The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1921-08-26
DEPT. OF AGR|C.
NEEDS SCALES LAW
Says Legislature Should Enact Law
for Adequate Protection to Those
Selling bv Weight or Measure.

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Dept of Agriculture,
Boise, August 4, 1921.
To the Bankers of the State Of Idaho.
Gcntlemen
On Sept. 20, 1920, the Department
received the following letter
"Blackfoot, Idaho,
Sept. 27th, 1920.
Commissioner of Agriculture,
Boise, Idaho.
Dear Sir:
We have in Bingham County some
twenuy or thirty sugar beet dumps
and scales over which thousands of
tons of beets are delivered and bought
by the ton weight. These scales are.
many Of them, in very bad dilapi-
dated condition, and the beet grow
ers feel that a very great injustice
is being done them, by being COM
PEELED to so weigh under these condi-
tions.
Since the discontinuance of the
State Sealer of weights and measures,
we have not seen a scale inspector,
and this matter should be attended
to Immediately as delivery has al
ready begun.
Please advise me what can be done
in this matter at your very earliest
possible convenience.
Very truly yours,
Bingham County Beet Growers Assn.
II. F.. D. Per Arthur Manwaring."
Then again on Aug. we received
the following telegram from Jerome,
Idaho:
Il wish to have my scales tested,
also information regarding license
for operation. Please advise at once.
(Signed) Frank M. Mickey"
The foregoing is sample of many
hundreds of requests received by this
department from practically ala To-
calities in the State and are intro
duced here in order more effectively
to open a discussion of a subject vi
tai to all the people of the State Of
Idaho.
In view of the fact that the COM
merce which passes over the scales
now in use in Idaho would aggre-
gate perhaps two hundred millions
Of dollars in the course of year,
this department. in cooperation with
the Federal authorities, prepared H.
Il. No. 101, which was submitted to
the Committee in Agriculture and by
'that committee introduced and sup
ported in the House of Representa-
tives. This bill was intended to take
the place OF the present weights and
measures laws which are very eff
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books for approximately twenty-five
years, were considered hardly ade-
quate to take care OF new measuring
and weighing devices; hence the new
law, which would bring Idaho into
perfect harmony with the Federal
Government and all other states ex-
cept Wyoming, was prepared and in
troduced. The department likewise
asked for an appropriation sufficient
to keep two scale inspectors in the
field. the governor approving both
uhe measure and the appropriation.
The bill was under consideration in
the House for some two week and on
February Is, 1921, was read for the
third time and placed before the
House for final consideration. the
question being: "Shall the bill pass?"
Roll was called with the following
result:
Ayes-Boomer, Bourne, Campbell,
Fait, Fem, Galbreaith. Garn. Mont
gomery, Goodwin, Harrington, Hull,
Irwin, Jarnagin, Lau, May, Clifford.
Peck, Sanborn, Waters. Total 10.
Nays-Anderson (Ada), Anderson
(Latah), Bottolfsen, Burleigh, Gala
han, Cannon, Carpenter. Grayson,
Gudmunsen, Gwin, Hall, Miller,
Moore, O'Dwyer, Pond, Preston, Rey-
nolds, Severson, Shook, Stanger,
Stinson, Storey, Van de Steeg, Weeks.
Walker, Young. Total 26.
Absent and not voting-Bailey.
Davis, Derr, Egbert, Hugo, McDon-
aid, Parrish, Thomas, Mr.. Spencer.
Total 9.
This matter is brought to the at
tention Of the bankers Of Idaho as an
exhibit in support of the proposed
plan to establish an agricultural pol
icy as outlined in former letter
dated May II. 1921. 1t is felt that
on account of the adverse political
: winds which continually blow ii is
: difficult matter to inaugurate rem
edial principles through exclusive
agricultural avenues. The bankers
being the ones, however, who keep
I their hands on the throttle and a
: yigilent eye on the tracks ahead over
which this great industrial engine Is
8 daily passing. doubtless will be glad
: to take a hand.
/ In days of adversely, through
D which we are now passing, We are
r prone to look to our agricultural re-
: sources for relief: in fact there is no
: other place from which We can expect