Show BITS FROM BOISE TWO IimOTlIEVTS RETURNED AGAINST STARRH The Law Against Fusion Alleged to Have Been Passed By the Late Legislature Creates Considerable Stir i Special to The Herald BOISE Ida Dec 2The United States grand jury today returned two true bills against T A Starrh exre ceiver of the Halley land office Starrh is charged with embezzlement Prior to his arrest civil actions were commenced com-menced against his bondsmen to recover re-cover the amount of the shortage Yesterday judgment was taken by agreement for the full amount A great many people In the state and particularly politicians are undec the impression that the last legislature parsed a law aimed at fusion of the political parties which proscribed the appearance of a name on the official ballot in more than one place InJhis they are mistaken Although It was the Intention of the Republican majority ma-jority to enact such a law the section sec-tion containing the provision referred to was omitted It was only recently that this fact was developed and the Republicans who had hoped to prevent pre-vent a fusion of the Democrats and Populists next year are in an awful state of mind and charge trickery on the part of the opposition Representative Thompson Rep of Idaho county presented a bill governing govern-ing elections It dealt with a number of minor points and wound up with the important section containing the following The name of a candidate shall not be printed in more than one place on the official ballot Afterwards at a Republican caucus it was decided to put a bill through with the antifusion section adding r few more sections covering minor matters mat-ters not touched by the original Accordingly Ac-cordingly a substitute was returned by the committee on privileges and elections containing the section An examination of the printed substitute shows that a vital section had been omitted Referring to the substitute as reported by the committee on privileges privi-leges and elections it is seen that the antifusion section had prior to the time it was ordered printed been stricken out with a pen The printed copy did not show the section referred to but in the excitement attendant upon the election of a United Stated senator friends of the measure evidently evi-dently overlooked the fact On the 8th of March the day before the legislature legisla-ture adjourned the measure passed the house without opposition This fact leads to the belief among the Republicans Re-publicans that this opposition had the section removed otherwise they would have bitterly opposed the measure In the BakerScott election contest over the auditorship of Bannock county coun-ty now in the supreme court an effort ef-fort is being made to have the court hold that the appearance of a name on a ticket In more than one place is illegal The Republicans thought they had clear sailing on this point until they found the session laws did not contain the important section Their only hope now is to make such a showing show-ing as will induce the court to make an arbitrary ruling |