The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-20
GOV. MORRISON
Is TOO SMOOTH
Idaho Republicans Express Great
indignation.
CASE OF THE WEISER BRIDGE
BILL WAS HELD UP AFTER BE-
ING PASSED. -
lspeeiaI to The Herald.N

AOpeCidl 10 Inc t1eIdiu-t
Boise, Ida, Feb 1.-TWO acts by
Governor Morrison this week have GREE
ated much unfavorable comment, and
great Indignation is openly expressed
by many Republicans of prominence.
Both houses of the legislature passed
bill apprOpriating $4,000 to aid in the
construction of a steel bridge across
the Snake river from WeiseF to the
Oregon side, residents of Weiser nav
ing subscribed fund of So, 600 for this
purpose-the bridge to cost $50, co.,
After the bill had passed, Governor
Morrison quietly had il recalled from
the senate by the house for reconsioerst-
ton, as he was opposed to the measure
and yet did not want to antagoniZe the
The governor was not smooth enough
to keep his interference with the bill
from becoming known, and as a con-
sequence Morrison has made more
enemies than would have been the case
if he had met the Issue bravely. 4
large delegation Of Weiser business
men has been on the ground eves
since this astounding act of the gov
ernor.
Then the action of the chief execa-
tive in signing the bill to locate state
reform school in Fremont county and
to issue bonds in the sum of S50,OOU
to run for fifty years is regarded as fr-
comprehensive in view of subsequent
events. The governor signed the blu
with the clear understanding that II -
unconstitutional: the constitution Of
Idaho p'ainly states that no indebted
ness sha i be incurred for a greater Pc
riod IF time than twenty years. i'm
mediatelv after the signing of the bill
by the governor it's author, Repre-
sentative Moore of Fremont county, in
accordance with an agreement with
Morrison, introduced an amendment re-
ducing the time limit of the bonus
from fifty to twenty years.
1t is considered a very serious in
novation for a governor to sign an I'M
constitutional measure, and demon
strates that Morrison is trying to get
into the Hepburn Standrod comhi-
nation, which is now carrying matters
with a high hand in Idaho Republican
circles by coalition of the southeastern
and northern counties.
Yesterdays Session.
New senate bills, No. 81, by Day,
provides for union of school districts,
SO, Heath, to allow independent school
districts to increase levy to 10 mills.
The house bill for a $4,000 bond issue
for the Pocatello academy was passed
unanimously.
WhitWelFs bill for a state board Of
health was defeated.
The invitation of Ed H. Dewey for
the legislators to attend the opening
OF the Dewey Palace hotel at Nampa
Friday night was accepted by both
houses, as was the tender by the Short
Line of a train for the trip.
In the house, S. ]. r. to appoint &
committee to inventory the returned
exhibit from the Pan-American exps.-
sition was passed; S. 3. q, Eckert, TO
appropriate $1,000 for a trail from.
GoT's ferry to Thunder mountain was
defeated by one majority: H. B. -,
that foreign corporations must file ar
tfcles of Incorporation, was passed; II.
B. 1O4, to amend the charter of the
city of Lewiston, was passed: H. u.
H. Hunt, to pay a bounty of l cent
per pound for beet sugar made in rne
state in 1903, and one-haIf cent a pound
for the same in 1904, was passed by a
Pardy vote, Galloway. Democrat, Vot-
ing with the Republicans.
Moore's (Idaho) amendment that No
bounty is to be paid to manufactur-
ers employing Japanese or Chinese Ia
Dor, was defeated in committee of the
whole, after a spirited debate