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Show TEXT-BOOK FIGHT j COMING IN IDAHO - - wsaw,sweawawwaw BOISE, Ida., Jan. 12. A text-book fight looms up ominously . before the vision of the Idsho lawmakers. Ths contract with ths book concerns entered Into six yeais ago will expire next summer, and it is understood to be the purpose of the publishers pub-lishers to attempt to Induce the State commission to adopt an entire new set- In order to prevent this' Representative Smith of Nek Perces wfll present a bill soon requiring that ths books already adopted be used for five years from the date of the expiration of the existing contract. con-tract. His argument is that, while some of the books adopted are not wholly,at-Isfactory. wholly,at-Isfactory. ths list aa a whole will answer all purposes, and that It is far better to continue under it than to put the school districts to the enormous expense cf new books. t- - Ths session of ths Houss was enlivened en-livened by ' a breesy discussion of . ths printing for ths body. The rules were so amended that no bill can be printed until it Is first passed On by the stand lng committee. The change was vigorously vigor-ously opposed by those who desire printed copies of bills to send to their constituents, constit-uents, and they declare the new rule aa act of discourtesy. Following this action ths printing committee com-mittee awarded the contract for printing Mouse bills to the Capital News, a Democratic Dem-ocratic paper, which opposed the Demo, cratlo State ticket during the last cam-patgn. cam-patgn. although clinging to ths national Democratic ticket. - . In the Senate a bill was Introduced providing pro-viding for the division of Kootenai county, coun-ty, creating Clarke county out of the northern part, with Sand Point as ths county seat. Thenams was selected In a desire to further perpetuate the mem. ory of the beads of the lwis and Clark exposition. Another bill authorises the tranHler of the .State Soldiers' home te the National Government' |