Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-01-26
A LETTER FROM
STATE CAPITAL
Representative w. B. HuSSman
Writes Interesting Letter
About Doings Down at
Boise.
Boise, Idaho, January 13, IT.
Mr.. F. S. Winner,

Mr.. F. S. Winner,
Cottonwood. Idaho.
Dear Sir: Most editors, when a
man has successfully aspired to
the office of representative to the
legislature, ask him to write
home to the folks to let them
know what is going on in the
capital city. While you didn't
ask me, probably because of
being in doubt as to whether or
not | could write reading-and l
am not blaming you for your
mistrust in the premises-yet 1
reason with the logic as the fam
lily physician when he prescribed
castor oil-if it won't do any
good, it won't do any harm, so
you will have to take a dose
whether you like it or not. You
can take it with sugar of course
and / don't think it will strangle
you.
Our trip was quite uneventful,
yet pleasant and in no wise tirez
some. We boarded the sleeper
at Lewiston at 7o'clock in the
evening and occupied it until we
arrived in Boise the following eve
ming at 9 CLOCK. Contrary to the
fear of the railroad company and
the legislators, who were active
in securing this special car, that
not sufficient tickets could be
sold to justify this service, all
berths were requistioned before
four o'clock in the afternoon.
When we arrived we found
everything in a whirl and every
body in a pleasant mood of antici-
patton of an interesting session
that was heralded by the incom-
ing legislators. 1t was difficult to
secure rooms anywhere except in
the magnificent Owyhee hotel,
where the rates are so high that
a humble legislator drawing only
five simoleons per day can just
exc out an existence for himself
and family, provided he has
limited his family to the size that
generally marks the ambition of
the wealthy class. After three
days diligent search 1 found a
furnished home that l rented for
sixty days and where we are now
comfortably located. Every no.
tel is crowded and Boise at this
time has all the ear marks of a
live and growing city. With its
magnificent capitol building and
efficient street car service, large
and magnificent shade trees
everywhere, and the fine leve
plateau upon which Boise is built,
gives it an atmosphere of repose
and stability that is seldom founC
in a western city.
This is Saturday and the 9Th
session of the House has JUS
adjourned to Monday morning al
ten o'clock. So far it has been &
matter of getting organized anC
getting acquainted. With me i
has been a matter of sizing w
the situation and trying to get I
lineup on where l am going tt
get in, in this august body. AL
in all l am very favorably i'm
pressed with the members com
prising this body. They ar
gathered from all walks and oc
cupations in life and the suav,
and smooth politician is hardly il
evidence. Never before hav
there been so many new member
in one legislature as at this time
The republicans of course hav
more hold-overs than the dome
cats and among them one or tw
of the old war horses, notabl
Johnson of Bingham and Store
of Ada. The democrats hav
only small majority and most G
them new members, so that tn
damocratic leaders have had thei