The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1923-02-28
PRIMARY LAW
PASSED IN IDAHO
MOVE TO RECONSIDER VOTE
KILLING ALBION NORMAL
BILL STIRS OPPONENTS

Introduced by Republican member
Of the house and voted for by Progre
pives and Democratic representative
and IL Republicans, state wide pr
mary bill was passed by the house {
the Idaho legislature Tuesday after
noon, by a vote Of 46 to 10.
With representatives Monsoon an
Katerndahl speaking against tn
measure and Representatives Congdo
and Williams, the latter a Progress
sive debating for it's passage, the fina
vote showed Is Republicans, % Dem
Iocrats and six Progressives favorini
THE bill which would change from tn
convention system the manner Of selec
ttion of all state and county candidates
The biennial legislative fight ovel
the Albion State Normal school broke
lin the senate when Senator Jones Of
IBannock county moved to reconsider
the vote by which senate bill 88, pro-
viding for the adjustment Of the
school, was killed Tuesday.
The senate spent practically all day
debating the matter and finally re-
fused to reconsider the vote by which
It had killed the bill.
In speaking for the adjustment of
the Albion Normal, as would be pro-
vided for in senate bill 88, Senator
Jones urged the economy which would
result as one of the most important
matters for consideration and also
preached the advantages presented by
the Idaho Technical institute at Poca-
tello in taking over the work of the
normal school, should bill so provid-
ing be introduced later. Senator Jones
opened his argument by reading from
the report Of \ legislative committee
which went to Albion in 1911, and rec
emmended that the school be aban-
doned for the same reasons which are
cow being given. These, he stated,
were location in an out Of the way
place, great cost Of transportation Of
supplies, etc.
; Should the normal school at Albion
BE abolished, the senator from Ban
loek urged, it would result in a saw
hg Of about $40, 900 in salaries, admin
istration and operation. He gave the
segregation as: $44,260 saved in sal
aries, $500 in administration, $8040
b operation, $4,000 in miscellaneous
hbor, $4,000 in light and power, $14,-
100 in fuel and $1,000 for janitor.
House bill 81, by Brainard, providing
Ter the revocation of licenses Of drunk
en- chauffeurs, was passed. 1t requires
courts in which chauffeurs are convict
cd Of driving cars on the highways
while intoxicated, to take up the de-
PENDANTS license and revoke it for six
months to year.
Representative E. T. Taylor Of Koo-
tenal, author of house bill 81, moved
that the bill be indefinitely postponed.
The motion prevailed and the measure
vent into oblivion. This was a bill
the author said, on behalf
# the Association of Sheriffs and Po-
ice Officers, providing that managers
II public dances should secure permits
rom the sheriff before giving dance.
An attempt is to be made again in
The present session to abolish the Of
ice Of commissioner of education.
House bill al, by Sonner, barrow and
Smith, was introduced on Wednesday
Tor that purpose. The bill would amend
Iection 787 Of the compiled statutes,
which provides for the appointment Of
he commissioner by the state board
II education, but by the amendment all
'eference to = commissioner is taken
mt Of the statute. It places the APP
continent Of the heads of all vocation
i Institutions and the fixing Of their
'slar;es directly IN the hands Of the
'oard Of educs:ion.
Two agricultural measures were
Imong the new bills, also. House bill
80, by Kingsford enables county COM
to make appropriations to
'e used for determination or control of
rop pests such a. insects and worms.
House bill 143, by the committee on
places under the direct su-
and regulation of the depart
nent Of agriculture, milk and cream
ealers and diaries, which under the
resent statutes are under the juris-
lotion OF the department of public
Welfare.
House bill 1877, by Coulter, seeks to ,
emove from the general election bal ,
Of all party designations at the heads
4 tickets and the circle which is used
o mark straight party votes.
Another bill introduced Wednesday ,
ras = partial executive and judicial
ppropriation. It includes the bien-
ium's provision for the governors
ffice, usually placed in the general
appropriation" bill, and that for the
leutenant governor, board of equali-
alton, presidential electors, premiums ..
a official bonds, state historical So
iety and department of the Grand
Army Of the Republic. The total sum
arried is $46,635. In the budget for :.
he governors office contained in the
III il an item of $2400 for rent and
pkeep of residence for the gov
rnor.
MEASURES INTRODUCED |,
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