was 6een no
more until his body was discovered
under the pilot of the incoming train,
badly crushed. It is supposed that
when Miller stepped out from the de
pot in the raging blizzard he did not
see the incoming train and stepped
right in front of it.
Fort Benton, Montana, Wednesday, January 15, 1913.
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The land show at the Coliseum, Chicago
had the greatest individual collection of
beaded-buckskin wearing apparel In
the world. This included historical
war dress worn by Old Si-Yeh, Little
Plume, distinguished warriors of the
Blackfeet Tribe in Glacier National
Park.
The exhibit, which formed a pictur
esque part of the Glacier National park
booth, is the property of Mrs. Margaret
Carberry of Blackfoot, Mont.
Mrs. Carberry devoted twelve years
of her life in the United States Indian
service as a school teacher. She has
been twenty-two years gathering the
2,344 articles of Indian wearing ap
parel, every piece of which has been
worn by an Indian.
• Trading Woman, as she is known
a'iiong the Indians, made her collec
THIRTEENTH ASSEMBLY.
First Week of Session Prepares Way
For Law Making.
Helena , Jan. 11. —Thus far 29 bills
have been introduced in the house and
10 in the senate. Of those introduced
in the house, three provide for an
eight-hour day for women employes,
three are highway bills, two provide
a minimum wage scale for women and
two are a part of the Montana Federa
tion of Labor's program. At least
two of the senate bills provide for the
same thing, creation of a public utili
ties commission.
The only accomplishment of the
house during the first week was the
appointment of the secretary of the
democratic state central committee,
R. F. Rose of Helena, as house steno
grapher, at a salary of 820 a day, after
a motion by Higgins, republican mem
ber from Missoula, to employ a steno
grapher at 86 a day had been defeat
ed. The progressives joined wllh the
democrats and the combination land
ed the job for Mr. Rose.
The main event in the proceedings
of the Thirteenth legislative assembly
of Montana the coming week, in point
of importance, will be the election of
a United States senator to take the
place of Joseph M . Dixon. The bal
lot will be taken at noon on Tuesday,
each branch of the legislature voting
separately. Next day the senate and
house will meet in joint session and
the votes of the two will be declared.
It is the first time In the history of
Montana that such an event could be
carried off so easily—no caucus, no
daily sessions on the matter, no chance
for a slip-up because of failure to
agree—the people have spoken, and
the next senator for Montana will be
Thomas J. Walsh of Helena; he earn
ed the choice at the polls, and besides
it is a democratic legislature and he
is a democrat.
Pray Pleads For Settlers.
Washington , Jan. 11.—Represen
tative Pray of Montana and Mondell
of Wyoming, in the house during the
consideration of the Indian appropria
tion bill, made special pleas for
larger appropriations for irrigation
works and encouraging agriculture
among the Indians on the Montana
reservations.
Mr. Pray offered amendments in
creasing the Irrigation appropriation
for the Flathead reservation from
8150,000 to 850,000. He said it was in
tion among eighteen tribes In New
Mexico, Arizona, Nebraska, Wyoming
and Montana. She has the gala and
ordinary attire which were worn by
the tribes of the Sioux, Piegans, Chip
pewa, Modoc, Commanche, Shoshone,
Arapaho, Moki and Cheyenne nations.
One of the most prized things In her
collection is the complete "full dress
suit" of the late Little Plume, a noted
warrior, which was worn for the last
time by Little Plume in the Roosevelt
inaugural parade in Washington.
Little Plumo was proudest in this at
tire on that occasion when President
Roosevelt salut-jd lilm na the Indian
chief raised the reviewing stand be
fore the Great "White Chief of the
nation.
This i3 the first time Mrs. Carberry's
exhibit ever was displayed. The
accordance with the department rec
ommendations, and even less than the
engineers' estimates. It would Irrigate
150,000 acres and the total cost would
be $3,781,000. He complained of de
lays in completing the projects and
turning in the water to the waiting
and impatient settlers. He had re
ceived many letters from Montana
urging the completion of the projects
and the fulfillment of the government's
promises.
