Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-02-22

bill No ISL, was killed in the house
Wednesday morning by vote of II
to 80 after practically half of the
members of the lower body had talked
on the subject
The bill provides for the reduction
of the butter fat content of ice cream
to per cent The present content in
Idaho is ID per cent and is in accord
ance with government standards.
Sponsors of the bill said that the re-
duction of the butter fat content was
made up for by including more of the
milk solids that are at present left out
of ice cream.
! The finance committee of the senate
Friday afternoon reported S. b. 35 by
Burkey with the recommendation that
it do not pass. This bill would create
veterans welfare commission which
would render assistance to disabled
veterans of the world war and their
dependents and appropriating $780,
600 for this assistance. The committee,
in its recommendation stated that ii
had examined numerous eX-service
men on the measure and their opinion
was divided. The committee also felt
that the veterans are being or would
be taken care of through national
legislation. The measure has the back
ing of the American Legion of Idaho.
Another important measure passed
by unanimous vote was house Joint
Memorial No. which requests con-
gress to pass such legislation as is re-
quired to permit again the operation
of the federal farm loan act from
which Idaho derived great benefit
The osteopathic measure, senate bill
No. 129 by HALEY and Reed, defining
osteopathy and prescribing require
ments for practice passed by a vote
of 20 to 10. Several senators reported
they had received urgent requests for
the passage of the bill from osteopathic
physicians and that it raised the stand
ard of the profession.
Some discussion resulted over SEN
ate bill No. 1879 by the committee on
highways, bridges and ferries, seeking
to fix standard width of roads to
be constructed and fixing that width
at not less than sc feet, nor more
than 100 feet. Northern senators bor-
dering on the Indian reservation an
nounced they had difficulty in getting
"a 50-foot roadway through res zrvations
and felt it would be impossible to get
66 feet and several southern senators
voiced opposition to the bill 1t met
defeat by a vote of 81 to IS,
Under senate bill No. 211 which was
passed by vote of "a to 6, the public
utilities commission is given power to
Tx the rate charged over any bridge or
ferry. The bill passed without dis
cussion.
Senator Bakers bill to permit an as
sistant pharmacist to conduct a drug
store in the temporary absence of the
regularly licensed pharmacist, met OPP
position owing to the fact that it did
not specify the length of time such an
assistant might practice without be-
coming liable but it passed by a vote
of 2S to 12
Fisher of Power county is author
of two measures which deal with CO.
operative marketing. One of these re-
peals the present statutes relating to
records and reports of cooperative
corporations. in which so per cent of
the outstanding stock is owned by
farmers. The other repeats sections
relating to n-profit cooperative cor
poratiOns and provides the law shall
continue in effect for those corpora
tons now existing.
Counties will be created into special
highway tax districts. if a bill nitro
duced Wednesday morning by Christen-
sen becomes a law 1t authorizes the
county commissioners to levy a spec
ial highway tax each year. not to ex-
coed five mills on the dollar.
The cooperative marketing act
passed the senate Wednesday morning
Senator Fisher of Power county in
speaking of the measure said that it