Show STATE PRIMARY LAW LAVI LAWIS IS PROPOSED IN INS S IDAHO Legislature Also Adopts Other Important New Measures BOISE Idaho March I 1 Idaho's legislative session at which th the Republicans had an overwhelming majority repealed the state primary law as a's lS It applIes to state and congressional congressional con con- gressional nominations and returned to the thc convention plan for the I tion o ot party candidates This change was made as a consequence of the usurpation of the Democratic party machinery preceding last last summers summer's summers summer's sum sum- mers mer's primary by the the Nonpartisan I league The state adopted a commission form or of state government creating nine do- do in place ot of the forty eight now flow operative and v vesting sting full responsibility ye- ye In the governor who will choose his own cabinet of nine men each o ot whom will wili receive a year earI ear I A constitutional amendment will be submitted In 1920 provIding for tor an increase increase in- in crease in the supreme court member member- shin from three to five members Whether the supreme court may have jurisdiction over decisions or of the public pub pub- lie lic utilities commission will also be decided tIe tIe- as a constitutional amendment The legislature Is authorized to prescribe prescribe pre pre- scribe the scope and conditions condition ot of appeals appeals ap- ap peals perfected STATE CONSTABULARY A state constabulary s s 's m with I extensIve police powers w was s establIshed established estabI I and an appropriation of I Iwas was made for that purpose Extensive road improvement was authorized authorize l and to be raised by a specIal road tax levy was made available for tor the construction work The erection of wings to the cen central capitol unit was authorized and a bond issue approved for financing the constructIon Appropriations for all purposes total total to- to tal approximately which includes in- in eludes for the erection or of an administration buIlding at the Lewiston Lewiston Lewis Lewis- ton State Normal school re replacing lacing the theone theone one destroyed a year ago by fire A bill creating a soldiers soldiers' settlement board and carrying an appropriation of passed the Idaho legisla- legisla I ture The rhe board is empowered to aid returning soldiers in finding homes and expects to cooperate with the federal fed fed- eral government LABOR Soldier labor is planned to be extensively ex- ex used on the construction of east and west wings to th the central capitol building for which a bond issue has been authorized A bill providing for a 1000 tax exemption ex- ex emption for discharged men who had seen Mexican border service or were I in the army during the German struggle gb gle was killed and an emergency employment em- em bill for soldiers providing for Cor employment by the county commissi corn com missi missioners ners for sixty days failed ot of passage because it was believed to be unconstitutional Governor Davis wired a resolution to Idaho congressional representatives favoring favoring- the abolition of federal em- em agencies and federal fInan- fInan I em-I c a assistance for a state employment bureau I |