Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-02-25
PROPOSES CHANGE
IN ELECTION LAW
IDAHO SENATOR INTRODUCES
MEASURE TO OlsPLAcE THE
PIE CENT PRIMARY SYSTEM.
Cuts Out the Separate Party Primary
Election and Provides for
the HoIdinp OF But
One Election.

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
GInate, February 10, providing for the
maintenance of a home for the COVER
nor and appropriating $4,000 therefor.
The senate has passed bill which
provides method by which the com
missioner of commerce and industry
lave closed their doors.
A bill by Senator Clark of Clark
county, providing a penalty for per.
mitting other than a registered bull to
run at large on a 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 bin
No. 50, by the committee on public
lands, making new regulations govern.
| ing sales of timber lands; Senate bill
No. lit, by the committee on high
ways, authorizing county, city or dis
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 inn
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 a state sanitarium for the
treatment of tuberculosis patients in
Idaho was defeated in the house on
February Is by a vote of 81 to 20. Two
members We're 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 APP
prevail 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 a certain number OF
farmers. Another amends present re-
strictions on importation, inspection
and spraying of fruit trees but a third
agricultural bin failed to pass.
BY a unanimous vote the senate
passed Senate bin No. 173, providing
for the creation of the Fremont game
preserve This proposed preserve
borders on sllowstone park and Is .
reserve created for the further protec
ton of wild animal life of the pari
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 join
memorial No. 4, which requests con
gress to pass such legislation as Is re
qnired to permit again the operation
L the federal farm loan act, iron
which Idaho derived great benefit.
The osteopathic measure, Senat
, bill No. 100, by HALEY and Reed, dc
! fining osteopathy and prescribing re
quirements for practice, passed by
vote of % to TO-
A unanimous vote was given :
House bill No. 100, by Severs0n. whie
, extends permission to the state Ian
board TO extend time for payment Q
rent on state land leases due In 102
e and 1922 TO October 1 of each year.
Governor D. w Davis exercised hl
veto power when he applied the axe
$ Senate bill No. 50, which prescribe
the requirements for professions
nurses. The bill was amended b
u striking out the examination requir
ments and the governor notified tn
senate that 1t was for that reason tha
e he refused to sign 1t.
The travelling carnival, with i
gambling games and immoral shows,
a an OUTLAW in Idaho heneeforth, or vi
be If the senate follows the lend set
the house ON February 16 whit
II House bill No. III was passed. This
a bin by the judiciary COMMITTEE
which absolutely forbids sncl, siIny
. to operate in the state.
Without q dissenting vote House b
No. 50. providing for the abolishme
. of The Office Of the state commission
Of education. was sent to the morgne
!. tha Idaho pnate on February II
. indefinite postponement. + had be
in the hands Of me committee on Cd
q cation for some days and " rs report