The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-03-05
Blue SKY Law
IS Strengthened
PROVIDES MONEY FOR ENFORCE
MENT-NARCOTICS BILL GOES
TO GRAVEYARD.

administration Ol lQ6 DluS Sky law
is expected by the enactment of SEN
ate bill No 2O9 which passed the
house of the Idaho legislature Sat-
urday. 1t requires investment COM
panies to file information based on
their capital and standing with the
commissioner of finance, also the pay
ment of fees, which, it is estimated,
will make a fund ample for the ex-
penses incident to enforcing the blue
sky law.
Senate joint memorial No. 5, call
ing on congress for a $20,000,000 ap-
preparation for forest and Indian
reservation road programs, passed
unanimously.
For Dairy Inspection.
One agricultural bill passed and
one was defeated, both by close vote.
The successful measure was house
bill No. 143, by the agriculture COM
mittee, placing the regulation and in
spection of dairies under the depart
ment of agriculture. An opposition
speaker said he objected to horse
DOCTOR" telling his wife how to
handle milk and cream, but a mem
ber of the committee explained that
the bill does not amend present
Statutes except TO take the dairy
work away from the department of
public welfare.
The bill that failed was house bill
No. 80, by Taylor, dealing with the
commissioner of agriculture and
county assessors. On January 80 the
house passed a bill relieving assessors
of the duty of collecting statistics
for the now imperative department
Of labor immigration and statistics,
and by its vote refused to let them
do it for another department.
Senate bill No. 1858, by Eames and
Clark of Custer, providing that
vacancies in the legislature shall be
filled by the commissioners of the
county whose representation is af-
fected, was up for final passage, but
was found in need of amendment and
ordered to committee Of the whole.
Narcotics Bill Killed.
BY a vote of 20 to 21, the senate
killed senate bill No. 278, by vaillan-
court, regulating the sale and distri-
button OF narcotic drugs and making
violation of the law a felony. The
opposition to the bill was that it did
not cover osteopaths and chiroprac-
tors.
Then senate approved senate bill
No 1876, by the state affairs commit
tee, which would regulate the issue
of county warrants and provide that
warrants must not be issued for an
amount in excess of the revenue and
income in any one fiscal year. 1T
also provides for the putting up of
bonds by county commissioners and
recovery thereon for warrants illeg-
ally issued.
Senate bill No. 237, by Crooks, also
approved would require the filing with
the county auditor of notices of liens
against property for internal revenue
taxes and the discharge Of such lien.
Liens on Sacked Grain.
Senate bill No. 260 by the committee
on agriculture, passed by vote of 81
to 9, would give the person furnish
ing grain sacks a lien on the grain
placed in such sacks.
Senator C. B. Clark's water case
BILL No. 60, was also passed. This
measure would provide that the court
DEGREES in water cases can only be
for fraud or abandonment.
Under the terms of senate bill No.
327, introduced by the state affairs
committee and passed, the commits
sioner of law enforcement would be
to issue a monthly motor
vehicle directory.
Because the senate felt that senate
bill No. 290 would cause much Iitiga-
tion that measure was killed. It
would have given the state land board
the authority to lease lands lying
below the high water mark of navi-
gable lakes and rivers.
The senate also defeated senate
bill No. 1926, which would have allowed
agricultural sections of school dis
.ricts which also contained towns OF
5000 inhabitants to separate them
selves from such district and form
lew district
The senate also killed bill No 322,
)y the committee on highways,
bridges and ferries, which would have
recognized the claims of counties and
'oad districts against the state for
cooperative road work, totaling S164,
'0S. One of the reasons for the kill
ng of the bill was that all of the
claims were not listed and another
vas that it nr.~ht give these claims
,een on file longer,
Students Protest Read.
During the past week the legisla
ure kept close to the economic line
md killed off number of measures
# considerable merit. one of which
vas the three-eighths of a mill tax
evv it was hoped could be estab-
ished to raise a building fund for
tate educational institutions. That
he institutions are in need of the
uildines is well known The meas
re would have permitted the Uni
fo, 10
science building which could he
sed to excellent ADVANTAGE during
he next two years Parallel condi-
ions exist with all other state insti-
ntions The legislature is not an
. oonistic to the institutions but