Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-02-12

ton committee: Requiring license
from land surveyors: fixing salary oil
state engineer at $4,000 per year; Gre
ating d "Carey act" board.
The bill to eliminate the party en-
blem from the official ballot came up |
in the senate, and after vigorous |
fight between the Democrats on one
side and the Republicans on the
other, it was indefinitely postponed.
Senator Jordan introduced a bill
providing for the control and organi-
cation of the national guard of the
state and appropriating $4,000 for its
support.
A warm discussion was INDUCED in
regarding the G. w. Thompson iron
land lease, the discussion coming up
as result of consideration of the
Sweeley bill, providing for a state
park site at Shoshone Falls.
A resolution introduced by Dunning
in the house on Wednesday, February
3, providing for the initiative and ref
erendum. was indefinitely postponed
without being granted the usual cour
tesy of being printed. Seven Repub'
licans voted with the Democrats to
have the bill printed, but to no avail.
A resolution was adopted providing
for a joint committee of five members
of the house and three of the senate
to make new apportionment Of the
legislative districts of the state, and
another providing for three house
members and two senators to investi-
gate the expenses of the present SEES
sion of the legislature with view to
keeping down expenses.
Bills were presented providing pen
alties for wife and child desertion,
killing of stock by railways. creating
Nampa county from parts of Ada and
Canyon counties.
A bill giving mayors of cities the
right to vote on all questions coming
before the councils was killed. The
house passed the bill including con-
centrators and stamp mills in the
eight-hour law and one requiring the
publication Of lists of taxpayers, with
amount of assessed valuation thirty
days prior to the meeting of the coun.
ty board of equalization, a copy to be
sent each taxpayer. The bill provid-
ing for the preservation of G. A. r.
records, appropriating $1,000 to pay
one-half the expense thus incurred
was passed, also the state school law
commission measure.
The following new bills were pre-
scented: By Evans, preventing range
bulls from running at large and to i'm
: Lrove range stock; by McCracken, in
: surance of employees against loss by
accidents; by Johnson, fixing the sal
: airy of the register of state land
board at 5000 per year, state land
commissioner at $4,000.
The senate went on record in favor
of future membership in that body
not to exceed forty and house mem
bership not to exceed sixty. The mat
? ter came up in the way of a resolu
| tion by Sweeley relative to reap
, portionment of the state into legisla
!, i've districts. Frehafe introduced an
initiative and referendum resolution
aa well as a bill creating rural high
school districts. Davis presented {
3 measure providing for the use of con
Wet labor outside the penitentiary
0 The public utilities commission bill
+. came up in the senate, over which
}. that body engaged in a long argu
i ment, the bill finally being referred
/, back to committee.
t The name Of Holzheimer, the miss
d ing Bannock county representative
was stricken from the labor and immi
L grafton committee of the house OF
Q Friday, February 5.
II int nrnygid
ing for constitutional amendmen
:. changing the limit of the sessions o
! the legislature from sixty to ninet
r. days. with no bills presented after tn
n sixtieth day. The following bills wer
introduced: Making race horse gan
e bling a felony repeating the Sunda
S rest law; raising the license Of saloo
y keepers and creating the office of stat
y botanist; joint memorial askin
IS congress to amend the reclamation
e act, providing for communication of res
.e Ldence on reclamation homesteadi
and providing for deed after five year.
Ia Much time was spent in considerin
~ the house employers liability bill, an
= strenuous effort was made to &c
= the bill creating Power county froI
% the committee. The deaf, dumb an
G blind school was the cause of a wral
k gle for a short time, and the direc
Sc primary measure was again sid
as tracked for few days.
D. Speaker Clagstone appointed Al
al derson, Broomhoad and Jones as men
d bers of joint committee of senator
and representatives to investigate tn
- expenses OF. the present legislative Sc
70 sion.
lie The senate passed joint memoirs
as asking Congress to pass bill erea
by ing a bureau of mines and mining, ais
ed two other memorials, one asking CO
or. gress to pass an appropriation bill fl
M the clearing of distractions in I'll
~ Pend D'Oreille river, near AlbaT
Falls, and another granting right
way to the Panhandle Electric Ra
sci way & Power company over the Ka
on ski national forest. Tt also passed
tie bill providing for more uniform teac
ne ers' examinations in the state. Mo
nd of the afternoon was taken up wi
of consideration of bills dealing with Il