Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1913-02-06

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various agencies, and forced the meas
ure so providing to go its regular
course.
The Oversmith bill, giving county
mutual fire insurance companies power
to maintain a fund from which to pay
losses rather than to levy assessments
with which to pay them, was passed
on the Goth.
Representative Dickinson of Bling !
ham county, on the Goth introduced |
two bills relating to court procedure |
as to filing of appeals to the supreme /
court
The senate has indefinitely post
pOned the house joint resolution call
ing for junketing trips of members
representing joint committees of both
houes to visit state institutions both
north and south.
A home-rule local option BILL pro-
viding for precinct local option. was
introduced in the senate on the Goth
by Senator Macbeth of Custer county.
1t was discovered in the senate that
the vote cast by Representative Dick
enson OF Bingham county for William
&C.. Courtney, the colored janitor, for
United States senator to show his con-
tempt for the man really elected by
the joint assembly, former Governor
James II. Brady, has not been record
ed in the journal, and President Tay-
Tor ordered that the record of the as
sembly show the vote SO cast.
Extensive hearings were held on the
Both by the committee in charge of the
public utility commission bill intro
duced in the house by Representative
Ryan. in which railway men and rep
resentatives OF public utilities were
present The railroads and utilities
consider the Ryan measure too drastic
and are opposed to it in its present
form.
# the Idaho Legislature places upon
the statute boots o. this state the
lllCpOsed marriage measure pending
ia the house he twelfth session Will
have the distinction of yassing one OF
!
be found in any state in the union.
1t will be the physicians that young
couples wishing TO become man and
" fe will have to visit instead of the
minister il thi, law IS passed, Tor its
strongest and m)st radical provision
calls for a certi.ica @ OF goOl heath
before the nuptial knot can be tied.
The Case trespass measure was
steam rollered in the committee OF
the whole Among other things the
bill provided that no man could hunt
on the premises of another without
first securing written permission
Several amendments We're proposed
to make its provisions less drastic
but none of them suited. and the com
mittee finally recommended that the
bill do not pass.
one good public servoice commits
sion for Idaho will cost only s75,0Ot
year. according TO the bill intro
duced by Senator Edgington on tn,
, 2Sth. An appropriation of S150,O0l
is asked to start the thing of an(
keep it going for two years.
Senator Hedrick introduced a bill
on the 2Sth. to make it a misde
: meanor to make any untrue, decep
tive or misleading statement in
newspaper or other publication, or il
the form of "A book notice, handful
poster. bill circular. pamphlet. lette
, or in any other way with intent Il
DISPOSE of merchandise securities o
service.
Apparently the state immigration
= department has few advocates o
friends in the house of representative
. if the attitude upon the question o
% maintaining the bureau as espresso
at the session on the 29tn may
taken as a criterion. The state a1alr
committee of the house reported ina
: no appropriation be made for the III
!. migration department and the repor
4 was adopted without a dissenting vote
=. The sentiment of the house was fu
. Their emphasized when applause gree
,. ed the result of the vote.
Contained in the committees repol
as adopted is a recommendation tna
in case the department is abollshe
, the present commissioner. Major rTe
!. R. Reed. be commissioned to prepar
u and supervise ldahos exhibit at IN
; San Francisco exposition in 1919
/ the event that the state sends sue
/ an exhibit Another suggestion IN;
the secretary OF states Office hand
the mail addressed to the immigratlo
" bureau and distribute its reports
II case the department is dropped VIZ
n also incorporated in the report whlo
d was referred to the appropriate
committee.
Il Ont of what is now Fremont count
Ie will be created four new counties
o all the county division bills introduce
0. on the 10Th are passed. Merrill
z. Fremont submitted house bill NO. L
IL for the creation of Yellowstone count
p Hunt of Fremont fathercd house b
No. 124. which would create Tet6
comfy. and Gilchrist Of Fremont
1t house bill No. 1875, would form u
Of county of Jefferson. All three inclu'
Ie portions of the present county OF Fl
,e mont. In each bill it is provided tn