Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-03-05
New System Of State Police TO
Enforce the Laws Approved
by Legislature-Goes to the
Governor for Signature.
PASS DEFICIENCY MEASURE
Three Acts That Come From
Upper House Do Not Meet
With Favor Among Repre-
sentatives. /.

Idaho Is going to have state eoh-
stabulary. The house OF representa-
tives passed the senate bill so proViuihs
by a vote Of 40 to IA. the measure
now goes to the governor Tor ms ap-
prevail It carries an APPROPRIATION y,
$4,000. The general Appropriation pi'i
carries an appropriation for tne saiiie
amount for q constabulary. Inc gov
ernor will be required to veto elther
the appropriation in the constapuiary
act itself or the one in the Appropriation
bill. according to the impression gwen
out in the house when the Dill was
passed.
The house also passed the proposed
$4,000, 900 bond issue amendment 10 tne
state constitution to raise funos LOT
good roads in 1921-1922 and the gem
eral deficiency bill to take care OF ac-'
cumulated debts for state departments
and institutions amounting to *Ifo'-
S4s.S3, as we'll as the amended ian"
settlement bill which came from the
senate, appropriating 100000.
SAVE GOLD MINING
Congress is urged to remove the re-
strictions on gold so that the gold dol
lar of the United States may be given
the same value as the Enlish pound,
and to assist the gold mining industry
back on it's feet, in a memorial intro
duced in the house by the committee on
mines and mining. The measure sets
forth 'the United States has become for
the first time in it's history a direct
creditor instead of an indirect debtor
nation, having loaned colossal sums to
foreign governments to be paid In gold
coin of the United States of the pres
ent standard of value, that Isl OF the
weight and fneness, the funds thus
loaned having been in turn FOR the
most part borrowed broadcast by the
government from our own people,
through the medium of Liberty bonds,
and as evidence of these loans our
government has issued it's bonds bear
ing upon their face the promise that
the principal and interest thereof are
payable in United States gold coin of
the present standard value.
"Our treasury statistics show that
the United States now holds approx
mately three and one-third billions or
one third of the grand total of the
worlds supply of gold; that England,
France and Germany together hold one
third, and the remaining one-third is
held by all other nations, truly graf
flying situation from the standpoint Of
our national pride and one pregnant
with ar-reachng possibilities for DOM
nation of the worlds markets. When
co-ordinating with our agricultural
and industrial supremacy and wisely
administered"
1t is set forth that during the war
the gold mining industry has suffered
severely owing TO the scarcity and high
cost of labor and machinery, with the
result one third of the mines through
out the country had to suspend; that
the so called bonanza mines" are rare;
that the source of gold depends upon
the prospectors. Congress is asked:
WHAT Is DESIRED
F'irst-A removal of all restrictions
upon the sale of bullion, either in do
nestle or foreign markets.
Second-A more liberal allowance for
depreciation, including the exhaustion
Of mines.
Third-A substantial release from the
payment of taxes occasioned by the
war: inasmuch as the gold industry
was yicarious sacrifice for the gov
eminent during the period of the wal
and was wholly subordinated to the
winning of the war, and was during
that period and still Is being operated
at loss.
Fourth-The good offices Of the gov
eminent in securing for us reasonable
prices for the machinery and supplies
necessary for the successful operation
of the gold mining industry, and II
aiding and abetting all endeavors t
increase the production Of new gold.
Fffth-Any direct assistance tina
may be given the gold miner as pros
pector or producer during the period o
reconstruction which will as much o.
more than any other measure be in
strumental in establishing the market