The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-02-14
NORTH SAVES ALBION
OUTLOOK BRIGHTER
BELIEVED NOW THAT SENATE
WILL KILL HOUSE BILL SO
AND HELP EDUCATION.

Saturday was momentous day
for the educat tional institutions of the
state. What is believed to have beer
a test vote was taken in the senate
Saturday and resulted so favorably
for the friends of education in Idaho
that the prediction is made the fight
on the educational institutions will be
dropped and they will be provided
Tor literally. The story of Satur-
days vote on this important matter
as brought by wire too late for Sat
urday's paper, follows:
North Saved Albion School
Boise, Feb. 1.-THE senate of the
present legislature emphatically re-
fsed today to abolish the State Nor
NAL school at Albion, in Cassia coun-
,ty, thereby settling controversy
that arises biennially and upon which
much pending legislation hinges.
The act, it is believed in legisture
circles here tonight, clearly indicated
that from now on no effort will be
Anade to attack other state institu-
tions, but that they will be literally
taken care of instead. It is said to
mean that the fight against the state
board of education in an effort to alb
bolish the office Of commissioner of
edcation will be smOthered in the up
Per house.
It was the north that saved the
Albion Normal. That is conceded,
and the north is vitally interested in
its own normal at Lewiston and in the
state university. For eleven years
the Albion fight has been launched
before the legislature. The effort to
wipe out that institution this session
failed as miserably as it has failed
every other time the issue has come
up.
The state affairs committee intro
duced a bill seeking abolishment
That measure came before the senate
on third reading today. 1t was de-
feated by vote of % to 16. M. B.
Yeaman of Idaho Falls, chairman of
the committee, championed the meas
ure in a most able manner. He urged
it be considered on its merits aloneS}
and that neither personalities or pre-
JUDGES be injected into the debate |
He asserted there had been main
tanned lobby which had been very
active in its efforts to kill the bill |
before it could be given fair and i'm
partial consideration.
The institution he said, has cost I
the state over a million dollars and
was not giving results. The republi-
can party he held to be committed to
q program of economy and should
move to abolish the school,
Senator McMurray, of Cassia,
county, where the school is located,
attacked the measure. He charged
that since the state board of educa-
lion was created it has been against
the normal, and that if the same en-
ergy used against it had been used
in its favor it would be one of the
eading institutions of the state. Pad |
lock, Of Washington, asserted the ]
state would save money if it would !
AXE all of the students at the nor
nal, pay their railroad fare, expenses
md tuition and send them to the best t
FORMAL school in the United States. {
The average annual cost per pupil he
leld to be 81 1865.
The vote in the senate is as fol-
ows:
Yes--Armstrong, Christensen, Clark {
# Bear, Fisher, Harding, Hegsted,
Hunter, King, Mix, Monson, Pad +
lock, Reed, Rehberg, Van Hoesen,
Vhitcomb, Yeaman. Total 16.
No-Baker, Boughton, Burkey, Dis n
ley, Featherston, Gilchrist, Haley, c
1owarth, Hnt, Johnson, Jones, Nc t
durray, Orme, Porter, Seaver, Smith, q
;onner, Sutcliff, Thompson, Whit t
1an, Witty. Total %. II
Absent and not voting Clark of c
lark county, Keith, Kerrick, Nogle. s.
'otal a. Fl
Paired Thomas and Mckinney.