The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-02-16
FLOOD Of BILLS IN
STATE LEGISLATURE
NUMBER OF IMPORTANT MEAS
uRE PRESENTED BY IDAHO
LAWMAKERS.
Educational Measures Take the Leaf
Appropriations of $~1,04o,532 Being
Asked for in Measures
Presented.

Boise, Idaho.-A large number OF
bills, including the appropriation meas
ure for state educational, charitable
and penal institutions, calling fol a
grand total appropriation or 81 1872,
were dumped into the legislative hop
per o. February 10.
In the senate another ianking
was made on the public
utilities commission by Senator Cum
mings, who introduced a bill to re-
peal the necessity and convenience
clause. The senate passed several
bills and killed off as many, two of
which originated in the house.
Among the important bills intro
duced were several dealing with edu-
cational subjects, one of which appro-
PIRATES $4,000 for the Boise summer
school, another appropriating $4,000
for physical education in schools, q
third relating to inmates of the in
dustrial training school. OJner meas
ures allow the bureau of fisheries Of
the United States to propagate fish
in the state, amend the Carey act
laws, license pool and billiard halls,
relate to sheep trespass, give prose
cutting attorneys a contingent fund, ap-
propriate $4,000 for veterans to at
tend the Vicksburg reunion, allow the
governor to remove highway commits
sioners.
The educational appropriation bill
reduces the appropriations asked for
by the state board of education by
almost 100000. Appropriations are
asked for as follows: State board of
education. s47,600; University OF
Idaho, maintenance $260,130, improve
ments $4,000; Lewiston Normal
maintenance $120,790, improvements
$55, 900; Albion Normal, maintenance
$65, 900, improvements $4,000; Idaho
Technical Institute, maintenance
$106 ,172, improvements SOS 900; Indus
trial Training school, maintenance
$120, $40, improvements $4,000; Schoo
for the Deaf and Blind, maintenance
$4,000.
The so-called labor workmen's com
~pensation bill, introduced in the hous'
of representatives by Representative
Bates, Lehrbas and Grice, was OF
February 10 recommended for passag
out of the committee of the who'll
in the lower house after it had bee
considered as a special order during
most of the morning session. Tn
recommendation came following
short debate and the adoption of
large number of amendments, tn
more important of which strike from
the bill the o~ccupational d1seas
clause and reduce the administrator
fund.
Boise. Idaho.-The Gem state will
probably cease to become the Mecci
for Divorces from the east and Bots
will lose it's reputation as a secon'
Reno, for the house of representative
on February Z passed the Moody bill
requiring residence of one year her
be ore suit for divorce a be institut
ed, instead of but six months, as
now the case.
The senate is understood to be In
|, frame of mind favorable to the bill
and it is claimed the governor wi
sign it. The passage of this measur
and resumption of the debate in tn
senate on the repeal of the public uti
tiles commission law stand out as tn
interesting developments in legislativ
procedure.
; Many of the attorneys in the hous
] attacked the bill, but in spite OF tn
opposition it passed by a vote of forty
six to seventeen.
Tho hO11ao a1Sn na GcQd tho Qn1hlin
: act, allowing a vote to be taken in tina
portion of Cnayon county desiring I
: be created into a new county, wit
: Payette as the county seat. This
: the fourth county division bill tn
house has acted favorably upon. Their
I is also pending in the house the sci
ate bill to create the county or va
ley out of Boise and Idaho counties.
i The senate spent most of the day o
February Z in discussing the bill Il
D troduced by Cummings of Bannoc
| county to repeal the public utilize
law,
! Boise, Idaho.-The l~ong-expecte
fight on the public utilities commi
0 sion broke in the senate on Februar
: 6 when the bill, introduced by Sci
ator Cummings of Bannock count,
: was debated. The commission wa
branded by Cummings rs the creatio
Of "fossilized, superannuated profe
y sors," as a body that had gone ia
, and hide" over to the corporation
stiied competition among public util
ties in this state, permitted monopol,
4 and that it should be abolished.
!, The house passed the jury measur'
house bill No. 80, by Speaker Allre'
/ after a hot debate, in which the a
/ torneys in the lower house attacke
the measure.
|, The clearing of stump and cut-ovs
private and state lands in north Idah
through the organization of stumpae
districts. under the supervision {
counties, is made possible by tn
terms of a bill by Kent, passed witt
out opposition In the lower house {
the legislature.