Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1907-03-30
Mighty Poor sympathy

other communities whose bridge
bills have been vetoed by the gov
ernor and svmpathize with them,
but we believe the governors action
was not without ample justification
and should be warning to future
Legislatures to 60 little lighter in
making appropriations generally.
-Rathdrum Tribune.
This is the kind of sympathy
that makes us glad that the new
county of Bonner has been born
and that we no longer have to
associate politically with people
who can endorse the action of
Gooding in vetoing the Bonuers
Ferry bridge bill
The Rathdrum Tribune in order
to excuse Governor Gooding is
willing to say that old Kootenai,
which for years has been paying
more money into the state treasury
than any other county in the state
with three EXCEPTIONS. should go
on pouring out her gold to be used
for the benefit of other cour ties,
while old Kootenai received not a
dollar of the appropriations.
The Rathdrum Tribune evident
ly believes it is just 10 spend
million dollars in the third rate
county of Cassia to build up a
normal school which by reason of
it's isolated location is not and
never will be anything more than
high school for Albion and vicin-
ity, while the governor is "amply
justified" in vetoing the modest
and only appropriation Kootenai
ever had.
Gooding's apoligist also evid-
emily believes that the governor
was amply justified" in signing a
bill for a $4,000 fish hatchery,
while he vetoed the $4,000 bridge
bill. The fish hatchery can only
be looked upon in the light of a
luxury, while the bridge was
public necessity connecting hun
dreds Of miles of wagon road and
without which bridge, travel and
commerce at that point is actually
blocked owing to climatic reasons,
for several weeks every fall and
spring.
The Tribune evidently is con-
fused as to the relative merits of
the Boomers Ferry proposition and
the Snake river bridge propositions.
Snake river at the points proposed
to be bridged is a swift-running
and consequently narrow stream.
A ferry boat will cross it in from
two to ten minutes. 1t never
freezes over nor overaows. The
cost of bridging at these points is
not so great but the counties can
afford the expense, the river form
ing a dividing line between two
counties, each of which would have
to bear only half of the cost At
Boomers Ferry all these conditions
are the reverse.
The editor of the HERALD i re-
ceiving letters from members of
the legislature from every part Of
the state expressing surprise al
and disapprobation of the COVER
nor's veto. One representative
writes: Had the governor vetoed
the bill before adjournment, the
feeling would have been such that
the bill would have been taken VI
and passed over his veto. And
another member, a senator from g
southern county writes, 81 expect
ed the governor to sign your bill
but nitl Well, Taylor, you are
not alone-some of the rest of III
have had a taste of his ungrateful
ness" These and other letters
may be seen at this Office by any
one interested.
Nor must it be taken that thii
matter is merely a personal disap
pointment to the author of the bill
1t is true that we expended GU
own money to hire attorneys Il
draft the bill and the road an,
bridge commission bill, to b
pushed in case a local bill coul,
not pass and that we devoted NOR
energy to the bridge PROFESSION thai
all other matters called upon t
consider, yet it is the people VIII
are turned down and who are di:
appointed ard it Is with them tn
| governor and his anologists INNS