Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-01-21
IDAHO LEGISLATURE
NAY AID SOLDIERS
MEASURE INTRODUCED m THE
SENATE FOR BENEFIT or
FORMER SERVICE MEN.
Provides for Creation OF Veterans
Welfare Commission TO Render
Assistance 20 Disabled or
Destitute War Veterans.

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vice men was introduced in the senate
on January ia by Senator Burkey OF
Jerome, a former soldier 1t provides
for the creation of a veterans well
fare commission to render assistance
to disabled or destitute veterans OF
the war with Germany and their de-
pendents. It's provisions are that the
commission shall consist of five mem
bers, of whom the adjutant of the
Idaho department of the American
legion shall be one, and also Officiate
as secretary, the other four to pc
appointed by the governor within
thirty days after the approval Of the
act.
A second bin Of value to former
soldiers introduced by the same author
gives them q preferential right IN
filing on Carey act lands thrown open
for settlement by the state.
After some debate the senate voted
down senate concurrent resolution No.
2, by Whitcomb, providing for COM
mittee OF three to investigate the penal
institutions OF the state, one member
to be appointed by the presT ing off
Ger Of the senate, one by the speaker
Of the house, and the third to be
named by the governor.
Five measures were introduced by
the committee on public lands Oh
January IA.
The house of representatives, by
adopting the senate's concurrent reso-
luton on January ii, Joined with the
upper house In inviting former Cover
nor James III. Hawley and others to
address d joint session Of the legisla-
| ture ON the subject of preserving
Idaho's historic relics and traditions.
| The date OF the meeting provided for
Ia the resolution, Monday, January
"a.
Seven bills were IntrO,suced In the
/ house on January IA. Four were
| brief measures of the committee on
state affairs, in continuation Of its
| program for eliminating all continu-
ing appropriations in various state de-
partments so that their expenses may
be definitely estimated and met by
specific appropriation at each session
of the legislature.
After the house of representatives
on January 10 had passed, under sus-
pension OF the rules, senate bill No.
n, d provision for fixing the pay of
legislative employees, 1t heard read
the title of eleven bills and joint
resolution.
House bills numbered is to %, in
elusive, introduced by the committee
on state affairs, are the first meas
ures to issue from the laboratory of
that important part Of the lower
house machinery of the present leg
islatnre They ire all amendatory
measures, designed to do away with
continuing appropriations In various
departments of state government and
pave the way for establishing Of the
budget system.
City councils and village trustees
may exclude territA v from the cor.
porate limits of cites or villages I'M
! der a bin introduced on January Is
/ by Senator Broughton. At present
] agricultural lands which are taken into
city limits cannot be excluded except
By action OF court, and the bill seeks
) to do away with that expense.
Senator Mix OF Clearwater has IA
thered bill which provides methot
2 for the dissolution Of good roads dis
tricts which do not have any out
standing bonds or Indebtedness wher
: seeking TO dissolve.
Senate bin No. q, by Thompson
amends section 1906 OF the compiled
tatutes. relating TO the Inheritance o
property by aliens, the provision belnI
that no allen who Is q citizen of ma
!, ton, the laws Of which do not perml
i an American citizen to own land there
I in, shall be allowed to inherit land
In Idaho.
House Bill No. Il, by Moore, pro
4 vfdes for withdrawing the county
d Valley from the Third judicial district
10 now composed Of Ada, Boise, Vale
II and 0wyhee counties, and attachin
Il 10 the Seventh judicial district, con
posed Of Adams. Canyon, Gem an
n payette counties.
lie Printing OF house bills for the sis
lie teenth session of the legislature WI
n, cost practically twice as much as th
same item for the session Of 1919.
The house was in session but a
e hour on January Il, while the men
7. bers of the senate did not meet, Ia,
o. ing attended the irrigation congres
% and seed show 1t Nampa.
" 4 memorial from Tire chamber /
commerce. Of CoeHr d'Alene was rea
IL 70 the house, which asks for the Ell
= aetment BY TIE sixteenth legislatul
+ OF bank guaranty law.
ID State officials viii be exempt fro
iii paying fees to other state Office
when filing state documents. If ii