Show THE LATEST FREAK AT THIS late day and with numerous examples before the public the person who looks for regularity legality or ability in the proceedings of the idaho legislature which expired feb 9 must be a very indifferent or very careless observer certainly no similar body has ever been organized in this country at least not since the primitive period when the best education was a knowledge of the country and the most useful experience continued association with its hardships and general characteristics at such times with the population sparse and widely separated when the first law of nature was also the principal one of the settlers strict conformity with established usage and thorough familiarity with the restraints and V privileges privilege of fundamental lawvere law were hardly to be looked for how is it now however when the wilderness is subdued the sa savages v a g es are beates beatea back the face of nature is aglow with smiles and civilization on her luminous wings soars phoenix phenix like to jove with ignorance as dense as cimmerian midnight and recklessness such as characterizes schoolboys at recess controlling the lav jaw making power of a thrifty and populous commonwealth if the benighted solons of our sister territory had confined themselves to routine business ou siness and attempted nothing beyond the immediate and ordinary requirements of ta their constituents their utter incapacity would not have been so strikingly fa manifest but like the gr greenhorn aeu at the fashionable ball they form on for every dance and not only make a sorry display of themselves but get in the way of sud ant inconvenience those who know how nothing was too great too comprehensive for the lilliputian Lili aggregation at boise to take hold and dispose of from passing measures look tog lug to the continued exclusion of utah from the union to the enactment of a law providing for and regulating the naturalization of aliens I 1 doing work which old fashioned people had got into the habit of supposing was waa restricted by the constitution to congress was their specialty alty and overriding such principles of common and constitutional law as providing for judges of courts passing sentences of disfranchise merit was a performance in which they ney particularly excelled one feat which they did not ac wm COIn but which was talked of to some extent was the relief of the settlers of Pom pocatello tello just now relief of some kind la Is wanted for the action of the government in closing places of business and throwing families out of doors is a real and as a we think an undeserved and unnecessary hardship if any measure of that kind was thought of or introduced it must have been abandoned for surely the united states anthor authorities ittes would not proceed with he e enforcement of their regulations at pocatello Poe atello in the face of antano nic action on the part of the idaho legislature the best beat however is as usual reserved ed for the last A telegram from delegate dubois was received by the websters and calhound Cal houns of idaho 10 n their legislative capacity at boise ty peb feb 8 this telegram conned the information that the souse committee on territories at washington had unanimously beed to report an enabling act for r neighbor and immediately it was ae decided by the territorial statesmen to go into joint conven on next evening for the purpose of electing united states senators I 1 in no place but idaho would such obtain lets lessee see the constitution of the country says the batora orators aforesaid shall be elected bahe bythe by the legislature of each aak 11 vvo 0 now between the favorable acon ton of the te territories committee there here we are lets see how many stages aes to be passed before actual 4 statehood is reached and the theauthor author t y v to elect senators conferred an enabling act embodying the spirit of ta no committees committee s action is drafted mid W presented if the filibusterer is off duty it may receive early ac von wn but if not it may go over for e on and this may also happen from any subsequent stage of the proceedings but we will suppose it to have passed the house where it is enrolled engrossed and forwarded to the other end of the capitol where the senators hold forth after some little necessary and a great deal of unnecessary delay it is at last reached either in its order or through the favorable action of the senate the chair announces it as in order it probably goes to a committee and is amended whereupon it is sent back to the house for concurrence in the amend ments and if that body concurs it is once more sent to the senate if not a committee of conference must be had and the report of the conferees is then jointly acted upon but if the committee report favorably the measure is then put before the solons for action it may be debated and may not but we will suppose for the sake of getting out orthis of this tangle and helping our neighbor as much as possible that it passes when it is subjected to the same formula as in the house and a copy forwarded to the president we will suppose again for the sake of hastening matters that he does not exercise his constitutional prerogative of vetoing but signs the bill Is idaho then in the union oh no she is just fairly on the way much more remains to be done it is only an act to enable her to form a state government which has become a law meart meantime time the general government holds the commonwealth as its exclusive property the same as it did before those senators to be chosen that evening need not become impatient because the story is not quite half told yet even if everything progresses smoothly and without impediment which is hardly ever the case A constitutional convention would be the next thing in order the preparing of a state charter its submission to the people for their ratification or rejection its presentation to congress the preparation and passage of a bill of admission the proclamation of statehood by the president all these follow the passage of the enabling act and it has as previously shown just got past the first stage in one branch of congress nevertheless if the proceeding affords the idaho legislators any gratification let them gratify the credentials which those two senators will receive should be published so those less informed may know how such things are done when they do not issue from a sovereign state little difficulties like that as will be seen do not annoy the self constituted statesmen of our neighboring territory having overcome larger difficulties and solved greater problems in their minds inflated eye a little job like certifying to the election of two officers that have no existence is a trifling matter verily the laughingstock laughing stock of the land is situated in idaho |