Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-02-19
A SIGNAL VICTORY
FOR LOCAL OPTION
Senate Bill Passes Lower House OF
Idaho Legislature, and Governor
Sure to Sign 1t.


local option bill, with only ten votes Y
against it. Within half an hour from =
the time the bill was taken up II was !.
passed by the house.
After the vote was announced the
lower house took a recess to receive 7
CONGRATULATIONS from the throng OF
people who had gathered to witness
the proceedings. One representative
who supported the measure said any
imperfectioAs found in 1t would pc
charged to the senate, which oody
sushtituted the bill passed Monday
for one passed by the house and more
desired by local optionists. 1t VIII
be signed by Governor Brady, but II is
feared by friends Of local option that'
owing to peculiar provisions OF the
bill. 1t 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
petition asking such an election,
which may prove difficult task.
The following bills we're passed:
Making Labor day and Decoration
day legal holidays; making child and
wife desertion penitentiary offense;
employers liability bill; providing
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 Dill.
The senate was again the scene OF
a bitter wrangle between the Repub-
licans. led by Hart, and the Demo
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 al
fairs committee to report thereon
Two important bills we're passed by
the house on Saturday, February To-
one raising the age at which cnlldren
are compelled to attend school from
16 to 8 years. and one authorizing the
state examiner to hold annual meet
ings Of the county auditors, the eX
pense to be paid by the counties
The anti-race track gambling bill
ut the instance OF Patch, its author
was indefinitely postponed.
An anti-gambling bill, making thu
provisions of the present statute muci
more stringent and effective thar
heretofore, was passed by the house
a late hour on Saturday. A vigorous
fight was made against the measure
but its friends won easily.
bill was introduced making 1t
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lunch counter or barber shop In cor
nection with a billiard or poool hall @
bowling alley, and one against PEI
hitting minors to enter such places
also a bill providing for undetermined
sentences except for treason and mu
der in the first degree:
Two important bills were introduce
in the senate by Kerns, one creating
mining district out Of Shoshone coul
ty and providing for the Office of dep
ty mine inspector, to take charge I
the same at salary of 81 300 per yet
end travelling and office expenses, an
one to regulate the safety appliance
TO be used on steamboats, operating
inland waters within the state
Idaho
The bill calls gambling felony,
stead of a misdemeanor as it is no.
and it puts proprietors of buildings
which games of chance are conducts
in the list of those who are liable
prosecution. The vote on the b
stood 33 to 4.
Strenuous efforts were made In Z
house on Friday, February IL, to pa
the senate local option bill under 81
pension of the rules, but as 1t
quires a two-thirds vote to do TIL
the friends of local option failed
their attempt. The anti-optionis
made vigorous fight. and their
forts landed the measure in comm
tee, where they hope to have it n
terially amended.
bill was introduced making 1t
felony to conduct prize fight or C.
test. The house only held short S
sion and then adjourned until Sat
day, out of respect TO the memory
Abraham Lincoln.
In the senate the Sweely agrit
tural college bill, proposing to loo
such college at Twin Falls, came n
losing its life when that body voted
indefinitely postpone it, but the sc
tor gave notice that he would m
a reconsideration of the measure.
A resolution was introduced by
beth asking that Governor Brady
pear before the state affairs conn
tee and, il possible, throw some Il
on the capitol building matter. to
in the investigation.
The senate adjourned until Sa
day, out of respect to the memor!
Lincoln.
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