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Show IDAKO CAPITOL BILL PASSED Senate Votes on Measure Providing for Wings of Statehouse. Special to The Tribune. EOISE, I.iHho, March 1. The ?900,000 bond istue bill to provide funds for completing com-pleting the two ?4".0,00O wings of '-he state capitol building was passed by the licvse of i epresentatives by a vote of 51 to U today. U contains tlio proviso that before Lhe department of public .vorks lets the contract for the wings, Boise city must secure and park the approaches. ap-proaches. At the saino session was launched the- cabinet administration biennial bi-ennial approVriaticn bill calling for $1.-4H4,iioo $1.-4H4,iioo lo defray tho expenses of state government. One of the surprises of the session was the defeat of the women's welfare commission com-mission bill. It lost by a close vote. The house l-Aso appropriated $25,000 to assist Kootenai and Benewah counties in drain-ape drain-ape work to reclaim a lare body of l.md in the northern part of the state. Amon'e. the other bills approved were the public health bill, providing for the regulation of cold storage plants; the Weeks measure, meas-ure, regarding the sale of delinquent assessments as-sessments in irrigation districts; the Drake act, appropriating $'3000 for the relief of the Payette Heights irrigation district; the LiValle measure, regarding estrav stocks the Johnson bill, relating to a code of laws on education, and the revenue and taxation measure, directing county commissioners to make an annual budget. Six tills were passed by the senate. One created a state council of defense, b.jt cut the original appropriation of $50,-000 $50,-000 to $5000. Senator Tyler was the only Non-partisan senator who voted t r the bill, the others being registered In opposition. oppo-sition. The Non-paxtisan senatorial committee com-mittee made its report on the bribary charges made by the league newspaper organ against Senators Teaman, Seaver and Robertson, the findings being that the charges were only "satirical" and not direct. They were made ,o er the eminent emi-nent domain hill. ' ' |