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Show COWSITil M PASSEDBY USE Bitterness Displayed by Idaho Lawmakers in Debate on Bill. Special to Tho Tribune. BOISE, Llaho, Teh. 17. Tha house of representatives passed the Bates-Lehrbus-Grice workmen's compulsory compensation act, generally looked upon as tho labor organizations' measure, this afternoon, following an all-day debate, de-bate, by a voto o 45 to 20. At the came session and on request of its author, au-thor, Representative Ernest Anderson Ander-son of Canon county, tho house killed, by indefinite postponement, the so; called Anderson elective compensation act. Bitterness crept Into tho Ion;; debate ns it reached a climax just before passage pass-age of the bill. "While the house was debating the Bates and Anderson bills there appeared ap-peared in the sonate a new compensation compensa-tion act backed by Senator Rockwell of Blaine comitv, Senator Randall of Nez-perce Nez-perce and three Democrats, Senators Bradbury, Evans and Harding, it is an elective act, throwing open to employer and employee alike all sources of compensation. com-pensation. A commission of three, each commissioner assigned to a district, dis-trict, to take charge of administering its terms at a Balmy of $4000 per annum. an-num. For death from ,25 to $05 per month is paid the heirs for a period of seven years. For total and partial disability dis-ability of an employee the rate of compensation com-pensation is equal to 65 per cent of the f-alary received by the disabled employee. em-ployee. Employers may elect "what compensation they desire. State insurance insur-ance compensation is provided. The compensation bill is not. to become effective ef-fective until January, 191S. An appropriation appro-priation of $19,000 is carried to put it in force and effect. A compensation bill providing for state insurance creates cre-ates the office, of compensation commissioner commis-sioner to administer tlio state, insurance and an appropriation of $25,000 goes with the measure. Enough votes are said to be pledged in the senate to pass the bill. Senator Mitchell, chairman of the committee, in charge of the anti-alien lobby investigation, announced that the probe will start Wednesday, when Attorney At-torney Booth of Twin Falls can be present. He has been subpenaed. An affidavit has been filed with Senator Mitchell by N. E. Snell of Soda Springs, Idaho, who states therein that on February Feb-ruary 3, 1917, Booth had told him that he was receiving from the Japanese association of Idaho the sum of $10,000 as a fee for lobbying againBt the bill and preventing its passage. Affidavits by W. G. Craig, Hugh H. Rankin, William Winschell and Ned Hasbrouch filed with the committee are to the effect that Booth had told them he had succeeded in blocking the passage pas-sage of tho bill by having Herrick, a Washington attorney, file a protest in the name of the Japanese embassy with the state department, which was done. He admitted being employed by the Japanese society of Idaho. |