The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-02-02
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, TRIED TO CUT
BOARD BUDGET
SOME CURTA)LMENT EXPECTED
Consolidation of Health and Pure Food Proposed
Governor Names Officers of New County
Albion Apparently Safe
By D. w. GREENBURG
(Staff Writer for The Star -Mirr0r)

BOISE, Feb 2-That the education
al appropriation bill will not have
smooth sailing in the house was indi-
Gated when in the committee of the
whole, the minority, through thei
leader, Anderson of Canyon, submitted
a bunch of amendments to the bill.
There was a debate on the amendment
offered which cut the educational
board budget from $4,000 to $37,250,
which brought out a sharp argument.
Before the other amendments could
be taken up, the majority members
moved that when the committee rose,
it should report the bill out favorably
with but one amendment, namely, that
recommended by the appropriations
committee providing and including a
budget for the Albion Normal. lis
carried; but it is expected that w2en
measure comes up in the house Tor
final passage the minority will maze
a struggle to curtail the appropria-
tiUns.
A number of bills were introduced
in the senate indicating program
for the consolidation of the health de-
partment and that of pure food and
sanitary department.
Senate Joint Memorial passed the
senate.
BOISE, Feb. 2-Governor Alex
ander today named the Benewah coun-
ty officers: Commissioners, John S.
Keelton, St. Maries; Charles Wells,
Emida; j. L. Morgan, Plummer; Sher-
if, c. w. Leaf, Fernwood; Surveyor,
L. e. Hurvis, st. Maries; Auditor, w.
T. Shepard, Plummer; Assessor, 9. r.
REYNOLDS. st. Joe; Treasurer, E. M.
Davis, st. Maries; Coroner, c. J. Kin
solving, st. Maries; Superintendent OF
Schools, Ruth E. Gerhard.
BOISE, Feb 2.-The apparent SEN
sational disclosures of the grand jury,
finding true bills against various state
and other officials, seem to have fall
len quite fiat as the findings are prov
ed TO be very technical. 1t is the con-
sensus of opinion that very few con-
victions can be had under the indlct-
ments-
Take the case of State Auditor Hus-
ton whose indictments simply cQyer
the technical error of approving an
expense voucher on salary fund or
a salary voucher on an expense fund.
~here is not the slightest intimatlon
t+lat these matters were criminal or
HAT the vouchers were false The only
fault lay in the fact of their being
allowed on the wrong fund.
BOISE, Feb. 2.-Some opposition to
expert Gleason establishing a system
of accounting for the state of Idaho
has developed and friends of l.. 9.
Wilson and Harry Allen OF Wallace,
both having regulations as expert ac-
countants, the former as receiver OF
the State Bank of Commerce and the
latter as chief accountant for many
large mining companies, both OF Wal
lace. Idaho, are being brought forward.
AS State Auditor Huston has prac-
tically completed system which Will
revolutionize the heretofore inefficient
method, the state will probably not be
placed under the expense of engaging
an expert therefor.
BOISE, Feb, 2. Perhaps one of the
hardest and most persistent fights
waged outside of the legislature by
senator's and members of the lower
House lis we'll as the State Board OF
Education and powerful lobby from I
Bannock county, principally from i
Pocatello, has been on the question OF e
amending the name and objects OF the u
Academy of Idaho at Pocatello. i
IN all likelihood final understand i
ing, just been had, will cause the |
withdrawal of the two House and Sell q
ate bills by individual members and t
the introduction of new bill in the e
Senate by it's Committee on Educa- +