Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-02-13

,5Alizr certain assessments III Incor-
,"ratcd towns. Ecierrrd to Com
mittee on Judiciary.
House hill No. 1872, 10y Powell, for
distribution OF Il legislative manual.
Referred to Committee on Printing.
House hill NJ. 1853. 10y Jones, to eS-
tahli-h a normal school at Monte sano.
Referred To- Committee on University
and Normal schools.
senate bill authorizing school dis
tricts to maintain libraries was re-
icrrcd to Committee on Education.
Senate Till No. u, to fix time for
the meeting "i the Legislature. Re
icrrcd To Judiciary Committee.
Senate bill No. III, to provide for
the rcformatory education of Juvenile
di>ordrrly persons. Referred to Com
mttee on Education.
Senate bill No II, Relating to
transfers Of community property. Re
ferrc,I to Judiciary Committee.
Tie House took a recess to o'clock
L. V.
The House convened at t 30 o'clock
and took up the Fellows Railroad Bill
is special order. On motion OF
Candy, this bill and the Sharpstein
bill upon the same subject were made /
the special order for Thursday at ii
o'clock. /
The minority of the Railroad Com !,
mittee report a substitute for the |
above bills The substitute provides /
for a railroad commission of three /
persons, to be elected by the people !
for Il term OF four years, ut Il salary of
Sc 600 each, and be allowed a Secretary |
at salary OF $3 1000, and be furnished
with an office at the Capital. The
substitute was ordered printed.
House bill relating to compensation
of Supreme Court reporter was made
special order for Thursday at 9
o'clock.
Megler's bill for the protection of sea
gulls, passed.
| When the Senate met at =. NJ.
Wednesday, the special order for the
! hour, Senator OWings' bill to regulate
the mode of proceeding to acquire title
|
was taken up and passed with the
emergency clause.
Bills introduced were rs follows:
BY Richards OF Whatcom, amcnda-
tory to the registration law.
BY Frink OF King, to compel chill
dren under If years Of age to attend
school 90 weeks in city districts, 10 Of
which shall be consecutive. and in
county districts Is weeks, of which
shall he consecutive.
! BY Senate committee on Peniten-
tiary, to define, regulate and govern
the State Penitentiary.
BY Dyer, to amend section 2l0 of
the code concerning general causes of
challenges of jurors.
BY Dyer, to amend section 20S0 of
the code relative to grand and petit
jurors.
BY Kinnear, to amend section 3 of
an act to provide for Il single and uni
form method of removing causes from
superior courts.
BY Cooper, to establish normal
school in Chehalis county
BY Baker, to amend sections D, 6,
and s of an act classifying counties.
By Long, to amend section > OF an
act authorizing cities to construct in
ternal improvements and to issue bonds
therefor.
BY Hastings, requiring the United
States flag to be displayed over all pub
lie school buildings during school hours.
Senator O'Neill presented resolu-
, tons from the Farmers Alliance of his
county favoring railroad legislation.
a Joint resolution by Preston, requir
ing that members of the Senate and
House committee on Penitentiary,
who are now on trip to the asylum
mt Medical Lake, be directed by telc-
graph to visit the pcnitcntiary at Wal
la Walla on their return, was voted
down.
Senator Baker of Pierce secured in
definite leave of absence. He will
leave home in few days for the city
Of Mexico, and will be absent from the
State about six weeks.
Fifty-six members were present in
| the House Wedn csday
| The Judiciary committee reported q
list of bills, among which was Parcell's
labor bill with an amendment that its
provisions shall not apply to farm
labOrers, nor to companies or individu
ais employing more than twenty-five
labOrers,
House bill No. ID, requiring railroad
companies to fence their tracks was
made special order of business for
Friday at ii o'clock.
The following new bills were intro
duced.
House bill No 1875, by committee on
fisheries. to regulate salmon and stur-
geon fishing. Referred to Judiciary
committee.
House bill No. 1876, by Collins, to
appropriate T4SO for insuring the Cap
itol. Referred to the committee on
State Library and Public Grounds.
House bill No. 1877, 10y Sharpstein,
relating to school warrants. Referred
to committee on Revenue and Taxa
ton.
House bill No. 1913, by Dysart, re-
lating to elections. Referred to COM
mittee on Elections.
| HOuSc OH NO. lJJ, Oy Jones, relat-
ing to assessment and collection of
taxes. Referred to committee on
Revenue and Taxation.
Senate bill 145, relating to State Ii
brary. Referred to committee on State
Library and Public Grounds.
Senate bill No. 90, to create board
Of health. Referred to committee on
Medicine, Surgery and Pharmacy.
Senate bill No. l27, relating to
schools in cities of over 10000 popu-
latiOn. Referred to committee on
Education.
Senate bill No. 81. relating to terms
of office of State officers. Referred to
committee on State and County Of
ficers.
The amendments to the PARCEL bill
were adopted.
The judicial redistricting bill was
taken up as a special order and the
majority report substitute was adopted
and declared open to amendments.
Garretson for Pierce, DeSteigner for
King and Candy for Spokane asked for
one additional judge for their respec-
tive counties.
LawtOn and Walker opposed another
judge for King, likewise Coughran for
| pierco and Eollo,ys for S,otono