Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-07-02

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%hideously black that could a fiend
be brought up from the loWermost
depths of hell and given a task to
paint any object on the surface of
the earth in the deepest black, he
could not paint it blacker than was
this infamous plot to Polandize the
empire county" of the Territory.
Representative Kurtz of Ada county,
in his attack on the bill, became
| pathetic, forcible and extravagant in
his u~tterances, and earned for him
elf the sobrisuet of 'Tragedy
Kurtz." Loud was his denunciation
of the bill, which drove the dagger
through the imperial mantle into
The body of the immortal Caesar.
But the fillibustaring of the natl
division forces, backed up by the
speaker of the house, and the el0-
quenee of Kurtz and his c%oterie
availed not. The infamous omni-
bus bill" passed the house unshorn
and unscathed. The independence
of the two new counties was half
won.
CHAPTER VIII
The division bill having passed
the house, its next course was to go
through the council, and although
half of the battle was won, the hard
est fight before it was in its course
through the council. The same old
tight took place against it before
the committee on counties, and be-
fore the committee on the whole.
The HGileyites fought with the en-
ergy of depSair. The bin, however.
survived the battles shock before
the committee on the whole, and was
now ready for final action for pass
age in the council, but the time was
getting very short, and ere man
suns would rise and set, the time de-
creed by law for final adjournment
of the Territorial legislature must
expire.
1t was as a drowning man
catching the straw that the HJil9y-
ties and their subalterns seized the
opportunity now apparent to them
to fight the bill before the council
with the same tactics that they used
in the house. Every parliamentary
advantage WIS therefore to be avail
ed of, and no opportunity, however
small, was to be let escape. In a
days time the legislature would adj
journ, and the plans of obstruction
and fillibustering were deeply laid.
The time now left was so short that
by the carrying out of their plans
of a series of amendments and sub
3titutes for amendments as we'll as
time to be consumed in debating on
the questions, the anti-divisi0n
forces were confident that they saw
the adjournment of the session be-
fore the bill could be passed.
President Clough of the council
was an ardent worker on the side
eff the anti-divisionists, and he had
announced that it now being the
last day of the session, it would last
only to midnight.
Victory for the anti-forces being
now apparent and seeming to them
a sure thing, great rejoicing was
manifest among them. Judge Sull-
a of HALEY, who was at work in
behalf of his town, telegraphed to
his law partner to the effect that
nothing could save the bill, and 1t
must fall through.
d. P. B. Pride, ex-attorney gem
eral of the Territory, one of the most
skillful political wire-pullers in Ida
no, as we'll as a man of remarkable
genius, had arrayed himself on the
side of the anti-divisionists from the
beginning, anticipating certainty OF
success in the bill going down by the
final adjournment of the council, tel
egraphed from Boise to mine host
Art Smith at the Alturas hotel IN
HALEY these words: "Clink, clink,
your glasses be a-filling."
1t was now the evening OF the last
day, and the house had adjourned,
the council being still in session
the division bill still being bedated !
on. Murmurs of discomfort we're
heard all wei the council chamber !
at the rulings Of the president, ana
threats of throwing him out OF the y
chamber were used. Anticipating 2
trouble of some kind growing out OF !
the proceedings before the council |
a force of deputy United States mar |
shals were on hand to assist the !
sergeant-at-arms in preserving or !
Ter. An alarm clock was on the 4
presidents desk with the alarm SET
20 as to ring at II o'clock midnight I
1t is now only a few minutes from \
that time, and Perkins holds tne :
floor, speaking against the bill IN
question:" to the chair-but the y
chair needs not, and Perkins goes a
IN until interrupted by the ringing 2
the alarm, announcing that 1t is E
now midnight and that the last uay 3
If the session has passed. DeaIeh- !
ing cheers are heard all over me
building, in the gallery, hall- :
way and yard. The cheers are from :
yhe anti-divisionists. Old Alturas Is 7
safe. so they say. ..u .
The president, without putting :
the question declares the FYtteenIn =
Of the council adjourned sine i