Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-02-18
A SIGNAL VICTORY
FOR LOCAL OPTION
Senate Bill Passes Lower House of
Idaho Legislature, and Governor
Sure to Sign II.

ruary Is, in the passage of the senate
local option bill. with only ten votes
against It, Within half an hour from
the time the bill was taken up It was
passed by the house.
After the vote was announced the
lower house took a recess to receive /
congratulations from the throng of
people who had gathered to witness |
the proceedings. One representative
who supported the measure said any
imperfections found in 1t would be
charged to the senate. which body
substituted the bill passed Monday
for one passed by the house and more
desired by local optionists- 1t win
be signed by Governor Brady, but 1t is
| feared by, friends of local option that,
owing to peculiar provisions OF the
| bill, it will prove ineffective.
The bill provides that to call an
election on the question 40 per cent
of the registered voters of the respec
| tive counties must be secured to a
| petition asking such an election,
which may prove difficult task
The following bills were passed:
Making Labor day and Decoration
day legal holidays; making child and
| wife desertion a penitentiary offense;
employers liability bill; providing a
penalty of from ten to twenty-five
years for burglary with explosives.
New bills were introduced as fol-
lows: For taxing cars OF car COM
panies; designating February IL as
legal holiday. and an anti-pass blu.
The senate was again the. scene OF
bitter wrangle between the Repub-
licans, led by Hart and the Demo
4 Gratis, led by Macbeth. The capitol
building Investigation matter was be-
fore that body, being brought up by an
effort of the minority on the state at
fairs committee to report thereon.
1t begins to look as though the
Idaho legislature is determined to
put the saloons out of business The
house on Tuesday. February Is,
passed a liquor bill, raising saloon
licenses in the state to $1,000 and
placing proprietors' bonds at $4,000.
A bill was also passed authorizing
school trustees to employ competent
persons to lecture before the schools
on the effects of narcotics on the hui
man system
The majority of the state affairs
committee of the senate, in report
to that body, exonerated Ex-Governor
Gooding of the charge made by State
Treasurer Hastings to the effect thai
Gooding had at one time, while gov
ernor, $780, 900 of state school money
in the transaction of business for the
state land board, in Boise banl
without security All of the Republi
cans voted for the adoption of the re
port and the Democrats against it
the minority attempting to have add
ed a report covering the Gooding
state treasurer and land board inves
legations. The Democrats charged
: that the Republicans were attempt
ing to whitewash all of the state Of
ficers against whom allegations hav'
been made.
The minority of the members sue
ceeded in having their report rea'
before the senate, and it showed tina
, at various times the land board ha'
on deposit in banks the enormou
sum of 81 100000 without security
Over this matter one of the most ser
| GUS CldSntS lndt nave yet OccuIItu u
the senate took place.
Two important bills were passed b
the house on Saturday, February /:
one raising the age at which childre
o are compelled to attend school froI
16 to years, and one authorizing tn
state examiner to hold annual NEE
ings of the county auditors, the e,
penss to be paid by the counties
The anti-race track gambling bill
at the instance of Patch. its autho
was indefinitely postponed.
o An anti-gambling bill, making th
= provisions of the present statute muc
more stringent and effective tina
] heretofore, was passed by the house
late hour on Saturday. A vigoror
fight was made against the measur
but its friends won easily.
A bill was introduced making it
misdemeanor to conduct a restauran
o. lunch counter or barber shop in co
= nection with billiard or poool hall
bowling alley, and one against pc
hitting minors to enter such places
also bill providing for indetermina
sentences except for treason and mu
re der in the first degree.
Two important bills were introduce
10 in the senate by Kerns one creating
= mining district out of Shoshone cou
ty and proyiding for the Office of dep
ty mine inspector. to take charge
the same at salary of 81 500 per yei
end travelling and Office Expenses, al
one to regulate the safety appliance
to be used on steamboats, operating
= Lives of Several Sick Children &
dapuercd nv Rcr,,h Tbrovar