Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-03-05
WAS NOTHING BUT A DEMAGOGUE
The Speakers GayeI COnfOunds an
Exciting Debate in the House.

Considerable commot1on was created III
the house over the bill by Elder, liking
the salaries of election judges and clerks,
providing that judges and clerks shall
receive 81 each per day, and constaples
$l5O Hamer commended that competent
men could not be secured at that price,
while Workman was of the opinion that
men would be glad to act as judges with
| no pay at all, as they always had good
| time.
Hamer continued further in his remarks
| and Elder accused him of trying to block
| every bill that had been introduced
which would work for the benefit of the
| people.
| Hamer said he would place his record
| beside that of his brother from Latah
| county. The gentleman from Latah, ne
| declared, was nothing but a demagogue,
! and nine-tenths of the bills he had intro
| duced were wrong in purpose and of evil
| intent.
| Elder, with his face pale and his voice
| raised to a high pitch, declared the house
| had not thought so, neither had the SEN
ate. "If there Is any demagogue on the
| floor of this house you are one; you are
| here for political purposes and nothing
else" he declared, glowering at the gen
| tleman from Fremont.
| The speaker here drowned out the resi-
| of the dialogue by a furious rapping OF
| his gavel, while there were numerous
| calls for the sergeant-at-arms from dlff'
| erent members on the floor
| A vote was then taken, and the bill
| indefinitely postponed by vote of Il tt
20.
The committee on public health made
| an elaborate report upon the numerous
petitions asking for constitutional prom
| bition, making the following frank con
| fesson:
Should the legislature grant the prayer
| of the petitioners and provide for thu
| abolition of a traffic that crowds ou
courts with criminal prosecutions ant
| fills our prisons with criminals, the petit
TONERS would rejoice. But we fear thu
| pot house politicians who expect to Sc
cure their election to office by the U.s.
| of whisky would fill the land with sucl
| a lugubrous howl that the dogs of Bru
| tus that bayed at the moon and the CO
| votes of Idaho would lose a monopoly o
the bowling business accorded them b!
nature
The committee thereupon relegated tn
| whole subject to the house, recommend
ing that a constitutional amend
ment be submitted to a vote Of the PEG
pie.
An attempt to pass the bill, No. 222
regulating passenger rates, was defeated
by a vote of &c to 20, but the vote to in
definitely postpone failed, and confer
ence committee was appointed.
The house passed Donnelly's senate bill
relating to the service of summons, ant
Bassett's senate bill relating to the hunt
ing and killing of buffalo as well as tn
Teton memorial.
Wright's joint resolution, appropriatinl
money for additional clerk hire, in orde
that the auditor may make a full exami
nation of all vouchers received sine
Idaho became a state, was defeated b.
vote of 10 to 20.
Bills 200 and 209 by Clawson, were in
definitely postponed
New Bills In the House.
} The following new bills have been intro
duced in the house:
No. 216 by Clagett, requiring all obliga
tons of debt, judgments or executions t
be paid In either standard silver or gol
. coin of the United States, all stipulation
: by contract to the contrary notwith
! standing.
No H7, by Clagett, providing that an
: one threatening the enforcement Of
debt, claim or obligation for the purpos
of influencing an electors vote, shall fol
felt the same.
No. 218, by Clagett, prohibiting min
owners from soliciting the patronage G
> trade of their employees.
No. 29, by Hampton repeating the liquc
: license law and providing for a disper
sary system, identically the same mea:
ure passed by the house Of the Washing
ton legislature.
No. 220 by Mccarthy, providing for tn
taxation of mortgages.
No. 221, by Perkins. remitting the pei
: alties on delinquent taxes for 1896, provit
-, ing they are paid with interest by Jul
y 10, 1897.
. No. 222, by Goldensmith, cutting dow
railroad passenger fare to cents D,
mile.