Show SQUIRREL CHASERS The Idaho Solons Creating Offices for Themselves WILL THEY CHASE FOREVER V Starving Infant Industries An Act That Disfranchises all Churches BOISE CITY January 21Speoial Correspondence of THE HERALD I On Wednesday of this week the celebrated I brated case of H S Woolley vs0 N I Watkins and H M Bennett will cume up in the Supreme Court for argument argu-ment This action arose upon a WRIT OF MANDATE designed to compel the defendant Watkins to register the name of the plaintiff as a voter at an election precinct pre-cinct in Bear Lake County H M Bennett chairman of the Republican Territorial Central Committee made application to interplead To this all parties aSEented and a hearing wash was-h ad before Judge Berry at the fall term of the District Court at Blackfoot Wooley by his counsel contended that there was nothing in the teachings of the Utah branch of the Mormon Charch that encouraged the commission of crime as known to the laws and that although a Mormon he could properly and conscientiously take the test oath The whole issue then hinged upon the point as to whether the branch of the Church named teaches advises counsels coun-sels or encourages its members devotees de-votees or any other persons to commit the crime of bigamy or polygamy or any other crime defined by law as a duty arising from membership etc Upon the hearing alluded to Judge Berry rendered judgment against Woolley and from such finding HE BEINGS HIS APPEAL Sheeks Rawlins of Salt Lake and Smith Smith of Ogden will be heard for the partie3 litigant at the time hereinbefore named the former firm for the appellant and the latter for the respondent Much interest is manifested mani-fested in the result in political circles but it is believed that no decision will be arrived at by this court until the determination of the contest pending in the United States Supreme Court at Washington shall be made known As that case involving in-volving the validity of tho test oath was advanced on the docket and set tor the 11th instat which time it was probably argued our judges will wait for guidance until the opinions are handed down which may not be for three months yet The principles involved in-volved in that decision will govern everything relating to this species of legislation On Saturday of last week a joint memorial was considered and passed in council aimed at the Mormon Church but if a strict construction were placed upon it it would DISFBAHCHI3E ALL CHURCHMEN After reciting the main parf of all the balderdash eked out by the weakly Republican press of Idaho and declaring declar-ing that the Mormons owe allegiance to a higher power than the laws of the land it goes on to memoraliza Congress Con-gress to deprive the devotees of that form of religion of the right to take up and make homes of the public lauds of the nation Would Catholics or Protestants Pro-testants obey the behests of such a body as the Idaho Legislature in prefeience to the teachings of the Savior of the I World or the Ten Commandments We opine not But polygamy polygamy polyg-amy is their cry and they are almost frightened out of such wits as they have lest it should be judicially declared that nothing of the kind exists in the teachings of the Church of which they prate and know sodittle One adverse aecision causes the whole fabric they have built to totter and fall Well they I know this but believing it as well to die for an old sheep as a lamb they sit up nights devising new schemes lor LEGISLATING THEMSELVES IN POWER Disfranchisement is an old weapon of the Republicans The party was born just as the knowno things issue went out of eight and as it went out the number of Democrats Dem-ocrats did not materially increase but as that of the Republicans did it is but fair to presume that it absorbed that disfranchising element Then they disfranchised whites at the close of the war Catholics in New Hampshire Hamp-shire poor men in Rhode Island or those wuo do not own real estate and the last attempt is upon the Mormons They enfranchised others however the ignorant i Negroes at the South The whole history of the party will be found upon close examination to be a series of acts tending to legislate themselves them-selves into power It is eo in Idaho today It Is not due to the great ability of the legislators themselves that they are enabled to do these things There is a POWER BEHIND THB THRONE and that is the dictum of D P B Pride whose mission in this world as declared by hImself and formerly noted in THE HEBALD is to guide Idaho as she moves on towards Statehood and float her on the political flea with a constitution embodying tho test oath On Saturday last the act to create a prison commission with advisory power where application is made for a pardon passed the Council It also pro Tides that the Jabor of the Territorial prisoners be contracted out to parties resident or nonresident of the Territory Terri-tory No specification is made of the kind of labor these convicts shall perform per-form It will thus be seen that while New York and other of the old States are making reforms in this respect and preventing convict labor from coming in conflict with free labor the pre ent Legislature of Idaho has also been tho first to strike a blow at THE INFANT INDUITBIBS of the Territoryand yet these same fellows will upon the eve of another election howl themselves hoarse and stun the ears of their auditors with loudly uttered bad English in protesting protest-ing that they are the friends of the laboring class So far as pardons are concerned the Governor derives his authority from the organic act and it I he chooses to hear any recommendation tion the board may make he will do so It is a matter entirely without the leg islative province of the Assembly whatever what-ever that body may think of it Some time ago the Governor