The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-11-15
The Speaker Treats the Jolly Boys
of the House.
Lively Times in the Third House.
School Law, Revenue Law, Code Law,
Penitentiary Bill, Constitutional
Convention, &c., &c.

Territory adjourned sine die at two
o'clock A. NJ, to-day. In the Council
the last hours were mostly consumed
in executive session confirming the
Governors nominations In the House
the Revenue bill was the bone of con-
tention. The bill was first introduced
in the Council by Hanford, of King
County, and as finally passed both.
houses, contains many innovations of
the present law. The feeling which
arose in the discussion of this bill,
together with the exhilarated spirits of
large majority of the Representa-
tives who had imbibed freely Ito say
the least) of the malty sob be joy
full furnished in ten gallon vessel
by the Honorable Speaker of the
House, was beyond the control of all
rules of ORDER After the business on
the table had been cleared up and
the House was waiting for the Coun-
ell to announce its readiness to adj
iourn, the members of the House
turned themselves loose, and with
some assistance from the jolly boys
of the third house, held high carnival
in the hall where Legislative wisdom
had hitherto maintained its dignity.
Motion followed motion in total dis
regard of all rules of parliament.
Motions to amend, to recommit, to
adjourn, to lay on the table, or under
it, or to indefinitely postpone, were
all alike debatable, and each called
forth eloquent appeals from all those
fi''Asa, -nent up feelings demanded ex-
''too full for utterance," and the pa
per balls made up from old bills, now
dead, and newspapers whose glory
had departed with the dying session,
hurled erewhile from one side of the
House to the other, and at the Speak
ers head, sufficed to render confusion
worse COMPOUNDED, and put fms to
the sixth biennial session which will
long remain green in the memory of
its participators. The virgin soil that
occupied the chair of the House,
tNewland,) usually unable to main
tain proper order at times of any ex-
element, was totally overwhelmed
by the pranks of his ''boys," and
gazed despairingly upon the wreck
before him as with maudlin acouies-
cence he subsidized in the comfortable
precincts of his seat of honor. At
last recess was declared, during which
an old and accomplished member of
the third house, was called to the chair
amidst aliteral burst ofapplause. He
thanked the august O. body for the
honor conferred upon him, and pro-
ceeded with his speech as follows:
"When, in the course of human
events, it becomes necessary for
man to make fool of himself, | know
OF no better time ID eretor than the
present occasion, -, &c. Evident
ly the sharp that once through Tara's
halls the soul of music she'd" was
tbrummed under the dome of the
Washington Territory capitol. But
the time arrived for adjournment, and
after the usual resolutions of thanks
and the messages from one House to
the other announcing the final wind.
ing up Of business, the hammer fell
and the session of 1877 became a thing
of the past. Its members dispersed
to await the judgment of their con-
stituents. Doubtless they will all be
remembered by what they have done,
and this to some of them is perhaps
sorry reflection, though some very
wise and good Legislation has been
accomplished. The school law which
was adopted is more comprehensive,
thorough, and liberal IN its provisions
than any the Territory has bad. De-
fects it no doubt has, which time will
demonstrate; but its leading features.
chief of which is the six mill tax, are
all good and will no doubt meet with
the hearty approval of the people.
In this connection it is proper to state
that special law was passed for
Clarke County, under which the Coun-
ty Commissioners may increase the
school tax of the county to eight
mills on the dollar If they sha II M any