The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-03-11
IDAHO PROHIBITION
MEASURE SIGNED
GOVERNORS SIGNATURE AFFIXED
TO MEASURE WHICH MAKES
IDAHO DRY JANUARY I, 1916.
Receives Anonymous Letter, in Which
He Is Threatened With Death
Should He Sign Bill Putting
Ban on Saloons.

Governor Alexander signed the state |
wide prohibition bin at p. IN. on |
March /. and all doubt about Idaho |
becoming dry territory on January /. |
1916, was removed
The ceremony was witnessed by
many Prohibitionists who have led in
the fight against the saloons The
several pens used by the governor in
dating and signing the bill were pre-
sented to north and south Idaho WON
en-, Christian Temperance associations
and to the Anti-Saloon league Those
present Immediately afterward sang,
TO the tune of Tipperary. It's a Long
Long Way to Prohibition"
The governor had received an an
onymous letter declaring that he
would be killed if he signed the bill,
but was apparently not the least wor-
ried over the threat on his life. The
unsigned letter referred to the killing
OF Governor Steunenburg. 1t arrived
in the morning mail, but owing to the
fact that the envelope became mixed
with others after opening it could not
be ascertained where it was mailed.
1t was written on wrapping paper in
fair hand and is as follows
If you sign bill No. 142 you will
be killed. You know the people OF
the state don't want prohibition. Don't
take this as a joke. One governor
went that way. why not one more.
Be honest"
The house held its first night SEES
sion Monday night and considered the
general appropriation bill and senate
amendments to the educational bud
get.
The workmen's compensation act
was passed under suspension of the
rules at the morning session, only
six negative votes being registered
against it.
The biggest surprise of the house
programme was the passage of the
senate Gem county division bill, ere
ating that county out of northern
| Canyon county.
! The senate cleaned up it's calendar
4 during the day to avoid a night SEES
sion 1t passed the fish and game
| house bill and sent it to the governor,
! During the debate on the measure the
| fish and game department was scored
as a political grab bag" by Fuller Of
! Fremont
other important house bill passed
| by the senate Include the Hull drain
! age act, strengthening the present
drainage laws; the Elrod Illicit drug
act, placing the ban on the sale of
narcotic drugs, and the Elrod bill au-
| thorizing the governor to instruct dis
trict judges to assist IN other districts
than their own.
Governor Alexander approved in
part and vetoed in part the $4,000
King Hill irrigation project act, sen
| ate bill No. 109. He cut the appropria-
ton to $4,000. In doing so. he de.
clared it was the states duty to pc
tition congress to give deeds to the
lands to settlers and scored the de
pletion of the Carey act trust fund.
Passage of the stringent abatement
law and sending it to the governor
and recommending for passage the
Conner workmen compensation act
drafted By the commission appointed
two years ago by the governor. to
I
tween the two factions for and agains
the public utilities commission ant
passage of the compromise act amend
ing the law, are the events that stanC
prominently forth after a long session
of the Idaho legislature on Febru
airy 81.
Before adjourning the senate an
, thorized the appointment of join
sitting committee. five senators AM
seven members of the house, to sif
the calendar and bring before tn,
} legislature the bills of the creates
importance to the state at large.
Labor organizations objected to tn
: workmen's compensation bill, bu
compromised on its passage whel
, their amendments were accepted an
incorporated in the act. In the senat
, the house fish and game bin was Sc
for first consideration ahead of al
other acts.
: The senate passed a bill calling o.
2 the governor to appoint a women
, minimum wage scale commission t
( investigate WOmen's wages paid in tn
state.
The house voted down and then re
? considered and sent to committee @
r the whole a hill making il a misdt
2 meancr and fixing removal from offic
+ as penalty Tor any state official to Il
! sue deficiency warrants.
Neither the governor nor the legii
lature is going TO leave the institutio
S for feeble-minded unfinished thrCug
$ tack OF an appropriation II the Cav
/. well Chamber OF Commerce can SUI
y cessfully carry out present plans.
: The trespass Law which was ~
s proved by the house makes hun inF -
+ private property a misdemeanoT wIc
notices to that effect are posted
a The abatement and injunction b.
e passed by the senate was copied
J. the main from the Iowa law. Whicl
9 though il has been declared uncOI
r stitutional there because OF the maj
. IL ,