Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-02-02
DORAH SUPPORTS
ALIEN LAND BILL
IDAHO SENATOR APPROVES LEG
lSLATIVE PROPOSAL TO PRE-
VENT JAP OWNERSHIP.
Measure Pending in Idaho Legislature,
Having Been Approved by House.
Admittedly Directed Against
Japanese.


and bill now pending in the Idaho
legislature. The measure is admitted
ly directed solely against Japanese,
who, have been buying sugar beet
land in Idaho, and has passed the low
er house of the legislature by unani-
nous vote.
In an interview telegraphed from
Washington to the Boise Statesman,
Senator Borah says:
Il am opposed to permitting Japan
csc to acquire lands either by fee or
by lease in our state. If they are
actually acquiring lands in Idaho |
am in favor of legislation which will
prevent it. l realize that this is a
serious question and ought to be han
lied with consideration and courtesy,
nevertheless we ought to be firm and
positive as to our rights and our in
.erests.
1.-The Japanese are a great people
and have a great civilization. But they
are a different people and have a
wholly different civilization from ours.
There can be no mixture. They must
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the interests of our people"
A bill providing for a s1,O00,000
bond issue for road building purposes
appeared in the lower house of the
legislature last week along with a
number of other supposed administra-
ion measures. The bond issue is
sponsored by the committee on roads,
bridges and ferries.
The creation of an agricultural
board to promote the interests of
state fair at Boise and the Lewiston
livestock show, is provided for in a
dill introduced in the lower house of
he legislature. No provision is made
n the measure for an appropriation,
out it is understood that an appropri-
alton will be asked for in a second
dill, to appear soon
Idaho will have a game reserve in
he Salmon river country of Lemhl
county, if a bill introduced in the low
n house of the legislature by Repre-
sentative Wickham becomes a law.
The consolidation of the state board
Of health, the pure food department,
the board of medical examiner and
the state board of osteopathic exam
iners is provided for in an administra-
lion measure introduced in the lower
house of the legislature by Represent
alive Sims of Twin Falls.
A bill was introduced by majority
members of the senate last week to
divide the state into two congress
sional districts, so that Idaho con-
gressmen shall not be elected at large,
as at present. The dividing line
would be the southern and southeast
arn boundaries of the counties of Can
Yon, Gem, Boise, Custer and Lemhi |
he counties north of this line form |
ng the first district and the counties |
south and east of this line forming |
the second district
A bill was introduced in the lower |
house of the Idaho legislature on Jan
uary 20 providing for the removal of |
the University of Idaho from Moscow !
to Boise.
A radical change is the present leg
islative system is proposed in a house
joint resolution introduced in the low
er house by Daughters, Johnston and
Lucas. The resolution proposes that
the constitution be so amended as to
replace the two branches of the leg
islature with a single house of
twenty-one members which would be
in session the year around and rob
the governor of his veto power The
state would be divided into twenty
acre districts. The proposal would be
submitted to the people at the gen
eral election in 1918.
Resolutions proposing constitutional
giving Idaho people the
initiative and referendum and the
right to amend the constitution
through a referendum vote, were
introduced in the lower house of the
legislature last week by Peckham,
tiles and Welsh.
The anti-alien land bill, prohibit
he United States from owning other
han mining lands in Idaho, was
passed by the lower house of the leg
stature without a dissesting vote,
here being no opposition to the meas
Ire. s
The administration will indorse the c
gorkmen's compensation act intro '
uced in the lower house of the leg [
stature by Ross w. Bates, it is said. b
The appropriation committee in
he lower house of the legislature de- T
lined to take action relative to the I
emoval of books from the state d
reasurer's department to the land de- b
artment, insisting that it was mat F
er to be handled by the committee S
n state affairs.
The attorneys is the house sue C
eeded in so Gripping bill by Grice c
4 committee of the whole that it was o
illed at the request of its author on Il
notion of Bennett that il be indefi- n