Show i ioHfiN DA HOUSE l L 1 Reapportionment Bill Passed After a Lively Battle p4 t L 1t Kjrf c ro HOW PLEASURE WAS PASSED New Rule Presented Which Nullified Old Rules of the House Republicans Republi-cans Made a Hard Fight Against A Bill ns It Discriminates Against Republican Counties Bill Creating Cre-ating the County of Clcrirwater Is Also Passed ± uc1i Bad Blood Was Shown During the Contest t t TRIBUNE SPPJCIAIf Boise Ida March 7It was a very lively battle that preceded tho passage 1 by the House today of the Senate bill Ili making a legislative apportionment of tho t Stale The Republicans made a stand and wore joined by Mr Bangs of I atah Lr who denounced the measure In unmeasured k unmea-sured terms but the Fualonlsts wero determined rfr de-termined and well organized and carried the bill through by a vote of 21 to K Tho bill gives ono Senator for each county and provides for forlyBlx members ot IIQ House three le l s than the present t House divided aa follows Ada three ij Bannock two Blnchnm two Bear Lako two Blake two Boise two Cassia one dialer one Canyon two Elmore one x Fremont three Idaho three Kootenai three Lemhl two LJitah three Lincoln I Lin-coln one Nez Perec three Oneida two Owyhee two Shoshonc four Washington Washing-ton two total fortyBlx bI HOW TRICK WAS TURNED The trick was turned by a change In tho rules The rules provide that thoy can bo changed only by a twothirds volo They aleo provide that onethird may order a call of the House but that two thirds shall bo required raise the call 2 also that twolhlrds shall bo required to advance bills SPECIAL RULE PROVIDED The luslonlsts got around the rules by a pretext bringing In what are termed special rules as follows Special Rule No During the remainder re-mainder of the present session of tim Houso of Representatives of tim Idaho Legislature and from and after the adoption of this rule a majority oC the members present may order a call of the KOUSP and upon a call of tho House beIng be-Ing ordered onehilf of the members present may suspend furthor proceedings under such call and the business Or motion mo-tion pending at the time tin call was made shall bo preceded with Special Rule No Ilereaflcr the House may proceed to consider any order or-der of business for the day by a majority S vote and bills may bo advanced on the calendar or taken up out of their regular order by such vote 3 SPEAKERS RULING STANDS The Speaker held that a majority would S adopt the rules us thoy wore new not changes In the old rules The vote was 21 to 21 A number of votes wero taken on appeals etc but the fusionlsts won every lime 25 to 20 Thnn came a vote on the bill and It was carried by the same vole During the debate Mr French of Lntah made an argument showing That the measure mea-sure was not based either on population or vote and quoting a Supremo coUrt decision de-cision that ono or the other basis Is necessary ne-cessary DENOUNCED AS AN OUTRAGE Mr Hart of Fremont said T 1 am surprised sur-prised that the members from tile southeastern south-eastern portion of the State are o neg lectful of their duty ns to support this bill which does not give proper representation repre-sentation to that acellon Jt is an out rngp and I will say to you that you will never hereafter rocolvo L majority from Hint section of uie Siato from how on MUCH BAD BLOOD Then came another contest i over the Clearwater county bill the measure firial ri ly being passed 23 to 22 Much hot blood waa shown during the light and after the voto Mr Trlesch of Ncr Pcrco said he hoped lhat outsiders will be kept from tho floor of this Houao and not allowed to lobby their nefarious measures through here MOODY BOILS OVER 1 Senator Moody vw was on the floor > poke right out saving If that little Dutchman Is throwing an Insinuation at me JL J will slate tlmtJL am an exmember of this body and haVo the same right to this floor that he has Sit down Hit down Put him out II These cries called from tho Speaker an order to the sorgoantatarma to suppress Senator Moody but ho subsided without force being applied in A number ot other bills were passed p1 ono being tim Senate bill for a bridge across the Salmon river In Custcr county R LONG DEBATE IN SENATE F In tim Senate there was another long I debate over the bill to Issue SI17COO to set r tIe up deficiencies Ii was finally recommended rirr recom-mended for passage with a provision that Iil tho commission to pass on claims shall r consist of tho Board of Examiners and two others appointed by the Governor BILLS PASSED A number pf bills were passed among them thc following Houto bill appro 4 priatin OW for the mining congress fi House blllfor free kindergartens In connection con-nection with the public schools Houso plu bill reducing Interest on SnJ < f warrants Iron > 7 to u per cent Donnelly qodo bill p which provides for the appointment by all the Governor of a commission of two Ir who with tho Attorney ienera shall codify and publish tho laws df the State NOMINATION HELD UP I Tho Senate yesterday declined to con Co firm the nomination of B F Morris of i LowlBton to be one of thc directors of the insane asylum at Blackfoot The objec lon to Air Morris was raised by Senator Donnelly of Kootenal who was seconded j warmly by Senator Moody of Shoahonc 1 Jt WLK said charges had been l made p against him on account of certain trans 1111 actlons relative to the Lcwlslon State lID normal school of which ho te ono of the trustees |