Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1899-02-15

Inc hrst check received by the exuberant
praise singers was Johnnesse's bill ap-
propriating $1,000 to pay Johnson, Kings
ley and Philitus Averitt for helping the
Governor IN the execution of his "plan. 3"
Since the explosion of that mine it has
been found out that, the printing will
cost about hive times more than calculated
and the extra clerical force will sum up
several hundred dollars in excess of
original estimates. So, altogether the
governors $500 plan has resolved itself
nearer $4,000 scheme. But the plan is
not without its compensation advantages.
1t mas given much profitable employment
to many staunch apostles of 10 to and
suHdry defenses of the state adninistra-
tons; all of which is designed to pro-
mote Steunenbergs senatorial boom.
The governor is unquestionablv a
shrewd politician and the way in which
he works the members from the rural
dlst riots is beautiful to see. One of his
| pet methods is to call a suspected
refractory member into a private and
strictly confidential council. After I'M
pressing the member with the notion
that especial and unlimited confidence is
reposed in him and making him believe
that weighty matters of administrative
policy hinge upon his views and advice.
the governor proceeds to reveal to the
now thoroughly Modified and puffed up
member lot of trivialities of no manner
of consequence, and then dislnisses him
pledged to secrecy and filled with
momentous nonsense. But the scheme
works like charm, and the result is
that all the Democratic statesmen together
with their friends and relatives down to
the fourth degree of consanguinity are
walking about stepped in profound
meditation, with brows corrugated and
shoulders STOPPING under loads of public
responsibility. Every man of them act
ually believes that he is part and parcel
of the administration; that the state
would go to smash without him, and
that the governor, who is quietly laugh
ing in his sleeve, is great and good and
piohs Stuffed geese are very plentiful
in Boise this winter.
II is said on good authority that things
are not looking as brightly around the
state house as the friends Of the admins
tration could wish. The parsimonous
policy of the past two years, which gave
the administration reputation for econ
omy, has run its course, and all the state
institutions are demanding liberal appro-
priations, not only to enable them to ex-
ist through the next two years, but to
make good the deficiencies of the past
two. The state university is some SIS, 900
behind nearly all of which is due to
teachers. The institution is going back
wards instead of forward, and the num-
Der of students in attendance is forty
eight less than ever before since the es-
adjustment of the institution.
Some good measures have passed and
will in sixty days, or Whereabouts, be-
come law. Kingsley's bill to enforce col
lection OF costs i'll criminal cases has
passed both houses, as has Ainslie's bill,
which provides that surety companies
bonds may be given by state and county
officers. This is a good and needle d
measure. The following bills have either
passed or are sure to do so: French's
bill to reorganize the university board;
the depto1 Hill xtl,ic1, o,1,r coroa-.,e 500
fessional men and throws restrictions
around the practice of tooth carpentry. A
bill permitting adjacent incorporated
cities, towns and villages to consolidate,
has passed; also bill allowing railroads
right of way through state and school
lands A bill to regulate the practice of
medicine has also passed the senate with
some amendments, and will no doubt
become law. At the present time the
two important bills pending are the sal
airy bill and the irrigation bill. During
the week quite number of county off
GERS have visited the capital, but they do
not appear to have taken very intense
interest in the legislative proceedings
It does not appear that there is any coun-
ty officers lobby on the ground, and
whatever happens it cannot be charged
that the county officers exercised undue
influence. With the irrigation law it is
somewhat different. Representatives of
the canal companies have been much in
evidence, and their influence has been
appreciably felt. Some who formerly
were enthusiastic supporters of the irri-
CATION bill are rather Indifferent just
now, and by the power of some new light
received are able to detect many defects
in the bill.
It is reported that resolution will be
introduced and passed in both houses in
day or two toprevent the introduction of
any more bills. 1t is now thought that
the session will not conclude until about
the 10th of March.
Eumor has it that a venerable senator
tried to kiss committee clerk and came
near getting his head broke for his palms.
Some of those statesmen who originally
were disposed to oppose the establish
ment of an immigration bureau are now
entertaining more kindly feeling for it.
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