The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-03-06
ECONOMY PROBLEMS
KEEP SOLONS BUSY
MANY SUBSTANTIAL CUTS ARE
MADE-PROBABLY DELAY
ADJOURNMENT.

bOl6t-1uc pubic uLlilJlcb COmmlS
sion will function hereafter withou
the services of a special assistant at
torney general and each of the thre,
members OF the commission will suf
Ter a reduction OF $50 a month II
salary, if senate finance committee
bills passed Monday by the house are
signed by the governor.
Senate bill 214, the first of these
| is a straight appropriation measure
| for the public utilities commission
| and the attorney generals office. The
total amount carried by the bill Ii
| $89,S15 for the biennial expenses in
both departments. The salaries car
ried in the attorney generals office
are for the attorney general himself
three assistants and stenOgraphic
help. For the last four years, there
have been four assistants, one of
them assigned exclusively to the pub
lie utilities commission.
For the second time in the session,
Preston of Owyhee failed in his at
tempt to secure an act to require
one member of the public utilities
commission to be farmer and one
member an engineer. His bill 1872
was defeated by vote of 20 to SO.
The house organization has decid-
ed it is time to move all bills for
ward for final passage or to their
final resting place. A motion offered
by Bottelfsen of Butte, republican
floor leader, and carried, requires all
standing committees to report out all
bills in their possession by Tuesday
Appropriation Bills Pass.
The house also passed the appro-
priation measure for the supreme
and district courts carrying $780,
369.62 and the measure appropriating
$44,650 for the adjutant generals de-
partment
Thursday afternoon at o'clock is
the time officially set for the ad-
journment of the 18th session of the
according to senate con-
current resolution No. 8, introduced
by the state affairs committee That
places the time for adjournment on
the 9Th day, but it is held likely by
many of the solons that the usual |
practice of stopping the clock at that |
line will take place and the session |
1old over day or two longer.
Two bills that have been approved |
give the governor more power in pre-
pairing budgets and handling public
accounts. Senate bill $50 creates
! budget bureau in the state auditors
'ffice and places the person in charge
# such bureau directly under the
GOVERNOR through bureau Of budget
nd taxation in his office. Senator
lewis, in explaining the bill, stated
hat it was consolidation of duties
nd would save the state about $1,000
Senate bill 331, also introduced by
he finance committee, creates a bu-
eau of public accounts in the state
uditor's office and makes the gov
rnor head officer of that bureau.
Further protection for the depos-
Ors in the banks of Idaho will be
forded, it is stated, by senate bill
70, by the committee on banks and
anking, which was passed.
Under the terms of senate bill 1892,
7 the finance committee, approved
? vote of 81 to 1 the duties here
fore performed by the state deposit
ry board are transferred to the de-
artment of finance, being another
ep in the consolidation OF the duties
this department.
Senate bill 1928, providing that mer-
ANTS and dealers other than licensed
larmacists may sell formaldehyde,
ue vitriol and other poisons used for I
piping and spraying, passed by :
rye majority.
Senator Clark of Custer county
lied for report from the state af-