Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-01-19
FOR SIX new
COUNTIES
Bill introduced in Legislature
Include Selway--North Ida
no On Important Assign
ments.s,

half dozen more counties during
the present session of the legis-
lature, judging from the attack
made on the house by the van
guard of division measures that
appeared today. Counties to be
called Selway, Butte and Camas
were presented, and one if not
two will come later from Canyon
county, while Bannock county
will be among those seeking to
be divided. Lake county in the
far northern section of the state
will also be introduced. The ap-
pearance of these three division
bills, the passage of the genera.
legislative expense measure
carrying $4,000; passage of a
memorial to congress asking for
$4,000 for good roads in the
Fort Hall Indian reservation, the
signing by the speaker of the
militia pay bill and the appoint
ment of standing committees in
the house and senate were the
features of the days proceedings.
In order that the legislature
might see the second Idaho repi-
ment intact and for which it
made a liberal appropriation, that
organization gave a parade in the
afternoon for their inspection,
while the machine gun company
gave a demonstration of how the
famout Lewis machine guns are
operated.
The standing committees in
the house and senate as assigned
to the members from the coun-
ties of Nez Perce, Idaho, Lewis,
Clearwater and Latah follow:
Senate-Nez Perce; Randall,
state affairs, highways a n d
bridges; Idaho, Pettibone, coun-
ty and county boundaries, chair
man highways; Lewis Mitchell,
state affairs, chairman judiciary;
Clearwater-Grant, finance cor
porations; Latah-Lewis, banks
and banking, public printing.
House-Nez Perce, Shearer,
military and Indian affairs, chair
man journal, chairman education;
Miles, appropriation, privileges
and elections, roads and bridges;
I d a h o-Hussman, education,
chairman private corporations,
railroads, roads and bridges,
Quinlan, county lines and bound
aries, educational institutions,
chairman warehouse and grains,
public health; Lewis-Giles, ed
ucational institutions, chairman
engrossed bills, private corpora
tions; Clearwater, LaForest, ag-
riculture and horticulture, mill
tary and Indian affairs; Latah-
Anderson, federal relations, rail-
roads, warehouses, and grain;
Bohman, mileage, private cor
porations; MCGOWAN, charitable
institutions, roads and bridges,
rules.
The Selway county division bill
was introduced by Representa-
tive Quinlan of Idaho county.
This measure names Kooskia as
the temporary county seat. The
territory included in the proposed
new county is all located in Idaho
county. The Butte and Camas
county bills were introduced by
Representatives Alberthson and
Adamson, both of Blaine county.
The Butte county bill names Fair
field as the county seat; the Cam
as county bill names Arco as the
county seat.
Several bills seeking to amend
the election laws so that resi-
dents away from their respective
precincts may vote were intro
duced. Another measure would
give the seventh judicial district
another judge. Representative
Grice introduced a bill seeking to
raise the salary of members of
the legislature from SIS to 81 a