The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-02-23
APPROPRIATION BILL
CARRIES s669,725
IDAHO LEGISLATURE CUTS DOWN
ON THE DEPARTMENTAL
BUDGET REQUESTS
Measure Revising Primary Law and a
Corrupt Practice Act Are Presented
for Consideration of the
Lawmakers

sion made its appearance in the house |
of representatives on February Is. car |
rying a grand total of 1868, 725, while |
the senate reversed its action on the |
Portneuf county division bill. which ii |
defeated on the previous day, recon
sidered the vote and passed and sent
1t to the governor.
At the same session the senate
passed the Payette county division bill,
attaching thereto an enabling act. The
vote by which the Portneuf division
bill, which divides Bannock county and
names Downey as the county seat,
was passed, 19 to Is. There was not
dissenting vote against the Payette
measure, which viii create new cOun-
ty out of Canyon, with Payette as th'
county seat.
The totals carried by the general ap-
preparations bill are slightly revised
over the budgets which departments
recommended, some of them being
scaled down and others revised up
wards. They are as follows: State
treasurer, $50, 400; state engineer. $751;
| 900; mine inspector, $4,000; land
board, S12O,320; public utilities COM
mission, 500, 23O; farm market bureau,
$4,000; state veterinarian. $31 500;
pure food department, $4,000; state
horticultural inspector, $4,000; state
board of health, $24,3O5; district
courts, $172,50O; capitol building and
grounds, $4,000; travelling library,
$4,000; Lava Hot springs, $4,000.
The senate on February 10 passed
the Hill memorial to congress, asking
that, sufficient funds be appropriated
to clear out the channel of the Snake
river at Lorenzo to care for the flood
waters in the Jackson lake reservoir,
which are used for irrigation purposes.
Damage to land along the shores is
done by the flood waters.
Bills were introduced in the Renate
on February Is revising the primary
} law so that county candidates are nom
mated at county primaries and at the
same time delegates are elected to
state conventions to nominate candi-
dates for state offices. The bill is by
Senator Evans, a Democrat
Senator Mitchell introduced a bill
: providing long time loans to endow-
: ment funds OF the state on the amor
tization plan. A corrupt practice act
was also introduced.
In the house there appeared a bill
by Krfbs that aims to regulate auto
mobile lights and prevent accidents
from their glare. The rays Of the light
cannot exceed forty-two inches from
the ground at a point fifty feet from
the car, by the terms of the bill. An
other bill takes from chauffeurs theiI
: license when they violate the speed
laws, and a. third appropriates $50. 0OC
for the erection of a suitable monu
ment in memory of Frank Steunen
: berg, assassinated governor of Idaho
d After spending an hour paying trib
= ute to the memory of Abraham Lin
1 coin, the lower house of the legisla
J. ture adjourned on February IL un
I til the next day out of respect to tbs
J. natal day of the martyred war presi
dent.
y Two bills were introduced at tn,
;. brief business session which followed
, the memorial services on February l2
One, a bill by the committee on ap
L preparations, provides appropriation
e for the state penal and charitable in
$ situations. The other, bill by An
: derson, provides that water user
= must install devices for water meas
s urement at the headgates OF srrear
I. from which they are taking public wa
lie tiers.
Re An appropriation totaling S563. s4
. for the state penal and charitable IL
= stitutions Is asked for in a bill intrC
]. duced in the lower house OF the lel
stature by the appropriations con
mittee.
n Two distinct workmen's compens'
lie ton plans are before the legislator
X in the Bates bill and the Anderso
$, bill-the former a compulsory pla
" and the latter elective, although wit
he provisions designed to force the en-
ployer 10 adopt it.
or A bin appropriating money for II
re state educational institutions, DIT
he pared and introduced by the commit
lie tee on appropriations in the lows
- house OF the Legislature, gives u
re state university $4,000 for ne
buildings and S260,l3O for mainte
N ance purposes.
to The transfer and sale OF watt
n rights appurtenant 20 lands in Care
IL act projects are provided for in b
;, drawn and introduced in the low
- house Of the legislature by II.
= Sims. The sale or rental Of vat
= right cannot extend over a period
one year without renewal
If A bill BY Alfred and Johnson a
IN .Sorizes peace officers arresting pc
n sons for violating the prohibition Las
"a TO seize and confiscate automobile
10 boats. vehicles and horses used in q
IN. transportation q Intoxicating liquor
as we'll as suitcases and trunks.
= Twenty thousand dollars for u
cd payment Of maintenance. supervise
20 wages and equipment OF cOnyicts U.S.
-. - -,aH work & asked in a bill iufr