The Daily Star-Mirror
MOSCOW, LATAH COUNTY, IDAHO WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1919
VOLUME VIII
NUMBER 86
SENATE PUSSES
IDAHO IS THIRD STATE TO RATIFY MEASURE THIS SESSION
BOISE.—The senate this morning, as its first act, passed the prohibition ratification resolution. Senator Whitcomb asked to be excused from voting, while Senator St. Clair said he was against it, but voted for it on account of his constituents.
Both houses passed resolutions eulogizing former President Roosevelt. The resolutions read in part as follows:
"remodeling and revising the plans and purposes of our government and in bringing home to the people the need of civil righteousness."
Idaho is the third state to ratify the prohibition amendment at this present session, and the seventeenth he was the chief factor in the United States.
W. L. Adamson, from Blaine county was elected floor leader of the majority in the caucus last night.
There was a memorial service in honor of Colonel Roosevelt this afternoon at two o'clock. Those who spoke were Judge Dietrich, of the federal court, Former Governor Hawley, Senator Lloyd Adams, and Representative Givens.
Entente Conference Begins.
PARIS.—Informal conferences with the entente statesmen in order to lay the real ground for the peace congress will begin Thursday. Probably this will be President Wilson's only official activity prior to the beginning of the peace conference, as it is necessary for him to get some rest.  After the fatiguing round of speeches and traveling. There seems now to be excellent authority for saying that plans for a settlement of the most important questions.—namely, the league of nations, the freedom of the seas, and disarmament,—still seem very indefinite. Attack Expected Hourly. 