Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-03-14
IDAHO LEGISLATURE
WINDS Up BUSINESS
svRAN0LE At CLOSE or SESSION
RESULTS IN DEATH or
MANY MEASURES.
Mot One Of the state Institutions That
Asked for improvements viii
Receive Them During Next TWO
Years.-Lass Day Exciting.

Boise. Idaho.-The twelfth Idaho
legislature extricated itself from the
serious ENHANCEMENT in which it
found itself early Sunday morning
and adjourned sine die at 10:30
o'clock Sunday night, March O. Sum
days proceedings were replete with
sensational features that for a time
threatened to precipitate recess ad-
ioIrnment without the tax bill provid-
Ing for the general operation OF the
state government being passed. The
senate reversed itself on the issue and
managed to SO straighten its record
as to make adjournment possible.
Approximately a half million dollars
In bond issues for the state institu-
tions were left unpassed as a result
Of the action OF the senate. Not one
Of the state institutions that asked
for improvements win receive them
during the next two years. resulting
In their being seriously handicapped.
There was a crying need from the IN
situations for them.
The proposed bond issues which
failed to, survive were divided among
the state institutions as follows:
Industrial Training school at st. An
thony, $4,000; Academy Of Idaho at
Pocatello. $4,000: state normal at
Albion, s12.5O0; School for the Feeble
Minded at Nampa, $42,5O0; School for
the Deaf and Blind at Gooding, $780,
600; penitentiary at Boise, SIS 1000;
University of Idaho at Moscow, $141.-
600; state normal at Lewiston,
s95, 900.
The trouble between the house of
representatives and the senate started
early Sunday morning. following the
adoption Saturday of a concurrent
resolution by both branches setting
the hour for adjournment at IL
o'clock. The house recalled the reso-
tuition and reconsidered 1t after learn
Ing the senate would not pass an
employers liability act, party pledge
together with an important fish and
game bill, and had not only held vi
/ the bond issues, but the general ap
preparations and deficiency bills. Al
midnight the house recessed unit
/ Sunday. The senate remained In SEES
sion into the small hours OF the morn
ing. Clocks in both houses wers
stopped at 10 o'clock Saturday night.
The senate reconvened shortly be
fore noon Sunday and the house al
10 o'clock in the morning. The sen
ate recorded ON its journal the houl
Of 10 o'clock Saturday, March 8, hat
arrived and that further consideration
OF bills had therefore been postponed
The house served notice on the sen
abe through resolution it desires
to have the bills enumerated aboy,
passed. In reply the senate killes
the employers liability act Of tn,
house and treated the fish and gam
bill In similar manner. The housi
In retaliation killed the two meas
ures of the senate, an employers
liability act and fish and game bill
pending In the house.
IL was conceded the senate held thu
whip hand until the sudden discover.
was made by that body after the hou
for consideration of bills had passel
that 1t had failed to pass the 81
100000 ad valorem tax measure, leay
ing the state government without fund
on which to operate Senator Hart
leader Of the senate majority, baekel
by majority OF the members, al
tempted to change the record to shox
the bill had passed, The minority
which controlled one=third of the mem
bers, refused to permit this actor
Then the majority threatened to al
iourn sine die without passing tn
maintenance bill.
During the heat OF the argumen
Senator Macbeth. Democrat. and Ser
ator Fairehild. Republican, a5Tnos
came to blows on the floor of tn
senate. They were prevented fro
doing so by the quick action o. Pres
dent Sweetser, who stepped hetwee
them.
The majority forced a call of tn
senate and during the call a comprt
mise was reached by which the mino
, ity agreed to vote for the mainti
nance bill If the majority would pas
the deficiency measure. This actio
was taken The minority. then q
tempted TO pass the bond issues. hr
! the majority held control and forde
an adjournment sine die. Finding tn
] senate adjourned. the house killed a
pending measures of the senate b
. fore 1t and adjourned amidst scene
of the widest excitement