The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-10-11
CANAL BOARD VIGOROUSLY
DENIES IrIPUTATIONS ON
INTENTIONS
Want Only to See Law
Complied With
Members Say They Have Worked
for Changes - Secretary Ed
wards Says Foes Played Dirty
Politics.

With a few minor changes, practic-
ally all merely verbal, the canal COM
pany meeting Tuesday evening voted
54,313.64 to 3,515.40 to adopt all the
changes proposed by the Twin Falls
County Farm Bureau membership un-
der the leadership of DR. John e.
White. The form of the amendments
were agreed upon vive voce, and then
the vote by stock was taken. 1t is un-
derstood that a large amount of stock
was in the hands of men who were
present and did not vote either way.
At the conclusion, NJ. J. Sweeley moved
that the president and chairman and
secretary certify the result in the
proper form to the board of directors
for their action, which in the regular
form, would consist of filing the
changes with the county auditor for
record.
ated much interest and while there
was nothing but courtesy observed at
the Lavering, the interviews published
hereunder indicate that the course of
canal affairs, like true love, doesn't
always run smoothly. President
White appeared before the board We'd
nesday morning and asked them to
the action to be legal and the changes
to be already made.
What the Board Says
Declaring themselves desirouS to
have no action taken by the canal
board which would be in violation of
the statutes and which might vitiate
their actions in the future, in result of
bond election and the like, the board of
directors of the Twin Falls Canal COM
pany yesterday afternoon submitted
again to their attorney, Judge j. r.
Boutwell, the question of the legality
of the action of the meeting Tuesday
in finally passing upon the proposed
amendments to the constitution and
Nranted an interview at the same time
toNa TIMES reporter
The board in so doing announced
that they desired to proceed strictly
in accordance with the law and stated
that should the attorney find that the
changes were in his opinion legally
made, they would proceed to call the
general election for the first Tuesday
in December. On the other hand
should further ratification be neces-
sary and the changes be found not to
be yet in force, they would proceed to
call the election at the usual time in
January. They asked that Judge Both
well proceed as rapidly as he could
in full Justice to the importance OF
the subject, but to take all the time
required to give the subject thor
Ough review. The decision will prob
ably be handed in in writing this
week. perhaps this evening or tomor-
row morning.
The members of the board declare
that personally they favor most of the
changes. that they have not opposed
them, and that they will be glad tC
proceed under the new order of thing;
If legal. They declare. however, tina
they drew up the call including thu
word initiate" after due considera
zion, because they believed that thu
/Seople owning stock would want speci
:, fic knowledge beforehand in regard t
proposed changes, and they they sup
posed the things would be initiated q
this meeting and settled. after due con
sideration at some subsequent meet
ing. They said that after the call ha
been made, they informed DR.. Whit
in regard to what had been done an
told him that it would take anothe
Nneeting to make the proposed change
and he said that he knew that
would They declare that only a FEY
knew the exact changes and the forT
of such changes to be proposed Tues
day until they were handed si
while entering the Lavering to atten
the meeting; that they should have
chance to study the proposed change
after they had been put into definit
form, before being called upon to vot
on them and should have been allow
ed to vote by stock on each of theI
separately but instead of this, tn
house passed vive voce on the inclu
sion of one proposed amendment afte
another, and then voted on them a
together, in a lump. They say ths
they are not yet certain whether tn
voting was done legally or not. Thi
there was neither a ballot box nor
vive voce vote by roll call, and declai
that the stockholders or proxy holC
ers present simply took a slip of blan
paper wrote their names, the amour
Sstock and the word Yes" or "NC
ION the paper and handed it to telle
without indicating on the paper VIII
they were voting for. or against. al