Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1875-10-30
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
COUNCIL


wife to adopt Rebecca J. Oliver, an.
orphan child passed.
| Mr.. Boone introduced a memorial in
aelation to the annexation Of Idaho,
Shoshone and Mes Perez counties of
Idaho, to Washington Territory which
was adopted.
Council bill to amend an act to in
corporate the town of Port Townsend
passed.
The Executive Clerk appeared and
presented the following
Nominations by the Governor
Francis Tarbell, Auditor; Francis M.
Sargent, Treasurer; J. Fl. Munson,
Librarian; j. r. Thompson, School
Superintendent.
Substitute for House Memorial pray
ing for daily mail service between
Olympia and Port Townsend passed.
Adjourned to 2p.M.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Council resolved itself into an
Executive Session.
Mr.. Blinn moved to adopt the rules
of the U. S. Senate, and sat down with
the air of man who had fred bomb
shell into the camp of the enemy.
The motion was lost.
The memorial praying Congress to
restore the privilege of eleeting Terrific
rial officers, after considerable discus
sion passed. Ayes 5, noes 4.
Question being the confirmation of
the appointments of the Governor, con-
siderable discussion ensued, between
Messrs. Blinn and Bradshaw, in favor
of confirmation, and Messrs. Hoover
and Pickering opposing.
The former held that the acts of Con-
gress are supreme and the people are
in duty bound to obey them; that the
rights of the people have not been
rnenaced or infringed upon; that the
people of the Territories were depend
emit upon the General Government for
support, and should quietly acquiesce
in the rubbing in" process.
Messrs. Hoover and Pickering, on
the contrary, showed wherein the Ad-
ministration had step by step usurped
the privileges and prerogatives of the
people of the Territories; that the poll
cy was wrong in principal, and as fla
grant an outrage as some OF the acts
of the parent government which led to
the war Of the Revolution, They de-
cleared their purpose to refuse to sane
ton or palliate the injustice by their
votes.
The question was then taken on each
nomination. The vote stood:
Ayes: Messrs. Blinn, Bradshaw,
Boone and Hovey-4.
Noes: Messrs. Hoover, Ping, Picker
ing, Sovey and Mr.. President.
Except on the nomination for School
experimentation Treasurer, on which
Blinn voted With the negative.
After which Council adjourned.
|. TUESDAY, Oct 20, 1875.
Council met pursuant to adjourn
ment.
After the usual order,
House resolution relating to the Ter
ritorial warrant to Thos. Cranney was
adopted
The memorial relating to mail service
from Seattle to the Renton Coal Mine
was adopted.
The Governor sent in message an
nouncing his appointment of Notaries
Public and Commissioners of Deeds.
The following Notnries were con-
firmed:
aft TUESDAY, Oct. &c, 1876.
The Governor announced that he had
made the following nominations for
Notaries Public, and submitted the
same for confirmation by the Council:
w T Ballow, j M Hall, E L Shan
non, A p Carr, Ell. M. Sutton, M p
Calender, A III Simmons, Jas r Hay
den, I'll X Stevens, John Woods, j Ell
Mcfarland, j Miller Murphy, Geo L
Pearson, j s Walker, Nathaniel Crosby,
Jr. R'P Reynolds, e B Whitman, e G
Ferguson, ] Fl Kuhn, Edward McTag-
CERT, M s Booth, VIM II White, M v
B Stacy, S M Halter, II Overy, Beriah
Stevens, D Bagley, Frank Clark, G A
Henry, j M Lowe, w B Hall, j. FL
Dyson, L B Andrews, N II Bloomfield,
w N Smith, G D Emery, L A Banks,
Fl S Howe, j L Allison, G NJ Bradshaw,
P jenkins, VIM. Munks, D w Smith,
J g Davenport, S w Harris, N s Por-
ter, G b Bagley, P B johnson, Gard
ner Kellogg, r W Crawford, D S B
| neQry, u STHWIOru, h " OEaWlOTu,
Louis Zigler, J. Winslow.
On motion the appointments were
confirmed.
| Adjourned. sA-.
WEDNESDAY, Oct. ~, 1876.
Council met at the usual hour.
President in the chair.
The following bills were passed:
The memorial establishin mail SER
vice between Semiahmoo, w. T., and
New Westminster.
House bill relating to foreign corpo-
rations.
House bill relating to aliens.
House bill relative to road tax in
Kitsap county.