Mr. Stephens of Texas, chairman of
the committee, opposed the increase,
saying the requests were mainly from
white settlers. Mr. Pray said the
1,500 whites interested were on the
project and were entitled to the benefits
of the work. He urged general ap
propriations for the Flathead, Fort
Peck and Blackfeet reservations and
opposed the meager appropriations of
the democratic committee saying at the
present rate the work would never be
completed. After a long debate Mr.
Pray's amendment was defeated.
Against State Ownership.
Lincoln , Neb., Jan. 10.—Governor
Aldrich, Nebraska's retiring execu
tive, in his message to the legislature
last night declared that state owner
ship of water power development was
as impracticable as public ownership
of railroads.
The governor declared that "regula
tion whloh insures good service at
just and equitable rates, " Is preferable
to state ownership and anything more
than this would be contrary to public
policy and result in preventing the
development by capital. Several Im
portant water power projects are In
the course of development in different
parts of the state.
Want Automatic Rifle.
Washington , Jan. 12.—The auto
matic revolver after many years trial
has finally found favor in army and
has been adopted as the standard arm.
The ordinance bureau has taken steps
to embody the same principle in the
army rifle. Circulars are to be sent
inviting the attention of American in
ventors to this subject and indicating
the needs of the bureau in the points
of simplicity, strength, durability and
ea*y assembly of a semi-auto shoulder
rifle. The caliber is to be about .30,
and the magazine capacity eight cart
ridges, though the department will
welcome designs for transforming the
present service rifle into a semi-auto
weapon, even though its capacity is
limited to five shots.
Smithsonian institution has endeavor
ed to get possession of the collection,
but Trading Woman would not sell a
single mocassin. She does not even
attempt to fix a financial value on it.
In fact, she Is so solicitous about the
safety of the collection that she in
sured it for $15,000 against fire and
Louis W. Hill, chairman of tfie Great
Northern railway, who induced her to
bring it to Chicago, agreed to hire
two night watchmen to guard it before
she would even consent to ship the
stuff to the Chicago show.
The seven Blackfoot Indians who were
guests at the land show took turns
staying In the booth to keep an eye
upon the passing throngs during show
hours.
There is one string of 150 elk teeth
in the collection.
JUDGE ARCHBALD GUILTY.
Member of Commerce Court Mis
used Power For Profit.
Washington , Jan. 13.—"Guilty"
on five of the 13 impeachment articles
against him was the verdict of the
senate today in the case of Judge
Robert W. Archbald of the com
merce court, charged with misuse
of his power as a judge to hid person
al gain. The senate in executive ses
sion decided to impose ou Judge
Archbald the full penalty of removal
from office and disbarment from ever
holding a position of honor or profit
for the United States. Judgment was
pronounced upon Judge Archbald at
4:33 o'clock. Senator Bacon an
nounced the sentence removing the
jurist from office and forever disquali
fying htm from public office or a posi
tion of trust. Judge Archbald was
not in the chamber but awaited the
verdict in an ante-room.
On the first charge, the senate vo
ted sixty-eight to five for conviction
of high crimes and misdemeanors.
Although the verdict insured Judge
Archbald's removal from the bench
and the service of the United States
courts, the senate then proceeded to
vote on the other twelve counts of the
articles of Impeachment, which charg
ed various other acts where Archbald
had Improperly used his influence as
a judge.
At this trial the accused judge ad
mitted pratlcally all the facts of every
aoousatlon brought against him, but
protested in defense that none of them
was wrongful nor corrupt nor could
he have been convicted in any court
of law for them.
Favors Short Ballot.
Denver , Jan. 12.—A constitutional
amendment providing for a "short
ballot," with all the executive officers
of the state appointed by the governor,
was recommended to the 19th general
assembly of Colorado by John F.
Shafroth, its retiring chief executive,
in bis biennial message today. The
governor called attention to the
"headless ballot" law, which he says
makes It difficult for the voter to pass
upon the merits of the individual can
didates for state offices. He adds:
"The governor generally is held re
sponsible for the action of the entire
executive department of the state and
he ought to have officers in such de
partments in sympathy with bis ad
ministration."
