The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1913-03-14
IDAHO LEGISLATURE
WINDS UP BUSINESS
wRANGLE AT CLOSE OF SESSION
RESULTS IN DEATH OF
MANY MEASURES.
Not one Of the state Institutions That
Asked for improvements viii
Receive Them During Next TWO
Years.-Last Day Exciting.

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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 1890
o'clock Sunday night, March g. Sun
davis proceedings were replete with
sensational features that for time
threatened to precipitate a recess adj
iournment 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 half million dollars
in bond issues for the state institu-
lions were left unpassed as a result
Of the action of the senate. Not one
Of the state institutions that asked
/ tor improvements will 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, $12,5OO; School for the Feeble
Minded at Nampa, $42,500; School for
the Deaf and Blind at Gooding, $780,
900; penitentiary at Boise, $4,000;
University of Idaho at Moscow, $141,-
600; state normal at Lewiston,
sos, 1000.
The trouble between the house OF
representatives and the senate started
early Sunday morning, following the
adoption Saturday of concurrent
resolution by both branches setting
the hour for adjournment at IL
o'clock. The house recalled the reso-
luton and reconsidered it 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 up
| the bond issues, but the general aD-
preparations and deficiency bills. At
midnight the house recessed until
Sunday. The senate remained in SEES
sion into the small hours of the morn
| ing. Clocks in both houses were
stopped at 10 o'clock Saturday night
The senate reconvened shortly be-
fore noon Sunday and the house at
10 O'Clock in the morning. The SEN
ate recorded on its journal the hour
of 10 o'clock Saturday, March 8, had
arrived and that further consideration
Of bills had therefore been postponed
| The house served notice on the SEN
| ate through resolution it desired
to have the bills enumerated above
passed. In reply the senate killed
| the employers liability act of the
house and treated the fish and game
bill in a similar manner. The house
in retaliation killed the two meas
ures of the senate, an employers
liability act and fish and game bill
| pending in the house.
1t was conceded the senate held the
| whip hand until the sudden discovery
was made by that body after the hour
Tor consideration of bills had passed
that it had failed to pass the ST.
100000 ad valorem tax measure, leav-
ON which to operate Senator Hart,
leader of the senate majority, backed
by a majority of the members, at.
tempted to change the record to show
the bill had passed The minority,
which controlled one-third of the mem
bers. refused to permit this action,
TEen the majority threatened to ad.
Journ sine die without passing the
maintenance bill
During the heat of the argument
Senator Macbeth, Democrat, and Sen
ator Fairchild, Republican, almost
came to blows on the floor of the
senate. They were prevented from
doing so by the quick action of Presi,
dent Sweetser, who stepped between
them.
The majority forced a call of the
senate and during the call a compro-
mise was reached by which the minor
lty agreed to vote for the mainte.
nance bin If the majority would pass
the deficiency measure. This action
was taken. The minority then at.
tempted to pass the bond issues. but
the majority held control and forced
an adjournment sine die Finding the
senate adjourned, the house killed all
pending measures of the senate be.
fore it and adjourned amidst scenes
of the widest excitement.
The senate refused to act upon the
report of the joint committee that in.
vestigated the evidence taken in the
Industrial Training school scandal OF
st. Anthony, allowing the matter to
go over This decision is taken as an
exoneration of Superintendent Hum
phries.