Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-02-15

want to do away with the office and
so make our educational department
political football
Representative w Scott Hall of
Oneida county, chairman of the COM
mittee on education in the house. had
introduced as committee measures the
county unit bill, the two-mill school
TAX bill, the anti-commissioner bill
the bill to relieve the anomalous high
school tuition situation, and other
measures affecting the school system
of the state but his most radical pro
posal for change is embodied in a res
olution under his own name, which he
introduced Thursday.
This is house concurrent resolution
NO b, providing for the appointment
OF committee to investigate and re-
port to the next legislature on the adj
visibility, feasibility and cost of es-
tablishing state agricultural college
in the Snake river valley
Even though only an investigation is
called for, the proposal is sure to
evoke as stubborn a resistance as the
county unit and statewide school tax
bill, for all the interests united to
promote the development of the Uni
versity of Idaho are desperately OPP
posed to any move that will detract
from its support.
Move the entire university south if
you must, but do not divide it, is the
cry of alumni do not be deceived
by the name agricultural college, Es-
tablishing a separate school under that
guise is nothing more or less than es-
tablishing second university and
Idaho cannot afford to do that. when
such great states as California and
Wisconsin have refused to do it,"
The author is prepared to argue that
all farm statistics of the state and all
future prospects of the agricultural
industry call for an agricultural col
lege in the south, and that in any event
the arguments for and against the
proposal. ought to be prepared and
presented for the-gnidance of future
legislatures.
A teachers retirement fund bill, one
long advocated by the women of Ida
no, was introduced in the senate We'd
nesday. 1t is senate bill No. TIA and
was introduced by the committee on
education. Its chief provisions are
the creating of a teachers retirement
of the governor of the state who is to
be president, the attorney general and
state superintendent and two teachers
who are to be appointed by the other
members for a term of three and five
years. The fund will be created by "a
levy of one-half of one per cent of the
annual salaries of all active teachers
in the state to be collected every No
vember by the clerk of the district and
forwarded to the state superintendent
TO be placed in the state treasury to
the credit of the teachers retirement
fund
Teachers who have taught 25 years
Is of which has been in Idaho and
five years for a consecutive period
are eligible to receive $500 per annum
upon retirement, the age of which is
fixed at SO years for females and So
years for males.
Another measure of Importance in
troduced Wednesday was a joint reso-
luton by Seaver providing for the sub
mission of an amendment to the con-
stitution providing that aDmajority vote
of the citizens of the counties affected
must be secured before new county
can be formed or the boundaries of
any county disturbed.
Several bills were introduced by the
committee on highways, bridges and
ferries. One of these bills regulates
the tires which may be used on public
highways and bridges and prevents
traction engines with cleats on the
wheels from running on public. thor
oughfares Another of these bills per-
hn cta mr. nf re
subdivisions to do work by the day if
conditions justify. Another measure
gives the highway department juris-
diction over all poles and appurte-
nances along state highways and pub
lie streets and provides for their re-
moval if they interfere with travel.
House bill No. 70 was passed in the
house Thursday and permits high
schools to charge as tuition for pupils
from outside districts, and permits
those districts to pay sum equal to
the average per capita cost of instruc
ton. Three measures by O'Dwyer
which were passed relate to the bust
ness like the handling of finances of
second class cities and villages. The
last bill passed was one repeating the
contingent appropriation made in 1919
for the soldier settlement act, which is
inactive through failure of the federal
appropriation for like purposes.
House joint resolution No. pro-
poses to offer an amendment to the
constitution and provides for submit
ting the question to the vote of the
people at the next general election. 1t
provides that the legislature shall meet
in a 30-day session once each biennium
and after sitting for a 30-day session
shall recess for 80 days and consider
bills. 1t also provides that no bills
shall be introduced at the resetting ex-
cept with the consent of three-fourths
of the house and no member shall in
troduce more than two bills
Nine bills were passed in the house
Wednesday, chief of which was the
cooperative marketing act. This
measure. known as house bill No. 81,
permits farmers in various commune
ties of the state to organize into cor
porations for the purpose of selling
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