The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-02-25
PROPOSES CHANGE
IN ELECTION LAW
IDAHO SENATOR INTRODUCES
MEASURE TO pIsPLAcE THE
PRESENT PRIMARY SYSTEM.
Outs Out the Separate Party Primary
Election and Provides for
the Holding of But
One Election.


Idaho's latest election law measure,
introduced in the senate February 10
by the committee on privileges and
election, absolutely cuts out the sep
arate party primary elections and
provides for the holding of only one
election and the payment for judges
of said election. ~
Another provision of the law does
away with the expense of delegates to
the conventions, making delegates to
party conventions. pay their own ex-
penses, and also prohibits any county
from sending double set of dele
gates with a. half vote each.
There are a good many minor
changes in the old law, but in the
main 1t remains the same, the new
law requiring that all state and CON
gressional candidates be elected by
the convention system.
A measure was introduced in the
tjnate, February 10, providing for the
maintenance of home for the COVER
nor and appropriating $1,000 therefor.
The senate has passed bill which
provides method by which the COM
missioner of commerce and industry
may take possession of banks which
have closed their doors.
A bill by Senator Clark of Clark
county, providing penalty for per-
uniting other than registered bull to
run at large ON range, met with
defeat by vote of twenty against to
sixteen for the measure.
The bills passed by the house Feb
ruary 10 were as follows: Senate bill
No. 50, by the committee on public
lands, making new regulations govern
ing sales of timber lands; Senate bill
No. III. by the committee on high
ways, authorizing county, city orsdis-
trict commissioners to prosecute pub
lie work by day labor, instead of con-
tract If desired, and House bill No.
154, by Hugo, prescribing conditions
under which pure alcohol may be i'm
ported and sold for laboratory as
saying and other semitic purposes.
The bill which would have done
away with the appropriation for the
erection of state sanitarium for the
treatment of tuberculosis patients in
Idaho was defeated in the house ON
February is by vote of 81 to 20. Two
members were absent.
Debate on the bill to repeal the
tuberculosis sanitarium appropriation
Of 1919 began in the morning and con-
tinued most of the afternoon.
Two agricultural bills received ap-
proyal of the house on February IS.
One of them authorizes county COM
missioners to make appropriations for
the eradication of cutworms and grass
hoppers, and requires Them to do so
on petition of certain number of
farmers. Another amends present re-
strictions on importation, inspection
and spraying of fruit trees, but third
agricultural bill failed to pass.
By a unanimous vote the senate
passed Senate bill No. 173, providing
for the creation of the Fremont game
preserve" This proposed preserve
borders on Yellowstone park and is
reserve created for the further protec-
ton of wild animal life of the park
and enters into the plan for securing
from the federal government permits
sion for the building of a reservoir
within the park.
The senate has approved House joint
memorial No. 4, which requests con-
gress to pass such legislation as is re-
quired to permit again the operation
CT the federal farm loan act, from
which Idaho derived great benefit.
The osteopathic measure, Senate
bill No. 129, by HALEY and Reed, de
lining osteopathy and prescribing re-
quirements for practice, passed by a
vote of 20 to 10.
A unanimous vote was given to
House bill No. 100, by Severson, which
extends permission to the state land
board to extend time for payment of
rent on state land leases due in 1921
and 1922 to October 1 of each year.
Governor D. w. Davis exercised his
veto power when he applied the axe to
Senate bill No. 80, which prescribed
the requirements for professional |
nurses. The bill was amended by
striking out the examination require
ments and the governor notified the |
senate that it was for that reason that |
he refused to sign it.
The travelling carnival, with its |
gambling games and immoral shows, is |
an outlaw in Idaho henceforth, or will |
be if the senate follows the lead set by |
the house on February 10 when
House bill No. III was passed. This is
a bill by the judiciary committee
which absolutely forbids such SHOWS
to operate in the state.
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