The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-19
MOUNTAIN STRTES
GAMBLING BILL KILLED
Idaho House Rejects the Local
Option Measure.
SALOON ACT DEFEATED
SENATE GOES ON RECORD
AGAINST WOMEN JURORS.
SALOON ACT DEFEATED


Boise. Ida. Feb. IS.-The house today
in committee of the whole killed the
local option substitute for the bill re-
pealing the gambling law. BY a vote
of twenty-six to twenty it recommend
ed that the bill do not pass.
The bill was taken up as the special
order, and it was expected it would
provoke another acrimonious debate.
The members had evidently come to the
conclusion there was nothing left TO
say. so, after a miId-manner discussion
the majority tossed their harpoon into
the measure.
But for a move of the minority i'm
which Speaker McKinlay gave material
assistance final action would have been
taken by adoption of the committee re-
port. The speaker ruled il would be
necessary to revert to the order, Re
ports of special committees before ac-
ton could be taken on the report or
the committee of the whole, and as IL
required a tWO-thirds vote TO revert
back, the majority had to be content 10
allow the matter to hang flre until to-
morrow. The ardent supporters Of the
bill have no hope for it, however
The house passed the Little Salmon
wagon road bill as amended by the
senate. 1t now goes TO the governor.
The body also passed two house bills
introduced in behalf of the state press
association One of these requires the
publication of notices of sheriffs' sales,
and the other fixes a uniform price for
legal notices.
Supreme Court Building Urged.
Two new bills were introduced. One
of them creates the office of assistant
attorney general at $1,000 a year and
the other provides for the building of
a supreme court and law library build
ing at Lewiston.
There was another discussion in the
senate of the Jones bill to close saloons
on Sunday and on week days from mid
night until 3 a. m. The author of the
bill made d strenuous effort TO get IL
through, and it looked for time as
though he would succeed All amend
ments proposed by the opposition were
voted down. There came a change, how
ever, when d vote was taken on the
adoption of she vital section of the
BILL which was rejected. Kinkaid, who
had voted for the bill from the start,
then moved for its indefinite postpone
ment. The report Of the committee of
the whole making that recommended
tiOn was adopted by a vote of ten to
eight.
Women Jury Bill Passed
Favorable action was taken on Good
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duty. In the course of debate DOnnel-
". in opposing the measure, said the
women had demanded and had secured
equal rights with men and he believed
they should perform the same duties as
citizens. There was an overwhelming
majority for the bill.
The house bill compelling children to
attend school when tuition and board
are furnished free was favOrably acted
on. 1t is intended specially to cover
the case of Indian children in the vicin
ity of Lewiston.
Two house bills We're passed and sent
to the governor. Both were by Triesch
of Mes Perces- One repeals section lose
of the revised statutes. which prohibits
the establishing of ferries within a mile
of each other. The other prohibits the
granting of an exclusive franchise To
operate ferries, toll roads and toll
bridges.
There was an extended discussion Of
the bill requiring that 80 per cent of
saloon license money be placed in the
general school fund of the county in
stead of the fund of the district in
which it is collected, as under the pres
ent law. It was claimed the enactment
of such law would materially cripple
the efficiency of public schools in cities.
Notwithstanding the robust opposition
to the measure, the senate instructed
the special committee on revision OF the
revenue laws to incorporate the provis-
ions of the bill in the general revenue
bill it is framing.