Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-03-19
THE RESULT AT BOISE
BILLS PUT THROUGH BOTH HOUSES
OF THE LEGISLATURE.
House Passes a Hundred of Its Own
Measure-List of the More
Important Acts.

The recent session of the Idaho Legis-
lature passed large number of bills,
says the Boise Statesman.
The number introduced in both houses
amounts to $40. or which 299 originated in
the mouse and 101 in the senate. OF this
number n passed both branches, So of
the number being house bills.
OF the 101 senate bills, so were passed
by that body, 40 were indefinitely post
poned and Ii left either on the calendar
or in committee.
The house passed only half of the senate
bills transmitted to it, left Is without
having considered them and killed seven
on final passage.
OF the 239 bills introduced in the house
100 were passed, So of which succeeded
in running the gauntlet of the senate
Thirty-seven of the 100 were left to die
without consideration in the senate and
II were indefinitely postponed. The house
defeated four house bills ntheir final
passage, left So in committee or on the
calendar and indefinitely postponed SO.
OF the bills introduced in the house
the populists fathered 90, the silver re-
publicans 66, democrats 81. The mem
bers who introduced 10 or more each
were Elder 10, Hamer TO- Keat II, Morgan
10, Perkins 12 Randolph IL, Waters a.
Workman r.
Leading Senate Bills.
The more important senate bills that
passed both houses are:
Substitute for No. 2, the free bill
No. 7, by Harris, fixing the salaries of
state officers and judges
No. g. by Rich, prescribing the duties
of county superintendent of schools.
No. 30, by Ballentine, abolishing the
office of assistant state engineer.
| No. So, by Ballantine of Blaine, fixing
| the legal rate of interest at per cent.
No. So, regulating the practice of
medicine.
No. 70, by Coryell, establishing a sheep
quarantine system.
| No. 70, by Coughanour, known as the
| horticultural bill.
No. 101, by Bassett amending the ir-
rigation law.
Important House Measures.
Among the important house measures
| that have gone to the governor for his
| signature are:
| No. "a, by Carter, protecting the graz
| ing lands from the stock of non-residents.
| No. At, by Beary, defining the manner
| of locating placer claims.
| No. 70, by Keat, authorizing county
| tTedSuTeTS W pay ulreCl TO lllt treas
| urers of Independent school districts all
moneys belonging to them from the tax
levy.
| No. so, by Hampton. fixing the second
Monday in January for beginning assess
ment of property.
| No. SS, by Mitchell, establishing a
state soldiers home board.
No. 14O, by Thomas, allowing any school
| district with taxable property amounting
| to $150,000 to organize an Independent dis
| trict.
| No. al, by Andrews, providing for the
organization of irrigation districts.
No. 154. by Brim, regulating the assess
ment of live stock when kept in more
than one county of the state.
No. 1855, by Workman, to prohibit
gambling.
/ No. 169 by Fem, amending the Boise
City charter.
No IT, by Hamer, exempting private
| bitches and canals from taxation.
No 221, by Perkins, renting penalties
on delinquent taxes for 1896 If paid by
July 1. 1897.
No 166, reducing the poll tax to $3.50.
No. 22S, by Randolph, relating to the
| leasing of state lands.
No. 1884, providing for state board o.
arbitration for settling labor troubles.
The bill creating the county of Clear
water.
| Failed to Pass.
Among the bills that have attracted
considerable attention and failed to pas
are:
Wright's river boom bill; Allans bill
exempting mines from subsection to lien
under certain conditions; Carter's sheel
license bill; all bills relating to the stat
wagon road system; the bill requiring
the state treasurer to issue a call TO
warrants whenever he has $1,000 of stat
money on hand.
State Appropriations.
1t is difficult to give exact figures o
the appropriations. made by the recen
session as the bills have not yet all beef
acted upon by the governor. There ar
also some small continuing appropriation
that can not be given accurately, Blu
they are about the same under each ad
ministration.
The appropriations of the third session
were: