The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-02-08
IDAHO LEGISLATURE.

The bill designed to prohibit wild
cat mining operations has passed the
house.
The churches of Boise petitioned
the legislature to pass the Sunday
rest bill.
Senator Cavanaugh has introduced
the Boise Independent school district
bill in the senate.
Representative Johnson, of Bingham
county, has introduced the Sunday
Rest" bill in the house.
A bill has been introduced in the
senate by Truitt, apprOpriating the
money in the scientific school fund to
the Agricultural college fund.
1t is announced that the committees
appointed to visit the state institu.
lions in north Idaho will not make the
trip till the latter part of the week.
A fence bill is now in process OF
preparation by Representative Yves
sells and Others, which will doubtless
be enacted into a law at this session.
The anti-lobby bill passed the sen.
ate last week. Several Republican
senators voted against the bill and the
Democrat members were also divided
on the matter.
The house apothecary bill and the
senate bill requiring prescriptions to
be written in the English language.
have been reported unfavorably and
practically killed.
Killpack has introduced a bill in the
house amending the law relative to
county officers, permitting the asses
.sor to employ deputies the same as
other county officials.
The senate concurrent resolution
providing for the appointment of q
commission to visit Lewiston and in,
vestigate the matter of a bridge across
the Snake river, has been passed.
Senator Pence has introduced a
Measure providing for the printing
of a list of all taxpayers, with valua.
ton of property, in September each
year, a copy of which is to be mailed
to each taxpayer.
Senate concurrent resolution provid.
ing for a commission to visit Lewis
tor and Charleston and investigate the
matter of constructing a free bridge
across the Snake river, has been
passed by the house.
Taylor's bill to create the county of
Bonner; Vests bill to create the
county of Twin Falls; Abbott's bill
amending the State school laws and
Miles's bill prohibiting hunting on pri.
vate grounds, has been passed by the
house
The governor has signed house bill
No. 4 by Wyman, the anti-lobby bill.
With the exception of the legislature
appropriation bill, H. B. No. 1, by
Smith, it is the first measure of the
session to get to the governor for his
signature.
County Assessor Charles Shepherd
OF Ada county says that the proposed
law to require assessors to take the
agricultural statistics of the state will
be a very good, feasible law, if pro.
vision is made for paying properly for
the work.
State Treasurer Hastings, in look.
ing over the books of his office, makes
the somewhat interesting report that
OF the SLOTS, 900 in Idaho state bonds,
practically all, or to be exact, 1921,
600, is held by the schools of the state
of Nebraska.
H. B. No. 70, by Mulalley, provides
for a special tax of three-fourths of
a mill on all taxable property in the
state, for the years 1907 and 1908,
for the purpose of rebuilding and
completing the new main building of
the state university.
The passage of the electors oath
bill by McCutcheon, known officially
as S. B. No. 43, was the feature of
the session of the senate on the 10Th.
Its discussion took up close to two
hours and a half and at times the
argument became heated.
Mcmillan, of Ada county, was the
first one to draw his warrant for
mileage at the present session. He
drew the smallest of all, his allow.
ance for mileage being but 20 cents.
McClear, of Kootenai, drew the largest
sum, a little over $119. The average
mileage for the senators was about
$50.
Representative Smith of Nez Perez
county is one of the literary members
of the present session. He has at var.
ious times had published books of
poems and other matters relating
more closely to school work, some of
them very successfully, and is at work
on a volume of synonyms and an.
tonyms.
H. B. No. II, by Jones of Latah.
provides for the creation of herd
district by vote of the residents of
the said districts, which may EN-.
brace a precinct or more The u
ty commissioners shall canvass the
vote on the question, and if the ma
jority favor such a district it shall
be ordered.
H. B. No. 70, by Conner, is an
amendment to the state law prescrib
ing that three persons can form a
corporation. At a former legislature,
one section of the law was amended
so as to allow three persons to incor.
porate, but by an oversight, other pro-
visions still required the old number
of i"ncOrporatorS.