Show VISIT OF THE IDAHO legislature LAST monday the whole of the idaho legislature was in our city and met in joint session with the legislature of our state in the hall of the house in m ne city and county building for two and a half hours the law makers of the respective states indulged themselves in expressions of friendship in flights of oratory in parliamentary parliament arv tactics and especially ally did the visitors set forth with earnestness the beauties the great resources and the grandeur of utah the idaho people came for the purpose of learning by actual observation se something about their sout southern bern neighbors and more particularly ticul arly of salt lake city many of them had never been here before but had read of our state and lier her world renowned capital some had longed since childhood to see salt lake city and meet her people and now for the first time they learned that zions capital and her inhabitants were greater than they had ever anticipated the three or four republicans were almost lost in the democratic throng but occasionally a faint cry would be heard from the disciples ot of mckinley and the protectors of the lamb any one who believes that the cause of silver is a thing of the past and that the people have concluded to let it drop need only to have been present on ass legislative jubilee in order to have been convinced of the fact that the cause of silver is a sterling reality every expression upon this question was greeted with applause and there was manifested a feeling that spoke louder than words that this the cause of the people would eventually triumph the great good which will be derived by the respective res states by the exchange of ideas through their legislative representatives cannot be measured in dollars and cents there is nothing except an imaginary arv line separating these two commonwealths mon but on the contrary there are solemn ties binding them into an indestructible union of indestructible states tiley they are intermountain mou states with common interests te rests with common hopes hope es and aspirations pi rations and by this commerce of 0 f ideas and observation they can calu the better work out a common end and a common good our northern brothers extended a cordial invitation to the solons of this state to make them a visit and we trust that this offer will he be accepted |