Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-02-05 | Page 7 | Idaho House Would Abolish Tax Board

IDAHO HOUSE WOULD ABOLISH TAX BOARD ! Representatives Pass Measure to Elim-j Elim-j mate Commission; Senate May Concur. ! Special to The Tribune. ! BOISE. Idaho, Feb. 1. The legislature j directed its fire on the state, tax commission commis-sion during tho day session, and the I house of representatives, by a vote of j oo to L.'. passed a bill to aoolish it. At I the same time the house defeated bills to increase the salary of inn 3tate engineer engi-neer or to decrease the salaries of public utility commissioners. The senate will probably take up the fight on the tax commission and pass the house hill. The legi slatu re may pa ss a consti tu -tlonal amendment, now pending, to abolish abol-ish the state board of equalization and I put in its place a state tax commission , with constitutional power, There will he an exodus of relatives appointed to state, county, city and village vil-lage jobs by office holders as the result of the action of the senate in passing, by a vote of 31 ,to 2, the Rockwell nepotism bill. This act makes? It unlawful for an , official to vote for the appointment or : appoint any person related to him by affinity af-finity or consanguinity in the third degree. de-gree. It is one of the most sweeping acts directing a blow against nepotism said to be In existence in any state. During debate on the Glanders bill the charge was made by Senator Whitoomb of Lemhi that the measure would make it possible to "plunder the state treasury" and was a "fraud."