Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-02-08

the doing away of the appropriation
would work a hardship ON some of
the purchasers of state land.
House bill No. % would have changed
the amount of bonds which county
treasurers would have to file In re-
fusing to sign this bill the governor
says that to do so would raise the
bond required in some counties far in
excess of the necessity and he sees no
reason in changing the present law.
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
extension division 1t is contended
by the committee which introduced the
1 bill that the work of exterminating
gophers would not have been injured
or hampered by the passage of the bill,
but farmer members in the house could
not place that construction upon it.
The vote by which the bill was lost
was % to 81.
The appropriation committee Thurs
day morning introduced the bill to pro-
vide for the maintenance of the state
charitable and penal institutions. 1t
carries a total of $49,310 for the fol-
lowing institutions: Soldiers home
insane asylum, Northern Idaho SAM
tarium at Nampa, penitentiary, child
ren's home and Hot Lava Springs.
Representative w. Scott Hall of
Oneida county, chairman of the house
committee on education, Thursday in
troduced house concurrent resolution
No. 6, which calls for the appointment
of a special legislative committee of
five members. two from the senate and
three from the house, to investigate
and report to the seventeenth legisla-
ture on the advisability and cost of
the establishment of an agricultural
college in the Snake River valley.
In transmitting to the legislature
Wednesday afternoon the educational
appropriation bill for the biennium,
Governor ID. W. Davis informed the
law-making body he had recommended
items totaling $1,S2S,963, including
sums for capital additions or improve
ments totaling $79,050 The bill 80 it
left the governors hands carried $751;
949 less than was recommended by
the board of education, which had pre-
viously scaled down the amounts asked
by the heads of the various education
al institutions.
The largest cut made by the COVER
nor was in capital additions A new
science building for the University of
Idaho was requested by the board to
cost 100000, and a new administra-
ton building was asked for Idaho
Technical institute, also to cost $780,
600 The governor excised both of
these The only improvements he
sanctioned were $4,000 for new
heating plant at the technical insti-
tute; $4,000 for cottages and other
buildings at the Industrial training
school; and S15,150 for heating plant
and other items at the Deaf and Blind
school
There is a strong railroad lobby in
Boise against the passage of senate
bill No rs introduced some days ago
by Senators Clark and King This bill
is intended to amend the present laws
in such a way as to compel railroad
companies to fence their rights of way
and If rights of way are not fenced, to
make the railway companies liable
for stock killed on their rights of way.
These fences must be four feet high,
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to have proper openings at all cross
ings. and cattle guards to keep out all
cattle, horses and other animals. If
the railroad companies fail to erect
the fences, owners of the adjoining
property may do so and collect the cost
from the corporations. Opposition to
the measure has already developed in
the senate. Manager Young of the
p. l. ~ road estimates that the bill, if
enacted into law, would cost his COM
pany $4,000 for fences between Weiser
and New Meadows.
The railway men are making a de-
termined effort to kill this bill in
the corporations committee but | am
in hopes the bill will at least get on
the floor of the senate so that our
legislators will have to go on record
one way or another. The measure is
one that will protect the interests of
the small stockman of our northern
counties and will not work any great
hardship on the railway companies.
A bill providing for a uniform sys-
tenn of laws for the schools of Idaho
will be introduced into the senate of
the sixteenth legislature Saturday
morning. Senator Rehberg of Lewis
county, who has been working on the
measure. said that the act would be
presented by the education committee
The bill was introduced two years ago
but was not received favorably.
Under the terms of this bill there
would be only seven classes of schools,
common, joint common, rural high,
joint rural high, Independent, joint in
dependent and Independent class A.
Joint schools, the act states, are those
where part of the students come from
one district and part from another
Independent schools, class A, have
greater powers than those in the other
classes. To be in this class a school
must have at least 20 teachers and
have an assessed valuation of more
than two million five hundred thous-
and.
The proposed law requires that dis
tricts be created by petition and pro-
vides for the uniform election of trus-
tees, nominated six days before the
election. The preparation of ballots
is also required in this measure. The