Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-03-08
IDAHO LEGISLATURE.

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. 3. No. 205, by White, making it
a misdemeanor TO cruelty beat, whip
or unnecessarily III 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 was
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 il at Stpt. l
The joint resolution by Seaweil sub
hitting the question OF a railway com
mission to a vote of the people was
defeated in the house by vote OF rs
to 20, not the necessary two-thirds.
The bill annexing portion Of Owy
hee county to Canyon county was
passed. Dy the uOuSc Ou luc -DtAs dist
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 q
vote of 80 to Z.
S. B. No. 100, 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. 149, by Finstad, extending
the power of the state horticultural
commission to the examination of all
fruits and nursery stock offered fol-
sale in the state, passed the house by /,
a vote of SO to 2.
H. B. No. 100, Ballantyne, 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 |
26th were not like the proyerblal mills |
of the gods, which grind slowly, fol I
they ground out % bills and resolu |
tons, and 13 bills passed through the /
committee of the whole.
The senate had another russell With |
the bill establishing inheritance tax |
for the benefit of the university on |
the 26th, 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 a 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 Heyburn's land
court bill were passed by the house
S. B. No. 80, by Waidrip, authoriz-
ing the county of Neg Perce 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 avote of % to IL, IL 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 70 re-
quire the owner of. the property an,
nexed to pay for the. survey, was
passed without dissenting vote
The old question of state board of
health was aired in the senate through
the offering of a resolution by Mac
Beth directing the judiciary commit
tee to.report the bill on the subject II
was pointed. out that the bill had been
Ilumh herring there ever since the early
part of the. session. Two years ago a
similar bill was defeated
H. B. No. 222. by Gleason (by re-
,uestl, requires that trust compan.
es must have a capital stock, paid in
'ull, of $4,000 or more, in cash or
They are to be subject to
and regulation by the
;tate bank examiner, the same as state
,anks.
H. B. No. 220, by Cavanah. gives to
irrigation districts the right of emf
lent domain for reservoirs, canals, !
litches and other necessary workings.
The district must pay the adjudged
lamages for such right-of-way within
tx months or lose the right to such
minent domain.
Two important bills were introduced
q the senate on the Goth, one provid.