The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-24
IDAHO LEGISLATURE
HAS ITS PROBLEMS
GENERAL APPROPRIATION BILL
CALLING FOR $s,53e,o67 IS
BEING CONSIDERED.
Governor Sends Message to House
Urging That Pruning Knife be
Used on Bill, Recommending
Cut Of $769,966.

for they faced general appropriation
bill calling for $3.50, O67 for biennial
maintenance Of state offices, commits.
sions and departments, together with
penal and charitable institutions.
The appropriation measures for the
educational institutions will be pre-.
scented to the legislature at a later
date. The appropriations bill was
introduced in the house and imme-
diately referred to the appropriations
committee.
Governor d. w. Davis sent a special
message to the house urging that the
pruning knife be literally used on the
appropriation bill and recommended
that $769, 966 be cut out of it.
The senate passed the Porter bill
increasing the amount county commits
sioners can spend on courthOuses from
$1,000 to $4,000. It also passed the
Smith bill requiring probate judges to
instruct probation officers to investi-
gate all matters pertaining to juvenile
delinquency. In the house there were
six public health bills introduced and
the bills were passed
one Of the house bills would require
all walters, cooks, dishwashers and all
other workers who handle human food
and drink to carry health certificates
Another will require any person who
sells skinned milk, buttermilk, or
other milk products or by-products, to
pasteurize them. A third will require
the labelling of storage eggs with the
date they were placed in storage.
The committee on mines and mining
introduced three measures which viii
add to the duties Of the mine inspector
by giving him, instead of the depart
ment of commerce and industry,
charge Of annual reports of mining
corporations.
The state affairs committee submit
ted only two bills January II, both of
which have to do with simplifying the
handling Of funds for bounties on pre-
datory animals.
In the general appropriations bill
introduced in the house no provision
is made for the state constabulary, or
the state fair. 1t is understood that
the constabulary is to be abolished,
but state fair appropriation bill will
be introduced separately.
The charitable and penal institution
appropriations called for are practic-
ally the same as those allowed two
years ago.
lne office Of the state sheriff. is
provided for in the bill, an appropria-
tion of $4,000 being allowed.
4 total of $4,000 is taken off the
appropriation for the public utilities
commission.
Daring the second week of the
present session the legislature did
several important things. First, 1t
went on record in favor of the Ford
ney tariff measure that is now pend
in: in congress, for it believes that |
bill will be of great benefit to the
various industries of the state. Second,
it provided $4,000 to meet legislative
expenses, this amount having been
bu';geted by the departments and con-
sidered sufficient to meet legislative |
expenses. Third, there was placed
before it at least two very important |
q1eslions-one of which will require |
beth houses to 60 on record for or
against the japanese, both as to citi-
zenship and land ownership, and the
other will determine whether or not
the state of Idaho will lend it's credit
as a guarantee to irrigation bonds of
irr' cation districts.
lie educational committeeswof the
two houses expect to be able to work
OF legislation that will be satisfactory
tc he independent school districts and
J :, them out of their financial diff
ties.
ernor Davis has recommended
that the two-mill tax levy for high.
way purposes be stricken from the |
statutes, and in the event Of the edu. |
caticnal measure passing, it will take
the place of that levy. Sections of this |
measure provide for the collection and
distribution Of the money to the vari- |
Gus counties and school districts, the |
basis Of distribution to be the number
of children in attendance during the |
school year. Money from the levy is
to be collected by the state and the
anportionment made by the state |
treasurer.
':'Ia indiscriminate gouging of the |
formers of Idaho and the juggling of |
the markets is to cease in this state |
If the authors Of bill introduced in |!
the house of representatives have their
way.
Tire house Of representatives, by
seg0s,stng the senate's concurrent reso-
tuition On January IA, Joined with the
gsGser house In inviting former Cover
mr. lanes Fl. Hawley and others to
s6Asess o joint session Of the legisla-
fsrt ~ me subject Of preserving
g6.SAsfs historic relics and traditions.
TAs fate NJ the meeting provided for
~ re Sssolstfon, Monday, January
~
Fs,aspsE of house bills for the six.