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Show APPROPRIATION BILL ciiEnsew BOISE, Idaho. Feb. 15. The final a.p-i a.p-i proprlation bill for the present legislative session made its appearance in the house of representatives today, carrying a grand total of $669,725. while the senate reversed re-versed its action on the Portneuf county division bill, which it defeated yesterday, reconsidered the vote, and passed and sent it to the governor. At the same session the senate passed the Pa-yet te county division bill, attaching attach-ing thereto ar. enabling act. The vote by which the Portneuf division bill, which divides Bannock county and names Downey Dow-ney as the county seat, passed was 19 to 15." There was not a dissenting vote against the Payette measure, which will create a new county out of Canyon, with Payette as the county seat. 0 The totals carried by the genera appropriations ap-propriations bill are slightly revised over the budgets which departments recommended, recom-mended, some of them being scaled down and others revised upwards. They are as follows: State treasurer, $36,400: state engineer. Jdl-MO: mine inspector. $16,900; land board. $120,320; public utilities commission. com-mission. $$!.230: farm market bureau, $25,000; state veterinarian, $31,500; pure food department, $20,000; state horticultural horticul-tural insDector, $30,000; state board of health, $24,305; district courts. SI 72,500; capitol building and grounds, $59,000; traveling library, SS300; Lava hot spring, $5000. The senate passed the Hill memorial to congress, asking that sufficient funds be appropriated to clear out the channel of the Snake river at Lorenzo to care for the flood waters In the Jackson lake reservoir, res-ervoir, which are used for irrigation purposes. pur-poses. Damage to land along the shores is done by the flood waters. Bills were introduced in the senate revising re-vising the- primary law so that county candidates are nominated at county primaries pri-maries and at the same time delegates are elected to state conventions to nominate nomi-nate candidates for state offices. The bill is by Senator Evans, a Democrat. Senator Mitchell introduced a bill pro-I pro-I viding Ions time loans to endowment funds of the state on the amortization plan. j 1 A corrupt practice act was also Intro- ; Iduced. In the house there appeared a bill by Kribs that aims to' regulate automobile I li glits and prevent accidents from their glare. The rays of the light cannot ex-I ex-I ceed forty-two inches from the ground at a point fifty feet from the car. by the terms of the bill. Another bill takes from chauffeurs their license when they violate vio-late the speed laws and a third appropriates appro-priates $30,000 for the erection of a suit-' suit-' able monument in memory of Frank I Steunenberg, assassinated governor of Idaho. |