Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-01-23
HOUSE ENDORSES
WOMAN SUFFRAGE:
ADOPTS MEMORIAL
But Two Votes Against
Resolution Giving Ap-
prevail to Federal Amend
ment Granting Votes to
Women.

with but few dissenting votes the
house Of representatives today passed
the woman suffrage memorial to con-
gress indorsing q federal amendment
to the constitution and urging the gov
ernors Of states together with legis-
latures to pass suffrage legislation SO
that the women in those states may
exercise the right Of franchise. The
house floor and gallery was crowded
with representative women from all
parts Of the state who favored the
amendments.
The first memorial considered was
No. 8, by Kiger, MCGOWAN and Dris-
coll. 1t proposes the suffrage amend
ment and was made a special order Tor
10: 80 o'clock this morning. Johnston
Of Bingham championed the memorial
and in a long address declared for
equal rights to the women of the ma
ton. He was loudly applauded. Re-
ferring to the Bible and codes OF Idaho
he said he had far more faith in the for
mer than the latter. Majority Leader
Moody, speaking for the majority, met
with ringing applause when he said
that he stood for the suffrage amend
IleuI. nc tOOk Ills duuleuCe udCh ~
years. when he was in the house as q
member and there were four women
members. Laughter was provoked
when he said there was stabbing
ARRAY in the same session, but the
women were not involved or respon-
sible. Bennett of Gooding and Walsh
Of Canyon also favored It
The memorial was passed by a vote
Of So to 2. Hitchcock of Bonner said
he was in favor of suffrage but against
'petitioning congress to take up a
state matter. Jones of jefferson as
serted his belief 1t was n states
right question. but he favored suf-
frage and rather than put monkey
wrench into the machine or blocking
it, he would vote for the amendment
Lehrbas Of Bannock voted mo" with
out explanation.
MRS. M'FADDEN SPEAKS.
Just before the passage of the sec
ond memorial by Anderson asking leg
islatures of the other states to pass
woman suffrage legislation, Mrs. Nc
Fadden, the only woman member of
the Tenth Idaho Legislature, was given
the courtesy of the floor on the re-
quest of Representative Storey and met
with rounds of applause when she ap-
pealed for the right of franchise for
women. There was not a dissenting
vote against the memorial. Speaker
Alfred remarked later that both me-
MORALS having passed the members
might proceed ito grant woman suf-
frage at home" to which sally there
was applause.
After dehotc tho hnt1sn naqap6
housA bill No. 90, appropriating $4,000
to be used to make a survey and
measurement of water in Idaho
like amount.
DEFEAT OTHER MEMORIAL.
The Anderson memorial to congress
asking for an amendment to the con-
stitution providing for the direct cleo
ton Of president and vice president
was defeated by a vote Of 46 to IS
after long debate. Anderson Of Can
yon, the author. spoke for 1t; MCGOWAN
of Latah against 1t. The latter thought
that 1t would give the east a decided
advantage over the west. Young Of
Ada supported him in his contention.
Bates of Ada and Daughters Of Koo-
tenai supported the memorial. The
votes recorded for It follow: Anderson
Of Canyon. Bennett, Cannon, Daugh-
ters Games, Giles. Hansen, Lehrbas,
Lewis. Lucas, Mcintosh, Mcmillan,
Newport, Seymour, Sims. Thatcher.
Tyler Welsh.
Anderson of Canyon, attempted to
have the Lucas Tenth judicial district
bill killed by indefinite postponement
but failed. A message from the gov
ernor on the minimum wage commits
sion report was read and referred to
the committee on immigration, labor
and statistics.
FIRST BUDGET APPEARS.
Representative Shearer said the COM
mittee on military and Indian affairs
was not ready to report but asked for
more time. He said an invitation had
been accepted from Major Martin to
informally" inspect the barracks this
afternoon. The house granted the time
desired
Among the important bills introduced
were the following: An act to create
Portneuf county out of Bannock: con-
stitutional amendment to increase the
members OF the supreme court from
three to five: act to extend the res
dcnce for applications for divorce in
the state to IL months and requiring
six months residence i'm the county
where the divorce is filed: empowering
the governor to appoint special prose-
cutors for counties to enforce the pro-
hibition laws independent of the prose-
cutting attorneys and to hire detective
to secure evidence.
The appropriations committee filed
its first budget. 1t seeks to appropriate
s71.46o for the supreme court during
the next biennium. OF this amount
sac, 900 is for salaries for the Justices.
$1S09 Is for the salary of deputy
clerk at Lewiston; $4,000 for supreme
court reports: salary of law librarian
$1,000 and assistant $1,000: repair OF
supreme court building, etc, at Lew
iston, $1400.
H0VERNMEN PESTS