American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1913-02-06

economy n fetrechment on Monday
! which carried with 1t the job Of distrl
buting clerk at general elections II
this state.
At the same time the upper house
went on record as In favor OF the Ken
y~on-Sheppard" bill. pending nesors
congress, and thereby gave the vets
an insight as to the ~"dryness" OF thai
body. The result will be the intro
inction OF n statewide prohibition bill
this session.
The Ferguson bill. providing for
county assistance for the burial Of old
soldiers. passed the senate on Feb
fuary 3, as did also a measure provid'
ing for the filing OF affidavits FOR work
lone on mining claims.
The house on February 8 adopted a
motion OF the county lines committee
hat the st. Joe county division bill
should not pass, but the representa-
Ives refused to kill the measure 20
suddenly and decided that inasmuch
az the rules OF the house are not clear
he rules OF congress-, giving the
author OF a bin three days In which
to recall n committee report, should
90 followed.
Many new bills were introduced on
February 3, among the more import
ant OF which were a evenu and tax
alton measure revising the revenue
laws OF the state; an appropriation bill
calling for state aid for the Albion
| Normal school to the extent OF $4,000,
$35, 900 and S35 900 respectively; a
measure approprfating $4,000 for the
| construction Of n bridge across the
, Snake river between Lincoln and Twin
Falls counties.
Representative Hunt OF Fremont
county has introduced a substitute bill
for the creation OF Madison county out
Of what Is at present Fremont county
In southeastern Idaho.
Victor o. Johnson of Shoshone on
February 3 made a strong appeal be-
fore an open meeting OF the Legislature
for a railroad and public utilities com
mission. Former Governor Gooding
also spoke in behalf OF the measure,
which Is pending before the house
committee.
Az presented TO the committee by
the opponents OF division. Payette I'M
| Canyon counties would each have II
townships under the division. The
new county would have a valuation
Of si2,500 900 and the old $40, 000, 900;
the new county would have 10000
people and the old Is 900.
Weorne. OF Kootenai has taken up
the cause OF the San Francisco expo
! sltion. and he introduced a bill that
is to provide for giving the state
proper representation there.
To make the state auditor state
examiner instead of having that work
done by the insurance commissioner
Is proposed by the committee on state
Affairs, and a bill providing for the
change was introduced by the COM
mittee.
County commissioners will be elect
ed for slx-year terms II house joint
resolution No 8. by Brown, Is passed
by the legislature and the constitu-
tional amendment II calls for Is rati-
ded by the voters. One commissioner
would be elected every six years.
For the second time since the meas
ure has been proposed. the house last
week killed the resolution proposing
% submit to the voters the question
whether a constitutional convention
should be called.
One hundred and fifty-nine bills had
been introduced in the house at the
close OF business on the last day of
January. and seventy-three In the
louso.
The senate has indefinitely post
poned the house joint resolution call.
NIX for junketing trips If members
representing joint committees of both
houes to visit state institutions both
north and south.
A home-rule local option bill. pro-
vidins for precinct local option, was
introduced In the senate on the Both
by Senator Macbeth of Custer county.
Inc mousse mas recommended for
passage Il bill changing the name of
the Blackfoot Insane Asylum to Men.
tai Hospital. The bill vas introduced
by Representative Dickinson.
n the Idaho legislature places upon
the statute books o. this state the
proposed marriavs measure pending
II, the house. The twelfth session VIII
have the distinction of ,assing one OF
the o striagen- marriage laws to
be found III any state in the union.
1t will be the physicians that young
couples wishing to become man and
vie will have to visit instead of the
minister II thi, law IS passed, for its
strongest and most radical provision
calls for a certiiicsfe of gool heath
before the nuptial knot can be tied.
A newspaper must have been in ex-
iQfnnCa at laacf civ n,outbn I-f.-- =.