The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-02-23
n CHARGES TO
i INVESTIGATED
gnN9IT FROM NATIONAL CAP
ARoUsEs IDAHO SEN
y ATE TO ACTION.
mna That Pressure Was Brought
= ar on Japanese Ambassador
aa4op Him to Protest Against
Anti.Alien Land Bill.

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k4a charge that a lobby was
ssfaInAd here by the Japanese So
: W idaho through Z. NJ. Booth,
lFiH Nalls attorney, to bring about
TEAL of the anti-alien bill, which |
e ne house and was killed in
ae1e after the Japanese govern |
4 pKetested its passage through
an ssador at Washington. The |
g odairs committee OF the senate, |
alifeh Senator Perry w. Mitchell of
u 1nnty, president pro tenn, is
IMAM was instructed to forthwith
e nNbpoenas to bring Booth and
= 20 could throw light on the
1eF hefore it and to proceed to
itt m open hearing. The sheriff
txW|H Falls was telegraphed to
IL tNe subpoenas on Booth.
sAe mate also issued subpoenas
= INfr Craig, H. H. Rankin, E. II.
rnrouAk and w. Winchell, all prom
II Idaho men, who filed affidavits
i1a state department at Wash
ot alleging that Booth told that
bad Brought pressure to bear on
3aranese ambassador, with the
,llAk III that official later register
JaIs protest with the government
. Iuet Rhe passage of the anti-alien
10Th, they claim, asserted he
+ aClIng for and on behalf Of Sam
!, Hef1lck, a prominent Washington
' Fney
|. khiIe the bill was pending before
l1ialature, Booth is claimed to
II keDt in direct communication
= Washington over the long-dis-
u lelephone, paying heavy tele-
Enc harges. While direct charges
~ nod been made, a $4,000 attor-
Z Ee b claimed to be involved. The
!, AHV further sets forth that the
Huca ambassador had no inten-
q aking any action in the mat
ia ne time until forced to do so
noo; that he had no instructions
4 Eakio to act in the matter OF
u b against the passage of the
ne house of Representatives pass
/ Che Anti-alien bill on January 81
unanimous vote. 1t was admitted
the noor that the purpose was to
v@nl Japanese from acquiring title
walNable sugar beet lands in east.
n Kdaho, where they were coloniz-
n After the bill reached the SEN
tha international crisis with Ger.
trnF me on and a protest was made
washington by the Japanese am
!, sador against passage Of the meas
This had the backing OF ad'
1iafl4tion officials and for fear OF
I afassing the administration the
" was Indefinitely postponed. 1t is
% feintroduced, claim Legislators
crested in its passage. In the mean
sle the senate bill probe into the
! IrEe q the alleged LOBBY main
bed d defeat it.
the legislature found on convenine
Eebrnary &c that it had not legal
passed the Portneuf county division
e tor at the time the vote was TAX
D ID he senate, reconsidering the
90 BY which the bill was killed and
!, lch Nesulted afterwards in its pas
Ire he bill was in the hands o.
house and not before the senate
lfulenant Governor Parker held
I, wclure. that the passage OF the bill
g uuN and void, following a heateC
bate Senator Cummings reintro
ICED tie bill in the senate Saturday
had previously passed the house.
among the bills on February 26 In
Aucnd was a measure extending tn
a4isions OF the Nepotism act so a
include school, drainage and irriga
il district employees; an anti-strik
tssnre, by Walker. making il
Z e1aaueanor for two or more person
ID 0nnapire to quit work; and a bill
Aiherton. reQairing that the Bibl
= roAd in the public schools. Tn
!, aae nassed the Lehrbas bill, maxim
poeatello national forest a gam
set4e. A bill was introduced {
Pate ne county of Clark out Of FRI
int eounty.
Ena Bates compensation bin, afte
mE ~ amended as to strike out tn
5 uses providing benefits for worl
lrsn ATTRACTING industrial diseases
"a feeommended out for passage b
q c1nmittee OF the whole in III
LNer house of the legislature.
psKNe8 will be no more trading Z
,rapnag OF votes in the legislator
|, tNaAser, II a bill introduced in III
= YET house by Kiger can run th
: untIel and survive attacks and b
ma law Kiger calls his measuI
]. antklog rolling bill
Parts lines were again drawn whe
BIN TO empower the governor
mnTe sheriffs and prosecuting alto
II Tho failed to enforce the prob
Q ium Jaws was passed. The hous
5 4e4 the Storey-Johnson memoirs
e cungTess. asking that the ColliSt'
,iR4 n Boise be purchased and r
,s.aVHa TO improve the approach to u
,As eapitol.
Tue bin TO abolish the puOuc util
. cclnmission. known as senate bi
h 81 by Cummings of POcatell
/ Al kglled when the senate accepts
s. . xote OF Is TO the report Of q
! qnmttfee OF the whole that it be /
snnitely postponed.
srcenasor Stevenson brought out