Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-02-06
The State Legislature.

Senate met at , o'clock I. NJ, Mon
day, President Wilson in the chair.
Absent, senators Austin. Baker. Clay
pool. Clnuch, Edcn>, For,ythc. Hast
ing~, kinncar. knccland. Luce, Butler,
Van Dcvanter and Fcstal.
4 protest was read from the Board
OF Trade against adverse railroad leg
islatiOn.
Senator Dyer offered concurrent
resolution relative To collecting and
binding 200 copies Of the reports of
the state officers and sending them To
other state Libraries. Adopted.
Senator l.. +. Thompson, 10y request.
offered n Senate concurrent resolution.
inviting the Governors and cx Cover
nors to have their portraits painted
Tor the Use of the State. Adopted.
Senator Forrest offered memorial
relative to urging Congress to pass the
Nicaragua canal bill now before it.
Passed unanimously.
\ concurrent resolution was adoptcd
relative to inquiring into the status of
McNcills Island Penitentiary, by the
committee on State Prisons.
The House met at | 30 o'clock with
ilftv-nine members present, including
Kennedy, Mcany and Holt, of the
ca!ic-ClaTke investigating commit
tee; also Mr. Metcalfe.
Ex-SpeaKer Feighan occupied seat
at the Speakers right.
Both constitutional and parliament
AIRY law bearing upon the four DAYS
adjournment was discussed A motion
by Anderson of Mason that the records
OF Saturday be expunged from the re-
cord. was lost.
Candy introduced concurrent res.
olution of coincidence on the death of
Secretary Window. Adopted.
Several petitions for railroad legisla-
ton were received and referred.
Mr.. Chambers presented petition
for an amendment 20 the road law.
A set of resolutions from a Farmers
Alliance in klickitat county created
considerable merriment, i'm that it re-
commended the passage of bill with
holding the pay of oil members absent
ing themselves during the business
hours of the House and Senate; our
motto is, "No work, no pay, they de-
clare"
A petition from Lincoln county
asked that the State construct rail
road from Puget Sound to the grain
fields of Eastern Washington.
Several committee reports were re-
ceived and laid over. The Committee
on Railroads seems to have improved
the four days vacation and reported
several bills.
Reinhart moved that the pay of as
sistant Sergeant-at-Arms be increased
from vi to 70 per day. Lost-Ayes, s /;
noes, IS.
In the Senate Tuesday afternoon
Gov. Laughton reported that he had
appointed Chas. +. Mcdonald as a
trustee of the Medical Lake Asylum,
and A. M. Stewart as trustee of the
asylum at Steilacoom.
Quite q number of bills were intro
duced. Senate memorial No. 5,
recommending that the United States
set aside 100000 acres OF the public
domain. in the State of Washington.
as reservation from which the State
shall select G6S, 900 acres which the
enabling act provided the State should
have, was reported back by the Memoir
ial Committee with the recommended.
ton that it pass.
This memorial includes section
that was drawn up for presentation
to Congress for its adoption. 1t pro-
vides that the reservation shall he
made and the lands selected accord.
ing to and under the direction of the
Commissioner of the General Land
Office within six months after the
passage of the act.
The House met at 10 o'clock. A
number of the Pierce county delega-
ton were excused for the day because
OF an important election being held
at Tacoma.
Mcclure of Lewis, presented a peti.
ton containing resolutions passed at
a mass meeting held at Toledo pro-
testing against the law appropriating
a sum for display of Washington's
productions at the Worlds Columbian
Exposition and protesting against the
appropriation of any sum whatever
for that purpose. Also that the pres
ent road law, compelling the payment
OF road taxes in cash instead of in
work as before, is unjust and discrimi-
mating.
The first portion of the petition was
referred to the Worlds Fair Committee
and the last to the Committee on
Roads and Bridges.
DeSteigner of Seattle, presented a
memorial asking for the repeal of bill
129 entitled, can act to prevent fraud
upon travellers" as the bill has proved
that it discriminates against the
weaker railroads, in favor of the strong
er corporations.
The same gentleman introduced a
memorial from the chamber of com.
merce of Seattle protesting against the
immediate sale of tide lands as in view
of the stringency in the money mark
cts many who have improved the tide
lands in front of cities, would lose
them, and also that much money
would be taken from the cities imperil-
ing the finances of the same. The
memorial further asked that when tide
lands were sold that the income from
the lands sold in front of cities be
used to improve the harbors in front
by the building of sea-walls and other
necessary Improvements. The mem
Orial was referred to the committee on
Tide Lands.
Lehman, of Spokane, presented a
petition from the East Trent alliance
and similar petition from another
alliance in the same county asking
the immediate passage of law regu-
lating railroads.
Hutchinson presented a statement
from the alliance of Mondovia, citizens
and shippers of grain, showing the dis
elimination made by the Northern Pa
cific railroad. 1t shows that the
freight upon 100 pounds of grain
shipped to Seattle, Tacoma or Portland,
was 30 cents; to Minneapolis, SO cents
that the rate from Reardon to Spokane
Falls, II cents, and from Spokane
Falls to Reardon, s cents. The mat