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Show SQUABBLE 11 IDAHO OVER LOCAL OPTION Bill Said to Be Backed by Borah Is Having Hard . Time in House. Special to' The Tribune BOISE. Ida.. Jnn. IT, This was another strenuous day In the House. The local option bill, by McCracken. received quite a severe setback; In fact, it was' all but killed, and It will be exceedingly difficult, to secure a favorabio recommendation from the committee now having it in charge, A mnjorlty or the Judiciary committee com-mittee recommended the bill as amended for passage, while the mlnorltv recommended recom-mended that It be referred to tho Committee Com-mittee of Privileges and Elections, to which committee It had first been sent. .Then tho light wns on In earnest. Nearly every member had something to snv, some of them becoming very personal In their remarks, rendering It necessary for the Speaker to "call them down." Sont Back to Committee. The minority report wns adopted and tho much-discussed local option bill was sont back to the Comml'tcc on Privileges and Elections, where will no doubt spend the rest of Its" days. At least, the action of today Is an Indication of what Its fate will be If It Is over recommended for passage. It Is safe to say that three-fourths three-fourths of the people of this State want a local option law. It Is posslblo that the House will pass the bill Introduced yesterday bv Ballcn-tlne. Ballcn-tlne. providing that tho granting of liquor licenses bo left to the discretion of the County Commissioners. It Is said this bill was drawn by W. E. Borah and Is backed by him. hut it is not what the people generally want. They want a local rr4 !,-,, 111.' r,,-A rlmU .1 UIIU OUMJJIC, feltlUg muni the right to decide the question of selling sell-ing Intoxicating liquors. The enemies of the nntl-pass bill received re-ceived another slight jolt when they endeavored en-deavored to expunge the letter "s" from the word linos," wherein there was reference to railroads. Thev did not land tills time. Representative Slaley of Bannock county, coun-ty, who was In Pennsylvania when the Ninth session opened, arrived this morning morn-ing to take his seat. In the House. Representative Clark was reported to be critically III at his rooms at the Idan-ha. Idan-ha. Rossi. Seawell and Taylor wero appointed ap-pointed a committee to visit him. McCracken. author of tho local option bill, presented petitions signed by several hundred people asking the passage of the measure. The committee on Labor and Statistics recommended the passage of Fallon's eight-hour and employers' liability nllls. |
