The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1915-02-05
S|DETRACK BULL
COUNTY MEASURE
PROPOSITION TO CREATE NEW
eooNfY OUT OF WEST HALF
OF TWIN FALLS DEFEATED.
state Institution Budget Revised After
Rouse Had Refused to Aban-
don the Albion Normal
School.


ene thirteenth Idaho legislature does
not propose to add another govern
ment unit to the list, and on January
o0 Killed without ceremony the Ruhl
county measure seeking to create
new county out of the west half of
Twin Falls county. There are thrae
other county division measures pend
ing before the legislature and they
VIII be as summarily dealt with.
Inc state institution budget was re-
Vlsed ON January 80 after the house
refused to abandon the Albion normal
school and indefinitely postponed the
act seeking this. AS revised, the bud
get presents a changed appearance
from what it was when originally
drafted 1t was introduced in the
house. appropriations are provided
Tor state institutions as follows. TJni.
versity of Idaho, Moscow. s53s 30o.
state normal, Lewiston, s163,290;
Academy of Idaho, Pocatello, s1O2, 500;
industrial training school. st. An
thony, $4,000; deaf, dumb and blind
school, Albion, $11O,5OO. The uniyer-
SHY and normals have incomes from
leueral AID or interest funds totaling
Sfi5,OOO, which reduced the total to
pc drawn from school tax to s733. $50
Tor the entire budget. In addition.
$4,000 is asked for to meet expenses
and salaries of the state board of edlI-
cation.
The capitol building commission.
brought into the limelight through tha
report filed with Governor Alexander
by Expert Accountant Gleason, show
ing that money had been overpaid
ana m1sused from the public building
endowment fund, made Us report to
the governor on January 30 1t shows
that the overpayments, with the ex-
ception OF one to Storey & Murphy.
contractors on the capitol building.
were due to mistakes. Suit is rec
commended to be instituted against the
contractors to recover. j. w. Wiley
and Frank Coffin, members of the old
commission, presented their resigna-
lions to the governor The report
shows the $750,000 capitol building
bond issue was sold at the best mar
ket rate obtainable. Gleason report
ed it was not.
There will not be a constitutional
convention in this state for the pur-
pose of revising the state constitu-
ton. This fact was settled on Janu-
airy 2S, when the senate of the pres. |
ent legislature indefinitely postponed, |
or killed, the resolution seeking to |
accomplish this, as introduced by |
senator Elliott of Bonner county.
The reading of q message from the |
governor, which was referred to the |
state affairs committee, naming John |
}. Jones of Meridian, Mrs. X. /. Perky |
OF Boise and Thomas E. Buekner OF |
Caldwell the board of trustees of the |
Idaho state sanitarium, completed the |
iabors of the senate at the afternoon
session.
The senate went on record as in ia
yor of state aid and passed the So.
600 appropriation bill for and in be.
half of the Northwest Livestock Ex-
position association of Lewiston, the
money to go toward permanent i'm
pro0ements of the show and. to assist
in making it a success. The bill was
introduced by Senator Sweet of Idaho
county. 1t passed the senate by a
vote of "a for and against
Discourtesy to Governor Alexander
was claimed by the minority of the
senate when his special message on
state institutions was omitted from
tne journal. The senate, by majority
vote, ordered it placed in the journal
after reading. Believing that the
printing of it in pamphlet form
would give wider circulation, Presi-
dent Taylor and majority leaders did
not spread it on the journal, but in
troduced resolution to print 1000
extra copies. Under protests of
Democrats who charged an effort was
being made to purposely keep the re-
port off the permanent records of the
senate, the majority rescinded its or
der and passed the pamphlet resolu-
ton.
The house passed the Koelsch air
gun bill, prohibiting the sale or use
of airguns in Idaho, and the Shat
tuck act, reducing interest on delin,
quent taxes from Is to 10 per cent
and removing the penalty for failure
to pay the second installment or
taxes. The resolution seeking to
amend the constitution making the
assessor ex officio tax collector was
defeated
The Hunsinger nepotism bill was
amended in the committee of the
whole and recommended for passage.
There is similar bill pending in the
senate. Both bar the appointment of
relatives to the third degree to state,
county, city or town office.
Hon. Ernest Anderson, Democrat,
,lar af tbA hntr
yon county, is one of the bachelors in
the Thirteenth session. His residence
is Parma and he is an attorney.
A bill introduced by Anderson of
Canyon fixes the salary of state Off
GERS as follows: Governor, $4,000;
secretary of state and state auditor,
S25, 900; attorney general and state
treasurer. $4,000; school superintend-
emit and mine inspector, S1,S00; the
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