Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-01-31
BUT FOUR MEMBERS
VOTE FOR PROPOSAL
Twelve Members Excused
From Voting and the Re-
mainder Are Against Res
olution--No Increase in
Pay for Members of the
Legislature.

Removal of the University Of Idaho
from it's present location at Moscow
exploded into thin legislative air to-
day after the house of representatives
got through with the Findlay resolu-
ton proposing an amendment to the
state constitution SO providing, for it
was slaughtered by being indefinitely
postponed. The act of the house, u
was said today forcstalls the proposed
introduction of 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
the measure be not printed. Repre- !
sentative Findlay Of Bear Lake county, \
its author, moved as a substitute that
it be printed and the fight was on.
He held it was un-American and un-
democratic to kill off a measure in
that manner. Kribs was on his feet
and moved the Findlay motion be
tabled. Evidently the house wanted
to definitely settle the matter--and the /
resolutionfor it voted the kribs mo-
ton down. Johnston of Bingham then
moved that the resolution be indefi- !
nitely postponed. A rollcall was de-
manded and taken. The indefinite ,
postponement carried by vote OF 40
for, against and IL excused from vot-
ing.
KILLING BY SOUTH SIGNIFICANT.
1t was significant feature of the
proceedings that the killing OF the
resolution was volunteered by mem
bers of the southern part of the state !
and that the north took no particular
part in It, This In itself is look ed
upon by members as evidence that
there is no feeling Of sectionalism en-
listing between majority OF the
southern members and that they do
the University Of Idaho which has been
located at Moscow. where the state
mas 100000 invested in the site.
Johnston, who moved the indefinite
postponenent, is from the southeast.
Practically all the southern and south
eastern members stood behind him.
The northern members who were
vitality interested in the action OF the
house held back from taking any part
in the proceedings. Those members
from Latah county where the univer
sity is located asked to be excused
| northern members.
HOW VOTE STOOD.
The representatives who voted for
the resolution were the following
| Findlay, of Bear Lake; MCGOWAN, Of
Custer; Thatcher. of Bannock; Tran
strum, of Bear Lake.
The representatives excused from
voting were: Bohman. of Latah;
Daughters, OF Kootenai; Hitchcock, of
Bonner; MCGOWAN, of Latah Miles.
Of Nez Perce; Moody, of Bonner;
Shearer, of Nez Perce; Seymour Of
Bonner; Struthers, of Shoshone; An
derson, of Latah: Smith, of kootenai.
REFUSED INCREASE OWN WAGES.
! The house members did not appear
| to be enthusiastic over increasing
their own pay as members for while
majority Of them voted for the Grice
joint resolution to raise their per diem
from S. to $3.50. the necessary two
thirds OF them failed to stand by the
resolution and 1t was lost, Grice spoke
for the measure stating that 80 per
cent Of the legislature and people of
the state knew that IS a day was too
small an amount to meet expenses
and that $3.50 per day would be more
reasonable. Party lines were eliminat-
ed when the vote was taken. There
were 81 members who recorded their
votes against 1t and three were alb
sent. The 81 members voting for the
resolution follow:
Adamson, Barker, Bennett, Collins,
Cowles. Driscoll, Giles, Goehry. Grice,
Hussman, Johnston. Jones, Kent. La
Forest, Lehrbas. Lewis. MCGOWAN of
Custer, MCGOWAN of Latah, Mcmillan,
McMurray. May, Miles. Moody, Rich
ards, Ross, Shearer Sims, Smith,
Storey. Streitz. Struthers. Thatcher,
Thorne. Wickham. Young. Alfred
LOWER LEGAL INTEREST RATE.
Following a lively discussion the An
derson bill to reduce the legal interest
rate in this state from 12 to 10 per cent
was passed. MCGOWAN and Anderson
Of Latah. Young Of Ada. Jones Of Mad
ison and others spoke for the bill.
Findlay Of Bear Lake, Bates Of Ada
and others spoke against it. The ar
gument put forth for the measure was
that Q lower rate Of interest would
greatly assist the smaller borrower.
Young held II to be . disgrace to the
state to have q legal interest rate Of
~ per cent on its statute books. Bates
took the view that a low interest rate
would injure investments In this state
Findlay commended that a low interest
rate would work to the detriment of
the borrower as the banks could not
afford to carry the accounts Of small