Would Colonise West.
New York , Jan. 10.—There are
706,000,000 acres of unoccupied land
In the west enough for all unemployed
men in the great cities of the country,
according to former State Senator
James N. Stacey of Idaho, and he has
formed the idea of getting free trans
portation for many men seeking work
so that they may go west and start
life anew, as a solution of the big*
cost of living problem. According to
Mr. Stacey there are too many men
living in the congested big cities, too
many people dependent upon the farm
er for the necessities of existence.
Mr. Stacey advocates a return to the
farm and has a plan which he already
j has nearly brought to perfection
whereby the railroads can populate
I the far west at the same time they
J build up their own lines.
i Bank Made Big Profits.
j Washington. J«n. 9.—Profits of
j more than 880,000,000 have been made
by the First National bank of New
York city since its organization, with
a capital of 8500,000, in 1803, accord
ing to the testimony of George F.
Baker, chairman of the hoard of di
rectors of the bank, before the house
monev trust committee today. Mr.
Baker told the committee the bank
had paid dividends of 226 per cent, or
more than twice the total capital,
which cow is 810,000,000, In the four
years since 1908.
Samuel Untermyer, counsel for the
committee, calculated from the sums
supplied by Mr. Baker, that since the
latter assumed the presidency of the
Institution In 1873 the bank has paid
dividends of 18,550 per cent on its
original capitalization.
Wool Growers in Session.
Cheyenne , Wyo., Jan. 10.—A fight
developed today in the 49th annual
convention of the National Wool
growers' association for the conven
tion for 1914. The delegates from Salt
Lake City expressed confidence over
their ability to capture the conven
tion. Pending tariff changes over
shadowed other matters in discussion.
A resolution offered by Secretary S.
W. McClure, the voicing "unalter
able opposition of the association"
to any tariff reduction to less than IS
cents a pound on scoured wool was
adopted.
Tariff Hearings Resumed.
Washington, Jan. 10.—The iron
and steel schedule| was taken up to
day by the hou*e ways and means
committee when it resumed hearings
on tariff revision. Two days prob'
ably will be devoted to this important
section and many prominent steel men
will be heard. Confronted by con
tradictory testimony during the con
sideration of the chemical and earthen
and glass ware schedules, the com
mittee began the practice of requir
ing all witnesses to testify under oath.
The basis of the hearing today was
the Underwood metal revision bill
passed but vetoed during the last ses
sion of congress.
Montana Rate Too High.
Washington , Jan. 9.—The Inter
state commerce commission, In decid
ing the complaint of the Lindsay &
Co., wholesale fruit and produce deal
ers of Helena, Mont, against the Great
Northern railway company, holds that
the through rate on grapefruit from
Jacksonville and High Springs, Fia.,
to Helena is unreasonable. The com
plaint was based on twelve carloads
of grapefruit from Florida from 1909
to 1911 on which 86,502 freight charges
were collected. The commission fixes
the rate in the future at 81.62i per 100
pounds and awards the complainant
8616 reparation.
Diseased Beef For Indians.
Washington , Jan. 9.—Sales of
diseased beef to Crow Indians with
knowledge of Interior department offi
cials was charged today by Mrs.
Helen Pierce Gray, an Investigator
before the senate Indian affairs com
mittee hearing on Senator Townsend's
resolution to direct the interior de
partment to send the Crow records to
the attorney general for Investigation.
Mrs. Gray declared that beef of cat
tle with lumpy jaw sold to the Indians
by lessees of their land had infected
the Indiana Senator Townsend de
clared he was convinced gross fraud
had been perpetrated on the Indian
and that investigation should be made.
Anaconda , Jan. 9.— Walter M.
Young, aged 54, superintendent of the
Peck plant at the Amalgamated smel
ters, was fatally injured yesterday,
when a bursting pulley wheel revolv
ing at a high rate of speed struck him
between the knee and thigh and crush
ed the leg. He was rushed to the
hospital, where he died a moment af
ter arrival.
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