Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1917-01-12
BOURBONS CONTROL
IDAHO LEGISLATURE
SELECT OFFICERS AND EN-.
PLoYEEs WITHOUT SERIOUS
OPPOSITION
First Bill Passed In the House Is for
Appropriation to Pay Guards.
men-openino Prelin1lnaries
Without Serious Conflict.

Boise. Idaho.-The fourteenth Idaho
legislature danced at It's own inaugu.
ration here Monday night, around the
marble column of the new state cap
itol, to the music OF the Second Idano
Regiment and Boise Municipal bands.
lnaugurated at noon and following
preliminary organization of both
houses, the assembly recessed 10
Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. when
1t reconyened In joint session to hear
the message OF Governor Alexander.
The informal reception and dance
Monday is the only social event
planned in the inaugural and was in.
formal.
The Democratic majority which
mans both houses carried its caucus
agreements out to the letter through
the election of Representative b. Har.
we'd Aldred of Blaekfoot, speaker OF
the house, and Senator Perry w.
Mitchell, president of the senate. Rep
resentatiye c. S. Moody was made
ioor leader Of the majority with Rep.
resentative Ernest Anderson OF Can.
yon his assistant Representative ID.
K. Hubbard. the Republican minority
nominee for speaker. was voted down.
together with all attaches offered by
the Republicans, and those OF the
Democrats were installed Represen.
tative MCGOWAN Is minority floor
leader in the house and Senator T.. q.
Randall OF Lewiston floor leader In the
senate. Chief Justice Bulge swore in
both houses.
The first official act OF the house of
representatives was 20 pass house bill
NO. /. appropriating s7.333.50 from the
general funds of the treasury TO be
used TO pay the officers and enlisted
men OF the Second Idaho regiment the
money the state owes them. Timothy
Regan, a Boise citizen, advanced
$4,000 for the purpose and to IL the
GOVERNOR added $1,000 more, but owing
TO the difficulty over the way In which
funds not appropriated by the legisla.
ture could be paid to the troops II
was decided not to use this money. but
to wait until the legislature convened
and appropriated state money
The senate will pass the same bin
and Il will Immediately receive the
governors approval. The troops will
then be paid. There was not enough
money In the treasury to pay them
before.
The second official act of the two
houses was TO notify the governor Doth
We're organized. ready to transact the
states business and receive such mes.
sages as he wished TO transmit. The
overnor replied that he would read
ais message at o'clock Tuesday
afternoon, and a joint concurrent res.
olution was adopted converting the
house In Joint session at that hour.
the opening preliminarles were
without serious conflict. The Demo.
cratic majority asserted its power
from the start and the first test votes
found them with thirty-six votes 70
Twenty-Five in the house and twenty.
one to sixteen In the senate, a mar
gin OF control that was amply safe.
The gayel was dropped In the senate
by Herman II. Taylor. former neuten
ant governor. promptly at II O'Clock
noon. Senators Mitchell and Randall
were instructed to notify the chief Jus.
tice that the senate was ready To take
the oath Of office. At 1918 the oath
was administered. Senator George e.
Hill, Democrat, then placed Senator
Mitchell In nomination for president
pro TEN. The Republicans, through
Senator Whitcomb, nominated sena,
tor Randall Senator Mitchell was
elected on straight party vote. The
Democrats then elected their at
taches. Committees were appointed
AZ follows: Senator Thomas and HnI
TO notify the house the senate was
organized. Senators Hin, Whltcomb and
Curtis to serve the same notice ON
the governor. Senators Mitchell, Ran.
dali and Stevenson. committee on
rules; Senators Wedgewood, briggs
and Rockwell. joint committee on
rules.
David Bnrrell. former chief clerk OF
the house, raped the house TO order
al noon and the oath Of office was
shortly afterward administered The
election Of speaker followed, together
with the naming Of Democratic at
taches. after which the regimental BIZ.
vas passed.