The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-02-04
HOUSE BILL No. SO
DOOMED TO DEFEAT
HALL, AUTHOR OF BILL, WANTS
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
IN SOUTH IDAHO.

The "cat is out of the bag" The
fly in the ointment" has been dis
covered. The animous in the bill tc
remove the commissioner of educa.
ton is known. 1t is the first move
in an effort to take the agricultural
college from the University of Idaho
and place it in southern Idaho. Mr..
Hall, who introduced the bill known
as "House Bill No. SO" which would
cripple. the educa tional institutions of
the state, has come out from cover"
and ''laid his cards on the table" He
wants an agricultural college in
southern Idaho and to gain this wants
to cripple the splendid institution
that has been built up by years Of
patience, hard and efficient work.
Moscow people did some premature
neous report that the Hall bill for
education and put the management Of
the states educational institutions in
the hands of the legislature where
politics could be successfully played,
had been indefinitely postponed,
which means killed. A telegram from
L. F. Parsons, executive secretary Of
the university, who is at Boise, was
received by President Upham. 1t said:
"Bill So failed. Indefinite postpone
ment, 29, to a." This was construed
to mean that the bill had been killed
by being indefinitely postponed, but
this is erroneous. The little word "of"
omitted from the telegram gives an
entirely different meaning. The tele-
gram should have read. "Bill SO
failed of indefinite postponement 20
to a." Later reports of the actions
of the legislature indicate the bill is
doomed to defeat but has not been
killed yet. The reports received to-
day follow:
Will Defeat No. SO
The house took up consideration of
the Hall bill No. So, which seeks to
abolish the office of commissioner of
during the afternoon and
debated it in committee of the whole
at length. 1t was finally decided to
report it without recommendations
After the committee arose, Young
Of Ada county moved that the bill be
postponed. The motion
lost on a vote of 29 to "a.
Hall championed the measure in the
committee of the whole claiming that
the legislature should exercise the
power of control over all executive
1eads, the educational being no ex-
ception. He charged there was du-
plication in educational work. Cal
ahan of Shoshone county, attacked
the measure with great forcefulness
it was absurd for members |
Of the legislature attempting to fix
he salaries of educational heads and I
presidents when they are
lot qualified to do so.
Young charged the measure was
lirect attack on the educational in
titutions of the state. While the bill
vas saved from being killed through /
Indefinite postponement, it was
.laimed by members that it is doomed
o certain defeat.
College in the South
Representative W. Scott Hall, of
oneida county, chairman of the house
committee on education, introduced
louse concurrent resolution No. 6,
which calls for the appointment of a
special legislature committee. of five
MEMBERS, two from the senate and
hree from the house, to investigate
nd report to the seventeenth legis-
ature on the advisability and cost of
he establishment of an agricultural
ol1ege in the Snake river valley.
Must Be Resident
S. B. No. 73, by King of Boundary
ounty, requiring residence of one
ear in Idaho before any life insur-
nee agent may procure a license and
ransact business, passed the senate
y a vote of 80 to 6 after spirited
ebate.
Defeat U. of |. Alumni Bill
H. B. No. 81, said to be fostered by
he alumni association of the state
removing the disqualifi-
ations for appointment on the state
oard of education from former reg
nts, instructors and students in state (
lstitutions was defeated by vote {
% to 10.
H. B. No. 36, the homeogenized {
ream and milk bill by the committee y
n public health, was killed by unani- {