The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-02-18
LEGISLATURE OF IDAHO
POINTS IN THE DISCUSSION OF THE
RANDOLPH RAILROAD BILL.
A Bill for the Closing of barber
shops on Sunday Gives Rise to
Theological observations.

vigorous discussion OF the ftdnuoipn
railroad bill in the house. The commit
tee had recommended the indefinite post
ponement of the measure, but the house
decided in favor of its recommitment.
During the discussion which consumed
the larger part of the day, Randolph de-
clared there were 900 people in northern
Idaho who demanded legislation which
should afford them more favorable rates
on the part of the railroads. The repre-
sentatives from that part of the state had
pledged themselves to support bill of
the character introduced by him, and the
change in their attitude whole was
what seemed queer to him. He could
not understand why the roads charged
the shippers in Idaho more than those in
| Utah for transportation to the coast; that
the wheat growers In the Palouse coun-
try had to pay Az cents a bushel for ship
ping their wheat to the coast, while they
have received only average of 20 cents
per bushel for the past three years In
answer to the argument that the roads
were bankrupt, he quoted from the re-
port of the interstate commerce commits
| sion, giving $l9 600 900 the net earnings
for the roads in the northwest
Elder did not hope for much relief
should the bill under discussion become
law. He believed that the national gov
eminent should take hold of the question
and straighten 1t out.
Seat understood a similar bill was be-
fore the legislature in Washington, and he
believed that the two states working to-
gether could obtain the relief desired.
Wright claimed that a train of freight
| cars could be run from Chicago to this
state at the cost of $40 per car, excluding
interest on the capital invested and wear
and tear of the rolling stock, while he
had seen many bills wherein the railroad
| n los ha oh rod ntl rd
per for that distance.
| Mccarthy believed in discrimination,
saying that while the railroads in the
northern part of the state were treating
the people unfairly those in southern
| Idaho were doing all in their power to
| develop the country. The Union Pacific,
with the telegraph lines in connection
with It, pays one-third of all the taxes
levied in the IL counties through which it
passes. The total revenue on freight and
passenger traffic having origin and des-
tination within the state during 1896
averaged ssO2.62 per day, while the ex-
penditures were $3i60 per day. In eight
of the school districts through which the
Short Line runs In Bannock county it
paid school taxes to the amount of ST.
9O225 last year, to s417.24 paid by all otner
parties or 81 per cent of the whole
JONES did not hesitate to denounce the
railroads, saying that If a reasonable rate
were established the traffic would be many
tons increased
The vote on recommittal was follows:
Ayes-Allen, Andrews, Beary Black,
Brim, Bryan. Briggs, Clagett. Elan
nigan, Fuller. Goldsmith, Gray Hadley.
Hampton, JONES, Mccarthy, Mitchell,
Morgan, Orr. Perkins, Randolph Seat. |
e!sson, Sperry, Waite, Workman and
Wright-27.
Nays-Brown. Carter, clawson, Elder,
Fem, Fulton, Hamer, Harris, Hays, Holt |
johnson, Keat, McMurrin, Pugmire, Rice
ftgby, Rogers, Thomas. Wallantine, Wat |
ers and Nelson-21.
Not voting-Alford
other Measures In the House,
The following bills were passed by the
house:
No. 1877, by Fem, regulating houses of
prostitution. was passed by a vote of 80
to s. the following voting nay: Allan
Clawson, Orr. JONES and Berry.
No. IS, by Rice abolishing the city and
county license of theaters passed by a
vote of 81 to g.
No. IL, by Flanagan, relating to the
guardianship of minors, was passed by a
vote of AZ to o.
No. 1877, by Workman, fixing the legal
status of the county surveyors and pro-
viding for the keeping of records of coun-
ty surveys and regulating the surveyors
fees, was passed by a vote of 81 to T.
senate Proceedings.
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ers was reduced from IS to 81 and the
mileage was increased from 10 cents TO
Is cents, the bill then being committed to
a special committee
ended IL, tho ,i,,,. ny INC rebate when
enu ' II, the kiiIlhs OF the bill to close
$500, snops oh SUNDAY NELSON earnestly /
'aa tne srouhu that the state should '
10. lesisiate on matters of conscience.
Ihough a minister of the gospel, he had
liways peen opposed TO legislation with {
lespect 10 rehgious subjects. Bennett was
siau " nnu ninseil IN accord with the
49, i, ., i-,ean On one SUBJECT
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iuiioer OF years. All the trueasurer had
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