Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-10
CLASH OVER COMMITTEE.

CLASH OVER COMMITTEES.
The house having been informed that
the senate declined to support the
house amendments to senate bill DO.
10, Speaker Kiger appointed the fol-
lowing house members to serve on a
joint conference committee to see u
an agreement cannot be reached; XII,
ger, Featherstone and Givens.
Representative Hitchcock offered a
motion asking that there be recorded
in the Journal a notation to the fact
the minority wing of the house had
been ignored in that a Democrat was
not named by the speaker on the joint
committee on conference.
Harrison of Shoshone made speech
in support of the motion holding the
minority to be entitled to considera-
ton when a measure of such impor-
lance is to be considered. He con-
tended the act of the speaker in ignor-
ing the minority to be discourteous.
Monson of Franklin moved the mo-
ton of Hitchcock be laid on the ta-
BILE. He commended that the work of
the conference committee was not final
and there was nothing to show the
speaker had been discourteous.
roll call was demanded. The Mon
son motion carried by strict party
vote of 81 to Is, the Republicans vot-
ing for and the Democrats against.
Adamson then moved that the en-
tire proceeding be expunged from the
record Storey who was in the chair
held the Adamson motion out Of order.
LAY BILL ON TABLE.
The Garbutt bill proposing that part
of Owyhee county be annexed to Ada
county met delay in its progress to-
day which may ultimately accomplish
it's defeat for it was laid on the table
and solons say it will die there. The
measure had reached third reading.
but when 1t was reached Miller of
Twin Falls promptly moved that it be
laid on the table The house adopted
the motion by viva voce vote.
Representative Garbutt served no.
tice that on the following legislative
day he would move a reconsideration
of the vote by which the bill was laid
on the table.
MEASURES PASSED.
The following measures were pass
ed:
House Joint memorial No. Is by
ent-Memorializing congress to dis
tribute T. N. T. powder to counties
in Idaho for the blowing out of stumps.
Senate bill No. 16 by Witty-Declar-
ing gambling places a nuisance and
providing punishment for maintaining
such places.
Senate bill No AZ by Armstrong
Mo- to ho
orders and direction of the board of
county commissioners instead Of road
supervisor.
House bill No. by Morgan-Pro-
viding for levy not to exceed rs cents
highway purposes.
House bill No. 70 by committee on
Observation-Disclosures ad ,valorem
tax to produce $4,000 annually for
state fair at Boise, livestock show at
Lewiston and seeo show at Idaho Falls
or Pocatello.
House bill No. by Bonnell and Pat
terson-Providing for the extermina-
ton of ground squirrels, pocket 60
piers.
House bill No. rs by committee On
roads, bridges and ferries-Providing
penalty for damages to highways oy
livestock.
FAILED TO PASS.
House bill No. s6 by White and
IDrake-Requiring governor to appoint
la woman as a member Of the state
board of education. Vote, 10 ayes, AZ
nays.
House bill No. So by Bennett-Pro-
viding for annexation of residents to
school districts.
INDEFINITELY POSTPONED.
House bill No. 80 by Hall, White,
Storey, Peckham, Hoff and LaValle--
Proposing consolidation of the Albion
state normal school with the Idaho
technical institution at Pocatello. Vote
to postpone "a to 7.