Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-07-25
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Hon. L. e. Workman went DON
% Boise last Thursday night to .p.
pear before the State Wagon Road
commissioners to slsy the law >
a""n to them. An effort is beiop
made to have the road run from Gar.
osn valley to Bear valley, instead Of
from Banner 70 Bear valley as the
law provides. II this can BE- don.
the laying out Of the route bv r..
Oil was . mistake; it ought to have
oeen left to the Commissioner Of
Boise county. The only thing that
surprises Us is that the route was not
surveyed around by the way Of the
ireton bridge. The COMMISSIONS
appointed from this county was bit.
ter opponent of the State wagon road
when the bill was before the Leeisla.
ture, yet he did not hesitate to pull
e. Al
Ior the appointment, and got it, and
he proceeded to lay out a route diff
ferent from that named in the bill.
II the Legislature had favored the
Garden valley route that is the one
that would have been selected. An
amendment to run from Garden val.
ley to Bear valley was drawn mp, but
the author, seeing the hopeles.ness Of
Its adoption, did not present it. The
route from Banner is the best for
many reasons, which the WoRLp has
presented so many times that a repe.
tition now is unnecessary, and be-
sides, = discussion now as to relative
merits of the two routes, is, in the
language of Bill Nye, altogether "tot
subsequent" The time for that dis
cussion passed with the passage o.
the bill. The question now is, will
the Commissioners fagrantly violate
the law, or will they act in accord.
ance with its plain provisions? We
think they will do the latter, for we
believe the majority of them to be
honorable men. The law says the
road must run from Banner to Bear
valley-not from Garden valley to
Bear valley. The law also says the
money shall be expended between
Banner and Bear valley. The Com.
mission could, with no more of vio.
lation of the law, decide that all oil
the State road must be constructed in
Bear Lake and Oneida counties
With the road run from Garden val
ley q big part of the travel would &c
by the Ireton place. Ireton keeps ar
eating house, and has vegetables and
hay and other things to sell. Proba
bly, this fact did not weigh as heavily
with this Commissioner as a consci
entious compliance with the la~. If
however, a conscientious compliance
with the law was uppermost in hi
mind, as a total failure in the inter
probation of its plain and pointed pro
visions be has, in the language o
Tom Foy, q but few akels and no su
pariors." As failure IN that line h'
is a grand success. We do not know
whether to charge Mr.. lreton with al
unequsled inability to comprehend
!, plain English, or with cold-bloo
determination to violate q law h
was presumed to have been appointet
to uphold. Mr.. Ireton opposed tn
bill on general principles while it wa
pending before the Legislature; tha
was all right; that was his privllegf
;, He applied for the position OF Com
missioner for this county and wa
appointed; that wss not particular
wrong, hut still it looked little oa
= On its face. His friends scknowI
edged as much, but they said; "Joh
is a squsre man, and he Ii w0F
square under the law. He will do a
. he can to carry i, out TO the Letter
n He has had route surveyed that III
IS Legislature would not consider Fl, -,
s. ,ba, working in accordance with tn
'e l.wY What is the use OF 3 Les'sl'
l. ,ure auyway? Why not aPP0,l
l. John lreton supreme lsw'm'ksr f'
nt the State and do away with the e.
d nenses of long, tedious and wranghn
ot sessions of the Legislsturss Jon
n could make law to suit himself,
Id r,rree,ion. He has proven himself
q sdsut at violating law to suit hlmsel
I'd after being commissioned to help So
lie ,.;n; II. John, we never thought TIL
OF Of YOU. We bad pictured you IS 8