The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-03-01
IDAHO LEGISLATURE.


tive Fallon's eight-hour bill.
The house has passed the bill appro.
priating $4,000 to build wagon roads
in Idaho county.
The bill of Weaver to license gamb-
ling was indefinitely postponed by the
house, which kills the measure.
The house passed a resolution con-
demning the attack made on CHIEF
Justice Ailshie, who is candidate to
succeed Judge Beatty on the federal
bench.
Wyman's bill %appropriating $4,000
for a statute Of Senator Shoup, to be
placed in hall of the House OF Repre-
sentatives at Washington, and Whites
Osteopath bill, have been passed by
the house.
H. B. No. 1872, by Seawell, is to re-
peal section 2702 Of the revised stat
utes of Idaho. The olu statute called
for a penalty of 100 times the dam
age done, for any malicious damage
to telegraph or telephone lines.
Huddleson's bill changing the date
of the annual school election to the
first Saturday in April and the bill
increasing the salary of the warden
and deputy warden of the ~penitentiary,
have bee.4 approved by the house.
BY a vote ofs32 to 7 the house passed
the resolution by Gleason, of koOte.
mai county, %condemning the forest re-
carrya nn1i1u nf tho unu0rnrn0nf 1OJr-
ing the debate there were several
fervent outburSts Of oratory, for and
against the resolution.
A protest against the creation Of
Clearwater county from citizens OF
Nez Perez county was read in both
| houses, on the 10Th, and a new bill
was introduced in the house by Fogg.
providing for a bridge across the
Snake river at st. Anthony.
Surely there was a lively time in the
house on the 18th. The optional IL
cense bill, the measure proposing to
leave the granting of liquor licenses
to the county commissioners, was READ
for final passage. 1t passed by a vote
of 20 to 81, and the debate was ami
mated throughout.
II. B. No. 165, by the committee on
labor, Is a substitute for the employ
ers' liability bills now before the
house. 1t makes defective machinery,
defective works or ways in mines,
mills, hosting or ore treating works, a
subject for action in case OF injury to
the emplOye.
H. B. No. III, by the Judiciary com
mittee, fixes the number OF peremp-
tory challenges allowed both prosecu-
ton and defense in a capital cas-
where the penalty would be death or
life Imprisonment, at 10 challenges
for each side; six challenges each are
allowed for other than capital cases.
II. B. No. 1874, by Jones of Latah,.
prescribes penalties for allowing GER
tain specified noxious weeds to grow.
The Canadian and Russian thistles,
and the tumbling mustard, are speci-
fled, though others may be added il
necessary for general protection, the
state bOtanist to determine the O
iOus weeds.
H. B. No. 100, by the fish and game
committee, is a complete revision OF
the fish and game laws. 1t changes
the time for the open season on sew
eral of the birds and animals; but the
principal change is in the provision
allowing the sale of eastern brook
trout from private ponds, and in the
legalizing of SEEMING in Bear Lake.
The employers liability bill, intro
duced in the senate, s.. B. No. 113,
Is the result Of a series of conferences
held by the committees on immigra-
ton, labor and statistics of the two
houses during the previous week. 1t
was found that none Of the bills that
had been under consideration was sat
isfactory.
H. B. No. III, by Johnston, is a
substitute for his H. b. No. SO, the
Sunday rest bill. It is much less n
eral in its provisions, combining the
prohibited list to saloons, all places
where intoxicating liquors are sold,
racing, public or noisy sports,
and all advertising Of such sports that
will disturb the peace,
The first victim of the anti-lobby law
was DR.. G. H. Tufts, connected with
the Northwestern Reform bureau. in
in the interest of the reform
measures. He was arrested and taken
to Judge Dunbar's court by the SER
geant-at-arms of the house. Mr.. Tufts
was charged with having lobbyed
the Sunday Rest" bill was un-
Ter discussion.
The session Of the senate on the
End was of a routine character, many
bills of minor character being acted
N in committee of the whole. A
from Chief Justice Ailshie
vas read, thanking the house for its
~denouncing the charges
edged against him in connection with
lis candidacy for appointment as fed
raj judge.
H. B. No. ISL, by the state affairs
committee, is to appropriate $15,OOO,
or an Idaho exhibit at the Alaska
lukon-Pacific exposition at Seattle,
1909. A commission is to be ap
United by the governor, to serve with