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Show VpIIl VETO ' ULL APPROPRIATIONS! Should He Do So, Extra Session of Legislature Will Be Called. Special to The Tribune. BOISE, Idaho, March 13. Governor Alexander may veto in toto all appropriation appropria-tion bills passed by the fourteenth Idaho legislature and call a session extraordinary. extraordi-nary. A definite decision will be reached when the chief executive has all the appropriation ap-propriation bills before him. If he cannot can-not cut them down, or such a course is found inadvisable, he will veto them outright out-right and convene an extra session for the express purpose of pruning the appropriation appro-priation me a suri-s down to within the limitations of the state. ' The appropriation bills passed fry the legislature, reaching - a grand total of more than $4,000,000, If allowed to stand wiU, in the opinion of the governor, force J?Cu Idaho the highest la x levy in the stale's history and require the stale to face a deficiency at the end of two years Of $750, 000. "The appropriations are out of reason and if allowed to stand will bankrupt the state," said the governor. "The way It looks now, the appropriations made for every stale department, from governor down, will have to be severely cut. I have commenced to assemble the bills to ascertain what action lies within my power toward cutting them down. If this cannot be done, the only recourse I will have is an extra session Nof the legislature. legisla-ture. I may have to veto the appropriation appropria-tion bills in toto. "I will not stand for such large appropriations. appro-priations. I care not whether they come iiom a Democratic or a Republican legislature. legis-lature. I repeat, they are out of all reason and if allowed to stand in their present form would bankrupt the state. They would also force upon the people one of the highest tax levies and then Tirnhnhtv cause a S75O.OO0 deficiency at the. end of two years." The governor vetoed two hills today and signed twenty-one others fourteen house bills and seven senate bills. The veto was applied to the Curtis act (senate bill No. 107), making it mandatory on the chief executive to appoint a woman to the state board of education, ami thje Wedge-wood Wedge-wood measure (senate bill No. 74), providing pro-viding for appeals from the acts of county boards of equalization. With regard to the woman's bill, the governor holds that for more than twenty years woman suffrage has existed in Idaho and it is unnecessary to place a law on the statute books to establish equality between the sexes; that the governor gov-ernor now has the power to appoint a woman to the board of education. Regarding Re-garding the Wedge wood bill, the governor contends that such a law would cause endless litigation over taxation matters: 'that it would hold up the collection of revenue by taxation, and that the action of l he board of county commissioners should be final, as the commissioners are better posted in such matters than the courts. Xjie governor signed several bills to- v The most important measure ap-mrV ap-mrV 'oved divides Idaho into two congres-sional congres-sional districts the First and Second jk-" from each of which a congressman will be V elected in the future. It also gives the "S governor power to fill vacancies in the United Stales senate. The ten northern counties and Adams. Gem, Washington, 'anyon. Valley, Boiset Custer and Lemhi e.nties are placed in the First district; all other counties, including the southeastern south-eastern and southern Idaho, are in the Second district. |