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Show I LEGISLATURE WILL I PBOBE SIITE BOOKS 81 Charge Is Made Thai War-Wm War-Wm rants Were Paid Without Wm Record Being Kepi. ' ! I ffll i?rc!al The, Trigone. I 111 DOISE, Ida:, Feb. 7. The tvlflh 1 SB lJllho legislature propoon to make a rami iweepinsr Investigation of the lavish c.v- ff pendUurc of funis by state officials dur- Ifw Ins the past two years. A resolution SfW passed tlio house of representatives 9K this afternoon calls upon the state audl- flFt ,01' to fumlsh the legislature -with a Use tj4J of all warrants paid over S2, where a Sf:t detailed receipted voucher has not been izlil Wed, showing where, tho monuy went. ;t'ul Purpose of tho resolution Is to c.v- jfTrl pose all blanket, wan-ants drawn In vlo- 'Hii latlon of clinptor 1G3 of tho general laws fc'hl of tills state. It Is charged thesn war- Uiifl rants liavo been for largo amounts and 'jjfir there Is nothing to show on tho slate ree- iflPif ords as to where the money went. Thn bouse Pont the entire afternoon ;.i ; roosldetlng irrigation blllH and ; 1 1 1 cnl h-fli 1 ofC moat of tho measures that had boon f!tVr3 Introduced through Representative Parks .J of Blaine county by the state engineer. Fin 'no senate reconsidered the statu land J resolution providing for the sale of state ' lands in larger Mocks. Senator Edglng-f Edglng-f : 1 torW bill increasing- the salary of court ll)6& stenographers was passed, together with fen"! a bill permitting civil actions against EjErB regularly organized Irrigation districts. Rki al -t a Jlnt mccLing of the appropriate), appropria-te), JU tions committees of both houses, nn lift agreement was reached for tho recom-p.IiHi recom-p.IiHi nwndation of the following sums for the r'W maintenance of tho stale institutions: it'iwi University, general maintenance, $144,-'ffn $144,-'ffn 500: last year, SSO.000. r-'vt University, agricultural extension, HW 550.000; last year, $24,000. JfKJ Albion State Xormal school, mainte-utt mainte-utt nance, S&S.200; last vena-, $70,500. 'lm Lowfston State formal school, main-jjka main-jjka tsnance, $131,382; last year, $100,000. Academy of Idaho at Pocatcllo. general rfiujj maintenance, $77,000; last year, $80,884.60. |