Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1919-01-16
Idaho Press Bureau.

IAioIiI4AGuU 10 us circuit except lHdC
did more routine work during tht
period than any other proceeding leg
stature, the first week of the session
is now history.
The first efficiency record was
when the house and senate gathered
Monday, both bodies were able to an
nounce officially the complete selec-
ltion of their governing officers and
staff of employees.
| There have been no bursts of ora
tory during the week except the
fspeech of Mrs. Emma Drake, woman
member from Payette, who supported
her prohibition resolution introduced
to the house on the first day.
In the house the first bill to pass
was presented by Young of Ada, which
provided for the payment of officers,
members and employees and for the
general expenses of the Fifteenth
session. 1t carried with it the sum of
$4,000 and has an emergency clause
attached. The bill was later passed.
by the senate and was the first to be.
come q law.
One of the interesting features OF
the week was debate on the question
of purchasing stamps for house mem
bers, a resolution authorized $1,000 in
stamps for each member being con-
sidered and changed to read $500.
A point session was held Tuesday /
TO listen to Governor Davis message
Again on Wednesday TIE house and
senate went into joint session to do
honor to tho memory of former Pres
ident Theodore Roosevelt. The speak
ers at the memorial service were; For |
mer Governor Hawley; Representative
Ovens Of Ada county; Senator Lloyd ,
Adams of Madison; and Judge F. S
DIETRICH of the federal court
In announcing the personnel of the
house committees, Friday, Speaker NJ
A. Kiger of that body said: 81 have
had many knotty problems to settle
in my career as a lawyer but never i
aave worried as hard as in selecting {
:he proper men for the proper places t
IN these committees I
In computing mileage allowed to 9
members it was found that Represen q
ative Moody Of the house drew the c
argest amount - $125.60 - while (
foung of Ada, county drew the small {
st-twenty cents. G
To one of the women members of y
re house, Mrs. Carrie Harper White 4
; credited a resolution introduced :
thursday, memoralizing congress tc "
rant equal suffrage to women. Rep =
Featherstone on the same
ay introduced House Bill No. 2 com. :,
ling the general laws of the state
he bill was passed under a suspen- q,
IN Of rules, t.
In both the house and senate bills ca
ere introduced during the week to re
otect the civil rights, for one year
ON discharge, of all soldiers and III
ilors of the United States. pu
Two county division bills came up Lv
the house during the period One raj
uld create Clark county with Du. ne
IS as the county seat and Fremont SUE
lnty giving up the territory, while rae
other would create Caribou county bef
ii Soda Springs as the county seat Gus
BY the action of the Legislature sN
ho became TIE third state in the
ion to pass a resolution proposing nAi
prohibition amendment to the fed. s''n
| constitution. -
Governor Davis announced as his
: official act the following staff
ointments: Adjutant General, AL
FL. Wilson; Jabez B. Burns, Shad n
iodgin, Robert G. Greenwood, Car
c.. Corant, James F. Haskell, n
|, Mayfield, Harold Jenness, A. j. A
st, Thomas Neibaur. 51s
he following executive appoint. Stat
is have been made: State game proo
den, Otto NJ. Jones, Boise; war nleti
of penitentiary, w. L. Cuddy 90 c,
e; bank commissioner, Jay Glib Of I
Rupert, ard director farm With
Se's' ml-es cannon, Welser. eerta
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