Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-02-28
INITIATIVE MEASURE VOTED
DOWN BY LEGISLATURE
House Refuses 20 CO on Record ss
Favorlna the initiative by Opposing
Constitutional Amendment.

Idaho's legislature on Monday re-
fused TO so on record as fayoring the
initiative by voting down q coastitu
tional amendment to be submitted to
the people at large in this state 70
deermine whether they could propose
constitutional amendments them.
selves. Tho tight over the amendment
carried Mondays session up 20 /
o'clock
The resolution was introduced by
Representative Healy OF oMNhec
,ounty and on final passage vas dc.
teated through failure TO secure two.
thirds vote OF the house, A motion %
reconsider was carried late in the day
and for two hours the house engaged
In a bitter controversy over the rcso.
luton. A call OF the house was issued
and missing members we're 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 20 he
held In this state az later date aud
sailing Tor party declaration. The bill
will meet with bitter opposition In
the house
The upper house passed on Feb
ruary "a an antlrace.track bill. max
ing poolselling At races mis-
iemeanor,
The Ryan public utilities bill was
sent to tho committee OF the whole
or amendment
A bill changing the name OF this
Idaho academy at Pocateilo 20 tbs
idaho Technical college was passct
BY the senate ON the gath
Governor Haines has vetoed th,
5hattuck county treasury bond bin ant
he oversmith hill creating the Tent
judicial district.
The senate and the house OF repre-
sentatives adjourned over Saturda,
until Monday In honor OF Washing
toms anniversary,
The Halght liquor bill. which wa
signed by Governor Hainoa. and whicl
caused the governor 10 send n apecln
message to the legislature protesting
against several OF the provisions q
the bill, Is. II is said. an example q
securing laws from other states. Okll
homa Is the father OF tho greater par
OF the Haight bill. The suprem
court OF Oklahoma found the atatut
to be unconstitutional.
Senator Hiram u. Sweet Of idah
county Is at a Boise hospital surei
Ing from a severe attack OF eryHipela
In his face. II 10 announced that Sci
ator Sweet may not be able TO be !
his place in the senate again durin
the session.
Power to summon witnesses and n
cur an expense up to $4,000 was col
ferred by the senate on the spccil
mmlttee-shepherd. Cunning an
Defenbach-appoIn To inquire Int
the case OF Carl Maehold alleged I
be Illegally held In the asylum for ID
insane at Rlackfoot
Nineteen bills we're passed by IA
house and seven by the senate on Ii
2lst, while Ave bills were killed
the house. Four new measures mad
their appearance in the house an
seven In the senate.
Radical advocates OF n public util
ties commission law In the senate viii
It is asserted hold out for the pas
age of the Ryan bill, They assert thi
10 amend this bin nj this advance
stage OF the legislative session woul
mean It's death.
Tho Lawson bill for penRionlng a
serted and widowed mothers IN
mothers whose husbands are inmate
OF the state penltentiary passed II
house by a vote of SO to 8.
Representative Farmin OF Bonner G
the 2ist moved for reconsideratlc
OF the vote by which the house ha
killed the senate bill for a state pu
chasing agent. After listening 10 d
explanation Of the bill by Senate
Hedrick. It's author. the house reco
sidered It's action and passed the hi
by vote Of ~ TO a.
THE plague of graashoppera az
the plague of flies that we're Yisite
on Egypt were as nothing compare
with the plague of forest rangers thi
Ii lnfesting Idaho" said Warren
KOotenai in his speech on his joii
memorial urging congress 70 invest
gate the forest service and turn ovi
to the state the lands nov embrace
within forest reserves.
Statewide prohibition az coBstit
tiOnal provision II proposed in joil
resolution introduced In the house {
the 21st II the resolution In enacts
the people will vote on the questic
whether section ri Of article 3 Of II
! constitution shall be amended 10 70
ever prohibit the manufacture and ga
OF intoxicating liquors Of any kind
the state except for sclentih
mechanical or sacramento purposes
Two bills carrying bond issues wei
passed on the 2lst, and together m,
mean bonds amounting 70 So. 90
One is for bridge over Salmon rly,
at Salmon. In Lemhl county. $3.50
bonds; the other carries 1890
bond issue for the Ross Fork road
Bingham county
Twenty members OF the iegialatu
headed an excursion to Arrow RO,
dam on February p At the head
the leglAIati4e aeIegatIon was speak