The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-01-21
IDAHO LEGISLATURE
MAY AID SOLDIERS
MEASURE INTRODUCED IN THE
SENATE FOR BENEFIT OF
FORMER SERVICE MEN.
Provides for Creation of Veterans
Welfare Commission to Render
Assistance to Disabled or
Destitute War Veterans.


vice men was introduced in the senate
on January II by Senator Burkey OF
Jerome, former soldier 1t provides
for the creation of veterans vel
fare commission to render assistance
to disabled or destitute veterans of
the war with Germany and their de-
pendents. Its provisions are that the
commission shall consist of five MEM
bers, of whom the adjutant of the
idaho department of the American
legion shall be one, and also officiate
rs secretary, the other four to ne
appointed by the governor within
thirty days after the approval of the
act.
A second bill of value. to former
soldiers introduced by the same author
gives them preferential right in
filing on Carey act lands thrown open
for settlement by the state.
After some debate the senate voted
down senate concurrent resolution No.
?. by Whitcomb, providing for COM
mittee of three to investigate the penal
institutions of the state, one member
to be appointed by the presiding eff
Ger of the senate, one by the speaker
of the house, and the third to be
named by the governor. H..
Five measures were introduced by
the committee on public lands on
January IA.
The house of representatives, by
adopting the senate's concurrent reso-
luton on January IA, joined with the
upper house in inviting former Cover
nor James II. Hawley and others to
address joint session of the legisla-
ture on the subject of preserving
Idaho's historic relics and traditions.
The date of the meeting provided for
in the resolution, Monday, January
"a.
Seven bills were introduced in the
house on January IA. Four were
brief measures of the committee on
state affairs, in continuation -.Of it's
program for eliminating all continu-
ing appropriations in various state de-
partments so that their expenses may
be definitely estimated and met by
specific appropriation at each session
of the Legislature.
After the house of representatives
on January 13 had passed, under sus-
pension of the rules, senate bill No.
q, provision for fixing the pay of
legislative employees, it heard read
the title of eleven bills and a joint
resolution.
House bills numbered 10 to %, in
elusive, introduced by the committee
on state affairs, are the first meas
ures to issue from the laboratory of
that important part of the lower
house machinery of the present leg
islature. They are all amendatory
measures, designed to do away with
continuing appropriations in various
departments of state government and
pave the way for establishing of the
budget system.
City councils and village trustees
may exclude territory from the cor
porate limits of cities or villages I'M
der bill introduced on January 1s
by Senator Broughton. At present
agricultural lands which are taken into
city limits cannot be excluded except
by action of court, and the bill seeks
to do away with that expense.
Senator Mix of Clearwater has IA
thered a bill which provides method
for the dissolution of good roads dis
tricts which do not have any out
standing bonds or Indebtedness when
seeking to dissolve.
Senate bill No. %, by Thompson,
amends section 1905 of the compiled
statutes, relating to the Inheritance of
by aliens, the provision being
that no alien who is citizen of a ma
tion, the laws of which do not permit
an American citizen to own land there
in, shall be allowed to inherit lands
In idaho.
House Bill No. II, by Moore, pro-
vides for withdrawing the county of
Valley from the Third judicial district, /
now composed of Ada, Boise, Valley /
and Owyhee counties, and attaching
It TO the Seventh judicial district. com.
posed of Adams, Canyon, Gem ard |
payette counties.
Printing of house bills for the six |
teenth session of the legislature will
cost practically eyice as much as the /
same item for the session of 1919.
The house was in session but an
hour on January II, while the mem
oers of the serate did not meet, hav-
ing attended the irrigation congress
and seed show at Nan