The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-02-26
FORESTRY BILL
KILLED in SENATE
OBJECTORS CLAIM WOULD PRO-
TECT BIG TIMBER INTERESTS
AGAINST SMALL OWNERS.

Boise-The senate, Friday, defeated
senate bill II, by Lewis, creating and
defining the duties of the board OF
forestry and the office of state fores-
ter. The forestry bill was killed after
a lengthy debate by vote of % to.
8. The main objection to it was, sena-
tors claimed, it protects the big tim
Der owners in the state against the
small owner. The second act was re-
corded in the house when the COM
mittee of the whole struck from the
governors appropriation bill the
$4,000 item contained therein for
house rent during the next two years.
1t was held by the house majority
that to permit the item to remain in
the bill would make it unconstitu-
tional
Though not marked by debate, in
view of the speed with which the
house evidently wishes to move,
house bill 137, by Coulter, was de-
feated "a to 80 The bill would amend
the general election law in two or
three particulars which summed UP
would mean the elimination of the
circle at the top of each party ticket
on the general election ballot. In all
other respects save the circle and the
customary instructions to voters as
to casting straight" I" ticket, the
ballot would be left as it now is.
Preston of Owyhee, succeeded in
securing a majority vote for his house
bill 1856, enabling electors of a school
district to establish a two-year high
school on an accredited basis even If
the number of high school pupils in
the district is less than that required
for an accredited high school by the
state board of education.
The house of representatives used
the axe with effect on educational
measures Friday. 1t defeated the
measure seeking to establish a county
unit consolidated public school sys-
tenn and killed the bill to provide
blanket twomill school tax. The only
school measure saved out of the
wreck was senate bill SO levying a
three-eights mill tax to provide a
fund of approximately $250,000 for
the purpose of constructing needed
buildings for state institutions, in
cluding the educational. The state
board of education is allowed to ad-
minister the fund The university at
Moscow, Lewiston, and Albion nor
mails and Idaho Technical institute at
IOCdtSllO Will DG D6u6lll6u DN IL.
Two more appropriation bills were
passed by the senate despite efforts
of Senator Callahan to have both held
up until all the financial measures
reached the upper house. Senate bill
214, appropriating $9S,215 for the pub
lie utilities commission and the at
torney generals office, was approved
by the senate by a vote of "a to s,
while senate bill 256, making an ap-
of $44,65O for the adult
ant generals department, also passed,
the vote being 80 to 8.
Senate bill 163 by the committee
on highways, bridges and ferries, pre-
scribing the types of crossing to be
maintained by railroad companies
where their tracks cross state high
ways, was passed by vote of 35 to
2. There was no discussion on the
On recommendation of the COM
mittee on state affairs and motion by
Senator Thomas, house bills 85 and
LA were indefinitely postponed. The
former would empower Independent,
Joint and other school districts to
issue refunding bonds for warrant in
debtedness for the years 1923 and
1924, while the latter would take the
limit off the appropriation for expen-
ses of the attorney general when at
tending United States courts.
If bill introduced in the house
of representatives becomes law, no
member of the legislature may be ap-
pointed to state job during the two
years for which he was elected to
serve. The measure was offered by
the committee on state affairs 1t is
house bill 244
Aimed at persons or organizations
hiding identity by means of mask,
hood or regalia, senate bill this
time introduced by the state affairs
has been started in the
Idaho legislature
Earlier in the session Senator Har-
ris, of Washington county, sponsored
a measure which he stated was an
anti-Ku Klux K1an bill The same
committee which now introduced the
bill reported on the Harris measure
without recommendation.
Filming of husbands who desert
wives or minor children by probate
courts and the payment of the fines
o the families is provided for in an
,ther measure introduced in the SEN
lte,