Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-02-10
PROPOSE WHEAT
MINIMUM OF $3.50
IDAHO SENATE WOULD MEMOIR.
ALLIE CONGRESS TO NAME
BODY TO FIX PRICE

By vote of 81 to II, the senate
passed House Bill No. ~ repeating the
tobacco license law. The vote came
after debate of fully an hour
The senate also passed House joint
Memorial No. 8, which would memoir
ialize congress to authorize the pres
ident or some other person or body to
fix the minimum of wheat, at shipping
points, at $3.50 per busheel. After
the memorial passed by a vote OF 81
to 4, Senator Written gave notice that
he would ask for reconsideration of the
vote
Ezra P. Munson, veteran legislator,
twice member Of the house and once
In the Idaho senate, was appointed by
Governor Charles C. Moore to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of
Thomas Preston of Franklin county.
The appointment of Mr.. Munson was
Immediately confirmed by the senate
and followed the acceptance of the
Preston resignation by the house.
Mr. Munson has been a resident of
Franklin county since boyhood. He
was born at Richmond, Utah. He takes
the place of Representative Preston.
who is i'll, and who has not been able
to attend the legislative sessions.
The economical axe of the house of
representatives appropriations COM
mittee fell and struck squarely on the
neck of the appropriation bill for the
Lava Hot Springs sanitarium, cutting
off $500. The reduction was made
while the members were sitting as
committee of the whole house and the
bill was reported back to the house
with the recommendation that it pass
as amended.
The bill, as introduced by the adj
ministration, called for an appropria-
ton of $2S,37O and this amount was
reduced by the house of representa-
lives to $25,870. All reductions were
made in the item in the bill calling for
salaries and wages.
County commissioners are given the
power to exempt from taxation the |
property of widows in the sum of
$1,000, under the terms of a bill in
PRODUCED in the senate by Boughton of
Kootenai. The measure does not pro-
vide for a general exemption of
widows but leaves the matter to the
discretion of the county commits
sioners.
Dance halls in Idaho charging adj
mission fees or fees to dance may have
to get permit from the sheriff each
day they desire to hold a dance if
bill introduced in the house becomes !
a law.
Proprietors of dance halls are also
held responsible for any disorderly
conduct on the floor, in the hall or
anywhere on the premises where such
dances are held, the bill provides.
The measure was introduced by Tay-
or of Kootenai county and is known
rs house bill No. 81.
The Democratic direct primary bill
made its appearance in the senate,
'eing sponsored by Senators Trans
rum, Albrethsen, Clapp, Clark of Gus
er, Eames, Amonson, Evans, Graham,
Pollard, Pike, Brown and Harris. The
ill which is No. ITO, was one of the 10
lew measures introduced, bringing
he number of bills in that body up to /
nd including 112. t
The Democratic primary bill does |
lot differ greatly from the Republi- {
an primary measure presented in the
over house. The principal points of n
Inference are the date of the primary, t
ED later in the bill, selecting of 0
elegates to the national convention at
tate convention and electing dele r
ates to the state platform convention f
y county central committees. &
All candidates of political parties
Dr. United States senator, representa- r
YES in congress and all elective state, f,
istrict and county offices at regular ri
lections would be nominated at the
rimary authorized in the Democratic o
i'll. This primary would be held on n
he second Tuesday in July, 1924, and d
very two years thereafter. A pol
ical party is described by the act as ri
n affiliation of voters representing a 50
olitical organization under a given in
anne which at the last preceding gen Of
al election was represented on the er
lllot by ticket IN which there were
least three nominees for state Of ri
ce. ir
Senate bill 35, cutting the penalty di
II allowing taxes to go delinquent be
ON 6 to 2 per cent was passed I'M
limously by the senate. Approval was nc
so given to house bill 25 which would ar
} away with special bonds required to
tax collectors and assessors for IN
llecting highway district assess
ents. TO
Senator Disney, Republican Of Lin 10
In county, fathered the tax penalty trr
duction measure and in speaking on so
e bill before its passage he stated it
as one of the recommendations made he
! Governor Moore. In addition to rs
ting the tax penalty the bill extends Pc
e time for redemption of property De
which taxes have gone delinquent
ON three to four years. 1t also elm SO,
ates the statement in the statutes in,
at in computing interest on delin- mi
l.