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Show ! ' . 1, IDAHO STATE TREASURER ! BEFORE INQUISITORS Before the House Was Subjected to j Rapid Fire of Questions. t Boise. Idaho, Feb. 4. Putting State Treasurer Hasting on the carpet in i tbe house of representatives was the I principal feature of attraction during I the forenoon session of the legislature. He was Incited by members to explain the bills relating to his office, which he is trjing to get enacted into law, but he had spoken but a few minutes when Shaw of Ada county began giilling him on his famous "collection account" controversy. Question after question came In hot succession frrm the lips of the inquisitor and answers came Tying back with just as much speed and fire. In the midst of this rapid firing, a move was made to adjourn and all wag over. The senate took up the principal portion of the forenoon In discussion I of the question of making the locality of the great Shoshone Falls Into a ! state park. The bill vas finally refer-j refer-j red to the committee of the whole. I In discussing a bill providing for tho I abolition of party emblems and the ' circle at the head'of the ballot, a cross in which otes tho whole ticket, Macbeth, Mac-beth, Democrat, of Custer county, got warmed up to say the circle should be done away with. "It is the very thing that has kept the corrupt Republican party in power for the last three terms. Hart of Fremont settled his argument. At a meeting of the Boise Commercial Commer-cial club last night, It went on record as favoring county local option with ! the exception of incorporated towns ' and cities, which should be exempt from the provisions of the law. A resolution res-olution was also passed requesting Ada county representation in the legislature legis-lature to work for the enactment of such a law. , . . . |