Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-02-07


Eddy agreed with Shaw. The House
had been actually in session 1875 hours,
or seventeen days OF eight hours.
Eddy was going on to refer to the
motives OF members, when the chair
raped him to order.
The chair proposes, from this time
on" declared the Speaker, to stop
personalities and elimination between
members and to keep the House down
to business, or to get somebody else in
the chair"
This declaration was received with
hearty applause.
Eddy resumed, saving the House
had so far wasted three-iifths OF its
time and he had the manhood and
courage to say so.
Moultray believed the Legislature
could adjourn before March l.
The resolution was adopted, on roll
call-aves 81, noes 22-as follows:
Ayes-Allen, Blair, Browne, OF
Pierce, Cleman, Cornwell, Drew, Eddy,
Evans, Parish, Candy, Geoghegan,
Gilchrist, Grant, Hutchinson, Kuhn,
McReavv, Meade, Nash, Ostrander,
Painter, Parson, Peterson, Pickrell,
Power, Shinn, Shaw, Stevenson,
Straight, Turner, Weatherford, Mr..
Speaker-3l.
Noes - Blackburn, Bush, Clark,
Day, Edens, Flummeriel:, Grub,
Hamilton, Judson of Pierce, JudsOn
of Whatcom, Kennedy, Lull, Minkler,
Moultray, Minis, Oliphant, Purdy,
Robertson, Sharp, Spencer, Tucker
-.
The following bills were introduced
BY committee on counties and
county lines, House bill 2S4, provid-
ing for the change of boundary lines
between counties, as a substitute for
House bills pa and IA, to be con-
sidered with the bills for which it is
intended as substitute.
BY joint committee on roads and
highways, bill providing for the con.
structiOn of free turnpike and plank
roads and providing for the issuing Of
bonds.
By Cleman, of Yakima, bill provid'
ing for the payment OF certain ex-
penses of Judges OF Superior Courts.
BY Grant, OF King, bill to establish
a home for honorably discharged
soldiers, etc; same as Senate hill.
BY Power, OF Kittitas, bill in rela
ton to the election of County Asses
sors, providing for the election, at the
general fall election, of an Assessor in
each county, to serve for two years
In some counties, at present, Sheriff.
act as Assessors.
Cook, of Clarke, bill relating tc
fences, and providing for fence-viewcrs
Minis AMI Medcalf introduced me
mortal 10, asking Congress to appro
pirate 100000 for the improvement
of Gray's Harbor and the Chehali.
river, and it was adopted with only
one negative vote.
Evans presented petition from the
Argendale Equal Suffrage Association
asking an amendment of the constitu
ton so as to grant municipal suffrage
to females, and the right to hold any
Office in the gift OF the people. Re
ferred.
Clark's House bill Is, providing fol
township organizations, was placed on
its final passage and lOst-ayes 80
noes Is. One more affirmative vot,
would have passed it. A motion t6
reconsider will be made tomorrow an(
the bill may yet pass.
House bill 175, by Allen, of King
requiring owners of piers, etc, to dis
play lights at night came up.
Allen sent up and had read by tn,
clerk letter from United States En-
gineer Hamburg in reference to the
bill, saying the policy of the lighthouse
board was to discourage, as far as pos
sible, the display of private lights, but
expressing no opinion on this bill.
Allen advocated it, saying there
would be no confusion produced. I'm
less there were lights on docks ant
piers landings could only be made a
night with difficulty and danger. The
bill passed-ayes Sc, noes none.
The emergency clause was also
passed.
Recess until =. NJ.
In the afternoon, II. b. 9S, appro
priating SIT ,752.2S to meet deiicienc,
in appropriation for the maintenance,
of prisoners mt Walla Walla Peni
Tertiary, passed.
Also II. Is. III repeating Chap. Il
of Code, relating to animals kept fol
breeding purposes.
The special order, the majority ant
minority reports on H. b. 143 fixins
fares on railroads Mt cents per mile
preventing extra charge when ticket.
are not purchased at stations ant
making tickets good till used.
Nash, of Douglas, presented me
mortal of the Board of Trade of Doug
las county. opposing any Legislation
creating railroad commission, as il
would, in their opinion, impede the
progress OF railroad construction and
the investment of foreign capital il
this State.
On motion of Geoghegan the ma
jerity report of the railroad committee
was sdopted, thus killing House bill
143.
The House then went into com
mittee of the whole on the remainin,
bills relating to railroads.
The first bill taken up was HOus,
bill 129, regulating railroad corpora
tons and to prevent and punish ex
tortion and unjust discrimination il
freight and passenger rates.
This bill, as its title indicates, is in
tended to prevent discrimination, bu
it incidentally refers to and contem
plates the creation of a railroad com
mission.
On motion, the other railroad bill
were read. They are House bill Gl
introduced by Pickrell, of Whitman
regulating charges by railroad con,
panies and providing for the appoint
ment of railroad commissioner
House bill As, introduced by Clark, o
Spokane, creating board of railroad
commissioners and defining its power
and duties; House bill 1l9, introduce,
by Ostrander and Turner of Whitman
creating a railroad commission.
Plummer then moved that the com
mittee report to the House in favor o
indefinitely postponing action on bill.
119 and 16l, and that 4S, 119 and II!
be recommended to the House for &C
ton.
Judson, of Pierce, thought Clark
bill the mildest-mannered thing h'
had ever seen. He said the constitu
ton required the Legislature to pas
laws regulating railroads. He favored
such legislation, not to Cypress corpo
rations, but fair measure. He read