Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1883-02-15
DIVIDED.


Sine, the defeat If Council Mrm1r
ial NJ. (thc divis on of the Territory
the members rcrre.eniing the North
ern counties. have Ieen sadly cemor
allied and have been loud in their dc
nunciations Of each other Yesterday
after an animatinc debate on the Nez
Perez county seat bill, in which per
sonalitios were freely iodul-ed in, two
of the honorables alter adjournment.
continued the discussion; one of the
gentlemen to add force aud make h is
argument more impressive, placed HIS
houora lie fist in close proximity to the
honorable face of his opponent. Had
it not been for the heroic conduct dis
played by the Sergeant alarms, who
promptly ordered the assistant Ser
geant at Arms to remote The honor be
fist from the aforesaid honorable flce,
the Nez Perez county seat question
wouli have ended in bloodshed, and
the Idaho Parlimcnt disgraced. 7 o
much cannot be said in pra Sc Of tbs
Sergeant al. Arms, who by his courage
and GOODNESS, averted the threatening
DANCE.
From private sources we ara in
formed that as soon as the county seat
removal was sprung one OF the mem
bers from Idaho county, Mr.. Odle, tel
egraphed to his son in-law, Mr.. Baird,
the fact aud as he wished to have in
formation relating to the sentiment of
the people upon that question, asked
if the people wanted an act submitting
such question to vote of the people
at a special election. The telegram
was answered in the negative, and sub
sequently MIR. Baird was instructed, as
be was going to Boise with prisoner,
to do what he could to prevent the
passage Of such a bill, but arriving
there after the bill had passed the
House and been sent to the Council,
who had been prejudiced in the matter
BY the Moscow delegation Including
Mcconnell. Bairds arguments though
sound and ia accordance with the SEN
timent O.! great majority of the pee
pie Of the county, were powerless to
defeat the bill. 1t seems that in the
discussion upon the bill, the Council
man from Nez Perez. Mr. Taylor, took
occasion to censure Mr.. Odle for tele-
graphing to Baird apprisins him Of
what was going on, without first con-
sulting him, Taylor. Mr. Odle resented
the censure, claiming that Tho people If
Nez Pcrce county should DO apprised
q what was going on affecting their
interests, that they might send such
instructions as they thought proper,
and as Taylor seemed not disposed to
let Lewiston know what was on foot,
he took it upon himself to do so as
carly as possible. Hence the Telegram,
Out Of this grew the dispute alluded to
in the World. It seems that the Joint
Councilman from Ncz Perez, Shoshone
and Kootenai, Cowen, the Councilman
from Idaho, Odle, and the Councilman
from Owyhse, Regan, compreheaded
the situation, that the bill was really a
trick and fraud upon The people of
Nez Percc, and voted against the bill
Councilman Taylor boasts vehemently
about his great desire to be instructed
by the people and to be governed by
their will, but if the above is fair
version Of his difficulty with Odle, it
certainly seems that his purpose was
to have the bill for re location pass
without the people, especially the peo-
pie Of Lewiston, knowing anything
about it. Whatever understanding he
might have had with the people Of
Moscow and vicinity about submitting
such question for vote at special
election we know not. Certain it is,
he never suggested such q measure in
Lewiston either before he went to Boise
or afterwards and We knew nothing of
It till Mcconnell was en- route, and he
not being a member If either branch
of the legislature and not chosen by
the county for any Legislative purpose,
the people of Lewiston had reason only
to suppose that it was some private
scil ,me Of his own and few who were
interested with him in and around Mos
COW, and properly we had & cd reason
to suppose that the members elect who
were on the ground, would resist the
private schemes of any man or class oil
men against the wishes of the great
body Of the county. But it seems that
they did not, bat on the contrary either
for self-in.erest, three OF them living OF
one section of land near Moscow, o,
from having thsir palms tickled, o,