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Show s IHO LEGISLATIVE X SESSSDIUDJOURNS State Remains Undivided, and Disturbing Legislation Legisla-tion Is Avoided. trpei'inl to The Tribune. ttOiSE. Llaho, March 10. The Fourteenth Four-teenth Idaho legislature passed into history his-tory tonight, when it adjourned. Pino (iie nt 10 o'clock while hilarity reigned supreme among the members. "With its passing went the dreams of those who expected to see a new stato carved out of the ton northern counties, the ambi-tious ambi-tious of those who desired Idaho to ; have a workmen 's compensation commission com-mission realized, and the defeat of two measures tbat threatened international controversies, if not a complete breach the anti-Asiatic marriage bill and the anti-alien land ownership measure, both conceded to be aimed at the time of their introduction at the Japanese. The closing hours of the legislature witnessed a compromise being reached s over the workmen's compensation bill, which caused one of the most bitter fights an Idaho legislature has ever witnessed. Without a dissenting vote both branches passed a compromise bill throwing the cloak of protection over the laboring people of the state. The final day s session saw the passage pas-sage of appropriation bills carrying a 1 P H n nr. a,A grand total or almost a million and a half dollars. The state educational, penal pe-nal and charitable institutions were . cared for by them. State departments were given their biennial maintenance money and numerous relief bills were disposed of. One institution suffered as the result of the final pruning process, proc-ess, and only one. The University of Idaho had $10,000 stricken from its maintenance for the payment of expenses ex-penses of lecturers of the extension department de-partment and $4000 for the summer school. Otherwise the state educational institutions are given the amounts apportioned ap-portioned to them by the house. The school for the deaf and the blind gained $40,000 for a new buildin" and $15,000 for a central heating plant. By a vote of thirty-two to ten the house joint resolution authorizing the convening of a state convention at Moscow Mos-cow to draft a constitution for the proposed pro-posed new state to be created out of the ten northern counties was laid on the table and in that manner its defeat was accomplished. It received the support sup-port of but the ten senators from the north. This resolution had passed the house, a majority of the members of which were its joint authors. The anti-Asiatic marriage and the anti-alien land ownership bills were defeated de-feated by being smothered in committees. commit-tees. A majority of the senators were opposed (to the passage of either at a time when the nation faces an interna-tional interna-tional crisis. Among other measures jl that failed to pass was the $850,000 y bond issue for completion of .wings on the new state capitol. It was smothered on the calendar. X Labor secured its greatest victory of any session of an Idaho legislature when it succeeded in having' passed by a unanimous vote a workmen's compen-J - - sation bill providing for elective com- 1 pensation. Regardless of the fact that many days were spent by both houses in threshing out the compensation issue is-sue and for weeks a bitter fight was waged for and against the three bills Rockwell, Bates and Anderson and a deadlock threatened to prevent an adjournment ad-journment for days, the legislature unanimously agreed finally to a com-promfse com-promfse measure that was introduced on the morning of the last day's session and passed before the day was tfver without a dissenting vote cast against it in either house. A commission of three members and a state insurance manager and department are created by this bill; a schedule of compensation for injured workmen or for the heirs of those killed at labor ranging from 45 per cent of the total weekly wages for a period of 400 weeks is provided in the measure. Casualty insurance companies are barred from participating and an employer may elect to come under state compensation or give bond to provide compensation for his injured employees, as he desires. The measure is conceded to meet the differences of those factions fac-tions interested. By a decision of the attorney general the Portneuf county division bill, which passed the senate and house, but was held by the president to have failed to pass on account of the fact that when the senate voted upon it the measure mea-sure was in the possession of the house, was held valid, and if signed by the governor will become a law. It creates a new county out of Bannock county. |