Logan visits state institutions as 22nd legislature debates budget
Helena correspondent reports E A Logan of Billings and the house appropriations committee visiting Neer Lodge prison and Warm Springs hospital to assess fiscal needs for the next two years. The committee, key to future expenditures, faces income shortfalls and potential cuts of about 10 percent in incidental expenses, with fixed salaries untouched.
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Helena
E. A. Logan
Billings
House
Appropriations Committee
Neer Lodge
Warm Springs
Commonwealth
Logan
Carbon County Republican Seeks Less Legislation
Albert Budas, a Republican representative from Carbon County, argues for fewer laws and greater respect for those already on the statute books, pledging to focus on trimming unnecessary legislation.
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Albert Budas
Carbon County
Albert Budas of Montana Career Highlights
Albert Budas, born in Sweden and resident since 1884, served in the Montana House during the 1919 1925 1927 and 1929 sessions. He was a city council member and school trustee, Elks member, a merchant turned farmer and banker, with a wife and one daughter.
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Montana
Elks Lodge
Budas
Lawmaker Pushes Beer Cap Tax After Cigaret Bill
Representative Alex Fairgrieve of Carbon county campaigns a tax on beer bottle caps following his cigar et bill. Montana crime commission measures cleared by house judiciary subcommittees. Counties including Lake Missoula Yellowstone Raval Stillwater Richland Wheatland Blaine and Silver Bow would gain from a deficiency bill now.
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Carbon County
Montana Crime Commission
House
Judiciary
Lake
Missoula
Yellowstone
Raval
Stillwater
Richland
Wheatland
Glacier
Blaine
Silver Bow Counties
Montana House Debates Bills On Prisons High School Code
The session discusses prisoner transport to Deer Lodge and fines funding education. Bills seek Silver Bow County Butte government consolidation and billboard licensing. Efforts aim to simplify a driver license bill and a lengthy 115 section high school code. Fritz Roll of Great Falls leads a key committee.
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House Committee On Education
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Teton
State High School Commission
Montana Legislator Ueland Aims Tax Relief and Highway Reform
Representative Andrew Ueland of Sheridan county seeks lower gasoline freight rates and a revised gasoline tax system with farmer refunds. He backs county federal aid highways and a bond vote amendment restricting ballots to taxpayers. Ueland born in Iowa in 1877, Minnesota agricultural college alum, married, longtime school board member, Republican in his second Montana Legislature term.
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Montana
Andrew Ueland
Sheridan County
Ueland
Towa
Minnesota Agricultural College
Legislature Hearings Set on Federal GradeRules and Beekeeping Bills
The committee on horticulture discusses federal grade requirements for certain agricultural products and licensing dealers. Senators and local officials note aviation is not under their authority, while planners from Roosevelt and Lewis and Clark counties push bills on veterans' burial costs and beekeeping disease controls. Pension and insurance plan reform faces opposition.
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Mittee
Roll
Supreme Court Says Milwaukee Rail Line Filing Fee Cut
Montana's supreme court ruled the state owed $2 556 as a filing fee for revised Milwaukee rail road articles of incorporation, not $7 755. It struck down a 1925 law as unconstitutional for taxing interstate commerce and favored a 1923 statute. Secretary Harmon said the ruling would spur a law defining foreign corporate filing taxes.
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Supreme Court
Milwaukee Railroad
Secretary of State
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W. Harmon
Boy Burned Four Years Ago Now Recovering at School
Rodger Spencer of Laurel, burned in a gasoline explosion four and a half years ago, has returned to school and shows improving leg condition with no skin breaks. He had long hospital care and skin grafts while both legs healed. Farmers at Hobson cut ice on Keilman pond using a circle saw on a sled to cut blocks and load a truck quickly.
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Rodger Spencer
Laurel
Hobson
Keilman Pond
Thomas Kane Longtime Montana Legislator and Farmer
Thomas Kane, president pro tem and Republican floor leader, is one of Montana’s oldest Senate veterans. Born in Canada, he arrived in Hamilton in 1899 and served in the 14th through 21st sessions. A former lumberjack turned farmer since 1909, Kane married Grace Laws in Corvallis and has six children. He served in World War I, is a Mason, and resides in Corvallis, Ravalli County. He focuses on highway and school legislation and reducing expenditures.
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Senate
Montana
Canada
Hamilton
Grace Laws
Corvallis
Kane
Ravalli County
Co operative Marketing Leaders Seek Reform in Co-op Fees
Leaders complain fees trigger contract breaches and call bills in the house making this a misdemeanor. Billings area figures Hodgekiss and Waring back proposed changes including remedying false reports on co op finances and adjusting apportionment to 10 000 population, though passage is uncertain.
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Co-operative Marketing Association
Billings
Hodgekiss
Teton
Waring
Yellowstone
Bozeman Politician Fred M Brown's Public Service Roles
Fred M Brown of Bozeman served a second term in the legislature and was Bozeman's city manager for four years. He held 12 years as county surveyor and two years on the school trustees board. A construction engineer and ASCE member, he attended Montana State College and the University of California. He is an Episcopalian and a member of the Masonic order.
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Fred M. Brown
Bozeman
American Society of Civil Engineers
Early settler Andrew Sherry 81 dies near Hinsdale
Andrew Sherry, 81, a northern Montana pioneer, died near Hinsdale after a long illness. Born in Colmonell Scotland in 1849, he worked in Scotland before moving west via Halifax and Breckenridge to help build the Great Northern railway. Survived by daughters Mrs Gaasch, Mrs Carlson, Mrs Rennick, and son James Sherry. wife predeceased him. Interment in Glasgow.
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Ballantyre
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Minn
Jim Hill
Great Northern Railway
Great Falls
Great Northern
Durham
Chicago
St. Paul
Cache Creek
W. Carlson
Minneapolis
Nance Rennick
Scobey
James Sherry
Vandalia
Rare liquor seized at border in Great Falls dump
Customs officers seized a large amount of Canadian liquor dumped into the sewer at Great Falls near the border. Among the items were eight quarts of J McDonald Scotch, Concord wine, Canadian beer, and Corby’s old rye. J Q Adams directed the ceremony.
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Great Falls
Custom
McDonald
Former Montana College Professor Passes Away
Earl Douglass aged 80 a former Montana college professor died in Salt Lake City from effects of an operation. Native of Medford Minnesota he moved to Utah in 1909 after long service at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. He studied in South Dakota and taught at the State University of Montana in 1899 1900.
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Earl Douglass
Utah
Salt Lake City
Dr. Douglass
Medford
Minn
Carnegie Museum
Pittsburgh
South Dakota
State University of
Montana
Revival Bill Aims to Restore Fort Owen Memorial
A bill prepared by Representative A. T. Porter requests state financing to rescue and maintain Fort Owen near Stevensville as a memorial to pioneer days. Fort Owen was built in 1841.
Lon Chaney Estate to Net 9.60 Inheritance Tax
Lon Chaney's Montana estate will receive 9.60 from the late screen star's estate as inheritance tax. He owned 20 shares of Anaconda Copper Mining stock and the estate was valued around 59,000.
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Lon Chaney
Montana
State Board of Equalization
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
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