Show LAW AND LOGIC IN IDAHO IT is hardly fair to be conti continually nu pointing out a neighbors eccentricities and irregularities and it is for that reason among others that we refer to matters mattera and things in idaho only now and then there is generally enough to talk about to make it an endless talk but that would be li useless seless it is a very safe thing to say that the gem of the I is ie a political peculiarity and aind that the evidences of it tread upon each others heels so s fast they come it Is fe never safely off with the old absurdity before being fairly on with the new new this paper took occasion to refer to the manner in which the late legislative assembly of that territory recently got together after it had dissolve i and its members were private citizens and in the latter capacity went to work making so called laws again the same as aa though they legislative body perhaps play would have gone on without notice thereafter had bad it not been for the tion of some of the participants to not let their light go out in any such manner after the president of the council and speaker of the house had declared their respective departments duly adjourned by limitation they of course stepped down and out and the persons who were chosen to these places by the moot legislature took their seats got through with what work the bodies had on hand and then proceeded to sign the journals cont containing alining the records of the whole proceedings of the six weeks sitting denying officers who had presided during the whole of that time the right to affix their signatures in their official capacity these latter did not idis disperse with the solons they remained in boise and applied to the supreme court for a writ of mandamus to compel the custodian of the books to let them get their autographs thereon the case is now being heard on demurrer the re spon dent setting petting up that mandamus will not lie he and that the court has no jurisdiction what the outcome will be no one can teu tell ono one of the points raised by the attorney for the respondent was the fact that the terms of members of congress expire on the 3rd ard of march but they generally sit on the ath till about noon the aptness and force of this point will doubtless make it tell in idaho certainly nowhere else if after the speaker of the house at washington has formally declared that body adjourned without day the members were to get together reorganize pass a few acts then order the clerk to permit their man of straw speaker to sign the sessions session records and refuse to let the regularly chosen officer do so and upon a test this had been held to be proper there would te oe a precedent for the idaho lumin luminary axy that would win his bis case without without further effort whatever but none of these are present and he relies solely on an assumed correlative circumstance which does not figure even as an incident of the proceeding in chief let alone fill the place of a parallel and hands it up to the court with an assumed air of triumph in blissful ignorance no doubt of the fact that he lq is all the time arguing another case that the bird he wants to bring down is in one tree treb while he is firing away at another it is not to be wondered at after all that the learned advocate is so i much at sea in the matter of authority for his case no such things ever happened bea before ore not evenin even in idaho and therefore precedents are not to be had so he has to rely upon cases in which the lawmaking law making power figures albeit in an entirely different ca capacity ity he must say som thing while upon his feet and do the best he can perhaps aswell as well abany as any one else would try to tio do under similar circumstances |