Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-20
BILL
PROMISES LIVELY
HOUSE DISCUSSION
Pending Measure to Create
Commission Recommending
Permanent Home Of Institu-
tions.

While the Albion removal and con-
solidation bill was defeated without
debate this is not likely to be true of
house bill 203 by the state affairs com
mittee authorizing the governor to
create a commission to investigate and
recommend the permanent location of
all institutions to the next legislature.
This bill says in part:
There Is hereby created a commits
sion to be known as the permanent To-
cation of state institution commission,
to be composed of five members who
shall be appointed by the governor
within 30 days after the taking effect
of this act. No member of said com
mission shall be resident of any
county in which there is at present To-
Gated any state institution. The mem
bers of said commission shall take the
official oath prescribed by law.
las soon as practicable and not more
than 80 days after the appointment of
said commission, said commission shall
meet at some convenient place within
the state of Idaho and organize, and
proceed to investigate the present To-
cations of all of the state institutions of
the state of Idaho and shall investi-
gate and consider the relative merits of
any proposed different locations and
sites suggested or offered. And said
commission shall investigate and con-
slider any and all proposals and induce
ments which may be made by way of
donations to the state of moneys, lands
or building sites for the purpose OF
recommending the retention of said
institutions at the present locations, or
the removal of said institutions to
other and different locations, and shall
decide upon the best permanent loca-
ton for each and every one of said in
situations. The decision of n majority
of said commission shall be final Said
commission shall make its decision and
conclude it's Investigations on or before
Jan. /, 1921.
RECOMMEND TO LEGISLATURE.
"When the permanent location of
said institutions shall have been decid-
ed upon by said commission, the de-
cision of the commission shall be GER
titled by said commission to the sec
rotary of state to be my him transmit
ted to both houses of the 1921 session
of the legislature of the state of Idaho.
said commission shall further GER
tify with said findings the proper and
necessary proposed amendment to the
constitution to be acted upon by the
said 1921 session of the Idaho legisla-
ture, making permanent the location
Of all the state institutions at the
points decided upon by the said COM
mission.
"That for the purpose of defraying
the expenses of said commission, there
is hereby appropriated out of any
moneys in the general fund not other
wise appropriated the sum of $4,000
The members of said commission shall
be allowed from said fund their actual
and necessary expenses while, in the
discharge of their duties to be paid as
are other moneys out of the state
treasury, provided that no member OF
said commission shall receive any pay
for his services in connection with said
duties.
Every person who gives or offers to
give a bride to any member of said
commission, or to another person for
him, or attempts by menace, deceit or
suppression of truth, or any corrupt
means, to influence a member in rem
dering his decision as a member of SAID
commission, is guilty of felony"