American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1913-02-27
INITIATIVE MEASURE VOTED
DOWN BY LEGISLATURE
House Refuses to Go on Record a.
F~avorln0 the Initiative by Opposing
Constitutional Amendment.

serves. The tight over the amendment
carried Mondays session up to Z
O'Clock.
The resolution was introduced BY
Representative Healy OF Owyhee
county and on final passage was de-
feated through failure to secure a two
thirds vote of the house. A motion to
reconsider was carried late in the day,
and for two hours the house engaged
IN a bitter controversy over the reso-
luton. A call of the house was issued
and missing members were taken from
their supper tables and ordered to re-
port. After an extended filibuster the
resolution was put to a vote a second
time and defeated.
The senate on February "a passed
the direct primaries bill, amending the
present law requiring primaries to be
held In this state at a later date and
calling for party declaration. The bill
will e with bitter opposition in
the house.
The upper house passed on Feb
ruary "a an anti-race-track bill, max
ing poolselling at races a mis-
domeanOr.
The Ryan public utilities bill was
sent to the committee of. the whole
tor amendment.
A bill changing the name of the
Idaho academy at Pocatello to the
Idaho Technical college was passed
BY the senate on the oath.
Governor Haines has vetoed the
Shattuck county treasury bond bill and
the Oversmith bill creating the Tenth
judicial district.
The senate and the house of repre-
sentatives adjourned over Saturday
until Monday in honor of Washing
tons anniversary.
The Haight liquor bill, which was
signed by Governor Haines, and which
caused the governor to send a special
message to the legislature protesting
against several of the provisions of
the bill, is, it is said, an example OF
securing laws from other states. Okla
homa is the father of the greater part
of the Haight bill. The supreme
court OF Oklahoma found the statute
to be unconstitutional.
Senator Hiram e. Sweet of Idaho
county is at a Boise hospital suffer
ing from a ver attack of erysipelas
in his face. 1t is announced that Sen
ator Sweet may not be able to be in
his place in the senate again during
the session.
Power to summon witnesses and In
cur an expense up to $4,000 was con-
ferred by the senate on the special
committee-Shepherd, Dunning and
Defenbach-appointed to inquire into
the case of Carl Machold alleged to |
be illegally held in the asylum for the
insane at Blackfoot.
Nineteen bills were passed by the
house and seven by the senate on the
21st, while five bills were killed in
the house. Four e measures made
their appearance in the house and
seven in the senate.
Radical advocates of a public utili-
ties commission law in the senate will,
IL 10 dSS0ILGQ, AOl Out lOI Tie pass |
of the Ryan bill. They assert that
to amend this bill at this advanced
stage of the legislative session would
mean it's death.
The Lawson bill for pensioning de-
serted and widowed mothers and
mothers whose husbands are inmates
of the state ~penitentiary passed the
house by a vote of SO to 5.
Representative Farmin of Bonner on
the 21st moved for a reconsideration
of the vote by which the house had
killed the senate bill for a state pur
agent. After listening to an
explanation of the bill by Senator
Hedrick, it's author, the house recon-
it's action and passed the bill
by a vote of 80 to "a.
The plague of grasshoppers ana
the plague of flies that were visited
on Egypt were as nothing compared
with the plague of forest rangers that
Is infesting Idaho," said Warren OF
Kootenai in his speech on his joint
memorial urging congress to investi-
gate the forest service and tur over
to the state the lands now embraced
forest reserves. y
Statewide prohibition as a constitu-
.ional provision is proposed in a joint
resolution introduced in the house on {
he 21st. If the resolution is enacted l
he people will vote on the question
whether section "a of article 8 of the l
,oustitution shall he amended IN for I
sver prohibit the manufacture and sale i
If intoxicating liquors of any kind in Z
he state except for scientific, /
or sacramental purposes. h
Two bills carrying bond issues were
on the 21st, and together they
mean bonds amounting to $34, 900. '
)ne is for a bridge over Salmon river a
It Salmon, in Lemhi county. $4,000 i
the other carries a $780, 900 l
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