Wants $750,000 to Drain Kootenai
Representative Kent planned to introduce in the house today a memorial to congress asking for a $750,000 appropriation to be used in connection with a $1,000,000 appropriation made by British Columbia, for the removal of a grave harbor at the outlet of the Kootenai lake on the international boundary line and the reclamation of rich farm lands in Boundary county which are flooded by the waters of the lake.
Finding the $50,000 appropriated earlier in the session was running lower, the house passed a measure carrying an additional $30,000 to meet legislative expenses.
Calls Out. State Division Plan
The house state affairs committee reported out the state division resolution with the recommendation that it go to the committee of the whole, where its fate will be settled later in the week. The six farm markets bureau bills were amended in committee of the whole and recommended for passage under suspension of the rules. They liberally extend the power of the director of farm markets.
The legislature is at loggerheads over the right of way for bills originating in either house was caused by the summary decapitation of house measures in the senate house.
Yesterday, with the result that the house promised to retallate and hold up or kill senate measures. The question was also raised as to the validity of bills, as amended, that passed the lower house. The discovery was made that the journal does not contain amendments, and as this document is the only record of the legislature as approved from day to day, the  Failure to record amendments may jeopardize some important legislation. 