The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-02-11
Ak IS WELDED IN
IDAHO BUDGET BILL
ADMINISTRATION MEASURE RE-
DUcES THE AMOUNTS FOR
SIX STATE INSTITUTIONS.
Total Carried is ~se49,s1o, Which is
1ot,475 Less Than Is Being
Sought=cream and MIX Bill
Indefinitely Postponed.

Gently placed In the appropriations
committees hands by the governor TO
be presented MS a committed measure.
Ii carrier ~S649,310 for the mintenance
of six state charitable and penal in
stitutions.
This sum is less by $101,4T5 than
the total asked for by the heads of the
institutions through the commissioner
of public welfare. 1t is less by &c.,
1876 than the total recommended by
the governor. 1t is less by S53,9O5
than the appropriations made for the
same purposes in 1919.
Senate bill No. IS, by King Of Boun-
dairy county, requiring residence Of
one year in Idaho before any life in
surance agent may procure a license
and transact business, passed the SEN
ate by a vote of 81 to 6. after a
spirited debate.
House bill No. 81, said TO be fos-
tered by the Alumni association of the
state university, removing the dis
qualifications for appointment on the
state board of education of former re-
Sculcs HSlIuCiOI anu NlUbtlilN III Ntilt
institutions, was defeated by a vote
of % to 10.
House bill No. 80, the cream and
milk bill, by the committee on public
health, was killed by unanimous in
definite p%ostponement.
The house has passed a bill by the
livestock committee. which provides
for the establishment of a board of
sheep commissioners in the department
of agriculture, with an appropriation
of $4,000, for the purpose of eradi-
eating scabies among the sheep of
Idaho.
After a somewhat vinegary debate.
the house defeated House bill No. AZ,
by the state affairs, committee, which
sought to abolish the gopher bounty
fund In the hands of the university *
tension division.
The a~nti-cigarette bill made its APP
pearance in the upper house Of the
sixteenth session of the Idaho legis-
lature on February 2. The measure
was introduced by Senator Harding,
Democrat. of Oneida county.
Under the terms OF the bill. the
sale of cigarettes OF cigarette papers
Is prohibited, and heavy fines are pro-
vided for violations. II will be un-
lawful to either wholesale or retail the
articles mentioned.
According to those in close touch
with members of the upper house.
the measure will pass. However,
there will be a spirited fight when the
bill reaches the house.
One of the most important meas
ures so far introduced in the legis-
lature was submitted in the lower
house on February 2 by the committee
on state affairs. 1t aims at an abrupt
change in the ann in which claims
against the state shall be audited by
the board of examiners.
An important bill introduced by Me-
Donald of Kootenai county calls for
the establishment of a state fund for
guaranty of bank deposits.
Two other new bills of more than
ordinary significance provides new
regulations governing the admission If
detectives and insane to this
charitable Institutions.
Governor Davis sent to the house.
February 2, the appropriation
for the state educational in
situations and the state department Of
education.
These are in nine separate budgets
md total $~1,S2S,963, represented by
$1,000 for capital additions and the
for maintenance. Governor
Davis states in his message transmit
ing the measure II have seen fit TO
the amount requested by S9S1,-
)43."
Governor Davis sent back to the
TWO bills which he refused TO
lffix his signature. They are House
ills Nos. Is and %. House bill No. 10
would have done away with the on
appropriation for the rebate of
interest on land sales, which
a total Of $4,000 in the last
'iennium.
The bill repeating the 2-mill tax law
or roads enacted by the fifteenth
ess,on of the legislature, passed The
enate on February i.
Sixteen thousand one hundred dol
ars would he appropriated BY house
III No. 134 for the payment of post
ge. printing and other general legis-
ltive expenses of the sixteenth ses-
'on. This will make a total of $685.
% appropriated for the legislature.
One Of the really big legislative
ights behind the curtains is now on
the creation of a state forestry
Gard to take the handling of all
mber lands out of the control of the
tate land department and place it in
re hands of a newly created bureau
r board Of forestry commissioners.
House bill No. 1873 relates to the
for attorneys for executors and
lminisrrators in probate proceedings
authorizing the allowance of at
fees for extraordinary serv-
es in certain cases In probate pro-