Show ENDS WITH A FARCE A SPECIAL dispatch from idaho tells of the closing scenes and expiration of what has haa been a travesty on legislative assemblies at boise city the welcome event occurred at between 2 and 8 welock feb 9 and the events leading up to the dissolution were eminently characteristic of the he entire session being totally at varl variance ance with anything in the way of legisla legislative dve action which has ever occurred in this country in time of peace at the hour of midnight speaker burkhardt declared the house adjourned jour ned and president clough did the same thing in the council according to all parliamentary law and precedent this ended their official existence the time within which they could legally tilt sit and act as legislators expired at that teat hour but this of itself would not have worked dissolution so long as an the bodies remained in continuous session it required the formal declarations of the presiding officers 1 in concert with the lapse of time to effect such result and both were had but those glowing statesmen those visors revia re ors and cor rectors of common and constitutional law sought legal advice and found it the presumption is that they did not have to look far or pay much for what they got in that direction judging from the past they must have been in receipt of such assistance at every stage of their proceedings as evidenced by what they did and the manner in which it was done the bone of contention was the division of alturas alburas county the council and 1 house fouse as organized were evidently hostile to the project and those who constituted what ought to be set down as the rump bump legislature that is the holdovers were in favor of and determined to pass it they succeeded too new presiding officers having been chosen after the houses had ceased to exist the alturas alburas bill was taken up and rushed through with a mile a minute rapidity after which the self constituted legislature itself adjourned jour ned during the farcical proceedings above recorded the house or what had been the house when it was anything in law was presided over by one wheeler of bingham county an individual not unknown to fame by reason of his multifold newspaper enterprises and also as the author of the measure expelling the representative of the salt lake herald from the house and the anti utah resolution which got through both branches As the presiding functionary over a moot legislative body he must have felt and acted altogether at home but if some real law should be turned upon him some time and he were to be prosecuted for the usurpation of an office that would not place him in anything near so comfortable a situation one thing the idaho solons scions neglected the threatened election of united states senators doubtless they obtained legal advice on that point too it was just as well that this was not added to their already lengthy record of outlandish novelties the commonwealth of idaho having on its hands about as much in the way of inoperative and unconstitutional legislation as it can get along with for a while the special states that there were great manifestations of rejoicing in various parts parta of idaho this morning and that celebrations were being and to be held all this as to is stated over the passage past sage of the di A vision bill but since bince the biu bill did not pass may we not consider the j outbursts of joy as attributable corb 7 to the adjournment than to anything else 4 the legislators can now in the retirement of private vate life and free for a time from the censure of the public and the ridicule of the presto press reflect occasionally upon the words of oliver cromwell to the rump parliament you were sent to pro hect the people and have been their principal oppressors we can get t along without you |