The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-03-11
IDAHO LEGISLATURE
STOPS THE CLOCK
slHTlETH DAY OF SIXTEENTH
SESSION FINDS RAFT OF
UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
Members Compelled to Work, Without
Pay In Effort to Dispose Of
Important Legislation Be-
fore Adjournment.

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March 3, the sixtieth and last per diem
day, stopped its clock that 1t might
dispose of important pending legis-
lation and wade through the vast pile
of accumulated bills. The members
are under the painful necessity of
completing their work without pay,
because they had not disposed Of all
measures in the time limit
There were several important fea-
lures in the session of March 3. The
senate and house committee appoint
ed to conference on the statewide
primary found they could not get to-
gether. Unless the senate gives in to
the demand of the house for state
wide primary, no law will be passed.
Governor Davis signed the anti-cig.
arctic BILL, but recommended first
that it be so amended as to license all
dealers, and in the event they are
found guilty of selling cigarettes to
minors, the license to handle tobacco
will be revoked and they will be fined
heavily. A bill so providing has been
introduced in the senate.
A majority Of the legislature re-
fused to stand by the recommends
don of the governor to put a 2-cent
per gallon tax on gasoline or reap
portion the automobile tax money, but
offered as a substitute a bill making
a levy of 8 of a mill on all taxable
property in the state. the expenditure
of the proceeds, estimated at $S98, 645,
during the next two years to be used
for the construction of state high
ways.
Indefinite postponement was made
of the bill introduced by Senator Pad
dock of Washington county, provid-
ing S15O,000 for the locating and con-
struction of an agricultural college IN
the northern part of the state.
Two deficiency claim bills were
passed with little opposition, but over
the objection of Senator Paddock of
Washington county. They were house
bill No. 293, appropriating $9050.4z
for payment of certain deficiency
claims in the state departments, and
house bill No. 292, appropr,ating
$29910 for payment of certain other
deficiency claims.
Fourteen bills were disposed of in
the house on March 8, a dozen being
passed and two killed. Other than the
school bin, none was of great i'm
portance.
Senate bill No. 270, by Fisher, modi-
flies restrictions heretofore placed on
farmers cooperative stores.
The house refused to suspend the
rules for consideration of the senate
resolution seeking to pave the way for
the creation of the new state of Lin
coin out of north Idaho.
The house by unanimous vote in
definitely postponed senate bill No.
283, creating the Ninth judicial dis
trict in the upper Snake river valley,
when that measure came over from
the senate and made its appearance
in the lower assembly.
Numerous appropriation bills were
passed by the house on March 2,
among them being the industrial ac
count boards allowance of S4S,395
from the industrial administration
fund; a bill allowing $4,000 for the
Idaho state fair; an equal amount for
the Lewiston livestock show and $4,000
for the district fair at Blackfoot; a
bill providing $4,000 for cooperative
work between state and federal depart
ments for eradication of predatory ami
mails, and bill to give the Idaho de-
partment of the American Legion $15.-
900 for organization and history work.
Among the bills passed by the house
March 2 were: One by Hugo to re
adjust the allotment of fines collected
from violators of the liquor law, by
giving the school funds three-fourths
and the sheriff's fund one-fourth; one
by Shook to provide that survey Of
streams may be passed by the depart
ment of reclanmtion at state expense
thus obviate much of the trouble and
cost incident to water adjudications
by courts; one by the committee on
public health to increase the allow
ance received by others as pensions,
when they have children, and one by
Cannon, making valid bounty claims
which had been approved by the fif-
teenth legislature but unpaid for lack
of funds.
Two measures Of statewide interest
acted upon in the senate, March 9,
We're the students rate bill, which was
defeated, and the bill amending the
present drainage laws Of the state,
which passed, Both measures were
subjected to considerable debate.
Senate bill No. 25S, by Keith, which
provides for transferring S3121 from