The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1905-01-10
ADVISE TO
THE S0LoNS.
Another Discourse on Needs of
ti,e State in Legislative
Field
CULDESAC, Jan. s. 1905.


To The Teller:
IN my last 1 dealt with one weak
not in the lien law for the common
,a,o,, If is all right for mechanics for
.ho bnlding is always left but how
.ho,t man, say with several teams,
.,.ho works in grain and hay, which,
.,.,ap he has been stood off until the
60 davs are nearly past now finds when
no wants to recover that before he can
ao so he must file lien and put up
g .oo or $50 costs which he has not got,
IN the mean time the grain and hay
mvsteriously disappears and the poor
,,horer is left. This law ought to be
amended so that upon an affidavit and
hond for initial costs before the clerk
If the district court, a judge of the
nrobate court, he could proceed at once,
before the stuff has been spirited away
and l would suggest that the law re-
parding alias summones should be
amended in this way also where man
is known to be out Of the state why
wait seventy days before execution can
be had but simply give the district
court clerk power to issue an execu-
ton in say fifteen days instead Of hav-
ing to wait six months for the court to
meet, after already waiting seventy
days. Is it any wonder that people
take the law in their own hands when
Bards have been writing on, and the
,people lamenting the flaws delay" for
hundreds of wears.
The next law that needs to be re-
adjusted is that in regard to county
constables in many Of the precincts for
instance the constable elected does not
qualify and the justice has to send
his papers to a neighboring justice
whose constable has qualified and has
more than he can do already now the
law allows only one constable to a pre-
cinct, but requires that constable Gas
in the case of an important precinct
like Culdesac or Nezperce) to do three
mems work The law should be amend
ed giving the justices power like the
sheriff to fill UP a blank bond for spe-
cial constable without reference to the
county board and thus enable them to
prevent the removal of property about
to be attached out of the county and
thereby preventing much fraud and
many other instances could be cited
where the justice is left powerless for
want of an officer to serve papers legal
ly and think that in this connection
it would be well for all the justices of
each county to-meet at their county
seat while the legislature is in session
and unite in urging any necessary
amendments to old statutes or any new
legislation which their experience dur
ing their terms of Office may have sug-
gested. BY this method we could in
a few years have a tollerably smooth
code
Now as to the STATUTE of limitations
have no hesitation in denouncing it
as fraud from the foundation up to
its sacraligious $4,000 sky scraper cop
ing and mansard it was conceived in
iniquity and born in that wild, weird
woody wicked period of our territorial
existence which the better thinking
part of our Inland Empire would
feign wish to cover with the mantle of
charity but which in their better mo-
ments repudiate according to this stat
ute there is not one farmer in forty
VINO has that much any way. Let us
see' he is entitled to 5000 worth of fur
niture, 5000 worth of kitchen furniture
IN addition to this is picture gallery
and provision for six months equal to
az least another 800. Then come cows,
calves and pigs worth 5000. more than
''oo Of farming utensils and imple-
ments, food for four of the best horses
Or mules for six months. another 500
easy then so acres of crop worth easily
s'oo dollars and after living at the
expense of the grocery man to a great
extent at least for all the luxuries in
tue spring or summer If he wishes he
can snap his fingers at him and tell
nm 10 take what is not exempt. If it
vas absolutely certain that even the
oeu ana the cooking stove could be
''Aeh Tor a debt they would either not
50 IN debt or they would dig up the
'Dohes promptly for their debts to the
anu tne WnOIe country III
.iuuihs the business man would be in
iiueh more thrifty condition. This
-" was intended to protect honest
poor people but it has been perverted
a certainly ought to be modified, as
now 1t is an absurd peace of class
.v siation and so also is the law that
an Ms women in Idaho who possesses
80 "e rights of a man, to hold prop
originally her husband's) in hel
az "e While he may run some bushes;
contract debts with the unwary
~. Mt with absolute impunity ant
extends in many cases to the small
rs.,t nant doing the same with ths
a,aie dealers. The law should no
v;i'ihate v;,~ it holds the man and hi.
n as one when they come into cour
but when the husband owes
' contracted while they were maj