, 1888-01-26
A Large Batch of Bills Pas
Both Houses.
The Legislature Trying to Clean
Up their Work.
The Governor Signs the Insane
Asylum Bill.
Special 70 the REvIEw.I

Special TO the REvIEwl
OLYMPIA, w. T., Jan. 25.- In the
council to-day Gabel presented u re-
tition numerously signed by residents
OF Adams county, asking the repeal of
| the special road law enacted in 1886.
A bill WAS introduced a,il lhorizing
the territorial auditor to draw his war.
rant for W hatever sum he may find
due the heirs of j. M. Vansyckle, Of
Wnlla Walla county, for lands sold
him to which the territory had no title.
Slmrpstein called up his bill regul t.
ing the liquor traffic.
Thompson called Lewis to the chair
and offered an amendment that II pc
tition signed by one.third of the tax.
payers of IL district in which the appli-
cant lives who wished license TO sell
liquor would entitled him to II license.
Hawley made some remarks in op-
position to the amendment, and it was
lost.
The bill was lost by the following
vote: Ayes-Barker, Foster, Sharp
stein and Steele. Nays--Gabel, Convey,
Hawley, Lewis, White and Thorn pson.
Fosters bill providing for condem-
patton OF land for logging roads and
chutes, which had been passed and re-
considered, was passed again unani-
mously.
The following bill were passed:
Conveys bill relating to the collec-
ton of revenue.
Lewis bill making larceny by hailee,
larceny in fact.
House bill legalizing the acts d Jug
lass unity officers.
II use bi making it u misdemeanor
to discharge fire arms in incorporated
towns, near dwellings.
Council bill giving county commits
sioners exclusive jurisdiction of the
poor in their respective counties.
Lewis bill making laborers preferred
Ieieditors 10 the extent Of $50 in case OF
failure OF their employers.
House bill repeating the act regulat-
ing mileage Of the Sheriff Of Whatcom
| county.
House bill providing that in deeds in
writing, properly acknowledged, the
word heir and other tech ical words of
inherita nee are not necessary TO con-
vey in law by fee simple title.
Whites bill for protection of salmon
and food fish.
Sharpstein's bill authorizing tele-
graph companies to exercise the right
of eminent domain in certain cases.
Lewis bill appropiiating $2SS for
the purchase of turn ture for the exec.
utive chamber.
Lewis bill allowing sheriff's ten
cents per mile while Transporting pris-
oners to the penitentiary.
House bill providing punishment
for embezzlement, and larceny.
Council bill relating 10 inventory OF
decide rs property.
Thompson's bill providing for filling
vacancies in the Offices Of justices Of
the peace. Adjourned.
HOUSE.
Reconsideration of the vote by which
the bill creating the office Of attorney
general had been passed, had been
made the special order for this morn.
ing, but on motion of Irwin, the mat
ter OF reconsideration Was indefinitely
postponed, 70 that the bill only needs
tile Governors signature to become
law.
McMillan's bill prohibiting cattle,
horses, mules. sheep and goats from
running ut large, or being herded on
any uninclosed lands, whenever mt
jority Of legal voters of any county
shall vote in favor of prohibiting, took
up all the balance Of the morning ses.
sion. 1t finally passed by vote Of Is
TO 8.
Thompson introduced bill provid-
ing that in cities af 1000 or more there
shall he but one school dis ;rict and
that two directors shall he elected from
each ward, p
A message was received from the
governor announcing his approval OF
the bill appropriating $50 600 for an
insane asylum at Med cal Lake.
The following bills passed the house |:
Bill SS, prOvidinY for transportation to
the territorial penitentiary.
Speaker Clark's bill creating and
defining the crime Of malicious mis-
chief, and defining punishment there
for.
House bill l72 regulating building
Of wire fences.
House bill 81, by Clark, Of Yakima,
on the same sabiect was lost.
Humes' bill exemltng smelling
works from taxation Tor five years
brought out an interesting DISCUSSION
and was lost BY u vote Of Z to 15.
House bill ~, relative To crimes and
punishments was lost.
Warman's bill to amend the act rel
| ative to pilot commissioners passed, as
did McElroy's bill relative TO the con-
Struction Of dykes and dams.