The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-03-18
IDAHO LEGISLATURE
COMPLETES WORK
LAWMAKERS WE'RE UNABLE TO
BRING SESSION TO END ON
SCHEDULE TIME.
Worked Four Days Overtime in Order
to Attend to All Measures, Many
Of Which Were Sldetracked In
Final Stampede,

day night, March s, at 10 o'clock,
after clearing away the general appro-
priation and general deficiency bills,
the educational and charitable, penal
institutions and judicial court bud.
gets.
To meet the drain on the state
treasury during the years 1915 and
1916. to pay the money so appropri
ated, the ad valorem tax, setting a
maximum limit of $l,500,000 was
passed
1t is believed that outside revenue
from the federal government and the |
sale of lands. etc, when added to the |
amount raised by the ad valorem tax, |
viii be sufficient to meet the expenses |
of the biennium. The saving over |
two years ago will be about $350,000. |
The sixtieth and last per diem day |
of the Legislature fell on March 4, but |
owing to the fact that important meas
ures, including the revenue acts, had |
not been agreed upon and the two
branches of the assembly were at log
gerheads, the legislature worked four
days overtime. Conference commit
tees settled the differences between
the two houses, agreed upon the bud,
gets and prevented a continued dead
| lock.
The Joint conference committee was
| in session most of the day, going
over the senate amendments to the
educational budget The final result
o. their labor was that the senate
amendments, with two or three excep-
tic1s. were left unchanged. The small
revision only added several thousand
dollars. The total carried by the bill
as finally approved was $6S7,690.
The general appropriation bills, to
which the senate amendments were
accepted. carried S610,172.50 the ju,
dicial budget, s250,000; the general de-
ficiency act, $50, 437.74, and the charit-
able and penal institutions, 100000.
The senate amendments to the gen
eral appropriation bill resulted in a
ten per cent reduction on salaries of
heads of departments and subordi-
mates.
The senate defeated the general de-
ficiency act at the morning session on
March 8, reconsidered the vote in the
afternoon, and passed it,
In the final stampede OF bills seek,
ing passage the more important that
survived were the acts by the inves-
tigating committee creating bureau
of accounting to check all state de.
partments, and vesting power in the
public utility commission.
The anti-slot machine act placing
a ban also on certain games, was
killed through indefinite postpone
ment.
The governor vetoed the Pleasant
View-Holbrook road act appropriating
$4,000 and the Elliott bill to revive
the state grain commission act.
The senate passed the house work
mems compensa On act, carrying a
J $4,000 apprcprl, ion, and sent ii to
the governor. Not a dissenting vote
! was registered against it in the sen
ate. Attempts were made to attach
a number of amendments to it in com
mittee of the whole, offered by SEN
ators is behalf of the Boise trades
council, representative of the labor in
! terests, but they were voted down.
Senator Macbeth moTed and secured
suspension of the rules and the bill
r was passed Speaker Conner was
given the courtesy of the senate floor
and spoke to the merits Of the bill.
The senate also passed house bill
. No. 339 creating a state depository
: board; house bill No. sos, permitting
. county commissioners to employ a
county agriculturist; house bill No
29S, allowing each of the three new
3 counties created this session to elect g
3 senator and representative; senate bill
+ No. 142, abolishing private employ
b ment agencies
: The abatement and Injunction bill
, passed by the senate was copied In
I. the main from the Iowa law, which
though il has been declared uncon
= stitutional there because OF the man
c \ ner in which it SNas passed. is said Il
have survived the test of the courts
; as to the legality of its provisions.
r Members of the Perch club arr
: pleased with the new fish and gam
g law according to Surveyor Genera
> Utter. and believe the result will De
renewal OF interest in fishing ant
!, hunting General Utter Is the hea'
;. ! of the club
q Unusual surprise was manifested
r over the action of the house in defeat
s ing senate bill No. 81. the object o
,, which was TO permit Idaho to io':
;. with and take advantage of the lev
!. eral reserve banking act, so that thi
state could benefit by its terms. Gov
eTnor Alexander signed the low
; abatement act, house bill No. 1871.
Speaker Conner was made the rt
e cipient OF a beautiful gold badge Sc
e with rubies, presented to him by hi
8 Republican friends in the house Z
o rod Of Blnnock made the presentatio
4. and the speaker was so affected tina
he could only murmur his thanks.