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Show IDAHO VOTES AID TO lEjfafJS Senate Agrees to Appropriation Appropria-tion of $100,000 BO I SB. Idaho, Feb. 24 The senate of the state legislature Wednesday voted to appropriate the sum of $100,-000 $100,-000 for the aid and assistance, of disabled dis-abled and destitute veterans ot the I great war with Germany. The bill, j which was Introduced by Burkey of I Jerome county, was recently reported i out of the finance committee with an j adverse recommendation. When the rolloall on the final passage of the bill j was taken It showed that the majority I of the member of the committee fa-I fa-I vored the measure. The vote was 34 to 8. The bill provides for. the creation of a soldier welfare commission consisting consist-ing of five members. The state ad-uiant ad-uiant f 4h American teg ton shall be secretary of the commission and shall work with the board. The bill, however, how-ever, -empowers him to act independently independ-ently In emergency cases and 'permits him to Issue warrants tn the sum of $50 to needy veterans, providing that the total emergency drafts do not exceed ex-ceed $500. Repeating Its art of two years ago, the senate killed the county school bill. Recess was taken debating the measure at length In the morning, and a, number num-ber of resolutions to postpone other bills Intervened in the afternoon before be-fore the school bill was taken up again. By that time the mania seemrd fastened fas-tened upon the senate and Fisher's motion to postpone house bill No. 71 met the same fate. Senators Mmaon and Hegstedt tried to sava the hill. The latter asked the senate to extend the privilege of the floor to Representative W. tSrott Hall, chairman of the It n use education committee, com-mittee, which Introduced it, but this was refused. Then the senate proceeded to pass senate bill No. v. by Houghton, which permits a system of chartering lumber lum-ber companies to Improve navigable streams pf the north for driving of logs, and permits them to charge tolls in order to reimburse them for these improvements. |