The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-02-28
LEGISLATIVE NEWS


BOISE.-The new primary law for
idaho which will change the system
of selection of party candidates
passed the house Tuesday afternoon
and will now 60 to the governor.
No material change In the bill as 1t
was first introduced into the senate
was made. The final vote resulted
torty-three for and sixteen against.
The only Republican who voted
against the measure in the house was
county, who made no explanation of
his detection from the party vote.
Every Democrat in the house voted
against the measure.
Governor Davis will sign the bill
according to house members close to
the administration. 1t provides that
political parties should pay the ex-
pense of the primary held to nomin-
ate its candidates, Nomination of
county officers will be the same as
the present law except that the party
qualifications of candidates must be
passed ON by the county central CON-
mittee of the party with which they
affiliate. Delegates to county con-
ventions will be selected by the pri-
mary and delegates to the state con-
vention selected by the county con-
vention.
It had been expected that the bill
would be passed by the house some
time ago under suspension of the
rules but 1t finally took its regular
course and was not debated.
Another vital bill to pass the house
during the afternoon session would
change the present headless ballot
and go back to the old system Of al
lowing straight party vote. Again
a strictly party vote occurred when
Democrats voted against the measure
and Republicans voted for it.
Two years ago Democrat leg
islature abolished the olds time
straight party ballot. The new
measures repeals that law. Demo-
Gratis in the house took the position
that the headless ballot was particu-
larry satisfactory to the people of the
state while Representative Givens Of
Ada county said much time would
be saved for the judges and clerks
by a return to the old system. The
bill now goes. to the senate, having
originated in the house.
Ten bills were passed in record
time during the Tuesday afternoon
session of the senate when but one
hour was consumed in their passage.
Following are the measures:
House Bill No. Al, gives common
school and rural high school dis
tricts a right to issue bonds for out
standing Indebtedness. Under its
provisions school districts can refund
deficiency warrants which now draw
z per cent. A bill establishing
game reserve in the Pocatello ma
tional forest; memorial asking con-
gresS to appoint commission to
make a treaty with Canada to cor
rect over flows of the Kootenai river
in Boundary county; an appropria-
ton of $165,000 for Lewiston Nor
NAL; the Nelson kidnapping. BILL.
a measure providing increase of the
supreme court to FIVE members; q
house bill to provide investment Of
state funds in government securities;
a memorial asking for $4,000 for
roads in the Occur d'Alene Indian
reservation; the house rules of the
road" bill and measure refining a
system of equitable distribution of
highway costs between districts,
counties and cities.
The second optional county tax
levy to pass the house went thru
Tuesday afternoon when the lower
body passed the Canfield-Anderson-
Hugo bill making tax levy of so
cents per $100 to construct trunk
roads possibility.
In addition to this the house
passed bill appropriating $500, 900
for the payment of part of the cost
of laying out surveying and con-
structing system of state highways.