Idaho semi-weekly world., 1893-01-13
CAPlTAL LETTER.
from our Regular correspondent
BOISE Cry. Jan. q. 189:

DolsE OiTY, Jan. y, 1893.
I will begin this with discourse
on the weather. The present week
has been foggy and chilly, making it
d'sagreeable to live out Of doors, and
IT has not improved any yet.
l was shown q collection Of Idaho
fruits few days ago, which is now
at the Nye-Galbraith drug store in
this city awaiting transportation to
Chicago, where it will form a part Of
our exhibit. Our State will doubt
less be surpassed in variety OF fruits,
At the great exhibition, but none will
surpass her flavor, size and beauty OF
appearance OF the varieties shown.
The pears, peaches, plums, cages
and ounces are equal to the best
grown anywhere, and the vegetable
exhibit is not behind them in any
particular.
A bill was introduced in the House
to-day to provide for the construction
OF State wagon road from Banner
to Kootenai county. The line Of the
proposed road is through Boise, Lem
hi, Idaho and Shoshone to some point
in Kootenai county. 1t proposes, al.
SO, to authorize the sale of State
bonds to the amount Of s135, 900, pay
able in ten and twenty years, but all
redeemable at the option of the State
at the expiration Of twenty years. L..
the main / do not know but the bill
is good one. Certainly a wagon
road through the region described i.
desirable ard very necessary; and
while an intelligent economy should
be observed in all things, none,
enough to construct such q road
without delay, should be appropriat
ed.
On Saturday last a bill was intro
duced for the exemption Of churches
, Masonic, Odd Fellow, A. O. u. w
and similar property from taxation
Also to exempt mortgages, stocks
etc. This, | hope, will be defeated
Only public property and the family
home should be exempt from taxa
ton; and the only reason why th'
home should be SO exempt is because
every family should have home tina
: could not be sold, and while propert,
IS taxed it must be subject to execu
e ton in case of non-paylnent of taxes
Another bill that all will be inter
ested in is designed to so amend ou
medieval poll tax law SO that So wi
j, suffice to pay mans poll tax, III
stead of 80. This is measure tha
should have been passed long ago.
pl Hon. B. F. Morris, of Idaho count,
K introduced Senate joint memorial tt
day, praying Congress to give to eac
volunteer who served in the NJ
> Perce war Of 1877 twenty days {
more 100 acres of unalotted land
the Nez Perce reservation, aud
II exempt them from the duty of pro-
h ing settlement and residence on sam
This would be a good bill if it wei
back to 1868 and included the lndis
v fighters of that time, who received l
pay.
- An irrigation bill is about to
introduced in the Senate that is {
of ready making the old fossils qual
as like they have an attack OF the agu
* 1t is constructed on the principle
the Wright law of California, and
it becomes law will place the emit
IA COnJTol Ol tHe WdttI usou loi h''S
of ton in the hands of the farme
ch where it properly belongs. But
course this will reduce the enormo
profits of the irrigating corporation
I'd Hence the alarm of that class. The
70 will be an interesting fight over
" bill.
A bill has been introduced in
us House to reduce fares on all rallrof
"a. in this State about Rs. 1t sho,
L. include freights, as they are as mt
ass too high as fares.
All of our city newspapers Sc
disinclined to attack the proposit
lat to appropriate money for the l. n.
ne yet to me it appears to rest upon
er- slender a basis as could we'll be
his agined. cannot even find author
RS. for the appropriation in our st
vas Constitution.
A proposition from the House
establish a joint committee ON lei
les lation of ten from the House and
ng from the Senate, to-day, was not C
I .J +o bv the Seuate as it wO