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Show LIABILITY BILL BEATEN. Idaho Legislature Not Inclined to Favor Employes. Bolso. Ida., March 6. The Kerns liability lia-bility bill was disposed of with scant courtesy in the assombly today, although al-though desperate efforts were made to save it from too sudden a death. The measure was sent to the table by an adverse committee report, Mc-Cracken Mc-Cracken moved to take It off the table, ta-ble, but Alvord countered with a motion mo-tion for Indefinite postponement. Defending It as far as he could in the time which he knew would be limited, lim-ited, Sheehan declared that tho proposed pro-posed enactment was exactly. what it purported to be, an omploycrs' liability lia-bility bill. Atkinson also made. an at-tompt at-tompt In a strong plea to avert tho Impending fate. "You should not defeat the measure," meas-ure," he stated, "simply because it has been presented by a" Democrat If It is good and It Is good." Alvord based his antagonism to the bill on the fact that he said he had received telegrams sent by persona not mine owners. McCrackon endeavored endeav-ored to reply to him, but his voice was drowned by cries of "Question." In like manner the previous question, was moved to preclude Dunning from speaking, and an indefinite postponement postpone-ment was voted, 30 to 18. |