Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-12-06
finally made special order for Mon :

day, 2 Pm.
Geohegan presented substitute
for the bill making appropriation fol
expenses of the Legislature, which
provides for per diem and mileage,
without naming any aggregate amount
to he drawn
Megler introduced bill providing
penalty for wearing the Grand Army
and Loyal Legion badges, by person.
not members of these orders. PlummeI
moved an amendment to include the
insignia of secret orders. Bill and
amendment were, on motion. tabled.
House then took Il recess to 2 p. NJ.
In the afternoon, the House by al
most an unanimous vote, reconsidered
the vote restoring the Grand Army
button bill to the calendar, and on
motion referred it to the Military Com
mittee. with instructions to print.
The following bills were introduced
BY Sharpe, to prevent cruelty to
children.
By Ostrander, to establish a bureau
Of agriculture, statistics and immigra.
ton.
The bill of Judson, of Whatcom
appropriating $4,000 for expenses OF
the Legislature passed without a dis
senting vote.
The Committee on mileage sub
mitted a final report, with the follow
ing totals: Mileage "a ,OO3; cost $3,-
403.
Herren called up the bill providing
for stenographic reporters for the
Superior Courts. Kuhn moved as an
amendment that the price paid stenO-
graphers for making transcripts be re-
duced from 90 to Is cents. Amend.
ment carried.
House adjourned to Monday 10
A. NJ.
In the Senate, Monday, the Presi-
dent, by request of Senator Drum, an
nounced the substitution of Hun
sacker for himself on the Enrolling
committee.
The chair likewise announced the
appointment OF Miss Troup as copying
clerk.
On motion of Jones, p S. Dorney
was appointed clerk of the committees
on Mines, Labor, Commerce and Me.
MORALS, at IS per day.
House Memorial No. 3, to the Sec
aetary Of the Interior, in relation
to sixteen or more townships of gov
ernment land in Stevens county, ask.
ing that the survey recently ordered
be withdrawn and cancelled, and that
the old surveys remain as boundaries
of the settlers claims, was read and re-
ferred to the committee ON Memorials
The following bills were introduced
BY Rinehart, to provide for official
stenographers for Superior courts and
fixing their salaries; read and referred
to Committee on Judiciary.
By Forsythe, to provide for the as
sessiug and collection of revenue; read
and referred to the Committee on Pub.
lie Revenue and Taxation.
Fairweather introduced resolution
that the Committee on Public Reven.
ue and Taxation be authorized to ap.
point q Clerk; carried, and Miss
Maud Wilson was SO appointed.
Senate then adjourned to next day
at P. N.
In the House the following bills
were introduced:
By Geohegan, to provide for the
payment of the officers and employees
of the Legislature.
By Rutter, to establish bureau OF
statistics of labor, agriculture and
immigration; referred to the Com
mittee on Labor and Statistics.
By Edens, to amend the act to pro-
vide for the construction of dykes and
dams; read second time and referred
to the Committee on Counties and
County Lines.
By Meade (by request), to provide
for the appointment of stenographers
for Superior Courts; referred to Judi
ciary Committee.
By Clarke, to create Board of Rail
road Commissioners and to define its
duties; read second time and referred
to the Committee Oh Railroads.
By Plummer, to declare as public
highways all streets in incorporated
cities extending over the flats.
Several bills were read a second
time and appropriately referred.
Robert Black, the Journal Clerk,
asked for assistance in writing up the
records.
On Grants motion that the request
be allowed, Kuhn, Judson and Pickrell
objected, the two former declaring
their belief that it was simply job to
give somebody position. The House
then very magnanimously granted the
journal clerk time to show cause, if
any there be, why he should be as
sisted.
The House then went into COM
mittee of the whole on the cigarette
bill, with Brown in the chair. He
stated on taking up the gavel that un-
less there was less "racket" in the
house he would vacate the chair in
Just three minutes. This caused lull
for a moment or two, but the commit
tee soon become involved in an mex
tricable snarl, and the confusion grew
worse confounded. The knot was
finally cut by proposition that the
committee rise and the House adjourn
to 2 p. NJ, which was done.
In the afternoon the House resumed
consideration of the cigarette bill,
which after amendment passed by a
vote OF 4S to 16. In its amended form
it reads as follows:
Be it enacted by the Legislature of
the State of Washington:
SECTION l. That it shall be unlaw
flll for any person or persons to sell,
give, barter or in any manner dipose
of any tobacco, cigars or cigarettes to
any person under the aye of 18 years.
SEC. 2. Any person or persons who
shall violate the provisions of Section
l of this act shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor, and shall upon con-
victiOn thereof be, for the first offense,
fined in any sum not less than ten
dollars nor more than fifty dollars, and
for each subsequent ofiense shall be
fined in any sum of not less than ten
dollars nor more than fifty dollars or
be imprisoned in the county Jail for a
term of not exceeding thirty days, or
be both fined and imprisonment at the
discretion of the court.
SEC. 3. Any person under the age
of Is years who shall represent to any
person dealing in tobacco, cigars or
cigarettes, that he is over the age OF Is
years, and by means of such represen-
tation procure from said dealer in to-
hocoo c;gars and ciparettes. shall be