The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-02-15
OF BILLS IN
STATE LEGISLATURE
NUMBER OF IMPORTANT MEAS
URE PRESENTED BY IDAHO
LAWMAKERS.
Educational Measures Take the Lead,
Appropriations Of s1,o4o,532 Being
Asked for in Measures
Presented.

Boise, Idaho.--A large number O
bills, including the appropriation meas
IRE for state educational, charitable
and penal institutions, calling for
grand total appropriation or SI,O40, 1892
were dumped into the legislative hop
per on February 10.
In the senate another fankinl
movement was made on the public
utilities commission by Senator Cum
mlngs, VINO introduced a bill to re
peal the necessity and convenience
clause. The senate passed several
bills and killed of as many, two OF
which originated in the house.
Among the important bills intro
dueed were several dealing with edu-
cational subjects. one OF which appro.
PIRATES $4,000 for the Boise summer
school another appropriating 5000
for physical education In schools, a
third relating TO inmates of the in.
dustrial training school. otner 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 Yicksburg reunion, allow the
governor to remove highway commits.
sloners.
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
$4,000; University of
Idaho, maintenance $3.50. 1870, improve.
nents $4,000; Lewiston Normal,
S120790, improvements
$4,000; Albion Normal. maintenance
$4,000, improvements $4,000; Idaho
Technical Institute, maintenance
il06,172, improvements $4,000; Indus
rial Training school, maintenance
1870 GAO. improvements $4,000; School
or the Deaf and Blind, maintenance
$4,000.
The so-called labor workmens com.
ensation bill, introduced in the house
I representatives by Representatives
iates, Lehrbas and Grice, was on
'ebruary 10 recommended for passage
ut Of the committee Of the whole
4 the lower house after it had been
as a special order during
lost Of the morning session. The
came following a
hort debate and the adoption OF
,rge number OF amendments, the
lore important of which strike from
no bill the oceupational disease
Iause and reduce the administration
md.
Boise, Idaho.-The Gem state Will
cease to become the Mecca
,r Divorces from the east and Boise
III lose its reputation as second !
emo, for the house of representatives
a February 7 passed the Moody bill, !
,quiring residence of one year here i
sfore suit for divorce can be institut- !
I, instead of but six months, as is :
)w the case.
The senate Is understood to be In
anne OF mind favorable TO the bill J
I'd II is claimed the governor will :
gn t. The passage of this measure \
nd resumption of the debate in the {
mate on the repeal Of the public util- c
les commission law stand out as the c
terestlng developments in legislative I
ocedure. :
Many of the attorneys In the house Z
tackled the BILL but in spite OF the 4
position It passed by vote of forty 7
x 10 seventeen.
The house also passed the enabling y.
L, allowing a vote to be taken in that !,
rtlon of Cnayon county desiring TO "a
created into a new county, with v
,yette as the county seat. This Is W
e fourth county division bill the
use has acted fayorably upon. There
also pending In the house the sen,
o bill to create the county or Val.
I out Of Boise and Idaho counties
The senate spent most OF the day on q,
'bruary Z In discussing the bin In n
,duced by Cummings OF Bannock %
unity TO repeal the public utilities AZ
Boise, Idaho longeXpected p'
ht on the public utilities commits, OF
n broke in the senate on February y"
when the bill, introduced by Sen. pl
~ NAHAAAAhea VI Ah0iAlNNh NoNutNf
$ debated The commission was Al
,nded by Cummings as the creation II
'fossilized. superannuated protes- Po
8, as a body that had gone tail 10
hide" over to the corporations. 10
led competition among public utili-
: In this state, permitted monopoly.
that Il should be abolished.
he house passed the jury measure. w.
lse bin No. 80, by Speaker Alfred, Wv
an a hot debate In which the at, lii'
neys In the lower house attacked sla
measure,
he clearing OF stump and cut.over ~
'ate and state lands in north Idaho
lugh the organization OF stumpage
riots. under the supervision Of day
mites, is made possible by the
MS OF bill by Kent, passed with.
opposition in the lower house OF
legislature Uni
bill by Anderson OF Canyon, re- IRA
ng TO the practice OF pharmacy Rus
bill by Bates, relating TO the Aus Aus
closure OF mortgages, were passed Gre
large majorities, as was a bill by Jap
les, relating to criminal actions in -
lower 1urts.
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and there is plum and gold silk
robbery down each side of the
and below the collar in back. -