, 1889-12-12
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SENATE AND HOUSE
PROCEEDINGS.
Senate Asked to Memcralize Con-
gress on Pensions.---Relief
Bills,-..List Of New
Bills.

OLYMPIA, Dec. 6.-The senate met at
I'm.
Long, OF the committee on roads and
bridgs, introduced joint resolution No.
| l3, that said committee be instructed TO
meet and prepare a road law. Adopted.
Rinchart moved that the governor be
requested to furnish the senate with late
reports of the state insane hospitals, pen
atentiaries and school for defective youth.
| Carried
Memorial No. 3, by Kinnear, asking
congress to place all old soldiers on the
pension roll, was read and referred to
the committee on memorials.
The Judiciary committee reported ia
vorably upon senate bill No. 3, by Kin
near, "an act relating to the organiza-
ton, powers and duties of the supreme
| court" The committee, after making a
| few minor amendments, recommended
its passage. After sundry minor amend
| ments the bill was sent to the engrossing
eemmittee,
The Judiciary committee reported ia
vorably upon, and recommended the pas
cage of, senate bill No. ., by Kinnear,
to prohibit the making OF profit out of,
or use foF any purpose not allowed by
law, by any county, city or town, of pub
lie money by an officer, his agent, clerk,
servant or employe, having possession
or control thereof, and providing punish
ment therefor" 1t was unanimously
passed without amendment.
THO judiciary committee reported un-
favorably upon senate bill No. 10, by
Long, "an act authorizing the governor
to appoint q commission to examine and
report upon the work of the code COM
mission" reported to the legislature and
fixing their compensation at s. per day,
Action on the bill was indefinitely post
poned;
BILLS READ AND REFERRED.
Bills we're introduced, read and re-
ferred as follows:
S. B. No. %, by Parkinson, to provide
for complete school system for the state.
Read second time and referred to the
committee on education.
S. B. No. 50; by I.andes, to relieve ho-
tel keepers from liabilities forloss of jew
elry and other valuables. Read and re.
ferred to the committee on the Judi
ciary.
s. B. No "a, by Landes, to establish a
board of health for the Puget Sound col
lection district. Passed first and second
reading and referred to the committee
on medicine and surgery.
S. D. No. 50, by Preston, to appoint a
committee to report upon the locations
for an agricultural college, was read the
first and second time and referred to the
committee on agriculture.
S. B. No. 80, by Drum, to provide for
and regulate the registration of votes in
cities and towns having population of
500 or more. Passed first and second
| reading and was referred to the commit
tee on mines and mining.
3. b. No. 80, by Austin, to allow school
diatricts TO issue bonds for the building
of school houses. Read the first and
second time and referred to the commit
| tee on education.
S. b. No. 80, by Owings, for the ap-
preparation of $3.50 as compensation
for Thomas NJ. Reed, Robert Frost and
S. b. McElroy, for work and expense
in enlarging and improving the capitol
building for the use of the constitutional
convention and legislature. Read the
first and second tIae and referred to the
committee on buildings and grounds.
| Memorial No. l, for the relief OF set
tiers who lost property in the Indian war
of 1856, was read and passed unani-
mously,
Fairweather moved that the senate re.
solve itself into a committee OF the
whole to consider bill No. %, to provide
tor the paying OF the unpaid expenses OF
the constitutional convention. Car
ricd.
Thompson, Of Wslla Walla, was ther
called to the chair.
The bills we're read in detail, showing
an aggregate of s6,076.27, due the mem
bers and clerks of the convention.
discussion followed as to the ways ant
means. and by vote it was resolved t.
vote fsvorably for the passage of bill O
that amount, to be at once paid out o
the funds not otherwise appropriated.
The committee then arose and the oil
WAS referred to the engressment com
mittee.
Several senators gave notice of bill