, 1889-08-01

n county. All they could ever do was to
petition the legislature.
Mr.. Reed of Whitman moved the pre-
vious question, upon which motion Mr.;
Durie asked for the ayes and hoes, ana
his request was supported by the ncces-
sary number. The previous question
was put, aud the main question ordered
10y the following vote:
:. Ayes -Mcssrs. Allen, Berry, .Blalock,
Bowen, Burk, Comegy.s, Crowley, pal-
lam, Diokey Durie, Dyer, Eldredgc,
Grifiitts, Henry, Hicks, llungntc, Jani-
son, Kellogg, Lindsey, Manley, Melon
aid, McReavy, X. =. Moore, Mace, New
shoudy, Sohns, stevens, .Sturdeyant,
stiles, Sudksdorf, =. &. sullivan, Il. H.
berger, West, Wilson, Winsor--42.
.Noes-Messrs. Browne. Buchanan,
Clothier, Cocy, Glascock, Goldman,
Gomcy, Hayton, Jones, Kinncar Iillis,
McCroskey, McElroy, Minor, Moore
J. r., Mofgans, Power Prosser. Reed I,
NJ, Tibbetts, Warner, Weir, MIR. Presi-
dcnt.-23.
Absent-Ntessrs. Cosgrove, Dunbar,
Eshelman, Fairweather, Fay, Gray, Jcfis,
10y, Mircs, Turner.--10.
The question being then upon Mr..
Kinnear's motion to strike out, Mr..
stevenson moved call of the house but
was denied by the chair on the. ground
that after the previous question, had
been ordered any one motion to adjourn
and one motion to lay on the table was
in order.
The roll was then called on Mr.. Kin
near's motion to strike out which was
lost by about 3 to /.
j. u. Moore moved to amend section 3
by adding to the clause which the con-
yention had just refused TO strike out
"A, L., A.,I hot
such other conditions as shall be. pre-
scribed by II general law applicable to
the whole state"
Mr.. Stiles seconded the motion. He
believed that the legislative committee
would give them o provision to cover
this, but even while believing. this he
was entirely willing to show his good
faith by letting this amendment he made
right here
Mr.. Gritfitts expressed a similar view,
and then the amendment was adopted.
On Mr. Godman's motion an amend :
mont was made in the interest OF
the English Language. .
Mr.. Weir moved to reduce the size OF
cities which could make their own char
tiers from 25,0o0 to 10000. Lost.
Mr.. kinncur moved to further amend
section in tho clause which he had just
failed to have stricken out as printed
above by changing the word majority
to "two-thirds."
Mr. Warner moved TO further amcild
by making IL threo.iiiths, and on the
proposition the ayes aad noes were
ordered, resulting in n failure by vote
of ayes 25, noes Al.
The question recurrad OH Mr.. Kin
ncar's motion to make it ttwo-thlrds, and
this was lost by more than two TO one
on a call of the roll.
Mr.. Tibbitts moved to strike out the
remainder of section 3, beginning with
and including the clause which Mr.. Kin
near had failed to have stricken out.
Lost.
Mr.. Reed of Olympia moved TO fix the
size of cities which are to be allowed to
make theirown charters at l2,OOOinstead
of 5000.
Mr.. Browne moved to amend by max
ing it 5000, and argued in favor of the
smaller number.
Mr.. Griflitts favored this amendment,
and il prevailed by ayes 80, noes "a.
The question being OF Mr.. Reeds mo-
ton as thus amended roll was again
called and prevailed by avotc of ayes 40,
noes 81.
Mr.. Jones proposed to revive the old
question of yesterday about shcritfs be-
ing salaricd or feed officers by proposing
TO amend 10y inserting the words,
"Sheritls and recorders
Mr.. Gritlitts raised point of order
that this question had already been
voted on both in committee of the whole
and in convention and could not again
be raised without motion to recon-
slider.
The chair was inclined to overrulc the
point on the ground that the additional
word recorders" made 1t II different
motion.
Mr., Gritiitts claimed that the motion
was separablc and made his point of
order ON the word sheriff alone.
The chair sustained the point of order.
Mr.. Stiles said he believed the most
serious mistake the convention had
made in dealing with this report was to
reduce the figure from 25,OO to 900.
The true theory is that large cities have
necessities and questions to decide upon
which small cities do not.
Mr.. Moore was opposed to any special
legislation OH this ar any other subject.
He preferred to leave all this matter to
the Legislature, and would like to vote
to strike out this whole bushes.
Mr.. Warmers motion failed.
Mr.. Henry moved to strike out all of
section 10, which related to this matter
of allowing cities of any size To make
their own charters.
MIR. Duric moved to adjourn TO 80.
Mr.. kinncar suggested =. Mr.. Duric
accepted =, and the convention adjourned
until .