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Show MEASURE CONTROLS BUCKINGCONTESTS Idaho House Has Busiest uay or oession BOISK, Ida., Feb. i:. Sixteen new measures were Introduced and ten passed the senate Friday in one of the busiest days of the session. The only debate of the morning was occasioned when senate bill No. 133 came up for actual passage. This bill seeks to make a misdemeanor for holding a wild west or bucking contest show in inclosures surrounded by a fence four and one-half one-half feet high. It took a constitution-j al lawyer and a stockman to kill the; measure, both Whitcomb and Seth j Jones speakina-agaiaiaitt while author. Senator Ciilchrist. and Paddock j defendM it. The bill lost by a vote of 28 to 18. Some amusement wss caused by Seth Jones voting for the bill when ! the roll was called, but he Immediately Immediate-ly saw his mistake and changed his vote before the result was announced. Two more bills were passed, one ut which urges consres to approve the McFadden bill providing a bonus of 50 cents per pennyweight on gold, and the other was to President-elect Harding asking him to rescind the present method meth-od of selecting postmasters, under the I guise of a civil service examination de- I sicned for the purpose of ke-polna- "de- I serving Democrats" In office. I'nder a suspension of the rules senate sen-ate bill No. 123 was passed by unanimous unanim-ous vote. It provides for the creation of the r'remont game preserve bordering border-ing along ths Yellowstone park and for the purpose of further protecting the wild animals of the park and vicinity. House bill No. 2. by 1'arrtith. provides for punishment for the temporary taking tak-ing of an automobile, was passed as amended, the amendment fixing the I natty as a misdemeanor Instead of a felony, as the bill first provided. The house passed, by a vote of S to IS, and without a word of argument. argu-ment. Van de Steeg's antialien land bill. It now goes to the senate. In spite of strong opposition manifested mani-fested by Southern counties, the house passed by a vote of 34 to 17 the house bill raising the county school levy to Sao per capita. Gudmunsen of Cassia i declared that the people of his county could stand Ho increase in taxea, and Mrs. Irwin of Twin Kails county said thf bill would not obviate the difficulties diffi-culties In her county. That the bill would Increase taxes In the counties was th foundation for the opposition's attacks. |