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Show Senate Refuses To Bring Lava Bill Out For Vote BOISE (Special Idaho's senate virtually defeated plans to appropriate appro-priate money for the state's share o a proposed National Health Sanitorimn at Lava yesterday when they voted against bringing the bill out for consideration. It had already al-ready passed, .the house of representatives. repre-sentatives. . . j Leaders against the appropriation nere Tom Heath, Franklin county Republican, Senator Baird, Adam Democrat, Senator Bailey, Nez Perce Democrat, and Senator Hall, Oneida county Republican. "This side of the aisle (republi-' (republi-' can) is not going to give anybody any leeway in raising more taxes," Heath said in opposition. Since the legislature will close its doors at midnight tonight (Thursday), little hope was seen forgetting the bill out of; the committer com-mitter for.o yotit Ben Johnson, president of the Associated Civic clubs of Southeastern South-eastern Idaho, who has been instrumental instru-mental in obtaining support for the proposal who has been instrumental in obtaining support for the pro-Pioposal pro-Pioposal throughout Idaho, Utah, I and Wyoming was in Boise Wednesday Wed-nesday evening in behalf of the bill. "What small group of men would take upon themselves the responsibility responsi-bility for depriving thousands of innocent victims of the dread poliomyelitis polio-myelitis of the benefits so handily obtainable with such a comparatively compara-tively small appropriation," Johnson, John-son, charged when he learned that the senate committee had tossed a wrench; in the machinery. Johnson pointed out that the bill was not a partisan issue, and that It had support from both parties as well as that of an inter-state committee from the northwest. He added that Governor Clark was 100 Per cent behind the proposal and that he had agreed to "whittle down other appropriations to make up 'or the $110,000 if economy mo-Uves mo-Uves should block the program." 0 n |