The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-03-09
EDUCATION BILL
KILLED IN IDAHO
MEASURE AeoLIsHiNc OFFICE OF
STATE COMMISSIONER Is
VOTED DOWN.
House Takes Action to Aid in the
Sale Of 100000 Bond Issue
for Benefit Of Roads in
State Of Idaho.

Without dissenting vote House bill |
No. 50, providing for the abOlishment |
of the office Of the state commissioner |
of education, was sent to the morgue in !
the Idaho senate on February II by
indefinite pOstpOnement. 1t had been
in the hands of the committee on edu-
cation for some days and was reported
out with recommendation that it not
pass.
The machinery of the body which
originates tax measures was thrown
into high speed when the house of rep
resentatives suspended all rules and
introduced and passed House bill No.
2Ss, authorizing an expenditure of $685.
900 to help float the $2,OOO,OOO worth
of state highway bonds voted by the
people in November The measure
provides for the employment by the
state treasurer of fiscal agent or
broker to help sell the bonds.
An economy measure, of a sort, was
reported on the house calendar and
passed without dissent. This was
on state affairs. 1t repeats an appro-
priatiOn of $4,000 made by the fiji
teenth legislature to enable the depart.
ment of public works to purchase fac
tories for making woodworking mate
rails.
A measure passed by the house on
February II prohibits any state Of
ficial from making trip outside of
Idaho at the expense of the state, ex-
cept on funds specially appropriated
for the purpose and on vouchers coun-
teFsigned by the governor.
The travelling carnival, with its
gambling games and immoral shows, is
nm outlaw i'm Idaho hencefOrth, or will
he if the senate follows the lead set by
the house on February 16 when
House bill No. III was passed. This is
u bill by the judiciary committee
which absolutely forbids such SHOWS
to operate in the state.
An appropriation of more than $780,
OOO for the equipment and maintenance
Of the state tuberculosis hospital at
Payette is provided for in a bill intro
duced in the senate by Senator Witty,
$1,000 of the amount being for main
tenaace during 1922.
A measure of statewide interest
was introduced by Whitcomb, on Feb
ruary 16, providing for raise in the
salary of the governor from 5000 to
$3.50 per year.
The introduction of thirty-seven new
measures In the senate marked feat
ure of the session on February 16, 1t
being the last day in which bills can
be introduced except by unanimous
consent or through a sitting commit
tee.
Among the measures passed on Feb
ruary 16 was one of great interest to
the farmers of the state. 1t was House
bill No. e., which provides a scheme
for cooperative marketing. The bill
is patterned after the California law
which provides method for the for
nation Of marketing associations fol
handling farm products.
House bill No. 129, providing tina,
one member Of the public utilities
commission must be a civil engineer
was defeated by vote of 20 to 5.
Senate bill No. 1853, requiring hos
pitfalls exempt from taxation to admi
and care for patients of any regularl!
licensed physician upon the same
terms and conditions as patients o
any other physician. was killed by in
definite pOstpOnement.
Northern Idaho has asked permits
sion Of the sixteenth Idaho Legislature
to secede. A resolution was introduC
ed in the senate on February Is, o
which Senators Christensen. Feather
stone, johnson, Reberg,. Jones. Fisher
Kerrick. HALEY, King and Porter ar
the joint authors, calling for the hold
ing Of Il convention In the adsn .nistra
ton building, at the University O
Idaho, Moscow, June 20. 1921, of dele
gates from the various counties in
cluded in the proposed new state 70
the purpose of adopting constitution
to be submitted to the electors of tn
new state for their adoption or rejet
tiOn.
The boundary lines of the new stat
as outlined in the resolution includ
the ten northern Idaho counties. Thi
territory claims a population of $50
600, area of $4,000 square miles an
property valuations of $15O.O0O, 900.
The house passed the Hall BIZ
authorizing the appointment of a con
mission to investigate the advisabilit
Of locating an agricultural college i
the Snake River valley and the Van
Steeg real estate license measure.
Senator Featherstone's ice compan
bill was voted down in the senate.
provided for making ice companies sui
ject to the regulations of the publ
utilities commission.
The senate measure providing tina
the state or any of its political sui
divisions may do work by day labO