The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-03-11
IDAHO LEGISLATURE
STOPS THE CLOCK
sIxTIETH DAY OF SIXTEENTH
SESSION FINDS RAFT OF
UNFINIS SHED BUSINESS.
Members Compelled to Work Without
Pay In Effort to Dispose of
Important Legislation Be-
fore Adjournment

day. stopped its clock that It migl
dispose of important pending legli
lation and wade through the vast p.l
of accumulated bills. The member
are under the painful necessity %
completing their work without pay
because they had not disposed of al
measures IN the time limit
There were several important fea
lures in the session of March 3. TIL,
senate and house committee appoint
ed to conference on the state-wid,
primary found they could not get TO
gether. Unless the senate gives in t.
the demand of the house for state
] wide primary, no law will be passed
: Governor Davis signed the anti-cig
arctic bill, but recommended first
that 1t be so amended as to license all
dealers, and In the event they are
found guilty of selling cigarettes to
will be revoked and they will be fined
heayily.a A bill so providing has been
introduced in the senate.
A majority of the legislature re-
fused TO stand by the recommends
don of the governor 90 put a 2-cent
per gallon tax on gasoline or reap
| portion the automobile tax money, but
Offered as a substitute a bill making
a levy of . of a mill on all taxable
property in the state. the expenditure
of the proceeds, estimated at $S9S. 645,
during the next two years to be used
for the construction of state high
ways
Indefinite postponement was made
of the bill introduced by Senator Pad
dock of Washington county, provid-
ing $150000 for the locating and con-
struction of an agricultural college IN
the northern part of the state.
Two deficiency claim bills were
passed with little opposition, but over
the objection of Senator Paddock of
bin No. 293. appropriating sS05O47
for payment of certain deficiency
claims in the state departments, and
house bill No. 292, appropriatlng
S299.10 for payment of certain other
deficiency claims.
Fourteen bills were disposed of in
the house on March 3, a dozen being
passed and two killed. Other than the
school bill, none was of great inn
portance.
Senate bill No. 270, by Fisher, modi-
flies restrictions heretofore placed on
farmers cooperative stores.
The house refused to suspend the
rules for consideration of the senate
resolution seeking 10 pave the way for
the creation of the new state of Lin
coin out of north Idaho.
The house by unanimous vote in
definitely postponed senate bill No.
2S3, creating the Ninth judicial dis
triet in the~upper Snake river valley,
when that measure came over from
the senate and made its appearance
in the lower assembly.
Numerous appropriation bills were
passed by the house on March 2,
among them being the Industrial ac- I
count boards allowance of $4S395 |
from the industrial administration
fund; a bill allowing $4,000 for the
Idaho state fair; an equal amount for
the Lewiston livestock show and $4,000 I
for the district fair at BlacSfoot;
bill providing $4,000 for cooperative
work between state and federal depart
ments for eradication of predatory ami
bill TO give the Idaho de-
parrment of the American Legion S15,-
BOO for organization and history work.
Among the bills passed by the house
March were: One by Hugo to re-
adjust the allotment of fines collected
from violators of the liquor law, by
giving the school funds three-fourths
md the, sheriff's fund one-fourth :. one
~ Shook to provide that survey Of
streams may be passed by the depart
nent of reclamation at state expense
II at the expense of water users, and
hus obviate much of the trouble and
Ost incident TO water adjudications
" courfs; one by the committee on
,ublic health to increase the allow
nee received by others as pensions,
fhen they have children, and one by
'annon, making valid bounty claims
hitch had been approved by the fif-
zenith legislature but unpaid fer lack
( funds.
Two measures of statewide interest
cted upon in the senate. March ?,
ere the students rate bill, which was
efeated, and the bill amending the
resent drainage laws OF the state. ,
hich passed Both measures were !
objected to considerable debate. {
Senate bin No. 25S, by Keith. which !
rovides for transferring 1921 from c
le general fund to the brand and re- a
ewal fund, and appropriating $1,000 c
} be used by the commissioner of ag-
culture, who is to have brand books I
rinted and distributed to certain n
,unty. officials, passed by a vote of c
| to s. v
BY an overwhelming vote the senate y
ma TI.,,ue hin -. DO H. u q