Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1915-02-26
STATE SENATE RESPONSIVE TO
DEMANDS OF PEOPLE-ADOPT
BILL PASSED BY HOUSE.

The prohibition bill which had al
ready passed the House was adopted
by the Senate on Tuesday. The senate
Endorsement was more than two to
one. Governor Alexander is pledged
to give it executive approval. There
are to be no more saloons in Idaho
after January 1, 1916. Party lines were
not drawn in the voting, though the
Democratic leader. Senator Macbeth
and one or two others of the leaders of
that party, endeavorded without effect
to kill the bill by amendment.
The Statesman report gives tae fol-
owing story of the passage Of the bill:
Prohibition legislation is thing
of the past in the state Of Idaho. It
became so when the senate passed
Tuesday, under suspension of rules,
H. b. No. 142, making the state dry
by statutory enactment January /.
1916. The result of the rollcall was
24 to s. There is no doubt that the
measure will receive the signature of
the governor
Before an audience that filed every
available space in the senate cham
ber, the measures were discussed pro
and con by half the members of the
upper house. Amendments were Of
fered but were rejected and the bill
passed the senate in the same form
in which it was sent from the house.
There were seven votes cast against
the bill in the house six in the sen
ate. making a total of lS in the les
islature numbering "a members.
Completes Program.
Laws now approved by the lesis-
Iature regulating the liquor traffic
are three in number. The first one
passed provided for the submission to
.~s of constitutional amend
ment to the state constitution prohib
iting the sale or manufacture of liquor
within the state The second was a
stringent local option measure. in
tended to make more rigid the laws |
the sale of liquor under the
local option law.
This third law prohibits the manu- /
facture of liquor in the state as well |
as the sale or gift. 1t goes into ef /
feet January l. 1916. Two amend
ments were offered, but neither was
accepted One provided that the state
should provide one officer for each
to be paid fifteen hundred dol
lars a year, whose authority should
be concurrent with that Of the sher
if. but who should devote his entire
time to the enforcement of the pro-
hibition statute. 1t appropriated fifty
thousand dollars a year for carrying
1ut the provisions Of the act.
Charge Bad Faith.
Proposals of this amendment by
Senator Frazier of Kootenai brought
.orth charges of bad faith from Car ?
er of Washington and Bundy of Nez
'erce, who insisted that the purpose
II the amendments was only to force
veto from the governor and to so
elay the passage Of a prohibtory en-
ctment that it would be lost in the
ush of the closing days Of the ses-
ion
Emphatic denials of these charges
we're made by the adherents of the e
mendment who said these laws
ould not be enforced by the counties
lone, and that. sooner or later. the
tate must come to their aid. 1t was
aid that other states which have
ad prohibitory laws have been F.
orced to resort to state aid and that
he amendment does nothing more
han advance the state ten years in
ne, enforcement of these laws. The
mendment lost by vote of s to IS.
An amendment by Senator Whit
pmb, making the act apply to all d
quors and all compounds made p
lerefrom was lost by vote of to f
). fl
How They Voted. Fl
Finally an effort was made to per- Fl
1T holders of 1915 licenses to oper- !
te until the expiration OF the license. C
! is done under the local option law, W
Ut this was voted down 5 to II. "
Upon the report Of the committee q,
lie measure, under suspended rules. tc
as passed. Rollcall on the bill re-
llted as follows: 2s
Ayes-Bremer. Bundy. Carter, Day, ii
Iliott Fuller, Graham, Grant. Har- y,