Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-01-19
DEMOCRATS ARE CHALLENGED
TO PRESENT SPECIFIC
CHARGES
Republicans Ask for Specific Charg-
es Concerning State Land Board.
Make Investigation to Last Dem
Ocratic Administration.

issued a defy to the democratic wing
of the senate this morning calling up
on the minority to prefer charges
over which so much campaign thun
der was created, before the invest'
eating committee and ridiculed the
attempts Of the leaders for pleading
for more time than the Today limit
in which to file charges against re-
publican state officers or boards.
When Minority Leader Senator
Ravenal Macbeth moved to recon
slider the vc-c taken on the state af-
fairs sweeping Investigations motion.
passed yesterday, he was met with
bitter opposition that caused {. iili-
buster and rafting fight for an hour
the skirmish ultimately resulting in
the motion being voted down by a
solid republican vote. To SenarOr
Williams of Boise county belongs
the credit of calling upon the dem
ocrats to come into the open and
porduce the charges they had talked
so much about, when he declared that
democratic legislators should back
up the assertions of their party Sen
ator St. Clair of Bingham county
served notice on the senate that he
had reason to believe that Governor
James H. .H.a.wley had prepared
charges and in that event hes could
easily file them.
Through a bill introduced by SEN
ator Freehafer of Washington coun-
ty. a direct blow is aimed at whole
sale liquor dealers in Boise. who
have been. it is charged. side step
ping the license law by shipping liq-
uors into eastern Oregon and then
shipping the beverages back again
into dry counties in Idaho in re-
tail lots, in this manner making a
handsome profit.
The second Idaho county division
bill made its appearance through the
Introduction of a measure on the
part of Senator Eckert calling for
the creation of Randall county with
Cottonwood as the temporary coun-
ty seat.
The senate had no more than OPP
ened this morning when Minority
LLeader Senator Ravenel Macbeth
of Custer county moved a recon
sideration of the vote taken by the
senate yesterday adopting the state
affairs committees report for a
sweeping investigation of the state
boards when written charges are
filed either with the subcommittee
to be appointed or with the gov
ernor.
Senator Kerns declared that he
did not believe the senate wished tc
lace the senators in a false position
by asking them to prefer charges in
writing. He hinted at a charge that
might be brought to the effect that
the state land board had given away
574 acres of land; that money was
later paid over and there is no ac-
count OF this money.
The fact the resolution only allows
10 days in which to file charges was
said by Senator Macbeth to be unfair
He declared it is his inteition tc
bring the Mackay dam matter before
the committee to endeavor to find
out what became of thousands oi
dollars that should have gone into
the dam construction but which in
reality never did, but instead was in
vested and lost in Colorado. Macbeth
said he did not wish to incriminate
any member of the legislature but
he did beiieve the Mackay dam mat
ter should be aired
Majority Leader Gooding and Sen
ator st. Clair asserted in reply tC
the statements of Senator Kerns and
Macbeth. that charges had been made
during the recent campaign and Ger
tainly time enough had elapsed fol
the members of the minoroity or the
governor to have their charges pre-
pared. st. Clair said that he sup
posed and had reason to believe thai
Governor Hawley has his so-calleC
charges ready. He was firmly of the
belief that the time was ample a,
the resolutions would probably no
pass the house until the latter par
Of the month
i would like to ask the senators
-frnnn Rinrhann and Shoshnna If thel