Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-02-28
THE LEGISLATURE.

Senate received the appointments OF
Platt \. Preston, Frank w. Paine and
Frank Louden as Commissioners OF
Walla Walla Pcnitentiary, and in ex-
ecutive session held that afternoon
confirmed unanimously the appoint
ments.
New bills:
BY Wood, relating to civil actions
and declaring an emergency.
BY Joint committee, in relation to
turnpike roads; passed.
BY Judiciary committee, a substi
tutc for Hunsaker's bill relating TO
chattel mortgages; indefinitely post
poned.
BY Wilson, prescribing qualitca-
tons OF locomotive engineers; passed.
By Geoghegan, tresspassing on pub
lie lands; recommitted.
BY COrnwell, establishing a uniform
standard for weights and measures;
recommitted.
BY Plummer, for the protection of
builders; passed. An emergency clause
was added to the bill and passed
Hy Kinncar, declaring eight hours a
legal days work lost.
By Cook, regulating the sale of
property by auctioneers; passed.
BY Kinnear, for the release OF sure
ties on official bonds.
By Randall, creating the office OF
State Geologist; passed.
The emergency clause was laid on
the table, subject to call
BY Bush and Kennedy, requiring
railroads to be fenced, recommitted.
The Senate held two sessions to-day
and transacted great deal of bust
ness. Eleven bills were considered on
the third reading. of this number
five passed, five were recommitted and
the 1lth, Kinnear's bill declaring
eight hours a legal days work, was
killed. This bill means that no legis-
lation of this character will be enacted
by this Legislature. Rutter's bill on
the same subject suffered the same ig-
nominOus defeat last week in the
House that was melted out to Kin
near's measure to-day in the Senate.
The Senate sustained the Governors
veto of the Lieutenant Governor bill
this morning by vote of % ayes to
two noes. There was no debate on
the subject and everybody seemed
glad when the question was disposed
OF. Farriss and Wilson were the two
Senators who voted against the veto.
The Governor signed this morning
House bill.No. 1913, providing for the
appointment of fish commission for
the State. Also House bill 275, ex-
tending the time for the payment of
taxes levied for the coming year
The house amendments to Senate
bill 3S, relative to submitting amend.
ments to the constitution, were also
concurrcd in.
Bills introduced:
BY Landes, amending sections $40
and $40 of the code concerning crimes
and punishments.
By Baker, making community prop.
erty subject to the payment of debts
or liabilities incurred during marriage.
Third reading of bills:
By Plummer, declaring certain
streets public highways; passed.
By Plummer, defining port of Port
Townsend; passed.
By Lands, providing for permanent
location of the capital; passed.
By Pointer, appropriating $500 for
the relief of w. H. Egan; passed.
By Judiciary Committee, relative to
actions in real estate; passed.
By HANDLE, relative to hops; passed.
In the House, the adjournment
chestnut was attacked again to-day.
Herren, of Lewis. offered o resolution
setting Saturday, March 18th, as the
day of final adjournment. Eddy OPP
posed the resolution. Grub moved
that the resolution lie upon the table,
which was adopted.
Steptoe county is thing OF the
imagination of its projectors as yet.
The bill came up in the House this
morning and a bushel of fun ensued.
Propositions to name the proposed
county Farragut, Timothy, Hangman
and McGinty were rejected, and Kuhn's
motion to name it in honor of Repre-
sentative Candy was accepted.
Evans objected to perpetuating the
name of Steptoe, because Col. Steptoe,
when in the army, deserted his men
after disastrous defeat by the Palouse
Indians. Rotch wanted the county
named Timothy, in honor of a noble
Indian who, clothed in nakedness and
pair of shOestrings, had done much
service for the whites. After q good
deal of nonsense the bill was indefi-
nitely postponed.
Speaker Feighan daily grows more
inconsistent in his rulings and his
curious constructions of the standing
rules of order are daily setting the
House in uproar. To-day he de-
cided that motion to suspend the
rules would not be entertained except
by unanimous consent. This ridicu-
lous decision Immediately brought
forth a strong protest frum Plummer,
OF Jefferson, and the ruling was
promptly rejected by the House.
The following bills were introduced
in the House to-day:
By the special committee on rail-
roads, creating State land commits
sion, filed.
BY same creating a board of rail-
road commissioners, filed.
BY Cook, for the disposition of
school lands; filed.
By Moultray, providing for the sale
of tide lands.
BY Judson, of Whatcom, providing
for the apportionment of counties into
Commissioner districts.
BY Hughes, providing for the re-
cording of notice OF final proof with
the County Auditor.
The following bills passed third
reading to-day in the House:
By Roads and Highways Committee,
for laying out turepike roads; passed.
BY Rutter, requiring laborers to be
paid monthly, and prohibiting the is
suance Of scrip and store orders in lieu
of money; lost.
BY Hunsacker, requiring transporta-
ton companies to forward shipments
promptly; passed.
By Edens, relative to dykes and
dams; passed.
By Ostrander. repeating certain Ter
ritorial laws relative to animals, with
an emergency; passed.
BY Wood, relative to real estate and
corporations, with an emergency
passed.
By Evans, relative to estate of debt
ors; passed.
by Clough, providing for compulsory
education Of defactiva vouth ,,ossoi |