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Show EDUCATORS Will JBIIITIL IDAHO Effort to Abolish Office of State Commissioner of Schools Defeated BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 17. Without With-out a disKentinp; vote house bill No. 59, providing for the abolishment of the office of state commissioner of education, was 1 aent to the morgue In the senate this I morning by indefinite postponement It had been in the hands of the committee com-mittee on education for some daya and waa reported out thla morning with recommndation that it b not passed. A measure was introduced in the house by the committee on appropriations, appropria-tions, appropriating I9H.O00 and providing pro-viding for the employment of a fiscal fis-cal agent to dispose of $2,000,00 state highway bonds. BILLS PASSED. Among the billa passed in the bouse was one providing lor state Issue of f'i.GOO.OVO highway bonds; one increasing in-creasing the maximum per diem compensation com-pensation of watermasters; another requiring merchants to lab! Imported I goods aa such when placed on sale. 'Another bill passed limits travel by state officials outside the aate. The bill repealing a $50,000 appropriation made in lalB fur purchas of factories facto-ries for road making materials was passed. The bill by Hull clarifying statute to make superintendent's place certain as executive officer of state board of education also was passed. Senate bill So. 63, giving preference prefer-ence right to entry of state lands to former service men. was passed by the house Wednesday afternoon without with-out a dissenting vote. Rpeciflc provision pro-vision of the bill fs t:.at veterans will be given a 10-duy preference over all Continued on Page M I EDUCATORS WIN (Continued from page V) entrymen on all projects that may be opened In the slate of Idaho. With the slgnsture of th governor practically assured th campaign for thl legislation, which waa begun by the American legion more than a year ago. will be closed. Thia legislation waa an Issu In th county convention In Ada county and was written Into the Republican - platform at the state convention In Pocatello. The bill which provides for such preference rights waa Introduced in the senate early. In th aassion by Burkey of Jerome county and waa passed by that body on February 6. |