The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-02-22
STATE LEGISLATURE
RUSHING MEASURES
PASSAGE OF CIGARETTE BILL
IN SENAE STARTLES THE
HOUSE MEMBERS,

Boise, Idaho-Peter G. Johnston
speaker of house in the sixteenth Ida
no legislature, this afternoon served
notice on members that the general
and other appropriation measures are
now paramount before that assembly
and must be given the right of way
over all pending legislation. For that
reason he excused the members of the
appropriation committee from further
attendance of the house that they
| may remain in continuous conference
until able to report the appropriation
measures. This is the fiftieth day of
the session and the legislative jam
has arrived. There are six hundred
measures in the two houses, half of
which cannot possibly be reached
There are but ten per diem days left
to the session. Practically all of the
big issues before the assembly re
main undisposed of.
Passage during yesterdays session
of the senate of the anti-cigarette
bill absolutely prohibiting the manu-
facture or sale of cigarettes in the
state of Idaho or their smoking, by
the one-sided vote of 20 to 12, Jared
the solons to a realization of what
may be expected before the session is
over. Senator Harding, democratic
minority member of the senate, a
prominent Mormon bishop of Oneida
county, made probably the most
forceful address of the session so far
when he arose to champion the meas
ure which he had introduced. He said
that where six billions of cigarettes
were smoked ten years ago, there are
now forty-six billion consumed to the
Qtr.Iy,o ont Of hn
sented to the senate stack of peti-
tions signed by people in all parts of
Idaho urging passage of the bill The |
vote on the measure stood as follows:
Ayes-Baker, Christensen, Clark of
Bear Lake, Clarke of Clark, Disney,
Featherstone, Gilchrist, Harding,
Hegsted, Hunt, Johnson, Jones, Ker-
rick, Mckinney, MacMurray, Mix
Monson, Orme, Paddock, Porter,
Reed, Rehberg, Seaver, Smith Sut-
Cliffe, Thomas, Thompson, Van Hoe
sen, Witty. Total 20.
Noes-Armstrong Boughton, Bur
key, Fish, Haley, Hunter, Keith,
King, Sonner, Whitman, Whitten and
Yeaman. Total IL.
Absent and not voting -Eowarth,
Noggle, Whitcomb. Total 8.
Teachers Retirement Provision
The teachers retirement fund bill
0y the committee on education was
passed by vote of 26 to Is, after a
debate Objection to it
vas made by Burley on the grounds
hat it was not feasible, that the as
;essment would not provide sufficient
'unds for paying the retirement pen
ion Of $500 per annum and that the
of 25 years teaching, Is
# which must be in Idaho, was
,oor provision, in that but a few J
eachers would ever receive the bene-
it of it. Senator Disney attacked
he measure on the ground that the
und should be created by an assess
nent of the district and not take the
money from the teachers.
Senate bill No. 79, over which one $
f the hardest fights of the session S
yas waged when the bill was debated t
I the committee on the whole, was t
efeated by one vote on final pas &
age. The measure was introduced by s
enators King and Clark of Clark 0
ounty, making the railroads and
lectrical railway companies liable Q
1r damages to stock where their l
ights of way are not fenced Sem l
tors King, Clark of Clark county n
nd Boughton made strong addresses 4
,r the bill and Senators Paddock and Q
an Hoesen spoke against it. The "
nal vote stood 16 for the bill, II
gainst and II absent or not voting.
H. B. No. 70, increasing the bond
g limit Of independent school dis II
lets to eight per cent, was almost s.
1animously voted down b
H. B. No. 100, authorizing coopera- d
on between state and federal bu- g.