Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-10-21

AFTERNOON SESSION.
Council reassembled.
G. B. No. 80, an act relating to
Justices of the Peace, passed.
G. B. No an act appropriating
one-half the Territorial tax of King
county to repair the Beach road was
defeated, by vote of 6 to 6.
Mr.. Evans moved reconsidera-
ton of the vote, and the bill was
made a special order for Saturday,
10Th.
Substitute for c. B. No. %, an act
amending the Civil Practice act,
passed.
The following communication was
received from the Governor:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
OCTOBER Goth, 1881.
- To THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY: I
have the honor in a message dated
October 18th, to apply to the Legis-
lative Assembly for copies of such
Joint Resolutions as may have been,
or may be hereafter passed, by your
honorable bodies, of a Legislative
character, requiring expenditure of
public monies, or otherwise, in order
that the Executive Department, as a
coordinate and cooperative branch
the Territorial government AMI
representing the Government of the
United States, may be in possession
of an authenticated and intelligent
knowledge of transporting legislation.
l have received such copies, and
by official correspondence with the
Secretary of the Territory, am in
formed that sundry joint resolutions
of a Legislative character, involving
the expenditures of public monies
and other important legislation, have
been officially and finally filed in his
office, which are without the approval
of the Governor.
Joint resolutions of legislative
character. unless approved by the
Governor, are void and imperative.
The Organic Act states that the leg
islative power in each Territory shall
be vested in the Governor and Leg
islative Assembly.
No argument is required to prove
that appropriations of public monies,
and other matters of important legis-
lation contained in the resolutions
referred to are an exercise of legis-
lative power.
The United States Statutes pro-
vide, that the constitution and laws
of the United States, which are not
locally inapplicable. shall have the
same force and effect in all the or
ganized Territories.
The constitution of the United
States declares that every bill which
shall have passed the Senate and
House of Representatives shall be
10 the President of the
United States, who, if he approve,
shall sign it. In the same section it
is made requirement that every
order, resolution or vote, to. which
the concurrence of the Senate and
House of Representatives may be
necessary Except on a question of
shall be presented to
the President of the United States
and before the same shall take effect
shall be approved by him.
The Honorable Mr.. Kirkwood,
Secretary of the Interior Department
at Washington, telegraphed to me on
the 10th day of October, 1881, that,
GA Joint Resolution of the Terri
torial Legislature is without effect
unless approved by the Governor"
l have profound respect for the
Assembly Of Washing
ton, and am impelled only by o
strong sense of official responsibility
and authority, to assert and to main
tain the prerogative of a Territorial
Executive to participate in the co-or-
dinate exercise of Legislative power,
to prevent the payment of public
monies without law and the appear
ance upon our statute book OF enact
ments which are neither parliament
tary, legal or constitutional.
X WM. A. NEWELL.
Referred to committee on Rules
and Orders.
H. B. No. 2, repeating an act Gre
alton q Territorial Board of Equali-
zation, passed.
H. B. No. SO, appropriating one
half the Territorial tax of Snohomish
county for building a Territorial
road therein, was made the special
order for the Goth inst.
On motion of Mr.. Evans, the
Territorial officers and re-
porters of the press. were invited to
accompany the Committee of the
Whole on visiting public buildings.
c. B. No. 81, an act to appropriate
the whole of the Territorial tax of
Clallam county for building certain
roads. Final action postponed till
the 10Th.
Council then adjourned to the
25th.