The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-03-07
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Of the History Of Legislative DOin9s Is They Appear to
Special Correspondent Of The Recorder.


the republican contingent voted for
1t. The Sunday rest bin passed the
house by large majority. In the
house bill passed unanimously
which provides that the station mas
ters and employees Of railroads should
be compelled to give out information
as to the arrival of delayed trains.
Friday the Sunday rest bill came up
in the house which caused consider
able discussion. The features OF the
bill was directed largely upon the
keeping open Of saloons, theaters and
other places Of amusement. There
was 33 voted for the bill and l6
against.
Saturday the senate fought out
the two mile limit law, and defeated
the bill to repeal this law by a very
low margin. The purpose of the bill
was to change the limit from two
miles to one mile, but on the final
vote the bill was defeated by the mar
row margin of one vote. The senat-
ors voting against the bill were as
follows: Butler, Jacobs, Jensen,
Macbeth. McClere, McCutcheon,
Nugent, Rich, Truitt, Walters and
Whitwell. The appropriation ccm-
mittee Of the house made report In
which it recommended total bond
appropriations of s2ll 200. The fol-
lowing resolution was introduced: :
That a committee of three members
be appointed by the speaker to in
vestlgate into the matter of taxation
by the state board of equalization to
investigate how railroads and other
assessments were arrived at, what
information, if any, was before the
state board of equalization at the
time of the assessment, and to OBJ
tain all other information relevant
hereto. Said committee shall have
power to summon state officers and
other people before it to give testi-
mony, examine such public docu-
ments as 1T deems advisable, and do
all other things which in its judg-
ment shall seem proper and expedi
ent and make report to the house be-
fore adjournment IL possible.
Saturday was one OF the most
strenuous sessions in the senate, some
eighteen bills being passed 10y that
body. The most important of the
day was the defeat of the bill to
change the two mile limit. A bill
by McCutcheon to increase the inter-
est on delinquent taxes from IL to Is
per cent carried. A bill by Nugent
to regulate the sale of Intoxicating
liquors, and providing for the posting
of notices against persons known as
habitual drunkards, passed unani-
mously. A bill by McCutcheon was
recommended for passage by the SEN
ate which makes it unlawful for an
inmate of a house of prostitution to
register. In the house the most OF
the day was taken up in the discus
sion of the direct primary bill, there
being two bills introduced. One OF
the bills was supposed to represent
the Interpretation of Borah, French
and other leading republicans of the
late party platform, while the other
was the bill desired by Hepburn. The
first bill was passed by the house by a
vote OF % to IL. 1t was suggested
that the bill as Hepburn would have
it should also be passed by the house
and then let the senate make a
choice, but after some time In dis.
cussion the Hepburn bill was defeat
ed by vote of NJ to 10.