Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-03-14
THE LEGISLATURE.

Oregon Extension Co. to bridge the
Columbia river at Vancouver. The
memorial passed.
By Parkinson, granting railroad
companies rights to bridge nayigable
streams in the State.
BY Rinehart, granting the right tC
the Washington Transportation Com
pany to build a ship canal from Sal
mon bay to Admiralty inlet.
BY Hyde, amending the sections o.
the Code relative to firemen.
BY the Committee on Education
establishing a uniform system OF pub
lie schools.
The chair appointed on the FREQ
Conference committee on the soldiers
home bill, on the part of the Senate
kinnear, Landes, Parkinson, Wolf,
and Wooding.
Third reading of bills:
By Kinnear, protecting owners Of
floating logs; passed.
By Herren, affecting real estate
passed.
Lull's memorial making Port Town
! a.
A resolution to adjourn on the 2Stl
inst, the date fixed by the Joint com
mittee prevailed, after a long and &c
crimoniOus debate.
In the House, the session was de
voted to consideration OF the tide-lant
bill. AS amended it provides for 6
board OF equalization and a board oil
appraisement to determine the value
of the land. Section 10, which is the
kernel of the bill, now reads as fol
lows: The owner or owners Of any
lands abutting or fronting upon Oh
bounded by the shore of the Pacific
ocean or of any bay. harbor, sound, in
let, lake or water course shall have the
right for 80 days following the filing
of any appraisal of any tide lands to
purchase all or any part of the tide
lands in front of such lands SO owned
provided that if valuable improve.
ments in actual Use for commerce
trade or business have been made upon
said tide lands by any person, associa'
ton or corporation, the owner of such
improvements shall have the absolute
right to purchase the lands so i'm
proved for the period aforesaid; pro-
viding nothing in this act shall be
construed to include any improve
ments made after the passage of this
act"
II will thus be seen that the doc.
trine of riparian rights is recognized
and the upland owners are given the
pre-emptive right of purchase over
everybody except bona tide improvers
to whom belong the absolute right
In other words, this guarantees to mill
owners and all improvers title to the
property if they desire to purchase it.
The manner of payment is as follows
Onc-third down and the balance in
nine yearly payments with interest at
Z per cent. In cases of dissatisfaction
the improvers or occupants may ap-
peal from the decision Of the board Of
appraisement and equalization to the
judge of the Supreme Court, who
shall summon jury to reappraise the
value of the lands. Improvements are
not to be taken into consideration in
appraisements of the value of the
property.
The House adjourned after sending
the bill to the committee to be en-
crossed.
In the House, Friday, an exciting
time was held ON the tide-land bill
The vote was quite evenly divided, and
as Edens was to leave by the 2 o'clock
boat TO attend the bedside of sick
child, the opponents OF the bill by fiji
ibustering maneuvers delayed action
until he was out of the way, and then
placing it ON final passage, were en-.
sbled to defeat it by single vote
Notice for reconsideration was given
and the measure is "not dead bu,
sleepeth."
On Saturday the Senate held a shor,
session. Twenty-three members were
present.
A notification was read from Gev
Ferry that he had appointed L. B.
Hastings, Nelson ]. Laubach, and II.
L. Tibballs, Jr., as members of the
Board of Health for Puget Sound dis.
tricts. The two first named are Re-
publicans. Mr.. Tbballs is a Democrat
The nominations were confirmed in
open Senate, the chamber refusing to
60 into executive session.
A communication was likewise re
ceived from ex.Att0rney General J. b
Hetcalfe, who rendered the State al
| oil Of
Mr.. Long suggested that the matter
be made the special order for the 4tf
of July.
Mr.. Rinehart did not want to make
sport of the matter, and after some
good-natured bandying of words be
tween the dignified gentlemen, Owings
suggested that the gentleman from
King (Mr. B. have one hour to draw
up . suitable letter of acceptance
Nj. Metcalfe's letter is a. follows:
Seattle, March 5.-Sir: forwarded
by Mr.. E. L. Ames of this city, an oil
painting of myself, which / desire to
tender to the State of Washington.
| This idea suggested itself to me by
reason of the fact that the portraits Of
the different AttOrneys-Genera of the
United States adorn the wall of tlsf
Department of Justice at Washing
ton, ID. c., and I thought having the
honor to be the first Attorney General
of the Territory of Washington, that
it would not he an immodest act to be-
gin this innovation 80 far as States are
concerned. For history's sake l thought
it might be well to preserve the physi-
cal licensees of those men whose priv
ilege it was to represent her interest
in public life.~
Later on Mr.. Rinehart introduced
his resolution of acceptance which was
adopted.
Hunsaker introduced o memorial
praying Congress for an appropriation
to deepen the harbor of Budd's Inlet.
The following new bills were intro
duced:
By Fairweather, providing for the
appointment of persons to represent
the State in certain caseA
By Forsyth, regulating and licens-
ing intoxicating liquors.
By the Committee on Medicine, reg
ulating the practice of medicine.
In the House, on motion of Steven
son, the vote ON the tide land bill was
recsnsidered and the bill was referred
to the Committee on Harbors and
Navigable Waters.
Herren introduced q bill to create
the county of Sherman from the
counties of Spokane and Whitman,