The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-27
Idaho Lawmakers Have Troubles
of Their Own.
SENATORS MAKE THREATS
MAY HANG UP TILE GENERAL
APPROPRIATION BILL.
Proposed to Adjourn and Leave the
House In Session Until They
Learned the Sheriff Might Bring
Them Back-Senate Bills Prompt
ly Killed By the House.
(Snecial TO The Heraldl


Boise Ida, Feb. 26.-The Idaho lesisla-
lures sky is so full of lightning-laden
clouds that a storm of fury may be pre-
dicted. If the TWO branches of the legis-
lature should this week lock horns it
would not be a matter of surprise TO those
who are acquainted with the prevailing
conditions. In a nutshell the situation is
this: The house has pigeonhoIed large
number of senate bills, and there Is a
strong disposition in the senate for re-
prlsal. Senators have become VeXed at
the undisguised attempt to prevent act
ion on their bills, and If the programme
is not changed and that right away, re-
taliatiOn will be the Senate'S principal
order of business.
That such a step would affect any aD-
preparation bill the house may send over
has not served to swerve the alleged
pigeonholers Of the house from their
purpose. for they say that the burden of
responsibility on the face Of the record
would fall upon the senate in the event of
failure to pass the appropriations Never
theless, the feeling of senators is so in
tense that the rule of the reprisal may
be applied TO the appropriation bills
well as TO others.
The fight in the house Saturday has en-
gendered bitterness that will be in evil
dence to the end of the session The lines
are tightly drawn. and unless Speaker
Evans recedes from the position he has
assumed. every day until the close of the
session will witness repetition of the
oppose the speaker declare it to be their
purpose to go to the supreme court II
the presiding officer undertakes to over
ride them again by what they term VIC
ious rulings. But before the supreme
court could act. turbulent scenes would
be enacted which might or might not
cause the speaker to reverse himself. as
he did Saturday.
ROAD BILL FIGHT.
There is strong probability of a renewal
Of no 1eraf ha Il
morrow. For two weeks past the journal
has not been read, its approval being left
to a special committee. In view of the
speakers efforts, as charged, to cause
unconstitutional passage OF the bill by
complicating the record, 1t is likely the
friends Of the measure viii demand read
ing of the journal. If the speaker de-
MES it, a red-hot fight will be precipi-
tated that will likely result in another
prolonged deadlock for the friends of the
bill have enough votes TO order a call
of the house and to prevent the call be-
ing raised.
Again. if the request for reading is
granted there will be a fight TO correct
the minutes so as TO show the Dill was
constitutionally passed, notwithstanding
the speaker declared otherwise, owing 10
the failure of q quorum to Vote Ihe
friends of the bill will likely insist that
the record show that the men paired who
were for the bill were present but not
voting.
and his friends would endeavor TO put
through a special rule that would give
the minority on the road bill power TO
prevent action in the interest OF the gen
eral appropriations bill. thereby present.
ing q fresh bone of contention
LIMIT OF SESSION.
The fight in the house will necessarily
delay matters and the session may be
extended until the close of the week,
although the sixty days will be up on
THURSDAY. There was at one time dis
position among some OF the senators to
adjourn when the limit was reached, re-
gardless of the house, but a concurrent
resolution is necessary TO make such ac-
ton possible. The session is not limited
rs to sixty days, the only provision being
that the members shall not receive over
$500 each for any one session. Inc per
diem of s. per day, therefore, alone fixes
the sixty-day limit. In the absence of
adoption of a concurrent resolution fixing
the date of adjournment, the house coulq
force the senators to return, even though
the upper branch should adjourn sine die.
and the prospect of being hauled back by
the sheriff has mad the effect OF altering
the views of senators on the subject. No
concurrent resolution has as yet been
presented, and as it has been customary
TO introduce such a resolution fully ten
days before the end OF the sixty days, il
is not without the range of possibility
that the session may run over into next
week. If a. hight between the TWO houses
is precipitated, there may be enough
members OF the lower branch willing 10
serve without pay 10 prOlong the session
unIli Jhe mouse utIhdHuS are -cOiup4lsU
with.
BILLS APPROVED.
The governor has approved the follow
ing bills:
Senate bill No. IS, by Cooling, an act
to suppress contagious and infectious
diseases of sheep.
Senate bill No. II, by Gooding, making
it d misdemeanor for any person to will
fully or Wantonly waste the waters Of
any stream the waters of which are
used for irrigation.
Senate bill No. ~. by GOoding, to give
due recognition to the voters of Idaho
and making an appropriation in order TO
carry out the same.
Senate bill No. 40 by Ainslie, providing
for the consolidation of Incorporated Cit
les towns and villages.
House bill No. 49, by committee on ir-
rigation and water rights, providing for
the appropriation and distribution OF
water.
GILBERT BELNAP DEAD.