Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1917-02-01

bOlSe, jan Eo.--l lrlnS VI inc Dl-
ennial efforts to create sectional dis
satisfaction by striking at state insti-
buttons many leading northern Idaho
members of the present legislature seen
tonight declared that if the south
wants the north to secede they may
have the wish gratified 1t is reported
ON excellent authority that enabling
acts asking for secession are low being
drafted for presentation to the legisla-
ture this week, that they will have sur
prising support in both houses. Infor
NAL conferences of northern Idaho
members have been held and a general
conference is to take place to discuss
the proposed consolidation and secession
plans. None of the members from the
north seem to favor the former. Many
of them look favorable upon secession.
The first move in the plan for edu-
cational institution consolidation was
made today when Representative Alma
Findlay of Bear Lake county introduc-
ed joint resolution known as No. IA
in the house, proposing an amendment
to the state constitution to be sub
mitted to the electors in 1919. "Shall
section 10 of article of the constitu-
ton of the state of Idaho be amended
so as to authorize the legislature at it's
biennial session in 1919 to change the
location of the University Of Idaho
from the city of Moscow and locate it
at some other place in the state7"
The constitutional amendment pro-
posed makes the additional provision
that after the 1919 legislature fixes the
place for the university, the location
shall not be changed. Representative
Findlay stated that the Lewiston Nor
NAL and the university are asking the
present legislature for $350,000 for per-
manent improvements and it should be
determined if the legislature proposes
to leave the institutions where they are.
He said he thought the university should
be in a more central location, at Boise
barracks or on the state 800 acres of
land at Nampa.
Representative Shearer, chairman of
the house committee on education,
chided the committees sharply at the
conference with the state board of
education when it drifted onto the dis
cussion of the consolidation plan, to
which he is absolutely opposed and
will express himself later; he said the
institutions were to remain where they
are for the next two years and the is.
sue before the committee was to pro-
vide for their needs.
81 believe,'' said Representative
Shearer tonight "the plan proposed is
for the purpose of defeating the budgets
calling for improvements for the several
state institutions by the present legisla
ture. The north should be aroused tc
the seriousness of the situation if this
proposed plan of stagnation to educa
tional institutions should by any pos
sibility be successful -
"When we have fostered in the north
the policy of sectionalism among
our people and urged broad statewide
development, said Representative Me
Gowan, eff the south desires to con
tinually raise the issue of sectionalisn
then the north will meet it,
Representatives Daughters, Kiger and
others expressed themselves in the
same way. Many said they were pre-,
pared to proceed with secession if that
was what the south desired. A seces
sion bill to be introduced will give to
the proposed new state of northern
Idaho all the territory north of the Sal
mon river, including all of Idaho
county.
Senator Mitchell, president pro ten
of the senate, declared he was opposed
to any plan to injure the northern Idaho