The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-03-16
IDAHO BILL AIMED
At SOLDIER LAW
REPEAL OF LAND SETTLEMENT
ACT Is ASKED BECAUSE OF
CONTINGENT PROvlSO.
Measure Appears In the House Calling
for Repeal Of Shoshone Park
Appropriation and Bounty
Claims Appropriation.


January 20 was one by the committee
on state affairs repeating the soldier
settlement act of 1919, which Carried
an appropriation of 100000.
Due to the fact that this approprt-
alton was contingent upon the passage
by congress of soldier settlement
act, and that no such legislation was
enacted, the money has since lain idle
in the state treasury.
Another bill by the state affairs com.
mittee repeats the appropriation made
in 1919 for the Improvement of Sho-
shOne Falls park, and a third provides
that the expenses Of executive agents
appointed to return to the state fugi-
tives from justice apprehended in
other states, shall be audited and paid
by the counties which ask for the ex-
tradition.
Four house bills doing away with
continuing appropriations, the largest
of which was $4,000 for the state
militia, passed the senate on Janu-
airy 26 by unanimous vote.
A seventy-page bill which entirely
revamps the game laws of Idaho, was
introduced into the senate by Senator
Victor Hegstedt of Teton county.
The bill abOlishing the 2-mill tax
levy for state highway purposes, bal
anced for minute in the senate and
was then postponed upon recommen-
dalton of the chairman of the commit
too IN finapno onl com,pittoo ar, hiub
ways, bridges and buildings.
The senate is on record as being
squarely against the raising of salaries
of those in the state employ. 1t killed,
by indefinite postponement, on Janu-
airy %, the measure seeking to raise
| salaries of justices of the supreme
court from $1,000 to $4,000, and district
court judges from $4,000 to $1,000. ,
The Albion normal school, which
| was created as state institution in
| 1893 by the second state legislature
and was opened a few years later
when completed, will be abolished by
the sixteenth session if the bill intro
duced by the state affairs committee
becomes law.
| The state affairs committee intro.
duced a bill recommending abolish
ment of the Albion normal school.
An opportunity came for test vote
on the Vandesteeg anti-Japanese reso'
luton in the house of representatives
and it was taken. On being reported
out of the committee on immigration
labor and statistics, with majority
report recommending its passage and
an adverse minority report, roll call
was taken on the adoption of the
former. 1t resulted, 80 to IA, in favor
of the resolution.
The ground taken is that the ex
pense of operating the school is toe
1 great as compared with the number OF
students. 1t provides for closing the
school July 1, 1921.
A fine not to exceed $1,000 or i'm
prisOnment in the state penitentiary
for not more than five years. or both
are the penalties for violation of sen
ate bill No. 81, making it felony fol
any person to make false and derOga
tory statements concerning banks o.
banking institutions.
A bill was introduced in thu
house on January "a by Representa-
tives Clifford, Fait and Montgomery
providing for restoration of the direc
primary.
1t is claimed by the authors of the
measure that it is virtually the ole
primary law restored, though modi
fled to remove the weaknesses dis
covered in the former act which lee
to its repeal two years ago. The!
assert it has very general approval
in their parts of the state. They rep
resent, respectively, Adams, Clark ant
Jerome counties.
The bill making it compulsory tt
label storage eggs and to place on thu
case the date placed in storage an(
the date withdrawn, was favOrably re
ported after a clause had been stricken
out making it unlawful to have fol
sale eggs unfit for use.
The bill introduced in the house re
Gently requiring walters, mattresses
cooks and other employees of publ,
eating house to obtain health certifi
Gates, was favorably reported afte
several of the diseases named in thu
original bill were stricken out.
Censorship of motion picture films
by board of review of three members
to be appointed by the governor ant
who are to receive so per day whel
giving actual service. is provided in ,
censorship bill introduced in the sen
ate on January % by Senator Gil
christ.
Senate bill No. 81, creating two ad
dtional judicial districts. the eleventh
and twelfth, and changing the boun
diaries of practically all other district
in the southern section of the state
was passed under suspension of thu
rules on January %.
House joint memorial No. 3, by An
derson and Walker, asking congress
to appropriate an additional Ian,
grant of $4,000 acres for the soldiers