The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-02-08
normal School
STAYS AT ALBION
BILL TO ABOLISH FAILS-MOVE
TO ABOLISH COMMISSIONER
OF EDUCATION.

BOlSo-InG AlD1Ou NOTIudl SCuOol
will remain where it is, at Albion.
This was the conclusion that the SEN
ate of the Idaho legislature reached
after an all-day debate, Wednesday,
of the motion of Senator Jones OF
Bannock county to reconsider the
vote by which the senate on Tues
day indefinitely postponed the Dill
seeking to abolish the institution.
The senate refused reconsideration by
a decisive vote
In speaking for the abolishment of
the Albion Normal as would be pro-
vided for in senate bill 50, Senator
Jones urged the economy which
would result as one of the most I'M
portant matters for consideration and
also broached the advantages pre-
aented by the Idaho Technical lnstl-
tute at Pocatello in taking over the
work of the Normal, should a bill so
providing be introduced later. Sen
ator Jones opened his argument by
reading from the report OF a legisla-
tive committee which went to Albion
in 1911, and recommended that the
school be abandoned for the same
reasons which are now being given.
These he stated, were: located IN an
out of way place, great cost OF trans
portation Of supplies. Should the nor
NAL school at Albion be abolished,
the Senator from Bannock county
urged, it would be saving of about
$4,000 in salaries, administration
and operation. He gave the segrega-
tion as $44,260 saved in salaries,
$500 in administration, $8,O4O in
operation, $4,000 in miscellaneous
labor, $4,000 in light and power, Sl4.-
900 in fuel and $1,000 for janitor.
Senator McMurray of Cassia coun-
ty, characterized the debate as the
biennial onslaught on the Albion Nor
NAL and regretted that it always
must come before the legislature. He
supported the school as 1t is now,
situated, claiming that in the interest
of economy it should not be abolished.
He urged that the school is an eff
ficient one and that any talk of trans
ferring it's duties to the Idaho Tech.
was absurd, because the Tech. as
shown by a report of the board OF
education did not have the best of
buildings to take care of the work.
He also read figures to show that
the Albion Normal gave diplomas in
1922 to over six hundred students,
while the Tech. in half a dozen years
only had something over 400 gradu-
ates.
Gasoline Tax.
Among eight new bills introduced |
in the house of representatives was a |
new gasoline tax measure 1t is HB
142, by the committee on roads,
bridges and ferries.
House bill 81, by Brainard, pro-
i. ~ of 1in0
of drunken chauffeurs was passed.
1t requires courts in which chauffeurs
are convicted of driving cars on the
highways while intoxicated to take
up the defendants license and revoke
it for six months to a year.
Representative E. T. Taylor, of
Kooteni, author of house bill 81,
moved that the bill be indefinitely
postponed The motion prevailed and
the measure went into oblivion. This
was bill introduced, the author said,
on behalf of the ssociation of sher-
ifs and police officers, providing that
managers of public dances should Sc
cure permits from the sheriff before
giving a dance.
An attempt is to be made again in
the present session to abolish the Of
flee Of commissioner of education.
House bill 141, by SQnner, Darrow,
and Smith was introduced on Wed
nesday for that purpose. The bill
would amend section 797 OF the COM
piled statutes, which provides for the
of the commissioner by
the state board of education, but by
the amendment all reference to a
commissioner is taken out of the sta
Io int o1,t nf
the heads of all education institu-
tions and the fixing of their salaries
directly in the hands of the board of
education
Agricultural Bills.
Two agricultural measures were
among the new bills also. House bill
1873 by Kingsford, enables county
commissioners to make apprOpria-
tions to be used for determination
and control of crop pests such as
insects and worms.
House bill 143, by the committee
on agriculture, places under the di-
rect supervision and regulation of the
of agriculture milk and
cream dealers and dairies, which un-
der the present statutes are under
the Jurisdiction of the department of
public welfare.
Another bill introduced was a par
tial executive and judicial appropria
ton. 1t includes the biennium's pro-
vision for the governors office usual
Iy placed in the general appropria-
ton |" bill and that for the lieutenant
governor board of equalization, pres
idential electors, premiums on official ,,
bonds, state historical society, and de-
partment of the Grand Army of the
Republic. The total sum carried is
S46,635. In the budget for the gover
nor's office contained n the bill is I
an item of $2,400 for rent and upkeep
Of a residence for tlC governor.
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