The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-02-22
DIRECT PRIMARY
BILL IS VETOED
HAD BEEN PASSED BY COMBINA-
TION YOTE-WAS CHAMPION
ED BY SENATOR BORAH

ldSL Idll. Inc Dill mas DoGn passed
by a combination of the democrats
progressives and insurgent republic
ans who have held up necessary leg
islation, including the appropriation
bills, for As days in order to enforce
its passage and approval by the gov
ernor There is said to be no pos
siblity of passing it over the Veto
Governor Moore returned house
bill PIP without his approval, and
rebuked the. legislature for failure to
have passed the general appropria-
tion bill before two-thirds of the ses-
sion had passed.
House bill 212 by Taylor was in
trOduced at the request of Secretary
of State Jeter. 1t sought to make
$1,000 available Immediately for mail
ing out automobile license plates and
was passed as an emergency measure.
The governor disapproved it with the
remark that he did not like Singing
out certain departments for special
appropriations"
Attempts to pass the vetoed bill
failed by a vote of SO to 27.
One new bill was introduced We'd
nesday, house bill 240, by the com
mittee on Agriculture, providing for
the licensing of purveyors of COM
merc1al fert1l1ZerS.
House bill 169, by Bottolfsen and
Thomas, was passed by the house,
together with nine other more or less
important measures. 1t separates the
department of fish and game, now
bureau, from the department of law
enforcement, placing it directly under
the control of the governor and re-
duces the term of office of the state
n IF q
six years.
Senate bill 139, which permits ir-
rigation districts of immense size to
exceed the statutory allowance of
$4,000 for organization expense, was
also passed. Districts comprising
100000 acres or more will under the
bill be enabled to spend as much as
$4,000 for the expenses incident to
organizing The bill will affect only
the American Falls district.
House bill 85 by Sanborn, the first.
bill to be passed, Is for the relief of
school districts, enabling them to is-
sue bonds for the refunding of war
rant Indebtedness.
National legislation to permit the
use Of the profits and surplus of the
federal reserve system to guarantee
deposits in member banks is urged in
senate joint memorial 7, introduced
in the senate by the committee on
banks and banking. The memorial
urges that as the federal reserve sys-
tenn has large surplus which is not
used, that this surplus and any other
profits accruing from the operation
of the system be set aside in a spec
ial fund to be used to guarantee the
deposits which depositors have made
in member banks.
Senate bill 3O7 by the educational
committee, also introduced this morn
ing, would confirm the formation of
various kinds of school districts or
ganized before the passage of the
law classifying such districts.
Senate bill 308 by the judiciary
committee would provide that per-
sons doing repairs on personal prop
ertv at the request of the owner shall
have prior lien.
There was some discussion on SEN
ate bill $50, regulating the kinds of
vehicle tires used on public roads. |
1t was felt by some that it would
work a hardship and prevent the use
of roads by certain kinds of vehicles, |
while proponents of the bill urged
that such legislation was necessary
because of the great damage which |
has been done to highways by en-
gines with cleats and other protrub |
erances on the wheels. The bill final /
Iy passed by the close vote of % to
20.
Recommend Three-MiIl Levy
The house committee on revenue
and taxation recommended for pas
sage house bill 103 for three mill
levy to build a new science hall at I
H. Tvv,Sx r>osf 0f 1o1, 0fI how
building and improvements at the
other educational institutions The
appropriations committee recommen-
ded for passage senate bill SO, MAX
ing provision for erection of dormi-
tories at the University and Lewiston
Normal The last bill carries no ap-
The two other bills ap-
proved were senate bill 145, restrict
ing the weight of trucks using and
loads transported over the highways
and providing for care of the roads,
and senate bill 233 by Severson ap-
$1,O25 for the payment of
awards made by the industrial acci-
dent board for employees of any state
in performance of work
not covered by insurance.
Senate bill 1853, providing that
commissioners shall by ap-
pointment fill vacancies in the state
legislature from their county, passed
The senate. similar measure was
in the early part of the
session after the death of Senator D.
W. Van Hoesen but was withdrawn
for correction and this bill presented.
Clark of Custer and Eames, both
democrats are the authors. The vote
was 81 to z.
The senate also passed senate bill
,20, by the committee on banks and
banking, authorizing the state to ac-
sept for cancellation and issue bonds
# different denominations in lieu
bhereof. This was a substitute for [