received a communication from distinguished officers of the United States army relating to poisons and their promiscuous promiscu-ous sale This he immediately transmitted trans-mitted to both Houses On Saturday last Mr Brigham came into the Council Coun-cil armed with a bill to prevent the sale of opium morphine arsenic chloral hydrate etc and making the punishment punish-ment for its sale without prescription from a regular physician a felony attended at-tended with CONFINEMENT IN THE PENITENTIARY for a term of years Mr Perkins of Alturas said that the members who knew nothing of pharmacy oould not imagine the difficulties attending the enforcement of such an enactment He was a pharmacist and had been licensed as such and pretended to understand un-derstand something of the trouble this bill would make if it became a law As we understood the gentleman he will give his views on the subject at another an-other time The celebrated squirrel law has survived sur-vived an immense amount of ridicule both in the capitol building and the saloons It parsed the Conucil on Saturday Sat-urday last and will now make fun for the boys In the Houso The first section sec-tion declares squirrels to be a public nuisance the second that1 It shall be the duty of every person owning claiming or occupying land within three miles of any cultivated field situated situ-ated in this Territory to keep such land so occupied clear of squirrels and if he fails to do so any one else may enter upon such land and destroy them and make all costs and expenses incurred incur-red in doing so A LIEN UPON THE LAND The third section provides that the county commissioners create squirrel squir-rel inspection districts composed of one or more school districts and may appoint one suitable person in each of the said districts to the office of squirrel squir-rel district inspector This important officer must be of good character and when he makes his application come laden with a petition from the landowners land-owners claimants and occupants of land in said district On the second Monday of March the squirrel killing commences together with the salary of this important publio functionary who receives 3 per day until THE SQUIRRELS ARE ALL DESTROYED I But this inspector must upon request and without charge give needful information infor-mation in the use of poisons etc If these provision are good in relation to squirrels why not apply them to snakes If the Legislature intend passing pass-ing the poison law where is this poison to come from As they have had under un-der consideration sumptuary laws why not now enact one that the people of Idaho shall cultivate an appetite for squirrels By this manner of means all the expense involved in the destruction destruc-tion of the little creatures would be saved Well does your correspondent remember when in the days of his adolescence he tramped over dales and woodland at the base of the Catskills and how proud was he when one gray squirrel two reds and four chipmunks crowned the result of a days labor Lst a law be passed by all meaus which shall regulate the gastronomic tendencies of the people Let it b done at once for delays are proverbially dangerous THIS SQUIRREL LAW r wades through seven legislative bill pages and twentytwo mortal sections It provides for assistants to the squirrel squir-rel inspector who may be boys or girls the statute does not define which For the assistants the price of S2 per day is provided As they hold office under the lerritory each must be required to take the test oath Tnis may be rather severe on some of the squirrel hunters nevertheless it is the law ol Idaho and must be obeyed It will be a picturesque pictur-esque sight after the time prescribed by law to observe some of the present lawmakers law-makers surrounded by an array of juvenile assistants poking long sticks into sqairrel holes Where or where is Harpers artist 7 The bill to create the office of court stenographer passed the Council on Saturday It provides a salary of 2000 per year The Governor vetoed H similar bill two years ago on account ac-count of the expense involved He may have changed views on the sub ject since for aught that is knon iTpHERSoKs EDUCATIONAL BILL which has before been alluded to in your columns came up in the Council on Saturday and was considered in committee of the whole It is very long and is being considered section by section Th old bill provided that a I tax of from 4 to 10 mills on the dollar might bo levied by the county commissioners com-missioners this one for from 7 to 10 mill + Judge Mayhew moved to strikeout strike-out the new section and leave the law as to amount of tax as it was This motion was adopted The superintendent superintend-ent of public instruction has received 1290 per yearthe new bill provided for 11800 Tne same gentleman remarked re-marked that he saw a Ngger in the woodpile all through this bill and moved to strike out 1800 and insert 1500 This was done The committee waded through only four sections when it arose and reported progress It will probably be further considered each afternoon until the Council shall have waded through its innumerable sections It has been said of Nevada that few members ever WENT BACK id THEIR CONSTITUENTS after a session of the Legisla are We have not yet come to that pass But there was nothing shvp rbouttboie Nevada fellows They never had sense enough to prohibit the sale of provisio sand s-and preveut the carrying of concealed weapons else they might have still be n enj > ying the freedom of the sage bruth p sins of the rotten borough State J Large delegations are here in the interest t in-terest of county division from R cky Bar Bellevue Mountain Home Washington Wash-ington County and other points The committee on countiesand county toandaries have not yet reported on any of thee bills Buz t |