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Show IDAHO HOUSE VOTES SI0.000JH SPIKE Legislature May Reach Compromise on Workmen's Work-men's Compensation. Special to The Tribune. BOISE, Idaho. March 7. The house of representatives of the Idaho legislature today appropriated $10,000 to be used by this state to participate in the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the driving of the golden spike in the first transcontinental transcon-tinental railroad at Ogden In 1919. The measure passed under suspension of the rules. If approved by the senate and governor Idaho will immediately make plans to prepare to install a state exhibit ex-hibit during the celebration. The bill creates a commissioner to supervise expenditure ex-penditure of the appropriation. Conference commit lees of the two branches of the Idaho legislature are now endeavoring to bring about a compromise in the difference existing over a workmen's work-men's compensation act, and tonight it appeared as though they would be successful. suc-cessful. The point of arbitration Is whether the house will accept as an amendment to the senate bill. No. 17, providing pro-viding for casualty insurance as a third plan for compensation. With this plan added the senate standB prepared to accept ac-cept the body of the Anderson bill, providing pro-viding for elective compensation as drafted draft-ed into the act Should the house insist on the amended bill standing as it is without the third plan, to which the labor leaders are violently opposed, the senate may accept the bill as it stands. The conference committees working on the bill in the hope of settling the dispute dis-pute are as follows: Senate, Ingard, Randall, Ran-dall, Stevenson, Lowe of Cassia and Bradbury Brad-bury ; house. Hi tchcock, Bates, Kribs, Johnson and Kiger. The senate passed the Evans primary revision and sent it to the house. It was said tonight it is not likely to survive sur-vive the lower assembly. The bill provides pro-vides for the nomination of county and legislative candidates, but does away with the state-wide primary for state offices. The senate killed the Allred primary bill, which proposed state-wide primary should be conducted by mail. I : also reported to Indefinitely postpone post-pone the stringent senate corrupt practices prac-tices act. Senate bill No. 141, by "Whitcomb, waa amended by the house, giving Boise two sessions of the supreme court, Lewiston, Coeur d'Alene and Pocatello each one, and the senate will concur in the amendment it is said. This takes one term from Lewteton, leaves a term at Coeur d'Alene and gives Pocatello a term. A legislative apportionment appor-tionment measure was one of the Important Impor-tant bills passed by the house. It gives to the new counties one representative and takes from Bonner, Blaine, Bear Lake and Canyon counties one representative. |