Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-01-27
IDOINCS AT The
LEGISLATURE
Carey Land Matters in a Bad
s, Way and Several Projects May
be Tied Up---Other Matters OF
+; Interest.
THURSDAY

THURSDAY -
More definite information as
to what the state capitol is tc
cost when'completed, is the de.
mand of a resolution that passed
the senate by unanimous vote to-
day. 1t was introduced by Sena.
tor Macbeth, with the explana-
ton that the reports issued to
date do not give clear idea as
to how far the building has pro-
gressed or how much it will cost
to complete it. It was also noted
that a bill has been introduced to
in the house providing for a bond
issue of 81, 900, 600 for the COM
pletion of the building, but there
was nothing to show that this
would complete the work.
Create Tax Commission.
One of the most important bills
to be introduced at the present
session of the legislature will be
that Of an act creating the Office
of a state commissioner of taxa
ton, with a salary of So, 500 a
year, and an assistantIat 81, 700
a year. The bill has been draft
ed by Assistant Attorney Gener-
al Van Duyn. The bill prescribes
the duties Of the tax commission
er, his powers and compensation,
provides for attendance of wit
nesses by subpoena, fixes a heavy
penalty for non-attendance and
fixes additional meetings of the
state board of equalization.
The proposed law is intended
to meet the pressing require
ments as to new and stricter
methods of taxation in Idaho.
An additional district judge is
asked for in the. l.FourthNjudicial
district, located in southern Ida
no, through a bill introduced in
the senate this morning by Sena-
tors Lee, Hornibrook. Gooding,
Coates and Haight.
Minority leader Macbeth intro
duced a measure seeking to pro-
tect the Carey act trust fund and
hitting loans to be made there
from at $50, 600 upon state and
county warrants only.
Senator Potts, of Kootenai
county, is author of a bill provid-
ing for the fixing Of salaries of
county officials by county COM
missioners at the April meeting.
Prohibition In the House.
In the house this morning the
resolution providing for an a.
mendment to the constitution of
the state, providing for state
wide prohibition, was introduced.
Under the rules the resolution
will 60 to the printer and be
printed, after which it will be
referred to it's appropriation CON-
rfittee, probably the committee
on privileges and elections, and
no fight is anticipated until that
committee shall file it's recon-
mendations as to the disposition
of the resolution. The measure
requires a two-thirds vote in both
houses, which majority the re-
publicans claim, through support
of democrats. If passed, the
measure will be placed before
the people for ratification.
Bills introduced call for an ap-
preparation of SIP, 600 for use of
experimental station at the Uni
versity of Idaho. One by Rep
resentative Jayne provides for
the draining of northern Idaho
swamp lands.
FRIDAY
An action which threatens, in
the opinion of the state land
board, to wreck not only the Big
Lost river project itself, which
is directly involved, but may
tend to undermine the stability
of other Carey act projects and
generally injure the credit OF