The daily star-mirror., 1923-02-28
REPORT DEMANDED
ON BORAH. MEASURE
SENATE ORDERS COMMITTEE
ACTION ON RESOLUTION FAVOR
ING ECONOMIC CONFERENCE.

Boise-Report from the senate
state affairs committee on senate joint
memorial 4, asking congress to pass
the BOrah international economic con-
ference resolution, will be required
in the time specified by the rules
for the senate yesterday voted down
a motion to excuse the committee
from making such report.
A measure designed to place GER
tain eugenic restrictions upon per-
sons seeking marriage licenses was
defeated in. the senate "a to 16.
Senator Clark of Custer, called the
bill most abhorrent piece of legis-
lation," and said that with the COM
mon law marriage statutes of Idaho,
it would throw down the bars of legal
wedlock for the very people the law
was intended to reach"
The upper house passed senate
joint memorial asking federal appro-
priation of $20,000,000 for roads in
forests and on Indian reservations. A
bill setting the maximum tuition for
high school students out of their dis
tricts at SO per month was approved.
Appoval was given to house bill 1863,
which cuts the term of the game
warden from six to two years and
puts his department under the gov
ernor.
Would Issue Motor Directory.
The senate indefinitely postponed
house bills 1873 and 168 The former
empowers the county commissioners
to appropriate funds for the control
of injurious pests, insects and worms,
while the latter would forbid the en-
nj 11f of a
home.
The senate also passed the follow
ing bills Senate bill SO, amending
statutes and providing personal pro-
perty lien is inferior to prior liens
against real property; senate bill 305,
appropriating $332,369 for supreme
and district courts and law libraries;
senate bill BOG, appropriating $7S,166
for department of finance, bureau of
insurance and blue sky enforcement; ;
senate bill 3O3, amending statutes and
adding tax delinquency to prohibition
on allowance of claims by county
commissioners, and senate bill 243,
amending statutes relating to inSpec-
tion of nursery stock.
Senate bill 327, introduced by the
state affairs committee, provides for
law enforcement of a monthly motor
vehicle directory and its sale to the
public at $50 year Senate bill 1922,
by the committee on highways,
bridges, and ferries, recognizes the
claims of counties and road districts
against the state for cooperative
highway work totaling $164,308. Sen
ate bill 323, by the finance committee
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bursement of Fred Herrick on a state
contract in Hepburn park, which the
eighth district court declared illegal.
Want New Banking Code.
Senate joint resolution 8, by the
committee on banks and banking
would authorize the governor to
draw up and recommend to the next
legislature a new banking code.
After considerable discussion the
house defeated, 23 to Al, senate bill
1877, to give the sheep commission abb
so1ute control of the predatory ami
NAL fund and abolishing the bounty
system.
Senate bill 300, doing away with the
printing of separate volume of
emergency bills at the end of the
session anu empowering Cne secretary
of state to contract for the printing
of one volume of session laws within
80 days after adjournment of the ses-
sion, passed by unanimous vote.
Three bills were introduced by COM
mittees, the house consenting even
though the last day for Introduction
had passed. One by the judiciary
committee would lift blue Sunday
from rural districts; one by the ap-
preparations committee would compel
biennial audits of county offices and
another by the same committee would
empower the state board of equaliza-
tion to obtain from county offices any
information of record desired by the
state board