American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1913-01-30
ADD POWER COUNTY TO
The LIST IN IDAHO
Gem state Legislators Also Go on
Record for the Regulation Of
Liquor Shipments.

a memorial to congress by a vote of
AZ to IL, asking for the passage of the
Kenyon-Shepherd bill to prohibit the
shipment OF liquor from any state into
dry territory in another state.
The resolution indorsing Governor
Hawley for secretary of the interior
was passed by practically unanimous
vote. Three of the four Democratic
members voted against it. Healy of
Owyhee (Dem.) denounced Hawley on
the floor as reactionary.
A bill creating Power county, with
American Falls as the county seat,
passed the house and will become a
law with the signature of Governor
Haines. 1T takes in parts of Oneida,
Blaine, Cassia and Bingham counties.
A drastic amendment to the present
libel law was introduced by Storey of
Ada on the 25th. 1t leaves all the
present laws on the subject in force
and in addition provides an amend
ment which would make it one of
the most drastic laws known.
Cities or towns that have a popu-
lation of 5000 OF more will have au-
thority to compel owners of irrigation
canals that pass through their limits
TO construct covered fumes or pipes
through which the canals will pass
in intersecting the city, if house bill
No. SO by Booth of Twin Falls be-
comes a law.
The committee on ways and means
recommended the passage of house
bill No. As which is to give boards of
independent school districts author
lty to raise funds for the construc-
ton, equipment and operation of
school gymnasiums.
No bill has created quite so much
interest this session of the legislature
so far as the so-called marriage GER
tficate" bill introduced by Represent
alive Koelsch of Ada county, at the
request of the State Mothers con-
gress.
When Edelblute of Kootenai was
taken to the city detention hospital
on the oath as a smallpox patient
he was the second member of the
legislature to fall a victim to the dis
ease. Nihart of Twin Falls has been
a smallpox patient at the hospital
since shortly after the session began.
Governor Haines last week sent a
message to the senate accompanying
a communication from w. J. McCon-
nell former governor, calling atten-
ton to the padronism practiced in
some parts of the state. This, he says,
Is a crime of every day occurrence.
An injunction and abatement law,
modelled after the one il effect in
Iowa, was introduced by Oversmith
Latah on the 25th. The bill pro-
poses what is to Idaho a new method
OF handling the social evil. 1t strikes
the owner of property used for i'm
moral purposes, providing that when
it is proved that such property
has been so used the nuisance shall
be abated, the wner fined, and the
property sealed and withheld from
use for a period of one year.
A bill providing for the establish
ment OF drainage districts was intro
duced by Elliott of Bonner on the
25th. 1t is intended to take the place
Of the n that was held unconstitu-
by the supreme court.
Representative Charles L. Warwick.
chairman of the house committee on
education, is wrought up over reports
going the rounds to the effect that
he University of Idaho is to be made
o suffer in the matter of appropria-
ions because of the attitude of the
4atah county delegation in the sena-
.orial contest, says the Boise States
nan.
Another county division bill was in
reduced in the house on the 25th.
altered by Lewis of Canyon. The
I'LL proposes the organization of Pay
'tte county from a division of Can
ION, with New Plymouth as the coun-
seat. The new county would be-
'ome a part of the Seventh judicial
district and the Ninth senatorial dis
riot. The bill proposes to divide
county along the watershed
the Boise and Payette val
eys. s
Idaho's legislature does not propose
o be without a quorum on account I
II the inroads of smallpox, and as a
measure the legislative
lals were fumigated last week.
An attempt to strike from the s
journal the entry regarding the (
ote of Dickinson of Bingham, for {
c. Courtney (colored) on the t
NAL ballot for United States senator, {
vas made between the time the jour !
al was written by the house journal i
Jerk and when it reached the printer, !
/ is charged. !
To compel the recording of brands.
armarks and eartabs on livestock is I
he object Of house bill No. so by t
Iealy of Owyhee. 1t is the first bill
was introduced by a Democratic /
lember. '
1daho's official stamp of approval