Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1885-02-12
TIKI CAPITOL BILL PASSED.

This I'LL, which originated in III,
Council and passed that body last week
by vote Of / to /, passed the liogs,
yesterday By . vote Of 10 to .. The
bill is so reasonable in its provision and
the fund set apart to pay for it being on
~ the territory's portion Of the money
collected on licenses, it viii never be felt
BIZ the territory. Tho money Is to be
raised by issuing bonds drawing six per
cent interest running twenty year, with
the privilege of redeeming them after
ten years. Eighty thousand dollars is to
be expended in the erection o. a capitol
building on the capitol block IN this city,
and twenty thousand dollars is to be OK
pended in the erection Of an Insane asy
lum at Blackfoot, in Oneida county. The
legislature has done well in the passage
of this bill. 1t is not only to their own
credit, but it Is to the credit Of the terri
tory to make the Improvements which
this bill contemplatcs. The buildings
are needed and almost Indispensable. 1t
will settle the location Of the capitol and
the rival feeling, that existed in every
little embryo town that has sprung up
and demanded the removal Of the capitol
will be reconciled to so on in the even
tenor Of their way and depend up
on their own merits for strength and
prosperity the same as Boise City has.
The fact is, every legislator, and every
unprecedented man that comes here secs
that Boise City is naturally, and in
wealth aud prosperity, far the most adj
vanced town in the territory and the
proper place for the capitol. --ldaho
Statesman.
As VIC never heard Of any sush bill
being before the legislature, nor that any
such bill was contemplated, until we re-
ccived the above in tho Statesman, we
arc poorly prepared to comprehend the
object sought by tho majority Of the leg.
islaturc in giving such bin their sanction
at the present time. Certainly it was
not passed 10 pursuance Of any instruc-
tions Of the people generally residing in
the territory, and we shall be surprised
to learn that it receive the sanction Of a
majority Of the people, and we dissent
from the opinion expressed in the abuye
quotation s'that the legislature has
done well in the passage Of this bill''
that s'it will settle the question Of the To-
cation Of the capitol Ifthe expressions
to seggregatc the territory and attach the
northern part to Washington, was an
earnest and honest wish of the two po-
litieal conventions Of the people and the
memorial Of the large majority Of the
large majority Of the present legislature
upon the question Of segregation and an
nexation was an earnest and an honest one
Why vote 10 expcnd $4,000 in building
capitol building at Boise City away
from the center Of population Of re-
manning portion Of the territory, after
the north has been annexed to Washing
ton aud before that psople had designa-
ted the place where they wanted then
permanent capitol, and why bond the
whole territory in the sunfof Sl00,0 900
including the rorth, who are expected
not to receive one dollar Of benefit from
the construction Of those buildings, and
saddle upon tho north one fourth Of this
indebtedness, as a burden with which
1 they must nsk to be admitted with Wash
ington as state. Tho memorial 10 b.
annexed and tho bill to assume their pro
portion OF this debt is not consistent ant
justto the north, It is saying to III,
north you can 60 to Washington, bul
must pay to us, who remain, 500, 600 ol
$50, 900 for the privilege Of going. 1t il
equally unjust to moth Idaho, with Hal
lcy's proposition made in southeastern
IAah0 in the 1sta canvac~ that north n.