Montana House Debates Coal Tax and State Board Reforms
Montana lawmakers push to curb coal costs with higher AG action and consideration of nationalization. Measures to merge clerks, report highway funds, and transfer duties from the state highway commission to engineers advance amid votes and committee reports.
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Smethurst
Musselshell
Congress
Pope of
Committee On State Boards
State Board of Examiners
Consolidated Boards
Shelley Denies Taking Bribes in Montana Prohibition Case
Federal testimony details Tewksbury’s receipts of 450 dollars from Red Lodge and Lewistown and hospitalities tied to Montana breweries. Shelley denies meetings with Tewksbury and any agreement to protect brewers, while witnesses link paid arrangements to beer shipments and hotel stays across Helena Great Falls Lewistown and Portland.
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Special Intelligence Unit
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Red Lodge
Shelley
Tewksbury
George M. Bourquin
Bourquin
Hugh Davis
Butte
Garrison
Mont
Placer Hotel
Helena
Tewkesbury’s
Walter H. Jen Sen
Montana Brewing Company
Great Falls
Montana
Jensen
Gus Hodel
Lewistown
A. EE. Trudell
Multnomah
Portland
Ore
A. J. Breitenstein
F. D. Mittauer
Earl Bennett
John H. Metcalf
Prohibition
Metcalf
Thea Sweitzer
Salt Lake
Republican National Committee
Ford
Walter H. Jensen
Thomas Walker
Billings
Walker
Montana Brewing Company of
American Brewing Company
Hodel
Elmer I. Irey
Prohibition Enforcement
Federal Grand Jury
Ivey
Seattle
Indigent Care and Fiscal Measures Highlight House Bills
The legislature considers H B 107 by McCarty on care and burial of indigent sick and deceased, H B 108 to provide maintenance for indigent persons during vocational training, H B 109 by Bosley adding unplatted land to special improvement districts, and H R 110 by Carlson to cap state expenditures to appropriations and create a contingency fund for the state board of examiners.
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McCarty
Bosley
Helena approves probe into enforcement funds and misconduct
A public meeting of 500 Helena residents demanded a probe into prohibition enforcement practices. The resolution calls for a three member special committee to investigate alleged misconduct, authorize witnesses, and report by February 5 1923 with expenses capped at 50 dollars.
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Helena
Florence Kerr Facey
Phillips
Placer Hotel
Special Enforcement Department
Eighteenth Legislative Assembly
Prison Reform Meet Scheduled at Oberlin
Dr. George W. Kirchwey, longtime dean of Columbia University, will be the principal speaker at the state prison reform conference in Oberlin Ohio, to be held February 15 16 and 17.
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Oberlin
Ohio
George W. Kirchwey
Columbia University
Montana Senate moves to cut purchasing agent salary
A bill filed by Senator McQuitty in Helena seeks to reduce the state purchasing agent’s salary from 5000 to 3500 dollars a year with a junior staff at 1800 and 1500 for a clerk and stenographer, part of broader cost-saving measures aimed at trimming county official pay and deputies.
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Scharnikow
Consolidated Boards
Goodman
Broadwater
State Highway Commission
Bosley
Andrus
Facey
Standard
Helena
McQuitty
Wheatland County
State House
MccQuitty
Henry Lowe
Roosevelt
Garber
Sanders County
Healy
Park
Senate
Paul
Gallatin
Church
Montana
Judiciary Committee
Judiciary
S. B
Taylor
H. B
Kenyon
Perrine
Rodgers
Chancellor Ta Heta in Office Debate Over Abolishing Office
The Montana education committee backed keeping the chancellor’s office, arguing annual savings exceed maintenance costs and curb duplication. Delegates split on abolition with Silver Bow divided, Deer Lodge voting to eliminate, while Prairie and others urged retention amid budget concerns and past veto risk by the governor.
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Silver Bow
Andrews
Denny
Kelly
Kinville
McLeod
Maury
Roscow
Caplis
Cavanaugh
English
Deer Lodge
Gullidge of
Prairie
Committee On
Education
Gullridge
M. A. R Brannon
J. Cc. Elliott
Board of Education
Appropriations Committee
Agricultural College
Inheritance tax measure attacked by Judge Sanner
Helena Jan 238-l Protests against the administration inheritance tax measure were filed with the revenue and taxation committees by Judge Sidney Sanner of Butte. He argued the bill could drive wealthy Montanans to re establish residences out of state and weaken the state's revenue.
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Helena
House of Representatives
Revenue and Taxation
Sidne Sanner
Butte
Sanner
Montana
Lanner
District of Columbia
Bachelor wants all women fired over salary dispute
A Dawson county bachelor in Helena asks Montana lawmakers to discharge all women from public jobs and replace them with single men to push women into marriage. He cites a 1920 census and claims his own salary is much lower than the woman’s who earns independent income.
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Standard
Helena
Dawson County
George McCone
Graduated Tax Penalty Plan Heads Montana House
Montana legislators consider a six month graduated tax penalty scale from 5 to 10 percent replacing current rules. The plan delays delinquency to December 31 and ends public tax list publication. tax notices would warn of public sale if unpaid by June 20. It taxes national banks shares like other property and allows protest payments with court review.
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Lbricker
Troy
Buchanan
O'Connell
Committee On Public Morals
Stes
County Board of Equalization
Montana Ins ru nce Dept tops state income despite small pop
The Montana insurance department is the state's largest general fund income source, earning 907 079 45 for 1919–21 while Oregon earned 864 472 06. Operating costs ran 48 026 08 in Montana versus 64 584 24 in Oregon, with Montana slightly higher income by 42 607 38. Maine census shows Montana population 548 89 against Oregon 783 38, yet Montana outsized insurance business. The report notes 370 licensed insurers in Montana on Dec 1 1922 and criticizes state auditor salaries and duties across states.
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Helena
Insurance Department
Montana
Oregon
Contheist
Insurance Department of
Legislative Assembly
George S P. Porter
Utah
Protest Against Full Crew Bill Sparks Rail Cost Clash
Helena Jan 23 Protesters claim a full crew bill adding freight train crews would cost Montana railroads over 600000 annually with costs passed to shippers Milwaukee road official FE Barrett and Butte representatives testified at a House railways hearing arguing extra crews won t boost safety and would force railroads to hire five or six men to move trains faster, shifting the burden to shippers The testimony framed the measure as more political than safety driven by railroad staff and operators from Milwaukee Great Northern Northern Pacific and the BC.
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Hy Standard
Helena
Montana
H. Barrett
Butte
Milwaukee Road
Milwaukee
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Gallwey
Barrett
C. A. Bolton
Alberton
William Thoready
J. Ballentine
Great Falls
Cupid's Headquarters and Parrot News From Iowa
In Vinton Iowa the smallest county issued 110 marriage licenses last year. Dr Charles B Taylor a veteran Presbyterian minister performed 36 of those marriages. A New Zealand parrot the size of a chicken has been reported to kill thousands of sheep yearly for kidney fat.
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Cupid's
M'Arthur
lIn Vinton
Charles B. Taylor
New Zealand
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Cascade
Pondera
Beaverhead
Gillin
Gullidge
James A. Walsh
Missoula
Internal Revenue
Jim” Aston
F. A. Hazeltine
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Loble
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Bergstrom
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Kenyon and Cavanaugh
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