The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1921-03-10
18TH LEGISLATURE SESSION
ENDED; KILLED LIVESTOCK
APPROPRIATION BILL
Seth D. Jones Returned Tuesday Reports Accom-
pshments of Session. Final Actions of
Both Houses Exciting

house bill No. 297 carrying appropria-
tions for the general state expenses
nnd the maintenance Of the university
ence as late as IL o'clock Saturday
night The former took two confer
ences. As finally amended and accept.
ed by both houses. the general appro-
priations totaled approximately ST.
$50. .OdO.
University Allotment.
finally passed as recommended by the
house. with a total of $S53,827. The
senate cut down the provision for the
university extension division from
$12s827 to $4,000 but at the last ac-
cepted the report OF the conference
committee to restore the former sum,
which was recommended 10y the gov
ernor
Normal Gets $3.50, 900.
! The Lewiston state Normal school
ut Lewiston receives total of $780,
600. The appropriation was increased
Ia that sum from $220,000, recon
mended by the committee The $780,
600 additional will enable furnishing
of the new administration building
the extension Of Lewis hall dorm-
tory and other improvements and the
meeting of salary increases.
Money for Roads.
House bill No. 314 received an
amendment in the last hour at the
hands of the senate. This is the meas
ure which apportions the receipts an
ticipated for the $2,000,OO0 highway
bond issue. AS drawn and passed by
the house an apportionment was made
10 the counties of the state on a
schedule based upon their assessed
valuations. In conference senate
amendment, which would make the
apportionment recognize highway dis
tricts within counties, was drafted,
and this amendment was adopted by
the house as one of its latest acts.
House bin No. 157, carrying the ap-
preparations for the charitable and
penal institutions, was in fact the last
appropriation bill passed by both.
Singing at the Close.
The last hour Of the session was
more Of social relaxation and song
fest than a deliberatiye assembly, ex-
cept for the necessary finishing
touches to the appropriation measures
Il quartet spontaneously sang several
impromptu selections based on Incl
dents of the session. The entire mem
> bership OF the house arose and march
ed over to visit the senate, singing
Columbia, the Gem Of the Ocean,
after marching around the hOus,
chamber singing America"
Yet, while the last bills on the cal
endar were being read and voted upoi
and between roll calls, the hous,
u awaited a final report of its confer
: ence committee on the direct primar,
t bill.
Signs Teachers Pension Bill.
Governor ID. W. Davis on Monda,
= signed senate bill No. ia. by which
= teachers retirement fund Is create,
T. In Idaho. The bill met with some OF
! position in the legislature on TN
- ground that it was not endorsed b.
teachers generally. but the prevailin
evidence seemed to lie that 1t was an,
" ii received substantial majority Il
, both houses. In affixing his signatur
ii" to the measure Governor Davis sal,
II he believed that the teachers Of Idah
as body, and especially veteran mem
> bers OF the profession. want this fun
~ and that the opposition came chief
u from short time or transient mem
y hers OF the profession.
J. The fund. which becomes availabl
i for teachers, who have served 2
~ years and reached the age of IS years
" is to be made up by a tax Of one-hal
NJ Of one per cent on the salaries Of th
u active teachers in the state