The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-02-06
REPUBLICAN LEADERS SUPPORT
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
IN OPPOSITION
SYNOPSIS OF THE DEBATE IN THE
LOWER HOUSE
The Original Bill Was Defeated By
AZ to 1.-THE Subsequent Efforts,
Through IndirectiOn, Showed % to
25 More Than It's Actual Strength.
editorial Correspondence)

Editorial Correspondence
BOIsE-The cat with nine lives has
nothing on the proposed county OF
Buhl House bill No. 21, by Lucas
providing for the creation of that
county, was defeated by the over
whelming vote of AZ to IA Thursday
morning; a motion to reconsider the
vote was lost Friday morning, and tho
next morning another Bull county
bill was introduced by Lucas The
latter met a violent death, amid the
protestatiOns of it's friends, when all
attempt to indefinitely postpone IL
later in the afternoon was successful
Monday morning will, no doubt see
the matter introduced again in the
house in some other form.
Lucas began the argument in favor
of the Buhl bill, declaring that the
west end of Twin Falls county was
fully qualified under the constitution
for a new county; that the west end
was very much ill-treated by the rest
of the county-it was deprived of rep
resentation in the state legislature;
ignored in the improving of roads; and
politically disfranchised in every
other way and had not even repre-
sentation in the county offices. Such
a condition, Mr.. Lucas thought, should
be remedied by the creation of a new
aeanty
Replying to Lucas argument, Sims
pointed out that the Twin Falls coun-
try, especially the south side project,
was naturally one great section, and
that no physical condition existed as
a reason for division that Bull and
| Twin Falls were but sixteen miles
apart and were connected by the state
! highway as we'll as a railroad. He
called attention to the fact that at
the time the division idea first made
its appearance in the legislature, that
the west end of Twin Falls county
was represented in the house by two
members, Heyford and Nihart, and
that advantage was taken of this by
an attempt to divide the county at
that time; also that two years ago
the west end was given representa-
ton, in Mr.. Faris, despite his division
platform but that the county was
now tired of being "misrepresented'
in the state legislature in the matter
of division.
Mr.. Lucas charge that the west
end was deprived of representation
in the present legislature was me-
with the statement that Senator Ath
erton resides in the proposed county
of Bull, but a few miles southeast o
that city.
AS to road work, attention was call
ed to the existence of highway dis
trict in the west end, which took tina
territory from the jurisdiction of th'
county commissioners. The banks
of Buhl are both accorded recogni
4, ton by the county treasurer, ant
I Inc l1n 0T1l
are deposited in the Buhl banks. L
the matter of county printing the ives
end is also recognized
. Concluding his argument the SPEAK
er quoted from the returns of th
general election to prove that out
side of the two Buhl precincts ther
was no great demand for county di
vision even in the proposed new coun
ty; that in fact, especially at Castle
-. ford the opposition was easily in tn
majority Returns from other pre-
: cincts in the county, in the east, frol
: Hansen and Murtaugh, and in tn
:, south from Rogerson, showed conclt
:, sively the sentiment against division
= !, Barker followed Sims, suggestin
. that the efforts of a gentlemen s
:. distantly located with respect to Twi
= Falls county as was Mr.. Lucas, wei
:, not entirely appreciated by tne IWl
4 Falls county delegation, which W;
- unitedly opposed to the propositio
y even to the senator who resides in Il
% proposed new county. Judge Hanse
:, spoke briefly, standing by his juni'
a colleagues.
~ Majority Floor Leader Moody col
"a tributed a little fun to the discussiC
~ by saying that if conditions were
- bad in the west end as Lucas repr
- sented, that he did not know b
. what he was in favor of creating
a. into new county, but that in such ;
"a event it seemed to him that the thin
- to do was to establish the county sc
- in the center of the new county. Pic
y ing up the map of the proposed ne
Of county, Moody said that Castleso
looked to be about in the center
,a the new county, so he would sugge
~ that the bill be returned to the col
u mittee of the whole for amendrne
~ making Castleford the county SCI
a., Most of the agitation for new 'cou
+ ties, Moody remarked, came from I
Of budding ambitions of towns desiri
Ia to become county seats.
ba Immediately upon the defeat of I