Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-12-09
"reminiscences Of a Pioneer


one or the argonauts of journalism in
the west, was induced to locate at
Mountain Home, and in the summer
OF 81, he founded the Bulletin and
through It's columns, opened the cam
paign for the new county.
AS soon as the SO session Of the
legislature 1.-THE last territoriaD open
ed, the old guard of HALEY was on
hand at Boise, to a man, and none
Ut them idle.
II. 2. Burkhardt of HALEY was
elected speaker Of The house on the
organization OF the legislature, and
campaign of parliamentary tactics,
to prevent the creation of Gilmore
county, was formed.
In due time the Gilmore county
jbill was introduced by Hon. d.
L. Bailey Of Caldwell and the Bel
leyuites, seeing show to get even
with HALEY. had the bill amended
80 as to be an act forthe creation OF
Logan and Elmore counties. the tenn
porary county seat of Logan to be
at Bellevue, and that of Elmore at
Rocky Bar. Hon. H. III. Clay OF Bel
levue fathered the amendment.
y, G. Helfrich, G. r. Shaw. w. j..
Turner, +. p. AXE and D. r. Keefer
were at the capital, ever on the
alert, looking after Elmore's, and 0.
s. Glenn, Ii. e. Miller and Matt Nc
Fall Of Bellevue took care Of Lo-
gan's interests.
The bill went to the committee on
counties, came back to the house
reported favorably upon, and then
came up before the house commit
tee on the whole for action, the en-
tire house sitting as such commit
tee. The santi-divisionists had their
plans well laid out, and obstruction
and filibustering became, on their
part, the order OF the day.
A frivolous amendment was offered
to the bill. Then followed I'M
productions of an amendment to the
to the bill Then followed in turn in
amendment, and an amendment to|
the substitute. These being all
tareshed out, pro and con, the bill as
introduced, passedsin the committee o
the whole. unscathed, to come up In
due turn for final passage in the
house.
On coming before the house for fin
al Passage, the, same work was done
over and the debate was hot and bit
ter. Representative Kurtz OF Nampa
denounced the bill as "a base con
spiracy to wreck the empire county
Of Alturas, a plot more foul than that
which drove the dagger through thel
imperial mantle Of th,ss Immortal Gaze
sslf. An "anti' from the north said
ssif one OF the blacklist demons In
the lowermost depths Of hell could bel
brought upon this earth to paint
something black, he could not paint
1t any blacker than the plot behind
this bill
An amendment was offered by an
other anti cutting the antelope val
ley of from Alturas, and annexing III
to Cassia county, and cutting off~the
sawtooth country and annexing 1t tol
Custer. This would make what was
left Of the Empire Alturas' doll
house county, with an area closely
resembling cabbage patch saved
from the ruins of a grand estate, and
was introduced in hope that no such
bill would pass, but 1t passed as
amended and went to the upper
house.
Here the bill met the same treat
fnent as before at the hands OF the
"antis," but passed the committee on
the whole. and went on the calendar
for final action.
The presiding officer, John P.l
iClough OF Lemhi county, strong
"anti." arranged 1t so that the bill
did not come up for final action untlI
the afternoon OF the last day of theI
session, and the same old tactics we're
brought to bear, to delay its passage.
The lower house had already closed
its session, but the debate continued
I'M the council AT 10 o'clock that
night, w. ]. Perkins OF Alturas aross
and kept speaking until an alarm
clock on the presidents desk sound
ed the midnight hour. President
Clough then declared the session ad-
journed sine die, and left the room,
taking the gavel with him, followed lY|
Perkins, Brigham of Latah and Camp
bell of Boise counties. There were
eight members yet remaining in the
room, and enough to form quorum.
Mcpherson of Shoshone called the
body to order, stating that no mo-
ton to adjourn had been made,