The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-02-04
ACTION IN TAKEN
AGAINST JAPANESE
LOWER HOUSE OF THE IDAHO
LEGISLATURE PASSES ANTI
JAPANESE RESOLUTION.
Would Call Upon Congress to Deny
Little Brown Men Further Extern
sion of Rights of Citizenship.
No More Japanese Wanted.


uary %, passed the anti-Japanese reso-
luton introduced early in the session
by Representative George X. Vandes-
teek of Canyon county.
BY the resolution the legislature
would call upon congress to deny fur
Their extension of the right of citizen
ship to Japanese, to exclude Japanese
from immigration hereafter, except
students. merchants and teachers, and
10 recognize in future treaties the right
of states to enact land laws excluding
foreigners.
Senator Seaver of Twin Falls, chair
man of the committee on finance, adj
vised the senate that the bureau of
highways Of the department of public
works would 500 be in a position TO
repay counties which had advanced
money for road work within their coun-
ties, as there was due the state from
counties and highway districts S1,247,-
3SS.49 and from the United States
S~475,602.36. In addition, he reported
that additional money would be forth
coming as soon as certain work was
completed.
Six bills were received in the senate
on January 81. One house measure
was passed and two senate bills de
bated in committee of the whole. The
BIZ passed was House bill No. "A, by
Welker, which extends to the Ameri-
car Legion protection against illegal
use Of its emblem.
The house passed four minor house
bills, on January q, one of which,
however, is advocated by a large body
of university alumni. This is House
bill No. 81, by the committee on educa-
ton, which removes a disqualification
heretofore existing against former
students or instructors In state educa-
tional institutions from appointment
on the state board of education.
A senate bill passed will shorten the
forms by which notice of summons is
published in district court actions, by
eliminating repetition of the anne OF
defendants from the notice.
Among the five new bills introduced
in the house of representatives on
january 20 was one by the committee
on state affairs repeating the soldier
settlement act OF. 1919, which carrisd 7
an appropriationlbf 100000.
Due TO the fact that this approprtsy
alton was contingent upon the passage \
by congress of a soldier settlement |
act, and that no such legislation WAS
enacted. the money has since lain idle
in the state treasury.
Another bill by the state affairs com-
repeats the appropriation made
In 1919 for the improvement of Sho-
shone Falls park, and a third provides
that the expenses of executive agents
appointed to return to the state fugi-
lives from justice apprehended in
other states, shall be audited and paid
the counties which ask for the ex-
tradition.
Four house bills doing away with
continuing appropriations, the largest
If which was $4,000 for the state
passed the senate on Janu-
Try 26 by unanimous vote.
A seventy-page bill which entirely
'evamps the game laws of Idaho, was
Introduced into the senate by Senator
Victor Hegstedt of Teton county.
The bill abolishing the 2-mill tax
evy for state highway purposes, bal
for a minute in the senate and
vas then postponed upon recommen-
Iation of the chairman of the commit
ee on finance and committee on high
Ways, bridges and buildings.
The senate IS on record as being
quarely against the raising Of salaries
f those in the state employ. 1t killed,
v indefinite postponement, on Janu-
ry 25, the measure seeking to raise
Of justices of the supreme
curt from $4,000 to $4,000. and district
ourt judges from $4,000 to $1,000.
The Albion normal school, which
as created as a state institution in
1913 by the second state legislature
nd was opened a few years later
hen completed, will be abolished by
he sixteenth session il the bill intro
need by the state affairs committee
ecomes a law.
A bill was introduced in the
ouse on January n by Representa- I
yes Clifford. Fait and Montgomery. +
roviding for restoration of the direct 4
The bill making it compulsory to b
bel storage eggs and to place on the Il
Use the date placed In storage and v
re date Withdrawn, was favorably re /.
after a clause had been stricken 5
II making IL unlawful to have for c
lie eggs unfit for use.
The bill introduced in the house re-
'ntly requiring walters, Mattresses.
'oks and other employees of public q
ting house to obtain health certifi- Il
ties, was favorably reported after d
veral of the diseases named in the b
iginal bill were stricken out.
Censorship Of motion picture films d.
a board of review Of three members :,
be appointed by the governor and !.
ho are TO receive $40 per day when :.
wing actual service, is provided In a
nsorship bill introduced in the SEN
e on January % by Senator Gil.