Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-12-20

The act provides that the Senate shall
elect its presiding officer from its own
members, and in case of a vacancy in
the office OF Governor that the Secre-
tary of State shall be er-obicio the ex-
ecutive; provided that if the vacancy
shall exist more than year before the
time of holding the next general elec-
ton, then the Secretary of State acting
as Governor, ,.shall issue his proclama-
ton calling special election within
sixty days, to fill said vacancy. Laugh
ton, the present incumbent, if he
serves his full term will be in office
January, 1898, and will therefore have
an opportunity to again SOW the seeds
of discord in the G. o. p. at the session
OF 1891, and continuously ad interem.
It is quite improbable that the bill will
pass.
Long introduced a bill similar in its
provisions to one in the House, to con-
firm the titles to purchasers of Univer-
sity lands from the Territorial Com
missioners.
Wolfe, an act to regulate the practice
of medicine.
Also one to establish State Board
of Health and Bureau of Vital Sta
tistics.
The remainder of the session was
passed in consideration OF the notary
bill, introduced by the Judiciary COM
mittee. It was amended so as to re-
quire the petition for appointment of
notaries shall be signed by freeholders
and not merely legal voters; that a
fee of S. shall be paid, to go into the
State library fund; that the fee for
the first name of an acknowledgment
be 80 cents, and each additional name
% cents, and that the fee for notice
of protest be 25 cents. ParkinsMl's
amendment to.place !" old soldiers" on
the dead-head list for pension papers
was very properly voted down. Pend
ing consideration OF. the question as TO
when existing commissions should ex-
pire, Senate adjourned to Monday 80
Pm.
In the House. therspcaker signed a
number of House memorials, amongst
them those relating to the construc-
tion of q ship canal. between Lakes
Washington, Union and Samamish
and for the dredging of .Swinomish
channel. He also signed the act
changing the name-of Seatco.to Bu-
coda.
Meade introduced bill for the re.
lief OF ex-Gov. Semple. Appropriates
$l15.35, expenses of a trip to and from
Roslyn during the miners strike.
Plummer introduced bill to create
the Office of Adjutant and Inspector
General.
| Eddy one to appropriate 5000 fol
erection of State building.
Geohegan, to provide for prosecu.
tions by information; also, one for ap
pOintment of a commission to select
indemnity school lands.
i By Painter, to appropriate $4,000
for deficiencies in appropriation to the
Penitentiary at Walla Walla.
4 Also, to establish the State Fair ol
the State of Washington.
By Tucker, for REIMBURSEMENT tc
the United States of title to certain
sites of lighthouses.
H. B. % introduced by Megler) af.
ter long debate was lost on final
vote. 1t provided for an appropriation
for the relief of the Sheriff of Wahkia.
kum county, for services in looking
after fish-net depredations. The House
considered that he had done nothing
more than his duty.
House cOncurred in the Amendment
to Geohegan's bill reducing compensa-
tion OF clerks of the Supreme Court to
81 500.
Senate bill, relating to the payment
OF unpaid expenses of constitutional
convention came up, after long debate
and objections by Kuhn, Moultray and
Eddy, the bill passed, so yeas and
nays. The nays were Brown, of Spo-
kane, Judson, Of Pierce, Kuhn, Meade,
Moultray, Weatherford.
Adjourned till Monday at 2P.M.