Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-18 | Page 22 | Four Bills Signed by Idaho Governor

FOUR BILLS Sffl ' , BK IDAHO GUfH Most Important Eliminates Agricultural Lands From Cities. Special to The Tribune. 7JOISIC, Idaho, March 17. Governor Alexander today signed four and vetoed three nllls passed h- the last legislature. )f the hills signed, probably the most Important is the Peckharn measure, providing pro-viding for the elimination of agricultural lands fioin cities, towns and villages. Tie aUto signer) the house measures relating to dissolution of irrigation districts, increasing in-creasing the salary of chief deputy state, hank examiner and allowing railroad employees em-ployees to use passes. The eh if f execut I ve vetoed house bill 21''., which sought to regulate the sale of state land by prohihitintr the sale of any leased lands under cult iva tion by a. "fs(a who is a bona fide resident; senate sen-ate 'bill 98, regulating proxies in state and county conventions, and senate bill 165, seeking to regulate the Interest received from dally balances of state moneys deposited de-posited in banks by requiring that Interest fihall be credited by the state treasurer to the accounts of the several funds forming the principal upon which It is computed. Regarding the state land bill, the governor gov-ernor jrlves as grounds for his veto that it would be impossible for the land department de-partment to sell leased lands and the provision in the measure would be an Injustice In-justice to the state and purchaser. In the proxy bill he believes that if allowed al-lowed to become a law It would deny representation in county and state committee com-mittee meetings to certain precincts and counties and work an injustice. No good purpose can be accomplished by the proposed interest credit measure. According to the governor's veto message, mes-sage, and It will only result In confusion in the accounts of the state treasurer's office.