The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-02-24
SENATE PASSES
CIGARETTE BILL
MEASURE PROHIBITS MANUFAc.
TURE, SALE OR USE WITHIN
STATE OF IDAHO.
An Even Dozen Senators Vote AGAINST
Proposed law.-The Teachers
Retiremert Fund Bill
Is Approved.

r The Idaho senate on February 9
. passed the anti-cigarette bill, prohibit
j, ing the sale, manufacture or smokip
!. OF cigarettes in the state of Idaho. TIL
vote was 20 to IL. Senator Hardins
q Democratic minority member of til
senate. L. D. s. bishop of One:d
county, sponsored the measure.
Twelve senators voted against tn
measure, two being absent.
, The teachers retirement fund bill
, by the committee on education, wa
passed by a vote of 26 to Is, after ,
considerable debate.
Peter G. Johnston, speaker of tn,
house, served notice on members tina
the general and several appropriation
measures are now paramount before
that assembly and must be given tho
right Of way over all pending legisla
ton.
February 81 was the fiftieth day OF
the session and the legislative Jam has
arrived. There are 600 measures in
the two houses, half of which cannot
possibly be reached. There are only
ten per diem days left to the session.
Practically all of the big issues be-
fore the assembly remain undisposed
Of.
Just before the senate adjourned on
February p, bill was introduced by
the educational committee authorizing
the removal of the Albion Normal
school from Albion to Burley.
The house passed house bills Nos.
273 and PSI, the first strengthening
the statutes dealing with discrimina-
ton in the sale of farm products, an!
the second providing for bonding of
every state employee handling money.
Senate bill No. 1873, prohibiting the
holding of wild west shows unless they
are in fenced Enclosure, was killed by
the house by a vote Of % to II.
House bills Nos. 50 and 12O, by the
committee on irrigation were passed.
One makes the tampering with any
headgate by watermaster a INSIDE
meanOr and the other covers the same
ground with reference to water meas
ur.ng devices.
House bill No. 100, authorizing CO.
operation between state and federal
bureaus of animal industry for the
eradication of tuberculosis and quar-
antine for other diseases, passed with
hut two negative votes.
House bill No. 246, by the committee
on irrigation. was passed by the house |
without dissenting vote. 1t carries |
an appropriation of $4,000 for the
purpose of refunding to Carey act set
tiers on three different tracts the !
money they paid to the state on land 7
which, after they had proved up, was
Withdrawn from the project segrega-
lions because insufficient water was
available.
House bill No. 191, by Lau, carrying
a $4,000 appropriation to reimburse
owners of horses which were killed in
1920 because afflicted with CHAMBERS,
was passed.
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
IF said election.
There are good many minor
changes in the old law, but in the
main it remains the same, the new
aw requiring that all state and con-
yressional candidates be elected by
he convention system.
A measure was introduced In the
'enate, February 10, providing for the
maintenance of home for the COVER
Tor and appropriating $4,000 therefor.
The senate has passed bill which
provides method by which the COM
missioner Of commerce and industry
nay take possession of banks which
ave closed their doors.
The bills passed by the house Feb
uary 10 were as follows: Senate bill
70. S5, by the committee on public
ands, making new regulations govern
ng sales of timber lands; Senate bill
70. III, by the committee OH high
7ays, authorizing county, city or dis
riot commissioners to prosecute pub
e work by day labor, instead of con-
ract, If desired, and House bill No.
81, by Hugo, prescribing conditions
nder which pure alcohol may be i'm
orted and sold for laboratory as
aging and other semitic purposes.
A bill by Senator Clark of Clark
ounty, providing penalty for per-
lifting other than registered bull to
IN at large on range, met with
efeat by vote of twenty against to
xteen for the measure.
Debate on the bill to repeal the
lberculosis sanitarium appropriation
1919 began in the morning and con-
nued most Of the afternoon. III
Two agricultural bills received ap-
oval Of the house on February IS.
ne Of them authorizes county COM
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