Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-22

absent during the remainder of the sess-
ion. This the speaker declared out of
order, as it would amount to accepting
the resignation of a member, which the
house could not do, There are now
twenty members absent with leave.
Private affairs are pressing upon the
members and it will be difficult hereafter
to keep quorum at the capital.
Aliens bill, introduced Friday, is in
tended to permit st. Johns lodge, Sc
attic, and other secret orders in the
state to erect buildings and to hold prop
erty in excess of the value of $4,000,
the present limit, The bill is, of course,
general in its provisions.
The governor on Friday signed and
approved these bills: House bill No.
102, to prevent bulls from running at
large at certain seasons.
House bill No. 169, to restrict swine
from running at large,
House bill No. 202, to protect Holsters.
House bill No. 253, amending section
$50, of chapter 46, of the code of Wash
ington, relating to actions to recover
and affecting real estate.
House bill No. 279, authorizing the
board Of trustees of the hospital for the
insane at Fort Steilacoom to sell a GER
tain tract of land.
House bill No 284, relative to the
recording of cash and final receipts and
certificates of United States registers
and receivers.
Monday began the last week but one
of the session. Everybody realizes now
that the Legislature csn not adjourn on
the 28th without killing between 300 and
$50 bills, but adjourn it must. Aresolu-
ton to extend the time to April 10 or IS
is looked for at any time, but it will not
pass in the house. So many members
are so Disguised that it will be difficult
to keep a quorum after the 28th, even
If the session should be extended. In
accordance with the constitution no new
business can be offered after Tuesday
without the consent Of two thirds of the
members Of either house The legisla-
ture will have all it can do from now I'M
til the end of the session considering the
resignation, revenue, appropriation, tide
lands, school land, town incorporation
and other important bills, to say nothing
Of the election apportionment bills which
have not yet been presented.
Senator Owings' bill, requiring all
voters to vote for either Olympia, Ellens-
burgh, or North Yakima in the forth
coming election to settle the question of
the permanent location of the capital,
was passed in the house Monday.
The following new bills were intro
duced in the senate Monday:
By Mr.. Snow-Concerning the recov-
cry OF possessions.
BY the mountaineering fencing Of
railways.
By Mr.. misunderstanding right
of way to railways over state lands be-
low mean high water.
By Mr.. Owings-Dividing the state
into two penitentiarY districts.
BY Mr.. Owings Providing for a state
board of health and board Of vital sta
tistics.
Governor Ferry, Auditor Reed and
Treasurer Lindsey opened the bids for
the purchase of the issue Of 100000
worth of bonds, at not to exceed 5 per
cent. interest The bonds were in de-
mand. Coffin & Stanton, of New York
captured the plum, their bid Of 1.00a
for 81 per cent. bonds being considered
the best.
Mayor J. F. Convey, of Olympia, Of
fered 1O2 1-5 for per cent. bonds, and
ex-Governor Miles @. Moore, of Walla
Walla wanted to take II per cents at
par.
A. NJ. Murphey & Co., Of Spokane
Falls, offered $4,000 premium for $780,
600 worth of per cents.
Carson, Leach & Co. offered $1.032 for
5 per cents.
S. V. White & Co, of New York, Of
fered $305,000 for SIS.
Lamprecht Bros offered par for 4s.
Jarvis, Conklin & Co., of New York,
bid 100000 for SIS, $3O4,000 for 4I's,
1902, 900 for AS, and par for As.
The bill introduced in the senate
Monday last, by Mr. Owings, providing
for the division of the state into two
penitentiary districts, is in line with a
generally accepted opinion that such di-
vision must necessarily be made within
a few years, and its Introduction at this
time was simply for the purpose of af-
fording relief pending the construction
of an additional penitentiary. It pro-
vides that all that portion of the state
lying east of the western foothills of the
! Cascade maintains, enumerating the
counties, shall constitute the first pen
itent1ary district, and that portion lying
west of that boundary line shall be the
second district The bill does not con-
template any change in the present sys-
TEN of confinement of state cOnvicts In
the first district, but stipulates that fol-
five years after the first OF next August
all convicts sentenced in the counties
comprising The second district shall be
turned over to Sheriff Billings, of Thurs
ton county, who was the contractor for