The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-12-05
THE OLYMPIA GRIST
4 Busy Day in Both the Sen
ate and House.
PROTECTION FoR oysTEa BEDS
The New Fish Lawa-Emersemcy cIaass
Makes Trsubls-In shs Inssrezt
ef state Printers


lively dispute this afternoon over House
bia No. 81. providing for tie puhiicAtaon
and distribution q the sgprszas c0uEz re-
ports Of Washington The text o. the bsA 81:
De Il enacaea DT tbs legislature a the ssszt cf
Washtnesn1-
SEcTTos !. The ftpurfx CT the supTerne eoust
pf fhe state % ashznx5on ssiREs b published II
volnHles q nbt less than 30 pages each. The
ssyfe nf tyrs used, fhe genersi typc9raphy ana
fhe paper ana biading shall be eanal in qasiity
&n1 generally SIMILAR 70 that used Ia 70 une
ii Of Washington territ9Fy repoKak-
Sec TIE reposter shall have Ia reennisry
interest IN the volnEaes of reports, hat they
rsHsf Be pnbiished under the knaerrjsion Ct tne
court aud Fersrzer hg confrnef 30 b. ent red lnt0
By tie reporseF. sEeeseszz - state RH9 the akoE-
nsF general With tse perscn 81 persons rho
shall axree ta publish ard ssl. SAID resorts aor
period of ten years On TERMS most s1lFaatar
geu1z 70 the state ard the pahl5c- Sais Fxtce
net 10 exceed $50 ger volume.
SEQ. TIE eonfEAet must require TIE rNh-
Usher 10 print and publish each volume wstntn
k1xtx days from the tine Il which the manu-
seFips IL delivered by the reporter TIE szid
eorsraet mRst require the puhlisheF: FIRST 70
sell 30 eogar< If each volume ss pElhsssAtd 70
tie state Vt lie pr1ce Exea ia tae confrscE. sec
end, 10 keep On hand aad for sac AZ the prlce
stipulated Ia the tract sUnleseui numher oi
eopias uf each sc ume 20 supply 81 the demands
for ten yeaEs fe0ln the publication thereof
Third. 70 make Ssereotyps plates OF the pagess
each yoluHse 20 tbs end thas the same May
Bevsr be oat os print Fourth 10 rspStzst. wish-
cur stat aia. iume of Wssh nefoA territory
rspngfs ans 70 sell taa same 70 the gtste aDd
IA slic as the nnss rm price Stipulated Tor the
"a ure Vaiums ia said contract. Filth. % give
bons fer she fusfilrnNNf Of the terms OF the con-
tract In she snfn Of s19.oCb.
sectien 4 On the puhliceticn % each volume
Of ihe reports the seesefarv Of sia-e nuss par
chase ios the % state 100 eoFses Of said vol-
ums ~ the Price tanned in the con rseEs aud
after having distributed the sane AS required By
sc ign ). shall deposit the surplus copies. II any
there be. in the state ifarary.
Section S. The secretary Of state must dis
tribute bound yotunss OF the decisions OF the
su1Fene cSnFt As follows. First. TO each state
and territory. cops second. tostafe aai other
libraries In the state, one copy third 20 each de
partment Of this state and 10 each Of the United
states district judges for this stale suprene and
superior Jadg~s, ore copy: foarths 50 each dis
Iricf attorney and coHnfy clerk. one copy: fifth,
20 scporters of the decisions ten copies sixth. to
each member Of the Legislature. one cory
section s. The seer tary Of sta c must snde ibiy
mark each book dlssribaeed 70 officers in the
state lexcept iegis alive oaeers and reporsersl
with the name Of the county 10 which. aud the
designation Of the clicer 20 whom IA Is seat
Each book remains The property Of the state anc
must be BY the on xrs receiving the same de-
livsred 70 sheir Successors.
This Is she same bin that was introduced
by request BY Weed OF King In the senate,
and Is pretty generally understood to have
been presented by the Bancroft Whitney
Publishing Company, OF San Francisco
Geoshegan, who Is supporting It, practi-
cally admitted that il was drawn by and in
The interest OF publishers. but he con-
tended that Il was plain business propo.
sition. and as il gave no advantage 10 any
printer is was entitled TO consideration.
Opposition TO the blu arose 6rst on the
claim that the printing should be done at
home, and by no foreign company, and il
was attempted TO insert provision for it's
publication within the state OF Washing
ton. This proposition. after spirited dis
enssion. was defeated Grant. Hughes and
Rutter of King, who led the opposition.
were beaten once. only 10 appear again
with another amendment TheirohIections
we're made forcibly and clearly, and though
evidently In the minority, they finally sue
cecded IN securing an adjournment tiII
tomorrow.
The bill on the face is plausible enough
and II there is q jeh in il il is carefully con-
cealed. The principal objections to
measure are these The printing may be
done outside Of the state Of Washington, in
which there are at least half dozen estab-
ashments fully capapble OF doing the work;
II gives the successful bidder a practical
monopoly OF the publication for ten years,
in that the purchase of 800 copies BY the
state will afford HIM a start that viii shut
out opposition Il provides that each vol
ume Of not less than zoo pages shall be pnb-
lished within 90 days after the Manuscript is
delivered. No coast firm can safely under
take the work in such time. except the
Ranerost-w hitney company. The sfereo-
type plate provision Is expected to shut out
competition. and II IL did not the contract
70 print. without state aid, volume /. OF
Washington territory reports would settle
the question OF the disposition Of she con-
tract in Raneroft's favor No doubt the
company has plates OF that volume and
can easily reproduce 1t again. Il il re-
ouired the reports be similar to volume
I'll, OF Washington Territory reports. puas-
~ Bancroft This, Of course. il
proper, bat il favors The san FRAN
cisco company. Notwithstanding ali these
objections this is probably the NEST reason
able proposition the Bancroft II Whltnev
company has ever made 10 the people Of
Washington. Copies Of the thsee reports
now extaut are sod at prices from IS up
wz.sl. whsie in this bill il 81 ircnc5as3 clan q
binding tie contractor % print fully 100
usges foF MT mere thzn Ss.sa Fartasr vol
nmes average 80 10 80 pases. There Is a
reason fer this. IS doubtless the Bancroft
Wkitaev company expects % make a
s4rone esfaTf 10 secure the printing Of the
uew Washington code. and they via msake
this contrnct steFring stone 10 the greater
ard remunsrAtive ios
Whea The b;ll comes np in che House To-
morrow il Wisf seain I've attacked bv Grant
and his followers. and II they don't defeat
Is. they wS.l . i1hssezs Serare modification
az SIS YT0x5saoiss- Ther want bonae pub-
ksher~ - he xsven 81 least the preference
ever those outside-
Messrs SAnhorn ard Davis, representing
the bancroft -whisney eonpany hsve he1n
in olynarss Scr some days IA the interest ol
their firm.
sensation vas created In the House
this recrsing when Rotch. Chairman ct the
pssnstne COMMITTEES, rising 20 3 qaessaon o:
psivilege. read TIE soaoufnx eonsmsnica.
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