The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-03-23
IDAHO LEGISLATURE
FAv0RS HIGHWAYS
CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION IS
, URGED TO WORK FOR PASSAGE
OF M'ARTHUR BILL.
Members Of House Show Some Speed,
Measure Being Presented and
Adopted Within Half an
Hours Time.

by the members OF the mouse on Janu- |
airy II, when House Joint Memorial |
No. 1 was presented by Mcdonald of |
Kootenai county and half an hour |
later was taken up under suspension |
of the rules by unanimous consent and |
adopted.
The document is addressed to 1dahO's |
| senators and representatives in con- |
gress, urging them to support and
work for the passage Of the Macarthur
bill, now pending in congress, which
provides for the continuation of the
present basis of the federal aid pro-
gram Of the United States government
in connection with state highways.
| A bill introduced by Hall Of Oneida,
on January u, authorizes the commits
sion Of commerce and industry to
exact q bond from an investment COM
pany which seeks the privilege of SELL
ing stock or securities in the state.
House Bill No. II, by Moore, pro-
vides for withdrawing the county Of
Valley from the Third judicial district,
now composed of Ada, Boise, Valley
and Owyhee counties, and attaching
it to the Seventh judicial district, COM
posed Of Adams, Canyon, Gem and
Payette counties.
A memorial from the chamber of
commerce of Occur d'Alene was read
in the house, which asks for the en-
actment by the sixteenth legislature
Of a bank guaranty law.
The house was in session but an
hour on January II, while the MEM
bers of the senate did not meet, hav-
ing attended the irrigation congress
and seed show at Nampa.
Boise.-The lower house of the six
. teenth Idaho legislature so far has
showed no evidence of an early
avalanche of bills. None was intro
duced on January 10, and, after adopt
ing under suspension of the rules
. Senator Clarks senate joint memorial
calling on congress to pass the Ford,
ney emergency tariff bill, the house
adjourned until the following day.
Secretary of State Robert o. Zones
e received telegram from the japanese
= consul at Portland. requesting that he
transmit by wire the full text of the
anti-alien land bill and the bill to pro-
hibit inter-marriages of Caucasians anC
Mongolians which were introduced in
the Idaho legislature last week. The
y request was granted.
!. An early passage of the Witty ta1
relief measure, ending the period Of
payment of the 1920 tax for the frs
Monday in May, before it becomes de
= linquent, was requested in a communi
- cation from the Rigby Chamber O.
"a Commerce, read at the opening session
s of the senate.
g Senator Witty championed two ju
n dietary measures, the first, senate bill
Il No. u, amending section 69O1 of tn
% compiled statutes relating to the con
q tents of the judgment roll requirin,
additional data be contained therein
n the second also is an amendment t.
the statutes, and provides for re
! porter for supreme court decisions, an
le fixes his salary at So for each dc
cision and further provides for tn
,e printing, distribution, exchange an
T. sale of Idaho reports.
he Boise-Introductio by Represents
tive George H. Vandesteeg of Canyo
~ county of concurrent resOlutiO
e, against Japanese immigration was
IS. sensation of the session of the legi
lature on January IL. 1t purpOrts
make a definite and clear-cut declar;
as ton to the world, and particularly
nv congress, of how Idaho stands on tn
" JapaneSe question
al Designated by title as a resOlutiO
ill protesting against the extension {
ir- the rights of citizenship to subjects {
CHI Japan" the document calls upon col
k gress to enact no laws and enter I'M
no treaties that would grant furth'
rights in America to the Japanese, ar
demands that in any treaties or agre
.r ments with Japan, the United Stat
W. recognize the right Of any state
m. enact it's own anti-alien land laws.
he The house committee on educatit
Ia on January IL introduced a brief bi
he house bill No. Z. which provides Fl
he the direct levy of state school t,
oh of . mills. This was one of the FIR
% committee bills to be presented
the Sixteenth legislature, and the fir
of number of important measures 8
fl fecting education which are eXpecte
re- House bills Nos. 8 and 6, intrOduc
by by Representative Hyrum Severson
'dS jefferson county. authorize the sta
mt land board to extend the time of pa
Id ments on state school land sales al
leases during the present bienniu
Printing of house bills for the 81
en- teenth session of the legislature W
led cost practically twice as much as t
same item for the session of 1919.
in State officials will be exempt fire
on paying fees to other state office
when filing state documents. If I
bill introduced by Senator Thomas
Bingham. county passes.
~. The Idaho state legislature will
-s ,,Iad m grant relief tn holders