Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-02-08
WOULD RESTORE
PRIMARY LAW
BILL NOW BEFORE LEGISLATURE
HAS IMPROVEMENTS OVER
FORMER MEASURE
MANY IMPORTANT BILLS NOW
SOIOns Would Change Existing School
Law In Many Particulars.

Boise, Idaho, Feb. 4, 1921.-Thirty-
one representatives-eno to insure
It's passage--are sponsors of house bill
NO. l7S, 70 restore the direct primary
in Idaho, which was introduced in the
lower house this morning.
The first six names in the list OF
sponsors are the six ex-service mem
bers of the house. The list also in
cludes the names of the three demo-
cratic members. Three others are
Fait, Clifford and Montgomery, authors
of house bill No. g. the direct primary
measure which was introduced week
ago, and which will now be with
drawn. The houses lone woman men,
ber is one of the sponsors.
Chief features of the primary meas
ure as it will now come before the
legislature are:
Preservation of party integrity by
oath of electors at time of registra-
tion, and the printing and binding of
these oathss
Limiting of expenditures of candi-
dates.
Nominations of judicial candidates
in same manner as candidates for
other offices.
Provisions for state platform con-
ventions.
Sponsors of the bill are as follows.
! Van de Steeg. Bottolfsens Parrish.
Welker, Goodwin, Moore, Fait, Hall
Clifford, Montgomery, Young, Burleigh
Jarnagin, Waters, Galbreaith, Grayson
Campbell. Boomer, Hull. Stinson, Peck,
Sanborn, Severson, Harrington. Can
non. Deer, May Irwin. Anderson
(Ada), Reynolds and Bailey.
Fourteen new measures were intro
duced in the house Friday Among
them was a bill to create state for
estry advisory board with power to
appoint a state forester to enforce a
new code of laws for protection of
forests from fire; a bill by the appro-
priations committee to provide $4,000
for the continuation of stream meas
urements by the department of recla-
nation in cooperation with the federal
geological survey; a bill to substitute
for the present 2-mill state highway
tax levy a similar tax to be levied by
county commissioners at their option
and its proceeds to be spent in the
county where they originate; a bill to
enable counties to tax and bond for
the erection and maintenance of coun-
ty hospitals; and a bill to require that
tax notices show separately the state
and county taxes.
Senate joint resolution No. 5, asking
the president-elect to rescind the order
of the present. administration which
tends to make the postmaster positions
come under the civil service law, was
introduced into the senate Thursday.
The resolution states that the order
was issued to permit deserving demo-
Gratis" to retain their positions.
Stating that the number of residents
of Idaho who served in the late war
and the number from other states
who have come to make Idaho their
homes, will. in time, tax the capacity
of the Soldiers Home, a memorial
passed at the Thursday morning ses
sion of the lower house, urges con-
gress to grant the state of Idaho 50,
900 acres of land, proceeds from the
sale of which are to be used for the
construction and enlargement of a
soldiers home.
Senate bill No. 81 permitting Off
GERS, directors and employees of banks
to take certain acknowledgements, as
notaries, providing the instruments are
not made on or for the institution
which employs them, was passed by
: the senate Thursday. The banks and
, banking committee is responsible for
a measure passed by the senate Thurs
day which provides that a bank may
collect or deposit negotiable instru-
ments drawn upon or made payable
at bank in another city, direct from
5 the payer.
Agents for life insurance companies
must live in the state of Idaho one
T year before then can obtain license
under the terms of a bill passed by
the upper house Thursday The meas
ure is designed to help condition now
/ existing in counties along the state
boundary lines.
e The senate meeting in committee OF
the whole recommended that house
bill forbidding the marriage OF eau
fcasians and Mongolians be passed. 4
u bill declaring Armistice day lega
{ holiday was also reported out OF the
q lcommittee with a recommendation tha'
Il il be passed.
Counties are denied the right to bono
: for the building of hospitals through
u action taken by the senate Wednes
/ day in defeating the Paddock hospita
Q bill by vote of % to 13.
70 The bill, No II, empowered count,
J. commissioners to provide for the carr
N of INDECENT sick or otherwise depend
ent Door. to acquire, equip and main
" tain county hospitals and specifies tina
'e upon a petition of 20 per cent of th'
Sc tax payers the commissioners mus
le call a bond election to vote upon th'
II proposition of bonding the county To-
"a building a hospital
Governor Davis sent back to th'
house OF representatives Wednesda,
l. two bills on which he refused to af
o. fix his signature. They are house bili'
2 Is and 23. House bill No. is wouit