Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-03-11

government night furnish for the sup
port of lie Agricultural College AT
this writing il is uncertain what the
fate of the appropriation bill will he
1t has assed the house and is now in
The hands ct the seiIili", which body j.
today, Sunday, III set-ion labofng for
the good of the pcoplt The grave set-
ators. after their return from their
Salt Lake iunketing trip became con-
cience stricken and are now willing to
work on the sabbath to make up for
time lost in naking the Salt Lake
trip notwithstanding this, the same
august body is understood to be
strongly in favor of he pending house
bull providing II stringent Sunday law.
THE FEE Nd SALARY BILL.
A loud demand for reform in the line
of county officers fees has been made
and in response to it the senate passed
bin that was heraldpd as remedy
for the Ills complained Of, but when
the measure was subjected to the criti-
c;srn of the disrespectful house il was
found that the pretended Improvements
in the law were as dead-sea apples,
and hence the house amended the bill
in over twenty particulars how the
senate VIII act upon the amendments,
remains to he en-. As it passed the
senate the bill was n o improvement
whatever on the present law. The
provisions under which the most out
rageous abuses are now practiced being
allowed to remain unchanged.
What reduction can be made in the
RI te of state taxation no one can con-
lecture, but from present appearances
the apprt priations will he as large this
year rs those made two years ago.
| The refOrmers now beng convinced
that it takes money 10 run the state
aud that republican legislatures have
been as economical in appropriating as
1t il possible for the present demo pop
body to be.
INvEsTIG ALTON SHOWS NO CORRUPTION
This brings to mind the mighty ef-
fort to discover something wrong in
the books of past republican admins
trations and with this prospect in view
the senate appointed an expert com
mission to delve deep INTO the sup
posed mine of republican corruption
The miners prospected everywhere
but they couldn't find \ color aud the
senate in sheer desperation finally
asked for the appointment ola stand
ing committee of investigation to op
crate under the supervision of the
State Board of Examiners. But tn,
conservative members of the legisla
ture being convinced that the work o
such committee would be fruitIes'
sat down upon the scheme. Republi
can administrations have been weighed
in the balance but have not beef
found wanting Two years hence
there will be no cry of republican cor
ruption nor of republican eXtrayigance
The taxpayers have pu' up the none,
to pay the senate committee, thre
members at four dollars day each
for about fifty days and for what, VIII.
lust to prove that every democrats
aud popnIis: stump speaker in the las
campaign was imposing falsehoo,
upon the people whenever he aSser'e,
that corruption aud eXtravagance ex
sied IN the republican state admins
'ra,ion. Taking things "hy ac'
large" It is probably all right that tn
rxpense was incurred and the trutl
Established.
IJoyNEs BOUGHT WITH DUBOIS MONEY
The sensation Of The week has beel
the investigation Of the changes q
bribery and corruption brouyh
against Representative JONES. IN
mir has been full of runners of awfu
disclosures to b. made, but when tn
Committee Of Investigation reporte'
yesterday evening it was found that
mountain had been made Of inolehil|
Days aud days had been spent in tax
ing testimony hut nothing convincin,
WAS adduced except that JONES Is
pm,r, Irresponsible, haif demented IN
dividual far more sinnsd against thar
SHINING. Perkins who was suppose,
to be implicated, but against whom
there was no evidence worthy OF con
sideratiOn, was censured 10y the com
mittee but u motion to adopt the com
nittee report regarding him WAS de
feated; while u resolution eNpellin,
JONES ia accordance with the com
nnttee's rec lnlmenduti0n could no
muster strength enough ~ carry, tn,
constitution requiring vote oftw'
thirds of the entire membership If tn
house to eXpel memSeF. Thus tn,
whole farce has ended in smoke
There Is no doubt in the minds o
those well informed that Dubois un
sctupulous adheren,s here by som,
means worked upon the unfortunat,