Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1921-02-25
Senate Passes
Cigarette Bill
LEGISLATIVE JAM WITH 600 BILL
REMAINING AND FEW OF I'M
PORTANCE DISPOSED OF

Boise, Idaho. Feb. 21.-Peter G
Johnston, speaker of the house in
the sixteenth Idaho legislature. this
afternoon served notice on members
that the general and other approp-
riation measures are now paramount
before that assembly and must be
given the right of way over all pend
ing legislation. For that reason he
excused the members of the APPROX
ration committee from further at
tendance OF the house that they may
remain in continuous conference
until able to report the appropria-
t1on measures. This is the fiftieth
day of the session and the legisla-
tive jam has arrived. There are
six hundred measures in the two
houses, half of which cannot possi-
bly, be reached. There are but ten
per diem day left to the session.
Practically all of the big issues be-
fore the assembly remain undisposed d
of.
Passage during the morning ses-
sion of the senate anti-cigarette bill
absolutely prohibiting the manufac-
ture or sale of cigarettes in the state
of Idaho or their smoking, by the
one-sided vote of 20 to 12, Jared
the solons to a realization of what
may be expected before the session
is over. Senator Harding, demo-
cratic minority member of the sen
ate, prominent Mormon bishop of
Oneida county. made probably the
most forceful address of the session
so far when he arose to champion
the measure which he had introduced
He said that where six billion Gig
arettes had been smoked ten years
ago there are now forty-six billion
consumed to the detriment of the
smokers. He presented to the SEN
ate a stack of petitions signed by
people in all parts of the state urg-
ing passage of the bill.
Teachers Retirement Provision
The teachers retirement fund bill
by the committee on education was
passed by vote of rs to Is, after
considerable debate. Objection to
it was made by Burley on the
grounds that it was not feasible
that the assessment would not pro-
vide sufficient funds for paying the
retirement pension of 800 per an
mum and that the requirement of 25
years of teaching, Is of which must
be in Idaho, was poor provision
In that but few teachers would
ever receive the benefit of it. Sen
ator Disney attacked the measure on
the ground that the fund should be
created by an assessment Of the dis
trict and not take the money from
the teachers.
Senate bill No. 70, over which one
of the hardest fights or the session
was waged when the bill was debat-
ed in the committee of the whole
was defeated by one vote on Anal
passage. The measure was intro
duced by senators King and Clark
of Clark county, making the rail
roads and electrical railway COM
panies liable for damages to stock
where their rights of way are not
fenced. Senators King and Clark
of Clark county and Boughton made
strong addresses for the bill and
senators Paddock and vanHoesen
sroke against it. The Anal vote
stood 16 for the bill. II against and
IL absent or not voting.
H. 3. No. rs, increasing the bond
ing limit of independent school dis
triets to eight per cent, was almost
unanimously voted down.
II. 2. No. 100, authorizing coop
Grafton between state and federal
bureaus of animal industry for the
eradication of tuberculosis end quar-
antine for other diseases. passed with
but two votes against It,
Indefinite postponement without
opposition was the fate Of senate bill
No. 154. which provided that one
half of the fines collected for viola
tions of the liquor traffic be used for
catching other violators. The bill
had previously been recommended tc
do this in the committee of the
whole.
House Acts on MANY Bills
II. B. No. 246, by the committee