Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-02-21
THE LEGISLATURE.

Parkinson presented petition from
citizens OF Whatcom county asking for
soldiers home.
The President appointed Senators
Hyde and Clough as additional mem
bcrS OF the Standing Agricultural COM
mittccc.
The Committee ON Harbor, etc, re
ported recommending the indefinite
postponement Of House bill 10, 10y
Allen, to require owners of piers and
decks to display lights at night.
Adopted.
The following were introduced:
BY WooIing, :. T. 1872, to provide
for the bridging OF rlyigablc streams
in cities and towns.
Also one to provide for the bridging
OF navigable streams.
By Nash, to provide for the extern
sion OF the time of the payment of
taxes Of 1889. The bill provides for
the extension Of such time from March
to April /.
Snow offered an amendment max
ing the Sheriff the collector OF delin-
quent taxes OF 1889, and that the
Treasurer shall, on the first Tuesday,
OF April, attended at the office of the
County Auditor and there perform the
duties required by law. Amendment
adopted.
The bill under suspension OF the
rules was passed-ayes n, noes .
with the emergency clause.
| The motion of Wilson, the vote on
the emergency clause of Shapes irri-
CATION bill, deferred yesterday, was
taken up. The clause was adopted
20 ayes, no.
Senate bill 81, a substitute for bills Z
and IA, providing for the printing and
distributing of ballots at public ex-
pensc and to regulate voting at State
and other elections australian sys-
tenn, was taken up on a special order
In Section % Long moved an amend
ment, the effect of which was to re-
quire an inspector or judge of election
to mark his initials upon the back of
each ballot delivered to an elector.
Carried.
Whalley moved to strike out the
clause in Section % which provides
that each elector should indicate his
preference for any candidate by mark
ing cross before or after the name.
The section then read that the elector
should cross out from ballot such por-
tions that remainder should express
his preference. Lost ayes, - noes.
Whalley moved to strike from Sec
ton rs the words that he cannot
read" the effect of which was that the
Judges of election should prepare the
ballots for those who are lame, blind
or otherwise physically disabled, but
not those who cannot read.
Whalley, in support of the amend
ment, said he did not expect it to pass,
but he thought that it was time an
educational qualification be required
for the new State for voters.
Owings declared that the proposed
amendment was unconstitutional in
that no such limitation could be
placed upon the right of suffrage.
Whalley replied that it was not at
tempted to be said that man should
read or to prescribe that he have a
wooden leg or glass eye before he
can vote. The law is simply silent
upon that subject, and says that judges
shall prepare ballots only for those
who are physically unable.
| klnncar opposed the amendment,
and read an extract from speech OF
Wendell Phillips, who declared that a
man who cannot read and works is a
better citizen than one who can read
and doesn't work. Work gives valu-
able education.
The motion was lost without further
debate
Drum moved to strike ont the
words fifty feet and insert 100 feet,
relative to the prohibited distance in
which no electioneering shall take
place. Lost.
Wilson moved to suspend the rules
and place it on final assage. Car
RED.
Thompson, of Walla Walla, then
made a speech in which he at some
length denounced the bill.
The bill then being placed on final
passage, passed-ayes %, noes l, the
latter being Thompson.
On motion of HOughton, Senate
bill 1S5, to provide for the extension
of the corporate limits OF cities, was
taken up. This is companion bill
to the bill enabling cities of over 90
900 inhabitants to adopt their own
charters.
Wilson moved an amendment to
Section l, which declares that upon a
petition of majority of the voters of
any territory contiguous to any city,
such territory shall be annexed, to
read two-thirds." Lost.
Drum objected to Section 3, which
provides that all plats must be sub
mitted to the City Council before
being filed with the County Auditor.
He declared that the application might
lie in the council for six months be-
fore being acted upon.
Rinehart answered that this clause
does not prevent an addition becom-
ing a part of the city unless the Coun-
Gil SD desires.
Drum withdrew his objection, and
in the proposed amendment the word
contiguous" wherever it occurred
was made to read adjacent"
| The bill was then passed-ayes 81,
no noes. The bill was then laid upon
the table till tomorrow, there not
being enough Senators present to pass
the emergency clause.
Adjourned till 10 A. NJ. tomorrow.
In the House twenty-four absentees
were noted.
Brown, of Spokane, presented re-
monstrance against the formation of
Steptoc country.
Blair a petition in favor of estab-
fishing Soldiers Home.
On motion, the bill for the forma-
ton OF Steptoe county was laid aside
and the regular order taken up.
The following were introduced:
BY Herren ii. B. 253 relating to ac-
tions to recover and affecting real es-
tate.
House bill 254, by Herren, correct
ing omissions OF attesting witnesses in
deeds, mortgages and other instru-
ments of writing.
House bill 245, by Herren, in rela-
ton to damages for personal injuries.
After some debate the bill was emas-
culated and then action on it was in
definitely postponed.
House bill 24G, by Herren, amend
ing the act in relation to Notaries
Public by providing that notaries need