Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1915-03-05
IDAHO PROHIBITION
MEASURE SIGNED
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 bill at p. m. on
March 1, and all doubt about Idaho
becoming dry territory on January l.
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 we're pre- !
scented to north and south Idaho womS1
en-, Christian Temperance associations
and to the Anti Saloon league. Those
present Immediately afterward sang,
to the tune of Tipperary, Its 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 couldznot
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 it's first night ses-
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, Gre
ating that county out of northern
Canyon county.
The senate cleaned up its calendar
during the day to avoid 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 political grab bag" by Fuller Of
Fremont.
Other important house bill passed
by the senate ipclude 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 iu other districts
than their own.
; -,
part and vetoed in part the $26, 900
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
Neither the governor nor the legis-
lature Is going to leave the institution
for feeble-minded unfinished through
I tack of an appropriation if the Cald-
well Chamber of Commerce can sue
? cessfully carry out present plans.
/ The trespass law which was ap-
] proved by the house makes hunting on
2 private property a misdemeanor when
[ notices to that effect are posted
It is claimed that an agreement has
4 been made under which twenty Demo
) Gratis and the one Republican In the
0 house will sustain the governor in any
e veto he makes, even though it affects
pet bills of the members who signed
: the agreement.
: But five votes could be mustered by
e the opposition to the minimum wage
i bill when it came up for final pas
sage under suspended rules In the
: senate The bill provides for com.
( mission to investigate minimum wages
l. for women.
}. Members of the senate voted passes
to themselves by inserting In H. B
l. No. las, by Johnston, while 1t was in
K the committee of the whole, the
;. amendment which makes it apply
q to members of the legislature as well
as to state and county officials.
IL Charging that members of the
3 house were inconsistent In voting fol-
e prohibition and at the same time
using and countenancing the use Of
" tobacco, Koelsch of Ada denounced
4 the tobacco habit on the floor of the
e house.
If
r The senate killed an act known a.
Ie senate bill No. II, to allow countie:
70 seeking division to create new coun
p ties without coming before the legis
1f lature and recommended for passag,
a. constitutional amendment providing
h. new counties cannot be created unles,
1t they have a $5,OOO,OOO assessment val
uation.
d The abatement and Injunction bill
BE passed by the senate was copied il
u the main from the Iowa law. which
lg though it has been declared uncon
# stitutional there because of the man
I'd ner in which 1t was passed, is said {,
it have survived the test of the courts
g. as to the legality of it's provisions.
lie The property rights bill passed b
In the senate is one of the pet bills K
rs the women this session It provide
= that the earnings of a wife and tn
al income and profits of her individual
es property should be under her manage
ment and control
lg The senate passed the Fitz an
at Rockwell bill authorizing the use G
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