Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-01-12
BOURBONs CONTROL.
AH0LEG|SLATURE
SELECT OFFICERS AND EN-
PLOYEES WITHOUT SERIOUS
OPPOSITION
First Bill Passed in the House is for
Appropriation to Pay Guards
men-Opening PreIiminaries
Without Serious Conflict.

Boise, Idaho.-The fourteenth Idaho
legislature danced at its own inaugu
ration here Monday night, around the
marble column of the new state cap
itol, to the music of the Second Idano
1 Regiment and Boise Municipal bands
Inaugurated at noon and following
preliminary organization of both
houses, the assembly recessed to
Tuesday afternoon at o'clock, when
it reconvened 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 Blackfoot, speaker Of
the house, and Senator Perry w.
Mitchell, president of the senate. Rep
| resentative c. S. Moody was made
! floor leader of the majority, with Rep
resentative Ernest Anderson of Can
yon his assistant. Representative D..
R. 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 F. S.
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 to pass house bill
No. l, 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
Regain, a Boise citizen, advanced
$4,000 for the purpose and to it the
governor added $1,000 more, but owing
to the difficulty over the way in which
funds not appropriated by the legtsia-
ture could be paid to the troops it
was decided not to use this money, but
to wait until the legislature convened
and appropriated state money
The senate will pass the same bill
and it 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 both
were organized, ready to transact the
states business and receive such mes
sages as he wished to transmit. The
governor replied that he would read
his message at o'clock Tuesday
afternoon, and joint concurrent res
olution was adopted converting the
house in joint session at that hour.
The opening preliminaries 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 to
twenty-nine in the house and twenty |
one to sixteen in the senate, mar
gin of control that was amply safe.
The gavel was dropped in the senate
by Herman H. Taylor, former lieuten-
ant governor, promptly at u 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
in nomination for president
pro tenn. The Republicans, through
Senator Whitcomb, nominated Sena-
tor Randall Senator Mitchell was
elected on a straight party vote. The
Democrats then elected their at
taches. Committees were appointed
as follows: Senator Thomas and Hill
to notify the house the senate was
organized. Senators Hill, Whitcomb and
Curtis to serve the same notice on
he governor; Senators Mitchell, Ran
iall and Stevenson, committee on
Jules; Senators Wedgewood, briggs
md Rockwell, joint committee on
Jules.
David Burrell, former chief clerk of
he house, raped the house to order
1t noon and the oath of office was {
shortly afterward administered The
election of speaker followed, together (
With the naming of Democratic at
aches, after which the regimental bill
vas passed.