Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-23
Senate Measure Goes Down to
Slaughter by Vote Of 2S to
19-Notice to Reconsidera-
ton Given.
AGAINST PROPAGAN D A
Claim Attempt Being Made to
Make Farmers Appear as
Favored Glass Should Be
Frowned Upon.

The house of representatives de-
feated the senate nepotism measure.
senate bill No. 80, Saturday afternoon.
The vote stood 20 against to 10 for.
1t may be revived Monday. Repre-
sentative Givens of Ada county served
notice that on the next legislative day
he would move reconsideration Of the
vote by which the bill was lost.
Senator Tyler is the author of the
measure. 1t extends the power of the
nepotism law to appointees in road,
drainage and irrigation districts.
Holders of offices therein are not per-
mitted to appoint relatives to positions
under them.
The house took an early adjourn
ment in honor of the memory of
George Washington, the day being the
anniversary of the father of his
country" The senate was not in
session.
AGAINST PROPAGANDA.
Representative Hill arose to a point
Of personal privilege to protest against
dispatch appearing in the States
man backing a campaign attempting
to show that the farmers are a favor
ed class because there is a government
guarantee price on wheat. He thought
the legislature should go on record
against a propaganda trying to show
the government Is going to lose money
in handling the wheat.
Jones of Idaho county said that
similar propaganda was being carried
on with relation to livestock. He de-
MED that the stockmen made a big
profit on stock during the war and
that prices were now going to drop.
He charged that the packers were to
blame and read report to the house
to show that the big Four" Armour
Smith, Marsh and Cuddahy, made a
profit of $4,000. 000-that the pack
ers reaped the big margin and not the
stockmen.
FOR PoINDExTER BILL.
A memorial to congress introduced
in the house urges the legislature to
indorse the PoindeXter bill to elimi-
nate discrimination in freight rates to
the intermountain country. The reso-
luton says in part:
"The people of the state Of Idaho
have for many years in the past suf-
fered under a most unjust and OPP
pressive discrimination in transconti-
mental railroad freight rates, because
the transcontinental railroads have
been permitted to charge or assess
higher rates upon freight traffic or
iginating in the eastern portion Of the
United States, destined to Idaho, than
were charged upon freight traffic or
iginating in the same territory and
destined for the more distant cities on
the Pacific coast. such as Portland,
and have also been permitted to
charge higher freight rates upon
freight traffic originating in the state
of Idaho and consigned to the mar
kets in the eastern cities of the
United States than was charged on
similar shipments from the more
tant cities and localities on the Paci-
fic coast.
said discriminatory and preferen-
tial system of freight charging has
been defended upon the theory that
the same was forced and compelled
because of the presence of water
competition at Portland and other
Pacific coast terminal points and such
defense has been found to be with
out merit.
said system of charging higher
freight rates for a short haul than Is
charged for a longer haul cannot be
predicted upon any principle of Just
or fair dealing to the people.
"The effect Of higher charging for
the short haul to and from less dis
tant points has resulted in retarding
the growth and developmnt Of Ida
hos Industrial and commercial pros