The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-03-03
ANT|,AL|EN BILL IS
SENT TO. DEFEAT
IDAHO STATE SENATE KILLS
MEASURE BY INDEFINITE
POSTPoNEMENT ROUTE.
House Amends Senate Direct Primary
Bill and Returns 1t to Senate
Senate Favors Removal Of
Albion Normal School.

| Senate Favors Removal Of
Albion Normal School.
The Idaho state senate on February
% killed the house anti-alien bill, seek.
ing to bar Japanese from owning land
in this state. The measure was debat.
ed most Of the afternoon and then
killed by indefinite postponement, by q
vote of p to 49, Thompson champion.
ed the bill, Paddock leading the oppo
siti0n.
The fight for direct primary law
in this state was again before the
legislature and resulted in the house
of representatives striking the body
out of the senate primary bill, No. 294
and substituting as an amendment in
it's place the provisions of House bill
| No. 173, which the senate had previ.
ously killed through indefinite post.
ponement.
Governor Davis read special mes
sage to the house on February %
| which met in joint session, urging them
| to pass pending irrigation legislation,
especially two measures, House bills
Nos. 80 and 143, which seek to stabilize
irrigation districts and permit organi-
cation of irrigation districts imme-
diately thereafter, and the house pass
ed both bills and sent them to the
senate.
The house also passed House bill No.
1852, by Bottolfsen, which adds
stringent regulations for the sale by
Carey act companies of stock lands and
water rights.
Two Americanization bills were
passed under suspension of the rules,
both of which have the Endorsement of
the Federation of Women's clubs and
the state board Of education,
The passing of Senate bill No. 29S,
providing for the removal of the Albion
Normal school from it's present site to
site at Burley to be selected by the
state board of education, and the kill.
ing of a bill providing for reducing the
Ninth judicial district by transferring
the counties of Clark and Jefferson to
the sixth district and appointing an
other judge therein, featured the ses-
sion of the senate February %.
A bill Of interest to county commits
81 wi
house bill No. 1856, which requires that
migratory livestock be assessed for the
entire year in the home county.
The Idaho state senate, by vote OF
% to II, passed its own direct primary
bill, on February rs, and sent it to
the house.
The primary advocates in the senate
voted against the measure, as it seeks
to preserve the convention system con-
tanned in the present law, which they
are opposed to on the ground of prin-
ciple.
few senators classed as "cOnven-
ton" who voted to Indefinitely post
pone the real primary law passed by
the house, thus killing it, switched and
voted against the senate bill on the
roll call.
1t is likely that the house will sub
stitute the bill that the senate killed
for the body of the measure passed by
the upper house and send it back to the
senate.
The Idaho real estate license law, in
troduced in the house early in the ses-
sion, passed the upper house by vote
of c6 to Is and will become law as
soon as the signature of Governor
Davis is attached.
The senate has approved the pure
fabric law, which went over by vote
of 81 to 1, and an attempt to recon-
slider the vote after a lengthy debate
failed by vote of &c to Is.
Senate bill No. 271, by Fisher, relat-
ing to nonprofit cooperative associa-
tons, providing that the same shall be
continued in force and effect as cor
porations now organized and existing
under statutes, was passed
Three deficiency bills were intro
duced by the house committee on ap-
preparations. They carry a total Of
$23S,S50.93 to meet claims for which
no funds are available.
Two bills backed by the committee
on agriculture were passed. One
transfers the work Of inspecting cream
testing stations from the department |
Of public welfare, where it has been
conducted, to the department of agri-
culture, where the committee thinks 1t |
belongs. The other removes from the
restrictions imposed by the Sunday |
closing law common carriers engaged
in transportation Of perishable farm
products and cream.
The house on February Is, by vote
Of SO to 10, passed the senate anti
cigarette bill and sent it to Governor
Davis for his approval. Passage Of the
measure came after heated debate.
An effort to kill the bill by indefinite
postpOnement failed.
Another 2-mill tax levy for high
ways was stepped upon and killed in
the lower house. This was Bailey's