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Show GOVERNOR TO VETO APPROPRIATIONS BOISE, Idaho. March 13. Governor I Alexander may veto in toto all appro-pri.ii appro-pri.ii ion bills passed by the fourteenth Idaho legislature and call a session extraordinary. ex-traordinary. A definite decision will ! be reached when the chief executive has all the appropriation bills before j him. If he cannot cut them down, or i such a course is found inadvisable, he will veto them outright and convene con-vene an extra session for the express purpose of pruning the appropriation measures down to within the limitations limita-tions of the state. The appropriation bills passed by the legislature, reaching a grand total 'of more than 54.UOU.000, if allowed to i stand, will, in the opinion of the gov-I gov-I ernor, force upon Idaho the highest j tax levy in the state's history and re-I re-I quire the slate to face a deficiency at I the end of two years of $750,000. J "The appropriations are out of rea- son and if allowed to stand will bank-j bank-j rupt the state," said the governor. "The way It looks now, the appropriations appropri-ations made for every state depart-1 depart-1 ment. from governor down, will have to be severely cut. I have commenced to assemble the bills to ascertain what action lies within my power toward cutting them down. If this cannot be done, the only recourse I will have Is an extra session of tho legislature. I may have to veto the appropriation bills in toto. "I will nut stand for such large appropriations ap-propriations I care not whether they come from a Democratic or a Republican Repub-lican legislature. I repeat, they are out of all reason and if allowed to stand in their present form would bankrupt the state They would also force upon the people one of the highest high-est tax levies and then probablv cause a $750.t0ii deficiency at the end of two years." The governor vetoed two bills today and signed twenty-one others fourteen four-teen house bills and seven sneate bills The veto was applied to the Curtis act (senate bill No loT), making it mandatory man-datory on the chief executive to appoint ap-point a woman to the state board of education, and the Wedgwood measure meas-ure (senate bill No. 74), providing for appeals from the acts of county boards of equalization. With regard to the woman's bill, the governor holds that for more than twent years woman suffrage has existed ex-isted in Idaho and it is unnecessary to place a law on the statute boows to establish equality between the sexes, that the governor now has the power to appoint a woman to the board of education. Regarding the Wedgwood bill, the governor contends that such a law would cause endless litigation over taxation matters, that it would hold up the collection of revenue by taxation, and that the action of the board of county commissioners should be final, as the commissioners are better bet-ter posted in such matters than th courts. The governor signed several bills today. to-day. The most important measure approved ap-proved divides Idaho into two congressional con-gressional districts the First and Second Sec-ond from each of which a congressman congress-man will be elected in the future. It also gives the governor power to fill vacancies in the L'nited States senate. The ten northern counties and Adams Gem, Washington, Canyon, Valley, Boise, Custer and Lemhi counties are placed in th First district; all other counties, including the southeastern and southern Idaho, are in the Second district. |