Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-01-28
WITH IDAHo'S LAWMAKERS
What Is Happening in Both Branches
of the State Legislature.

fOWler, defeated hepuDllcdn CaHuiuatt
for senator from Custer county. ant
l.. E. Dillingham;, Republican state
central committeeman, filed charges
on behalf of themselves and 100 Others
from Mackay, through Senator Mac
Beth and Representative Glennon
against Governor Brady and his entire
land board administration, chargine
criminal negligence, fraud and incom
potency in the construction of the
Mackay dam.
In the house ON Wednesday, Repre-
sentative Hutton presented various
charges against Ex-Governor Goodine
and his administration, and cited arti
Giles from various papers and inter
views and speeches from such mem
bars of each as Gooding, Brady ant
Lansdon.
Representative Featherstone's bill
appropriating $4,000 in full payment
fthe balance due Tony Tubbs fol
feeding the bull PEN prisoners dur
ing the Occur d'Alene strike twelve
years ago, passed the house on Tues
day, January "a.
Senator Hornibrook of Twin Falls
introduced bill to lay tax on the
gross earnings of the express and tele
phone companies and on refrigerator
cars and oil companies. Representa-
tive Galloway of Washington intro
duced similar bill in the house.
Lieutenant Governor Sweetser re
coded from his position to allow the
state affairs committee but one Demo
cratic member out of FIVE. Early in
the session Macbeth of Custer had re;
signed as the one member in empha.
sis of what he denounced as the un.
fair policy of the president On Tues.
day Sweetser appointed Macbeth and
Pugmire of Bear Lake as Democratic
members of said committee.
The house on Monday decided to
hold three-hour sessions only, from
nine to twelve, for the next ten days
leaving the afternoons open for com
mittee work.
Eckles of Washington introduced a
bill authorizing county commissioners
to levy special tax for publicity pur
poses.
The house further memorialiZed con
gress to give the abandoned military
grounds at Walla Walla to Whitman
college, non-sectarian school of that
city.
Jayne of Twin Falls and Hamer OF
Lemhi were appointed by the speaker
to go north, while Graf of Kootenai
and Wilson of Ada were named to go
south with one member each from the
senate page to go south and Pugmire
north) to visit state educational insti.
tutions.
Burrell of Oneida introduced his bill
Tor new county, with seat of govern
nent at American Falls. The Idaho
Falls county seat plan is having rough
sailing, and the Rigby and Rexburg
county division plans are still far from
enactment into laws.
The senate received a report from
Governor Hawley based on a request
rom Macbeth which stated that the
lew capital building when finished and
furnished would cost two million dol
ars.
The record for bills introduced in
he house was broken on Monday.
here being 20 proposed enactments
cad by the clerk. Among these the
more important were the following:
for the creation of the
county of Power, taking in sections
If Bingham, Blaine, Cassia and Onei.
la; annexing a portion of the county
md providing that the qualified cleo.
ors of these counties vote on the
ame; removing the blinds from the
light refreshment parlors, as well as
he screens, so that passers by may
lave an unobstructed view.
At the end of the third week of the
IDAHO legislature, there has been
passed bill appropriating $4,000 10
lefray the expenses of the session; a
ill providing for an additional dis
riot judge for the district composed
# Ada, Boise and Owyhee counties;
md resolution in favor of the In.
ONE tax, and one in favor of the pop
liar election of senator's. This is all
# the measures of Importance that
ave been passed, but a number OF
important measures have been intro.
luced In both houses.
Representative Morgan is regarded |
s the wit of the house.
In the senate measure has been |
to define the rights and
overs of the state board of land |
in relation to the pub
&c lands granted to Idaho at the time
{ admission. 1t Is asserted that this |
, measure that should have been
nacted into law nineteen years ago,
4 the first state legislature
1t is claimed that each house has
teering committee, the Republican
enators taking their instructions
'om Gooding, Stilstair or Potts and
ne house members from Johnston,
row, Bell or Smith.
The Statesman claims that because