The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-01-31
LEGISLATURE CUTS
Two DEPARTMENTS
INSURANCE FUND AND ACCIDENT
BOARD APPROPRIATIONS ARE
CARVED.

| appropriations Tor the state
insurance fund and the Industrial
accident board were sliced in COM
mittee of the whole house of the leg
islature Tuesday. Amendments
offered by the committee on appro-
priations were adopted by which the
insurance fund budget was reduced
from $69,270 to $61,040 and the ac-
cident boards from $43,897 to $39,612.
Item by item the budget was gone
over and the proposed slices were
voted. The salary of insurance fund
manager was reduced from $4,000 for
the biennum to $4,000.
Other salaries were cut from $4,000
to $40,040. This was done by elimin-
ating the chief clerk and medical
advisor and putting their duties upon
the claims examiner, at slightly in
creased salary, and by reducing ac-
countants' salaries. Supplies were re-
duced from the bills item of $3,75O
to $3,O7O.
On house bill No. 5, being the ap-
preparation bill for the industrial ac-
cident board, the appropriations COM
mittee presented like amendments,
but carrying less severe reductions.
Salaries of the three commission
ers were reduced from $4,000 each
per annum to $4,000. The secretary's
salary of $175 month was untouched
Other salaries were reduced from a
total of $1S,240 to $1,000; other ser
vices from $4,SSO to $3,980; fixed
charges from $277 to $42; and equip
ment from $500 to $3.50.
Five new bills were introduced by
the house. One by Katerndahl would
repeal the sections placing time
limit on the soldier memorial act, and
reopening Indefinitely the opportunity
for counties or local organizations to
cooperate with the state in erecting
memorials to soldiers. One by Nc
Birney would enable parties in court
actions to subpoena witnesses from
longer distances than 300 miles, but
would allow such witnesses double
pay per diem. One by Preston would
$4,000 to reimburse H. T.
Brady for II acres of potatoes alleged
to have been destroyed by order of
the state agriculture department.
Would Redistrict Counties.
Establishment of representative dis
tricts in counties which send two or
more members to the lower house of
the state legislature is provided for
in bill introduced by Vaillancourt,
republican of Bonner, in the senate |
this morning. The measure would re-
quire the county commissioners at
their regular meeting in April prior
to the election to divide the county
into districts equal in number to ths |
number of representatives to be sent /
to the legislature. Each district would !
then select its own representative.
Highway boards are given the |
to issue and negotiate bonds I
sor the funding and refunding of the |
bonded or other Indebtedness of the |
under the terms of another
measure introduced.
Two measures were passed at the
short session but forecasted consid-
grafton of senate bill No 8, abolish
ng the tuberculosis hospital commits
sion, did not materalize, the measure
,eing laid over until Wednesday on
notion of Senator Thomas.
Senate bill 43 by C1app, which
would amend section 1902 of the
compiled statutes by lengthening the
erms of village trustees from two to
our years and providing that on the
irst election they decide by lot which
hall serve part terms, so that cleo
ions can be held every two years of
,art of the board, was passed.
Senate bill SO, by Pike, providing
hat liens on crops shall not be of
onger duration than six months un-
ess action is commenced within that
ime, passed unanimously. AS ex-
,lained by the author of the bill, it
ust amp1ifies that part of the statutes
which refers to liens, to provide a
yay for holders of number of liens
0 institute joint action which suit
hey could not bring singly on account
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