Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1919-01-23
FARMERS CONTROL
LOWER HOUSE OF
LEGISLATURE
AerTAToRs' STATEMENT LAW
YERs AND EDITORS RULE
Is GIVEN LIE
ONLY SEVEN ATTORNEYS
Rarber. Railroad Men, Storekeepers and
other Business Men Frame
Laws at Boise.

Farmers and stoekraisers control the
lower house of the Fifteenth legisla-
mre and it's most important committee,
the appropriation committee, which
handles the draw strings of the state 5
purse.
Thirty-two Of the representatives are
either Individually active farmers or
have such large farming iand stock
interests that they might properly be
regarded as representing the farmers
when they pass on legislation.
Although professional agitators fire.
ouently seek to confuse the public by
declaring that lawyers are making the
laws of the state, the legal profession
has only seven representatives in the
present house of representatives.
Those engaged in either farming or
stockraising or both, are as follows:
William Allard, Power; G. B. Allen,
Fremont; Alfred S. Anderson, Latah;
W. G. Baird, Fremont c. A. Browning,
Lewis; II. w. ;anfield. l.atah; n. g.
Carpenter, Ne2 Perez; !. Il. Conovcr.
Txin Falls; C. y Co 1les, Teton: 2. j.
Foley, Canyon James Garbutt, Owyhee;
c. 0. Greenwood, Minidoka Irel Gud-
mundsen, Cassia, (also merchant);
Frank Harrison, Clearwater; Charles
johnson, Kootenai; Seth d. Jones'
Idaho; Victor La Vale, Camas; R. L.
McGowan. Custer; c. j. Miller, Twin
Falls; E. J. Nelson, Bonneville, (also
runs store); George A. Patterson, Val
ley; C. r. Peekman, Canyon; August
Schroeder, Idaho; Hyram Severson, JEFF
ferson; w. s. Shearer, Nez Perez; E. A.
Stranger, Bonneville; r. l.. Sutcliffe.
Butte; L. A. Thompson, Adams; G. w.
Weeks, Canyon; Carrie Harper White,
Twin Falls; E. D. Whitman, Bannock,
(also runs store); Soren Yrogensen,
Bingham.
This lineup gives the farmers and
otOchidlStTS one NO't lcS6 thsi lhc %
necessary for control if a question
should come up that would divide the
house along class lines, but cen
sus shows that r. f. Thomas, Shoshone,
is barber, and T. j. Bourne, BannOck, /
is a railroad conductor, and as labor is
making move to amalgamate with |
farmers these might swing the balance
of power in favor of the farmers.
DR.. Emma f. A. Drake; Payette, and
Dr.. c. S. Moody, Bonner, are the only
physicians in the organization.
7. MCFARLAND Cough, Washington,
represents the editors whom agitators
charge with dabbing in the legislature
too much. He runs the Midvale Repor
ter.
Speaker NJ. A. Kiger, Kootenai, is
lawyer. Other lawyers are T. E. Ben
net, Gooding; A. H. Featherstone,.
Shoshone; r. L. Owens, Ada; L. S.
Harrison, Shoshone; w. II. Tyer, Ada;
and D. L. Young, Ada.
". l.. Adamson, Blaine; w. S. Hall,
Oneida; II. H. Hoff, Bear Lake; J. d.
Robertson, Ada, and Lewis Robbins,
Bingham, devote all their time to mer-
Lumbermen are A. L. Bonnell, Ban
lock; Beecher Hitchcock, Bonner; c. d,
\. Mcdonald, Kootenai; and H. A.
'ugb, Gem.
K. S. Hunt, Madison, is banker and .
attleman; c. J. Hugo, Latah, runs a J
'arage; A. /. Mcmahon, Lincoln, is an I
.bBtracter; C. NJ. Gardner, Boise, runs
grain elevator; A. J. Kent, Boundary r
eals in real estate and grain; Daniel 7
KIRBY, Elmore, is.interested in mining; I
Al. Snow, Lemhi, is a mining engi-
eer; c. D. Storey, Ada, is contractor; T
'eorge O'Dwyer, Benewah, is interested +
warehouse, and A. H. Morgan, n
ashington is an educator