The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-02-04
LAWMAKERS AIM
BLOW At HOSPITAL
WOULD REPEAL ACTION or Last
LEGISLATURE REGARDING
TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITALS.
Requires That Money Intended for
Building Purposes Be Returned To
General Fund,--Anti-AIien
Land Measure Presented.


committee, which repeats the action
taken by the legislature OF 1919 ap-
propriating $4,000 for the erection
Of two state tuberculosis hospitals.
The measure provides for meeting all
obligations incurred to date by the
tuberculosis commission. including the
purchase of sites for the proposed hos.
pitfalls at Standpoint and Payette and
plans for the hospitals prepared By
architects, but requires that all moneys
remaining in the fund shall revert to
the general fund Of the state.
House bill No. lis. by Peck, provides
the manner in which the referendum
amendment to the state constitution
shall be put into effect: how Iegisla-
tive enactments shall be put upon the
general election ballot and become law
on popular vote
One Of the measures passed January
% was the education committees
House bill No. 60, authorizing trustees
of independent school districts to use
, per cent Of the district income for
characterization education of adults
and for Industrial rehabilitation work.
Nine negative votes were cast on the
measure. The other was senate
measure for recording public land lists
in county auditors offices.
Representative George Fl. vande-
steek of Canyon introduced his much
heralded anti-alien bill on January IS.
The house only the day before had in
d0rsed, by vote of SO to II, his con-
current resolution asking for restr:c-
ton Of japanese immigration. and the
vote was taken as Indicative of the
discussion that may be evoked by the
bill when it comes up for debate.
The senate ON January 2S passed
the farm name registration bill. pro-
viding for the registration of farm
names with the department of agrf-
culture. Senate bill No. 80, amend
ing the law for the auctioning and
leasing of state lands, was passed by
vote of % TO 16. and the house bill
by the state affairs committee, pro-
yiding that the bonds of county treas
urers be ut least % per cent greater
than the moneys likely to be handled,
also was passed.
The lower house of the Idaho Legs
lature, by a vote of 50 TO Is, on Jan
uary %. passed the anti-Japanese reso-
luton introduced early in the session
by Representative George r. Vandes-
teek of Canyon county.
By the resolution the legislature
would call upon congress TO deny fur
Their extension of the right of citizen
ship to Japanese, TO exclude Japanese
from immigration hereafter, except
students, merchants and teachers, and
TO recognize in future treaties the right
of states TO enact land laws excluding
foreigners.
Six bills were received in the senate
on January y. One house measure
was passed and two senate bills de-
hated in committee of the whole. The
bill passed WAS House bill No. "A. by
Welker. which extends to the Ameri-
can Legion protection against illegal
use of its emblem.
The house passed four minor house
bills, on JANUARY u, one of which.
however, is advocated by large body
of university alumni. This is House
bill No. 81. by the committee on educa-
ton, which removes a disqualification
heretofore existing against former
students or Instructors in state educa-
tional institutions from appointment
on the state board of education.
A senate bill passed will shorten the
forms by which notice of summons is
published in district court actions, by
eliminating repetition of the names OF
defendants from the notice.
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 70 by unanimous vote.
A seventy-page bill which entirely
reTamps the game laws of Idaho. was
introduced into the senate by Senator
Victor Hegstedt of Teton county.
Among the five new bills introduced
in the house Of representatives on
January 20 was one by the comulirree
on state affairs repeating the Soldier
settlement act of 1919 which carried
an appropriation of 100000.
The bill abolishing the 2-miH tax
levy for state highway purposes, bal
anced for minute in the senate and
was then postponed upon recommend
dat.an of the chairman Of the commit
tee on finance and committee on high
ways. bridges and buildings
The senate is on record as being
against the raising of salaries
of those in the state employ 1t killed.
by indefinite postponement, on Janu-
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