The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-02-09
ALL RUMOR At BOISE
Secret Caucus or Sweet Men Has Caused
N~rvo"s F+ cling.

Nervous Ee cling.
Boise, Feb. 4.-There was one ballot
for senator today. The result, with one
pair and one absentee impaired, was:
Shoup 10, Sweet Is, Clagett a. The air
has been full of rumors tonight about
the changes Immediately impending.
one is that the populists have deter
mined to vote for Sweet, but this seems
to be entirely without foundation. An
other rumor is that Sweets line is about
to break. This is very persistently cir
culated, but it can not be traced to any
reliable source. The populists held a
short meeting tonight, but did nothing.
The Sweet men have been in caucus
tonight. At a late hour they are still
in session. SO far it is impossible to
learn what they are doing. The Sweet
paper is to come out again i'm the morn
ing. The two previous issues have APP
peared in the evening. There is unmis-
takably a nervous feeling late tonight.
In the senate Senator Boyces resolu-
ton growing out of the action Of Pres
ident Mills in excluding the Sentinel re-
pOrters from the senate. reciting that
the senate alone has power to exclude
reporters of newspapers from the floor
of the chamber came up at the open
ing of the session of the senate. Senator
Boyce moved rs adoption. The chair
called attention to the fact that the res
olutiOn was i'm conflict with rule II.
which grants the president authority to
exclude reporters. Inasmuch as the
resolution was not intended as an abro-
cation of the rule, he decided it out of
order. Senator BOyce appealed from
the decision and the chair was sustained
without division. Senator Boyce Of
fered a motion to abrogate rule IL. The
motion was declared out Of order by the
president who suggested that while he
was in no way adverse to having the
motion come up, it should be in con
formity with the rules. Senator Boyce
then gave notice of motion to amend
the rules
In the committee of the whole, Sena-
tor Boyce took the floor in behalf of his
bill to extend the time for redemption
of property sold under execution from
six months to two years He said the
bill was especially intended for the far
mer, who in most instances was Dor
rover.
Senator Brown offered an amendment
by making the time one year After
some further discussion the amendment
was adopted by vote of to 8. and the
bill was favorably reported.
IN THE HOUSE.
In the house a bill was passed post
poning the delinquent tax sale until the
first Monday in July next. Tax sales
e Too
few days and an effort will be made to
push it through the senate at once in
order that it may give the relief for
which it was intended.
A bill was introduced by Mr.. McCar-
thy to correct corrupt practices with
reference to elections. The bill was on
the lines of the Colorado law on this
subject Among other things it requires
each nominee for Office to make a sworn
itemzed statement of the money spent
/ by him for campaign purposes"
/ a bill was introduced by Mr.. Sanders
fixing the legal days of work Of miners
at eight hours.
The KOOtenai division bill came up
/ and was considered in committee of the
whole. Mr. Henry took the floor in
support of the bill He presented pc
titiOns asking for division Of the coun-
ty, which, he said, were signed by 1869
taxpayers of Kootenai county. a large
majority, when it was considered that
the total number of votes cast at the
last election was 1,423. The division of
the county viii be of incalculable bene-
fit to the people of the proposed county
of Bonner's. owing to the geographical
location of the old county. He said the
/ opposition of Rathdrum, the county
seat Of KoOtenai. arose more from the
fact thai If the county should be divid-
ed, the seat Of the old county would be
| speedily removed
Mr.. Hughes of Shoshone said that he
was opposed TO county division. In the
case under consideration he knew from
personal observation that two years age
the people generally were opposed to
division and he believed that they still
were. The county division schemes
were generally gotten up in the interest
Of real estate men. who could find nc