Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1921-01-28
W Week's Doings
of Legislature
WOULD RESTORE PRIMARY WITH
CHANGES-oPPosE REPEAL
OF THE HIGHWAY LEVY

Boise. Jan. 24.-The direct pri-
mary bill made its appearance today
In the house of representatives. II
Will be known as house bill No. S5
by Clifford, Fait and Montgomery
1t is claimed by the authors Of the
measure that 1t is virtually the old
primary law restored, though mod
ifed to remove the weakness dis
covered In the former act, which led
10 lts~repeal two years ago. They
assert 1t has very general approval
In their parts Of the state. They
represent respectively, Adams. Clark
and Jerome counties.
First and chief of the reforms tho
new bill Is intended to make in the
old primary is the protection It viii
afford to any party from invasion
of its ticket by candidates not mem
bers of that party Places on the
ticket VIII be secured on petition !.
the signers Of which must be cert:-
fed to as members of the party, ani
voters at party primaries must take
oath that they intend to support In
the main the ticket Of that party.
The Judiciary Is taken out OF pol
AsAcs'' n uihCICHt Ill VI UellLlOn
is proposed by judgeship candidates.
and the names Of all Of them will
appear on each Of the party tickets
the elector voting for twice the
number to be elected at the general
election
The bill provides further that
campaign expenses are limited to
certain sums for the candidates for
certain offices instead of to percent
ages Of their salaries Another fea-
ture provides for the appointment
by the central committee Of each
party of two members whose duty
1t shall be to act as challengers at
thn nolls on the day of the primary
Not less than 200 nor more than
400 names must be signed to the
petition of candidate for state Of
fee. For county office the number
OF signers is made about the same
as under the present law, from Ave
to ten.
Four other measures were intro
duced in the house. all Of them SUBJ
stitutes for bills introduced earlier
in the session and withdrawn by the
authors for correction or modifica,
tion. One Of these is house bill No
"a, by the committee on public
health. substitute for house bill No
40. The original measure would re-
quire all walters, dishwashers, cooks
and other employees Of eating places
who handle food, to carry certif-
Gates of freedom from contagious
diseases. The new bill rs substan-
.ial'v the same. but applies only to
tuberculosis. syphilis and typhoid
fever.
Senate bill No. %, appropriating
$5,993.76 to the Idaho Technical in
stitute was indefinitely postponed by
the house. it being brought out in a
debate led by Egbert of Fremont
that the claim was one to cover a
deficiency and that the obligation
named in the bill had already been
met by the legislature in 1919.
House bill No. 48. by the COM
mittee on public health. requiring
the pasteuriZation of all milk and
skinned milk before its being Of
fered for sale, was also killed by
indefinite postponemnet. The action
was taken after an attack on the
measure by Sanborn OF Gooding and
Bourne OF BannOck, and after the
reading by the latter Of commun-
ication from representative Of the
creamery men of Pocatello.
Another public health committee
measure was amended by the house
in committee of the whole. This
was house bill No. as. requiring
cold storage eggs to be labeled with
the date they are put in storage A
subdivision containing the words "or
have been in his possession" was
stricken from the bill. 1t appearing
from food of amendments offered
by various members that the re-
strictions provided by the bill would
inflict unnecessary hardship on in
nocent dealers in eggs.
A motion presented by Young Of