The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-02-04
LEGISLATIVE NEWS

BOISE, Idaho.-That the sports
men of the state will not support and
will fight one of the provisions in the
administration measure centralizing
departments is assured by action al
ready taken by a number Of men who
love the fishing and hunting game
in this city.
The terms of the bill provide for
the collection of the fish and game
funds and putting them into the gen.
eral fund. Then appropriations
would be made for the fish and
game department by the legislature.
According to sportsmen there
would be a desperate time getting
sufficient funds out of the legislature
to take care of the real needs of the
department.
They claim this has been tried be-
fore. About 10 per cent of the leg
islators are nimrods. They would
vote to appropriate needed monies,
but the others would be continually
fighting the amounts asked.
Leave the money the way it is"
said one Of the enthusiastic hunters
of Boise today. 1--WE pay the money
in and we are entitled to its use in
the game department"
1t is known that Speaker Kiger
is interesting himself in the case Of
the sportsmen and that the new game
warden, Otto M. Jones sides in with
him. What the result will be can
not, of course, be forecasted, but
certain it is that the Isaac Walton's
of Idaho, as well as the sheeting
enthusiasts will die hard If die they
must.
A sharp debate resulted yesterday
when Senator Witty Of Bannock
county tilted with President protein
Whitcomb on the provisions of Sem
ate bill No. 16 which makes gambl-
ing places nuisance.
So decided were the opinions ex-
pressed by the two solons that mem
bers mark this exchange Of words as
the first real fire of the session.
The debate occupied the senate,
when in committee Of the whole, un-
til considerably past noon and then
was unfinished. A motion to adjourn
until Wednesday forenoon broke up
the affair.
The measure would make it the
duty of the prosecuting attorney to
bring suit in equity against place
harboring any gambling as nuisance
and join as defandents anyone hav-
ing any connection with the premises
or their use as gambling place, and
If the court finds liability under the
act to enjoin them.
Senator Witty stated on the floor
that he was aiming at some of the
"Oriental dives" in his home county.
He also said that the bill was pat
terened after the present liquor law
and said he thought that Senator
Whitcomb knew this. Whitcomb's
position was that there was no cause
in equity in the situation. The bill
will again come up before the COM
mittee today.
In the debate yesterday over the
in the senate before
the committee of the WHOLE Of the
measure by Senator Sewer allowing
10 per cent of the assessed valuation
VI ClLlcS udu Wv o " NO UOuuCu, IA0
author of the bill stated that most
towns were assessed for only 40 per
cent. or whereabouts, of their actual
cash value.
1t was Senator Thraikill of Ada
county who called" the man from
Twin Falls. When pressed for the
name of the county which actually
did assess for full cash value, Sena-
tor Thrailkill modestly answered.
ada" Senator Sewer explained
his remark by saying property has
SO raised in value in most Idaho
counties in the past few years that
it was impossible to raise the as
sessed valuation in its actual proper
ton.
Resolutions of protest passed by
the recent session Of the fourth an