Show idaho idabo letter BOISE idaho jan letb special correspondence to THE STANDARD aa As I 1 listened to the chur church e h bella belle ringing yesterday morning I 1 thought how well supplied with churches was boise bois e T there be re I 1 is a t the he chri christian at an B baptist Espi catholic methodist presbyterian and the rest of them I 1 do not know but all these are needed badly as the devil with his churches seems to bo be gaining membership pretty fast last and with about twenty hours attendance out of each day but the other night the devil did not seem to hold the beat best hand as two of halley citizens broke up two f faro aro banks in one night in the legislature thre ia is a fear of the devil coming out ahead the pet schemes originating amo among dg the lobbyists hobbyists beem to fin find 5 a willing hand with the legislators the bill introduced saturday far fir the location of the agricultural college at lewiston has stirred up a hor hornets neta nest in the entire body ot at representative men each place 0 seems confident of success they range from the capital city to every crossroads cross roads town the opinion seems to be that the college should be built soon but the contention is likely to breal break out bitterly and no one secure the prize lewiston La wiston has two lobby ests here working for that pir co ce who seem to have plenty of the wherewith and it is being used extensively Al another lother bill cintr introduced 0 deuced was tor for a school of science arts providing viding for its location at osborn providing Fro in shoshone county it is believed by some to be merely introduced introduce i to work some other measure but be that as it may the school will never be located BO so far north aa as the tle pan handle already has the universo university t and for this reason everything will be e done to prevent any other state institutions going that way by th the e admission bill idaho rec received elved the government ninety thousand acres for the benefit of the 0 agricultural college and one hundred thon thousand sand for the scientific school the bouny y vivieon bill for div division sion of ada count county y and c creating canyon county with cida caldwell ell as no the county seat will hardly pass although the calawell Cal Oal Jwell dwell people are circulating petitions for division while the citizens of this city are circulating against any division as the is small there being but two smaller oneida and bear lake the division of bingham county on the base line and creating teton county beema to be meeting with more favor but the hobbyists lobby iata may succeed in la downing it as the bill will be delayed for several days in the hands of the he committee owing to the fact of the one introducing and beginning the measure B G briggs being called to montana sunday to attend the funeral of his mother the citizens of the cities of shoshone and rocky bar dar are getting up petitions to have their part of the respectively re attached to al county but this will not be done aa as their actions are merely in anger owing to the fact of he the late election taking the county seat from them the work werk done by the legislature la is very email a m all and the work put in daily y arloe does not average over two hours and a half the constitution only allows an ap of ten mills but according I 1 ci 0 the statement of senator hjlamar Dj Da Lamar thia this much haa has already been appropriated a PIO P rioted by the house there has hi za been thirty d days ays of legislation and only seven ev b bills I 1 1 1 passed at aa an expense of four hundred dollars a day ac according cording to the daily statesman this thid ma makes kes an sin average cost of each bi bill 11 1714 two of those bills were to pay mileage and salary of the members membern the democrats are trying to push legislation but when we take into consideration there is 18 but ten democrats out of fifty tour four member sit will n ill be seen their only acts are in protests the watch watchdog dog of the house is ballentine of ada county and he lie is indeed a good one as there Is hardly a day but he catches the republicans up in some of their trickery one po possible advantage he has is is in the fact of being in the constitutional convention and being always s ready to quote that thus far having knocked out several unconstitutional tut ional lonal bills B 11 smith of boise county is another one of the lie is the orator and should the time come w when ben a long speech la Is required he will be the man having been a minister he has tine fine delivery and can preach doctrine democratic with a will he ha is the farmers friend and guards their rights carefully the other day tho the speak fl erl referred a bill quietly to a wrong committee and quietly when hn smith ascertained the fact he scored the speaker a la Is reed the speaker also seems to be getting it pretty hard from his republican brethren for appointing an imp import 1 rt of attorney general R berts as ch chief of committee clerk when the position had been promised to one residing in the state A fight nearly ensued in the corn coin cittee of the whole the other day between representatives king of elmore and mills of alturas alburas Al over the report of a committee of which they we ft ere members remembers the chairman called them th sin down and order was finally re blared stored I 1 I 1 1 s 0 A o zelii ata |