Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-02-09
UNIVERSITY WILL
NOT GO SOUTH
Southern Men Killed Measure
Intended to Move Educa-
tional InStitutionS-Other
Legislative Doings.

the university of Idaho from its
present location at Moscow ex-
ploded into thin legislative air to-
day after the house of represent
atives got through with the Find
lay resolution proposing an a.
mendment to the state constitu
ton so providing, for it was
slaughtered by being indefinitely
postponed. The act of the house
it was said, may forstall the pro-
posed introduction of a secession
measure to cut northern Idaho
off from the south.
The reference committee of
the house sounded the death cry
for the resolution. 1t reported to
the house that the measure be
not printed.
It was a significant feature of
the proceedings that the killing
of the resolution was volunteered
by members of the southern part
of the state and the north took
no particular part in it. This in
itsels is looked upon by members
as evidence they do not approve
of a program to disturb the Uni
versity of Idaho which has been
located at Moscow, where the
state has $1,000,000 invested in
the site. The representatives
who voted for the resolution were
the following: Findlay of Bear
Lake; MCGOWAN Of Custer;
Thatcher of Bannock; Transtrum
of Bear Lake. The representa-
tives excused from voting were:
Bohman Of Latah; Daughters of
Kootenai; Hitchcock Of Bonner;
MCGOWAN of Latah; Miles of Nez
Perce; Seymour o f Bonner;
Shearer of Nez Perez; Moody of
Bonner; Struthers of Shoshone;
Anderson of Latah; Smith of
Kootenai.
The house members did not ap-
pear to be enthusiastic over in
creasing their own pay as men,
bers, for while a majority of
them voted for the Grice joint
resolution to raise their per diem
from SIS to $3.50, the necessary
two-thirds of them failed to
stand by the resolution and it
was lost.
The house spent the morning
passing the following bills.
House bill No. 5; by Bennett
Relating to summons in justice
courts.
House bill No. 81, by Bohman
and MCGOWAN of Latah-Reduc-
ing legal interest rate in state
from IL to 10 per cent.
House bill No. "A, by committee
on charitable and penal institu-
lions Eliminating testimony of
conVicts as to former prison rec
ords.
House bill No. 81, by Trustrum
Providing that equitable &C.
tions shall be tried by court with
out a jury.
House bill No. rs, by McIn.
tosh-Giving each party one per-
emptory challenge for each four
jurors who are to serve on the
trial.
House bill No. sc, by McIn-
tosh Relating to challenge fol
jurors; defendant entitled to two
peremptory challenges when the
jury consists of six, and four
when jury consists of twelve.
Senate joint memorial No. 3,
by vans-Protesting to presi-
dent and secretary of interior
against 640-acre homestead act.
Senate joint memorial No. 4,
by Evans-Protesting to congress
against 64O-acre homestead act
and asking that Idaho be exclud-
ed from its terms.
By passing both of these me-
MORALS the legislature stands be-
hind Senator Evans of Power
county, who has made a stand
against the operation of the en-
larged homestead act in Idaho.
Senator Evans has held repeated.
ly that the law permits land
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