Montana House Uses Tax Bills to Target Oil and Miners
Montana lawmakers push measures to tax oil production, metal mines, and motor vehicles. Senate passes Larson highway tax but House blocks. reapportionment and county payroll cuts proposed. budget committee slashes next year's figures as state faces wide tax and revenue reform.
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Helena
Senate
House
Agricultural Committee
Carbon County
Dillavoy
Yellowstone
Chatrinen’ Coony
Bitter fight looms over sterilization bill in legislature
Dr Hamion Rhoads of Teton County pitches a sterilization measure targeting idiots and imbeciles in state institutions. Two added surgeons would review each inmate with executive boards to authorize operations to prevent procreation if no chance of improvement.
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Dilhivou
Ris
State Highway Commission
Hamion TT
Rhoads
Teton County
May Change the Oil Royalties Bill
Governor Dixon backs amending the administration bill to tax oil companies at three percent. Federal law imposes 12 to 20 percent royalties with 37 percent sent to Montana for roads and schools and 57.14 percent to the reclamation service. Dixon says lands with government mineral titles yield three percent to the state and supports excluding such lands from the direct license fee.
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Montana
Goy
Jos. M. Dixon
Dixon
Governor Approves Fifty Six Bills and Resolutions
Governor Dixon signs 56 bills and resolutions, mostly routine code measures. Instruments include the Leuthold bill substitute extending delinquent tax payment time and a joint memorial against meat packing regulation plus a tariff memorial on flax.
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Dixon
Leuthold
Joint Congressional Memorial
Incubator idea sparks optimism in troubling times
A brief note suggests an incubator concept could lift spirits by sharing positivity. The fragment hints at making a pessimist happier through communal effort and lighthearted action.
Wise County Democrats Present Walking Stick to Wilson
Representative L W Parrish of Texas stood before the White House presenting a light brown walking stick with a gold head to President Wilson on behalf of the Democrats of Wise County Texas. The Bois d Arc wood reminder stems from Texas plantings in 1876 and bears the inscription endorsing Wilsons League of Nations stand.
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L. W.parrish
Texas
White House
Wilson
Wise County
League of Nations
Individuality and society clash in a sharp quotation
A philosopher argues that society pressures conformity erasing distinctiveness. He suggests wild animals and humans alike lose personality as social forces mold men to look and act the same, stifling progression and individuality.
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