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Show Ii OPPOSES TII5EI Mi Idaho Commissioner Would Aid Undeveloped Parts of State. Spoclnl to The Tribune. BOISH. Idaho, Oct. 13. The prosent foi'.envl road ;tld net. with proper amplification amplifi-cation and. extension, is far more preferable prefer-able to a stale with road conditions such as Idaho has, and to tho west generally, than would oe the proposed Townsend bill providing for the establishment of a national highway system, W. J. liali, state commissioner of public work, believes. be-lieves. The Townsnnd bill proposes to use in a national highway system not less than 2 per cent nor more than 5 per cent of the total mileage actually used in any state. But the roads used in the national system would necessarily be direct routes across; the state, and the state would not therefore get the benefits of federal aid in undeveloped sections that it does under the present federal aid plan, .Mr. Hall points out. Mr. Hall has written the Idaho congressional congres-sional delegation his views on i ho Town-send Town-send bill. He suu'u-esis that ad iitiunal appropriations should be made under the federal aid aef. instead of appropriating money under the Town send bill to build up only a small portion of the roads in each state. This view Is heartily in line with a memorial passed by a highway conference July 20 at Kansas City, at which representatives repre-sentatives were present from Texas, Oklahoma, Okla-homa, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa. The states, under the Townseud bill, would be required to surrender to the United States by deed the roads built under the measure. The bill proposes the creation of a federal highway commission to be appointed by the president, with powers to seieet the proposed hiu-hwavs after consultation with tho various state highway departments, and with full rowers row-ers and discretion in all matters of survey, sur-vey, construction, maintenance and general gen-eral administration. Maintenance and construction would be at the expense of the United states, with the maintenance cost limited to 10 per cent of the appropriation for any one year. Under the act $.'J'00,o.m 'would become immediately availably. $75.0i".(''0 for the fiscal year beginning- Julv 1, and Sl"O.uu0.0' for each of the thn.-e succeeding fiscal years, or in all, 0:."'.''0U. The proposed commission of only 'three members would not be properly representative, represen-tative, Commissioner Hill believes. "If a nation:.! highway sv-Uem Is to bo created, a capable commission to se-let and designate routes and determine standards is essential. Such a commission commis-sion should consist of from nine to twelve members," Commissioner ll.iii said. "A western authority has KUi.'kr--sted a re-Cional re-Cional congress for expression of popular popu-lar sentiment, and the id la la a cood one." |