The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1909-02-26
DO|NdS Of LEGISLATURE
Summary Of Work on Passage
Of Bills.
TO DENY WOMEN VOTE
Resolution to that Effect Intro
duced in House.

On Feb. IS, the senate at Boise
passed house bills: to correct a
mistake in the revised codes rela-
tive to election of presidential
electors, and to raise the age at
which children may be sent to the
state reformatory from 16 to 18.
The senate bill creating rural high
school districts was also passed by
the upper house, and memorial
was adopted petitioning congress
to adjust the tariff on all products
of Idaho in harmony with the
principle of protection. The lower
house passed the senate local
option bill and house bills as fol-
lows: Requiring graded school
teachers to take a special course of
study; adding Decoration day and
Labor day to the list of legal holi-
days; providing punishment for
parents who abandon their child
ren; permitting changes of school
districts at any meetings of county
commissioners; repeating ineffect-
i've sections of the codes; creating
the additional crime of burglary
with explosives; and employers
liability bill.
The upper house, on the 10Th,
accepted the majority report ex-
onerating former Governor Good
ing from the charge OF ha ling de-
posted in a Boise bank $500, 900
for % days without interest or
security. The senate passed
senate bills: to protect laborers in
securing wages; relating to grant
ing of marriage licenses; providing
| that money from damages in suits
/! to recover license tax 60 direct tc
the county treasurer; requiring
court reporters to furnish copies o1
records in cases of appeal; to pro,
vide for service of summons out
| side of state, The house passed
house bills as follows: Raising
bonds of saloon keepers from
$4,000 to $4,000 and license from
$3.50 to $1,000; restricting sale o
morphine, cocaine, opium, etc.
changing Bonner and Twin Fall
counties to counties of the frs
class; authorizing school trustee
to employ persons to lecture upol
the effect OF alcoholic liquors; re
quiring a jury fee in civil cases
The house passed senate bills a
follows: Relating to examination
in civil actions; repeating anti
quated school laws; providing fo
the construction of bridge acros
Kootenai river at Bonners Ferry
On the 18TH the senate agree
to the house resolution to prohib
the introduction of any bills aftt
the 2oth, except those carryin
appropriations. The senate passe
house bills: No. 13, authorizin
boards of school trustees to pa
i. the expense Of one of their men
bers in attendance upon meeting
called by county superintendent
h No. ga, to relieve surety compa
!. les from the necessity of divulgir
confidential information; No. 7
: to correct a misprint in the cod
t relating to the joinder Of parti
Il defendant in civil actions; No.
Il fixing punishment for false pr
;" tense. No bills were given fin
: passage in the house on the ut
On the 18th the senate gave Il
state affairs committee until Fe
n Fl, in which to report on its
J. vestigation into the charg
n against the capitol building col
le mission. No final legislation W
y done by the senate nor house
S; the IS and 10Th though seve1
u measures were passed in eth
house.