The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-08
IDAHO LEGISLATURE.
The senate passed bill amending

that he has signed the eight-hour bill.
Five thousand dollars was appro-
priated by the house for wagon
road from Boise to Atlanta.
A bill amending the horticultural
law, making board appointed by gov.
ernor. has passed the house.
H. b. No POS, by White, making 1t
misdemeanor to cruelty beat, whip
or unnecessarily i'll treat any pupil OF
any public school, has been recon-
ended for passage.
A memorial asking congress to pass
Heyburn's bill permitting the perfect
ing of government title on government
irrigation projects in five years wal
adopted by the house.
The house has passed a fish and
game bill radically changing the law
in some particulars 1t makes the
open open season for grouse much
later than now, fixing it at Stpt. l.
The joint resolution by Seawell sub
hitting the question of railway COM
mission to vote of the people was
! defeated in the house by vote OF 2S
| to 20, not the necessary two-thirds.
The bill anneXing a portion of Owy'
| hee county to Canyon county was
passed by the house on the 26th; also
| the bill providing for a state fish
| hatchery. A number of minor bills
were passed
A bill appropriating $1,000 from the
| fish and game fund, for the eXtermina
| ton of noXious animals that prey upon
game, provoked considerable discus
sion in the house. 1t was passed by b
vote of 80 to 7.
S b. No 1903, by public lands COM
mittee, authorizing the state board OF
land commissioners to grant rights
| of-way to railroads. telephone and tel
egraph lines over state lands, has
| passed the senate.
H. B. No. 49, by Finstad extending
the power of the state horticultural
commission to the examination of ali
fruits and nursery stock offered for
sale in the state, passed the house by
vote of 80 to 2.
H. B. No. 130 Ballantyne, a bill max
ing it misdemeanor to destroy or in
terfere with dams, headgateS, canals
or other irrigation works, passed the
house without a dissenting vote being
recorded against it.
The mills of the lawmakers on the
Goth were not like the proverblal mills
of the gods, which grind slowly, foi
they ground out 23 bills and resolu
tons, and 10 bills passed through the
committee Of the whole.
The senate had another tussel with
the bill establishing Inheritance tax
for the benefit of the university on
the Goth, and again the bill went over
without recommendation from the
committee of the whole.
The senate has passed senate bills
regulating trust and title companies,
providing for the annexation of new
territory to incorporated cities and
villages; to simplify settlement of es.
tates in probate court.
The anticipated debate on the bill
to amend the tWo-mile limit law for |
grazing sheep started in the house on
the 25th in committee Of the whole |
but the bill went over without final |
action. There was lively debate
A Joint memorial asking congress
for relief of heirs of men killed or
whose property was destroyed in the |
Nez Perez Indian wars and one favor.
ing the passage of Heyburns land
court bill were passed by the house.
S. B. No. 80, by Waldrip, authoriz.
ing the county of Nez Perez to pay a
bill for quarantine expenses growing
out of small pOX quarantine in the
town of NeZ Perez, in 1903, passed the
house by a vote of 20 to II, II absent
and not voting.
S. b. No. "a, by Richards, amending
the existing act regulating the an
nexation of territory to incorporated
cities, towns and villages so as to re.
quire the owner of the property an.
nexed to pay for the survey, was
passed without dissenting vote.
The old question of a state board of
health was aired in the senate through
the offering of resolution by Mac
Beth directing the judiciary commit.
tee to report the bill on the subject. 1t
was pointed out that the bill had been
slumbering there ever since the early
part of the session. Two years ago
similar bill was defeated
H. B. No. 222, by Gleason (by re-
quest), requires that trust compan
les must have a capital stock, paid in
full, of $4,000 or more, in cash or
property. They are to be subject to
examination and regulation by the
state bank examiner, the same as state
banks.
Fl. B. No. 220, by Cavanah gives to
irrigation districts the right Of emf.
nent domain for reservoirs, canals,
bitches and other necessary workings.
The district must pay the adjudged
damages for such right-of-way within
six months or lose the right to such
eminent domain.
Two important bills were introduced
In the senate on the Goth, one proyid.
ing that keepers and inmates Of
houses Of ill-fame be prevented from
registering as voters and voting in this
state, and another providing for and
regulating primary elections and nom
mating conventions.
After many tribuatiOnS that would