Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-01-29

If objections are raised and q bill Is
compelled to take its regular course
the quickest possible time that
bill can get through is from ten
days to two weeks. There are de-
tails of reference to committees,
printing, enrolling, reading on the
several days, amendments, which
follow the same course as the bill,
engrossing and signing, which
must all be observed with scrup-
ulous care and the fellow behind a
bill must follow these up step by
step and never take his eye off the
play while it is still on.
Now when House Bill No. l
broke the record for speedy passage
it made the old timers sit up and
gasp. Just as soon as the bill got
to the clerk it was referred to the
committee on county lines and
boundaries, of which Mr.. CARAT
is chairman. We had already had
some private conversation with
Dave Burrell, the genial chief clerk
aud he Immediately fred it along to
CARAT who was waiting for it with
outstretched hands like fellow on
first base. H. B. called his COM
mittee together and they were so
eager to do something that they
didn't wait minute in ordering it
printed. 1t took day to get it
back from the printer, and then
slight error was discovered which
was corrected by unanimous con-
sent. The bill then went back to
Carratt's committee and they called
a meeting and asked me to tell
them all about Gods country up
next to British Columbia. 1 talked
just FIVE minutes when one fellow
said, What's the use of that hot
air! 1 move we report the bill for
passage" / quit. The next morn
ing the bill was reported, one of
the boys moved the suspension of
the rules, the bill skipped three
Legislative days, everybody voted
Aye, and the bill was hustled to
the enrolling committee. That
took half day, but the minute
the bill stuck its head inside the
Senate chamber Senator Hart by
agreement moved the suspension of
the rules. l made my little speech
and everybody voted Aye except
Senator Whitcomb, who never vot-
ed for a county division bill in his
life. Then the bill went back for
the signature of Speaker Conner
and on account of an adjourned
session we lost a day before we
could put it up for President Tay-
lor to sign. Then we had some
fun. CARAT had gone down town
and bought a brand new fountain
pen for the Governor to use in
afhxing his John Henry. The bill
and the pen were entrusted to the
chairman of the engrossing com
mittee, whose duty it was to trans
NIT it to the Governor. And here's
where Mahoney comes in. By the
way l forgot to mention that Art
Moore and w. P. got here just as
we began voting on the bill in the
Senate, and the bill was passed in
five minutes after their arrival.
Quick work that for a couple of
green lobbyists. well, as L was
telling you, Mahoney was so scared
for fear that the fountain pen might
go off before it reached the Cover
nor that he drew his revolver and
guarded the engrossing chairman
all the way to the Governor Of
fee. / think he thought the Gov
ernor might break the pen in his
eagerness to sign. Not so the
Honorable Executive. A matter
like the Boundary bill required
time for consideration and the Gov
ernor took it. He did more; he
took four days and they were days
full of trouble and sorrow for him
First came dray load of protests