The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-01-29
PROHIBITION NOW
SEEMS CERTAIN
MEASURE PRESENTED IN IDAHO
LEGISLATURE BACKED BY
ALL PARTIES.
Republicans, Democrats and Progress
siyes Favor Measure Which
Would Make state Dry
January I, 1916.

resentatfves on January 20 of a state
! wide prohibition bill which, If passed
VIII make Idaho dry January 1. 1916
Will determine II the Republican party
platform plank adopted July /, 1914
viii be put into full force and effect
Following on the heels of the constitu
| tional amendment which passed the
legislature on January 81, the legisla
tive enactment bill came as a surprise
| 10 the anti-prohibitionists Prohibition
leaders asserted that passage OF the
act has been agreed upon by them
ana leaders In the present Legislature
The authors of the bill, No %, In.
ciude Republicans, Democrats and one
Progressive. The bill declares this
state prohibition district and after
the first Of next year, when the man
fracture, disposal, possession and
transportation of intoxicating liquors
Tor beverage purposes are prohibited"
The authors are Kiger, Thrailkill, Nc
Gowan, Bohnan, Allard, Shattuck.
Siddoway, Waters. York, Hunt, Ander-
son, Evans, CARAT Lau, Taylor, Hol.
land, Republicans; Miles, Progressive:
t'aris, lngard, Findlay, Magee, Ander-
son, Hull, Democrats.
Passage by the senate OF a prohibi-
ton constitutional amendment to make
Idaho perpetually dry from and after
May /, 1917, and passage by the house
OF the anti-alien land bill added two in
teresting chapters to the thirteenth
Idaho legislature on January 20, for
both measures are considered of para
mount Importance. The first carries
out one of the pledges of all political
parties. The second may raise a ques-
ton in Idaho of as great national i'm
portance as the one in California.
The amendment was introduced in
the senate during the early days of
the session by Senator Hart, whip of
the majority wing and president pro
tenn. AS originally drafted, it was to
be effective July /, 1917, but was set
back by amendment to May / of the
same year.
On passage it received every vote
with the exception of one in the sem
ate. The exception was that of Sem
ator Whitcomb of Lemhi. The main
attack on 1t was that 1t is not drastic
enough
1t prohibits the manufacture, sale,
Keeping for sale and transportation
TOR sale of intoxicating liquors for
beverage purposes. Some of the sol
In it.
In the debate Senator Zuck OF Twin
Falls scored the personal liberty
plea declaring those who advanced
1t disregarded the children born and
unborn who will make up future gen
erations
Senator Day of Latah attempted to
have incorporated in the amendment
q clause providing that not more than
one gallon of whisky and two quarts
OF beer be allowed to any one person.
The amendment was defeated.
me house registered only two
votes out of total of sixty-one
against the anti-alien bill when it'll
passed that body The measure was
introduced by Anderson of Bonneville.
Shattuck of Bonneville and Speaker
Conner registered the two nays"
Leaders on both sides of the house
spoke for It,
The bill prohibits acquisition of land
by alien persons, firms or associations
save by enforcement of liens and
through inheritance, and in either
such case allows only FIVE years in
which to sell, with a penalty of es-
cheatment to the state 1t contains
no reference to blood, race or nation
atty Foreigners becoming citizens of
the United states are exempted.
An attempt to adopt a majority re- |
port recommending passage of a SEN
ate resolution abolishing the constitu- |
nonal office of state superintendent |
of public instruction failed through |
the activity of Senator Day, who de- |
clared against "decapitating constitu- |
Lional departments or state educa- |
tional institutions" He said the pro
posal was ''juggernaut The senate |
sent the resolution to committee of |
The whole
Antagonism to present state COM
missions and boards broke out in the
legislature on January 49, The first
step to put Idaho behind the building
u north-and-south railroad was
AIKEN in the house when the Nc
5owan resolution, authorizing the
governors to appoint an Investigating
commission, was passed.
The Teton county division bill I
PASSED, together with the infected
ruit measure.
Representative Hunsinger attacked
he public utilities commission, intro
iucing bill to abolish it, and it was
quickly followed by a bill by Anderson
# Canyon to abolish the state tax
King of Lewis fathered an act to
ibolish the office of state education
In the senate, Rockwell of Blaine
Introduced constitutional amend
nept to abolish the state board of
equalization and create in it's place
tax commission.
To provide place for the fifty
lead of elk the state is securing from
he federal government is the purpose
4 Senator Bowman's bill creating the
Black lake game preserve. The pre-
erve will be partly in Adams county
md partly in Idaho. 1t will embrace
'arts of the Weiser national forestl
nd parts of the Nezperce.