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Show II101I1 IMS It Oil CUE Act, If Signed, Will Make Gift or Sale of Smokes Bootlegging BOISE. Ida, Feb. 21. Tha aale or gift of cigarettes in Idaho will be an act of bootlegging If the governor signs sonata bill No. IU, which was paaaed by the house of representative Friday morning by a vote of S3 to 19. Speaker Peter O. Johnson vacated tha chair to apeak for tha bill, relinquishing relin-quishing the gavel to Bourn of Bannock. Ban-nock. Previously he had ruled out of order a motion by Welker of Washington Washing-ton te postpone the bill Indefinitely before be-fore it waa reached on the calendar. By thia ruling the motion, renewed when the bill waa reached, became debatable; de-batable; and the rest of the morning wss spent debating It. No other leg!-latlon leg!-latlon was considered. CROWD LISTENS. The galleries and corridors of the chamber were crowded for the dlscus-. dlscus-. alon and the audicnoe waa well entertained. enter-tained. The house's most able speakers did. their bit for or against the measure and one or two members who very rarely take the floor did themselves proud on thia occasion. It was about 11:10 o'clock when recess waa taken and tho representatives went to lunch with the consciousness of having disposed dis-posed of a burning Issue, leaving the remainder of Its calendar for consideration consider-ation in the afternoon seasion. Callahan of Shoshone closed the argument, ar-gument, speaking for postponement of the bill. His contention waa that the bill would, like other socalled reform bills, but Incumber ths statutes without enforcement, and thua detract from the respect for the law which la the foundation foun-dation of good government. SHIFT DUTY. "We have too many peonle In the United States who are ready ta save others and are unwilling to do anything to help themselves," aaid Mr. Callahan. "More evil Is done by those who smoke In the presence of boys than by the advertising ad-vertising of ths tobacco companies. We need laws for ourselves. The reason th legislature Is asked to pasa laws Ilka this Is because the fathers and mothers are trying to shift their God given duty, to the state. Nothing can ssva tho boys till they learn respect and obedience for parents, for the atate and for its laws and how can they respect laws which everyone around them boasts of evading and violating? |