The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-01-08
LAWMAKERS LAY
OFF UNTIL MONDAY
LEGISLATORS NOT YET PREPARED TO INTRO
DUCE BILLS IN EITHER HOUSE
BOTH PARTIES CAUCUSTONIGHT
Senate Committee Appointees Made-House Com
mittees to be Announced
Monday

BOISE, Jan. 8.-The Idaho lawmak
ter spending few minutes in attending
to routine matters this morning, the.
adjourned, members of both houses
having failed to have bills ready fol-
presentation.
Speaker Conner announced that the
appointments on the standing commit
tees of the house would be made pub
lie on Monday. Before adjournment
however, he announced the appoint
ment of Peter Johnson, Koelesch, Ran
dali, Lau, Dills, Grice, and Ferris to
the reference committee, and Trotter,
LeForest, Sweet Cannon and Grice to
the printing committee.
BOISE Jan. S.-Both republicans and
democrats have scheduled joint eau
cuses for tonight, at which it is eX
pected that they Will formulate fixed
policies for handling public business.
Both parties will likely consider leg
islative probes into the Allen and
kindred matters.
The house committee s report OH
rules was unanimously adopted without
house bills may be referred for any
needed correction was provided for,
as was also one on uniform les.s'a-
: ton The speaker retains the power
BOISE, Jan. S.-As a result Of the
examination of the treasury depart
ment by state auditor, f. L. Huston,
acting as state examiner when he
checked in the new treasurer, 49,
972S1 in cash was turned over to .Jnhn
w. Eagleson, together with $1S5,000 in
securities, including $25,500 covering
the states deposit in the Bank Of Nam
pa of $24,S52.09 at the time that in
stitution failed Included in the cash :
carried by the treasurer are the Il. 0.
u IS" of state officials on which 0. V.
Allen the defaulting treasurer adj
vanced money and which we're men
tlOucQ III Tie ltouotCQt iCpOi /.
The following list of notes held by
the state treasurer on file Oct n, l3l4,
amounting to $780, naming present
and former pure food department Off b
cials are shown to be in existence and
carried in the department.:
Note dated Dec. 6, 1912, signed c.
Lee French, payable to O. V. Allen IL
April 1, 1918, $100.
Note dated Dec 6, 1912, signed c.
Lee French, payable to 0. '. Allen
April /, 1913, s1O0.
Note dated May 27, 1872 payable al
six months after date payable TO 0. til
V. Allen, signed by James H. Wallis. II
$780, Is
Note dated Nov. 12, 1912, payable al
six months after date to o. " Nl1en, tn
signed by James H. Wallis, $500 so
Note dated Nov 20, 1912, payable 80 bo
lays after date to o. V. Allen, signed Sc
" James H. Wallis, 5000. alb
Following is the list of appoint ra
nents, name of the chairman given
rst: me
Judiciary = Whitcomb, Thcnas, sta
owe, Hart, Frazier. 500
Finance-Ricks, Steele, Grant, Mac of
eth, Day. Tn
-Whitcomb, Hart, Macbeth. tur
State Affairs - Hart, Macbeth, Cit
Thomas, Macbeth. the
Banks and Banking - Rockwell, ket
ohnson, Montgomery, Pugmire, Bre- the
er. lint
Privileges and Election - Kaline, uni
ayes. Grant, Harding, Bundy gre
Education - Elliott, Lowe, Walter, din,
Day. will
Irrigation Water Rights - Steele, tion
McCloud, Johnson, Pug not'
ire will
Agrioulture-Joh Elliott, Zuck. Bus
Live Stock-Sweet, Huntz Harding fro1
Fish and Game-Fuller, Rockwell, Mea
lline, Lenz Bowman. TT
Public Lands Thomas, Kaline, also
Her. and
- Grant, Mendenhall, 12, {
eks, Sweet, Pugmire. hort
Mines and Mining Macbeth, Houtz spea
eet. tion