Earnest Pleas for Suffrage Bill Heard in Montana
The Montana House committee heard from suffrage advocates urging a constitutional amendment to allow women to vote. Mrs. Towers and Mrs. Reeder led a series of speakers detailing taxation representation, property rights, and civic involvement, while opponents and observers argued policy and expediency. The hearing set limits and timelines for testimony as lawmakers prepare to tally votes in upcoming county elections.
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Judiciary Committee
Montana
George W. Towers
Butte
State Suffrage Association
Sherlock
Aaid
HH. B. Reeder
T. J. Waren
Massachusets
Walsh
Oregon
Ady
Helena
Brantana
Ee Eeent
M. P. Haggerty
Tutte
United States
Gail Laughlin
Montana Senate Debates Bills on Courts and Wildlife
Helena notes senators Maddox and Anderson lead in proposing measures in the upper chamber. The judiciary committee reviews most bills, including the Sales bill for rural weighing stations and an appeal-time expansion from 20 to 90 days. A broad bill on witness qualification, animal stock fines, and a state game fund are discussed alongside reports on labor, agriculture, and sawmill outputs.
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Helena
Jan
Maddox
Anderson
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Attorney General’s Office
House
Senate Holds Exec Session Over Silver Bow Election Contest
The Montana Senate spent nearly an hour in executive session on January 25 amid deliberations on the Silver Bow election contest and the Tewey Gilchrist case. It authorized clerks to assist in counts and adopted rules for joint Senate House deliberations, with remarks by Senator Hoffman on rules governing proceedings.
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Standard
Helena
Senate
Commit
Silver Bow
Several lively tilts on in the house
The Standard reports a lively Montana House session January 28 with debate on nine bills including a substitute for Lanstrum improving medical board powers and duties, Swindlehurst coal mine pollution controls, and Hilger tax changes for the sheep indemnity fund. Notices introduced by Self and O’Keefe, committee recommendations, and clerk selections for Silver Bow county ballots are noted amid committee discussions on course of study in Montana schools.
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Silver Row
C. Bever
Carmon
Swindianwest
Allen
Deer Lodge
Lanstrum
Board of Medical Examiners
Swindlehurst
Hilger
Board of Sheep Commissioners
Sheep Inspectio and Indemnity Fund
Self
O'Keefe
Miller
Swinlehurst
Tolman
Beaudry
Rice
Committee On Elections and Privileges
Silver Bow
Hhe
M. L. Holland
Dave Lawrence
T. L. Daly
Fred Sterling
James Cammack
Harry Kingsland
J. J. McGrath
C. J. Seler
Heffern
Rice Westerlin
Montana
Giltinan
Board of
County Commissioners
Incidentaller
Counjee
Pelletier
Landstrum
Silver Bow County
Mileler
Ways and Means Committee
Legislature Debates Bills on Funds and Clerk Consolidation
The Montana legislature advanced bills on public funds safekeeping with double bonds and sureties, and debated consolidating clerks across pardons, insane, prisons, and equalization boards. Miller fought for limits and executive insight, while Pelletier challenged the measures and voting narrowed to transfers and amendments.
County tally from Silver Bow county bald losses
A fragment notes transfer to the ex ter for counting the bald loss from Silver Bow county. The text is incomplete and provides no explicit date, person, or agency beyond the counting action and location.
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Silver Bow County
Ex Senator J B Allen Dies Sudden in Seattle
John Beard Ate formerly United States senator from Washington state died suddenly at his home in Seattle at 11 o clock tonight from angina pectoris. He was born in Crawfordsville Indiana in 183? and moved west in youth. Allen served as a senator for Washington after statehood in 1889 and drew the short term. He had long been a candidate for reelection and left a wife two daughters and two sons.
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Seattle
John Beard
United States
Hington
Aten
Senator Allen
Crawfordseville
Ind
Congress
Washington
Prussian Prince Dies in Suspected Self-Inflicted Shot
In Prussian Saxony near Stolberg a 3 year old prince, heir to the Prussian house, reportedly shot himself with a hunting rifle while walking in the park near his castle at Rottleberode. The driver found the boy dead, hands near his chest, after the prince told him to stop and walk into the woods. The incident is described as a probable act of self harm linked to his father's death.
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Prussian
Saxony
Erode
Stolberg
Rottleberode
Tige
House of Lords
Washington legislature honors McKinley with pink carnations
Olympia residents recount the late President McKinley by requiring members in both houses to wear pink carnations as boutonnieres on his birthday. A $10,000 appropriation bill against the Northern Securities Co. was introduced, following Governor McBride's message.
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Guy Staspleton
Olympia
Wash
Mel Kinley
State of Washington
Northern Securities Company
McBride
Title Loss Hits Saxony Crown Princess
Vienna reports Emperor Franz Joseph stripped the crown princess of Saxony of all archducal titles and prerogatives with approval from her father and the king of Saxony. The decree is described as unparalleled in Austrian history.
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Vienna
Franc Joseph
Saxony
Chester I Long Declared Kansas United States Senator
In Topeka Kansas on January 2 in a joint session of the Kansas legislature Chester I Long was proclaimed the duly elected United States senator to replace W A Harris.
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Topeka
Kan
Jan
Kansas
Chester I. Long
United States
W. A. Harris
Pretender Advances to Attack Fez in Madrid Report
Madrid reports that a rebel pretender has launched advances toward Fez with Moorish government forces preparing for potential engagement. The terse despatch notes rising tensions as the sides mobilize around the Moroccan capital.
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Madrid
The
Fes
Pesthouse Inmates Costly Report Sparks County Debate
A county report filed by Deputy Auditor Anderson details about four thousand dollars in pesthouse patient costs at the Pes theat of the county commissioners. Commissioner Roalawick faces paying board and nursing expenses, with a plan to charge patients who can afford it. Officials seek clarity as the pesthouse may shift to a contract system, weighing current costs and operations.
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Board of County Commissioners
Falla
Anderson
Waalswick
Cooper
Delphy
Roalawick
Boar
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