The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-02-08
QUESTION OF STATE DIVISION A
LIVE ISSUE BEFORE THE
LEGISLATURE
BOUNDARIES OF THE PROPOSED
NEW STATE DESCRIBED
Southern Members Dissatisfied With
Location OF Educational Institu-
ticns Not Strcnuously Opposed To
New State Trade" Denied.
Editorial Correspondence)

editorial Correspondence
BOISE, Feb. 7.-Will congress ac-
cept the northern counties of Idaho
into the Union as a new state?
All the requirements of the consti-
tuition of the United States will have
been complied with by Northern Ida
no prior to the time congress next
convenes. The decision will rest en-
tirely with the next session.
There are many who believe that
congress will decline to admit the
north and these base their belief
upon the grounds that the congress-
men from the eastern states will be
reluctant to strengthen the western
contingent by the addition of two SEN
ators and one representative.
Opposing this view, others claim
that congressman from the southern
states can be depended upon to rally
to the support of the proposed new
state, as the west and the south have
become natural allies both by reason
of the necessity of curtailing the
influence of the eastern states and
as a result of the recent election,
when the west and south combined
against the east to retain Woodrow
Wilson as president.
Outside of the possibility of strong
political influence being brought to-
bear on the question when it comes
before congress, the northern delega-
tions in the legislature claim that
their proposition Is one that will
stand on its own merits and bear
the closest scrunity. That this is
more than a mere claim is attested
by the fact that many representatives
and senator's from the south have
joined with them in the resolutions
introduced in both branches of the
legislature Monday morning The
two resolutions are identical in form
and grant the consent of the legisla-
ture to the separation of the nortl
ern section for the creation of d new
state, as well as to provide for a
constitutional convention. They al
so petition congress for the admiT-
sion of the new state into the union.
In both the house and senate res
olutions enough sponsors are nam
ed as the introducers to assure 2
comfortable majority. Besides these
members sponsoring the measure
there are many in both house and sen
ate who are said to have pledged theiI
support to the north
In the house the resolution bears
resentatives from the north: Moody
MCGOWAN, Daughters, Shearer, Hitch
cock, Miles, Kent Seymour, Smith
Bohman, Giles, Baillie, Hussman
Kiger, LaForest, Quilan, Grice, Lewis
Struthers, Anderson, Kribs; from
the south, Alfred Anderson, Barker
Lehrbas, Jones, Richards Collins
Sims, Cowles, Anderson, Thatcher
Cannon, Geohry, MCMILLAN, Barry
MCGOWAN and Findlay.
The senate resolution bears thu
signature of the following senator's
Lewis, Randall, Wilson, Grant, Pet
tibone, Mitchell, Stevenson, Jackson
Walker, Kinsolving, briggs, Evans
Pincock, Hill, Bandbury Atherton
Barker, Evans, Logue and Shields
The preamble on the resolution
justifies the creation of a new stat
from north Idaho, stating that noun
tain barriers, canyons and rivers di
vide the state naturally into two dis
tinct portions; that north Idaho
humid, south Idaho arid, causing
natural difference in the industrie
and interests of the two sections
that "for many years to come a.
likelihood of the growing together c
these separate sections, by reason c
the settlement and private Occupa
tion of the adaptable portions of thi
dividing barrier of mountains AM
canyons, is removed by it's inclusio
within the national forests; that tn
people of one section of the stat
are unable to understand the prot
lens arising from the other section
with the result that "cross purpose
are engendered and the common syn
pathy which is necessary for tn
proper development of the state as
whole is jeopardized; that these di
ferences will grow and become il
tensified and deplorable."
The constitutional provision fC
new states is as follows:
New states may be admitted
the congress into the union; but 1
new state shall be formed or create
within the jurisdiction of any oth'
state; nor any state be formed
the jurisdiction of two o'or more state
without the consent of the Legislature
of the states concerned as well as
congress-"
Provision is made in the resolution
for the holding of a constitution
convention June 18th at Mosco'
Idaho. The signers of the resolution