Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-03-07
HsA AND CAME
Bill PASSED BY
1HE LEGISLATURE
Measure Replacing Present
Statute Sent to Governor
Davis for His Approval Nv
Considered Strong Act.
APPROVE SALARY INCREASE
Amendment to Constitution
Adopted to Increase Amount
Of State Land That Can Be
Sold Annually.
APPROVE SALARY INCREASE

The senate passed the voluminous
fish and game bill Thursday afternoon
and sent 1t to the governor for his APP
proval. 1t replaces the present statute
governing fish and game in this state
and is looked upon by spoftsmen as one
or the most important. At the same
session the senate passed a measure
that originated with that body raising
the salary of the governor from $4,000
to $500, placing that of the state
treasurer at $4,000 and the auditor and
secretary of state, $4,000.
While the house was making useless
the Young house bill providing for 4
greater compensation under the work
mems compensation law by striking
out the enacting clause, Senator Yea
man, chairman of the state affairs
committee, had the senate override its
printing committee and order printed
senate bill 175, which also would in
crease the compensation.
Declaring that the Republican plat
form and the message of Governor Da-
Wis both promised an amendment to
the existing law. the senator from
Bonneville succeeded in reviving this
committees measure.
With members and officers of the
senate struggling to clean up their call
endar in order to reach the house APP
preparation bills, practically the entire
afternoon session was devoted to work
in committee of the whole with several
bitter debates marking the period.
DEFEAT INSURANCE BILL.
After the committee had adopted an
amendment to house bill 210, which
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utes relating to fraternal insurance
companies the senate suspended the
rules and defeated the measure Sem
ator Thrailkill led the opposition to the
bill which is one of the most important
insurance measures in it's effect of any
to come before the Legislature.
The people of Idaho will have an OPP
portunity to vote on whether zoo sec
tons of school land will be sold annu-
ally instead of 100 sections allowed by
statute now, the senate having passed
house joint resolution. Senator Orme
OF Fremont county opposed the resolu-
ton while Senator Porter said it would
encourage permanent settlement and
the advance in the land would not COM
pare in amount to lost crops and taxes.
Senator Faraday of Gilmore county
attempted to amend the Nash bill
which would license and regulate fac
tories using dairy products and would
demand prohibitive license from oleo-
margarine factories and distributors
by inserting n paragraph that the pro-
visions of the act would not cover any
articles not prohibited by federal laws.
PASS IMPROVEMENT BILL.
The amendment would have vtiated
the law, 1t lost by u vote of Is to 16.
Senator Lee claimed the act in its en-
tirety as unconstitutional. Another
amendment by the same author would
have fixed the measure so that it would
not apply to any product of which 70
per cent was evaporated or condensed
skim milk. This also lost.
Senator SeaVer, who occupied the
chair in the committee of the whole,
decided negatively a tie vote, on Nash's
motion to recommend the bill for pas
sage while Senator Lees substitute
thta it not pass also lost, leaving the
bill without recommendation. 1t is be-
lieved that the final vote will be ex-
tremely close in the senate.
An appropriation OF $4,000 for the
purchase of additional ground for the
Idaho technical school was made in a
senate bill to pass after Senator Adams
had explained that the finance com
mittee had previously agreed to an ad-
verse recommendation but changed it's
views when it was found that Poca-
tello had generously given 140 acres Of
ground and four city blocks to the
school.