Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-03-14
Work of The Legislature.

odSe, UuG all COuSluoT6u LIE SESSION. was
frought with considerable good and hard
work.
The total number of bills introduced
in both houses was TOT, of which 81
we're in the House and 1893 in the Senate
Of these 165 became laws, seventy-si>
from the House and eighty nine from
the Senate. The Hill code bills abou'
$50 in number, were all introduced il
the Senate, and all, or nearly all, wen
through that body. Only about forty
however, passed the House.
Acting Governor Laughton disap-
proved, during the session, OF two bills
They were the fence law, and the Law
relative to corporations.
The bills passed which originated in
the Senate were as follows
Senate bill 2, by Kinnear, declares the first
Monday of September of each year legal holi-
day, to be known as Labor Day."
Senate bill IL, by Dyer, prescribes the salarie,
of constables and justices of the peace in cities
Of over 5000 inhabitants, as follows:
Officers. LIST class. End class. 3rd class
Justices of Peace. $4,000 $500 SI,20t
Gonstables ........ 1,200 1000 80t
Such officers shall charge and collect for the
use of their respective counties and pay into the
county treasury on the first Monday in each
| month, and in going out of office, all fees nov
| or hereafter allowed by law or chargeable in all
| cases, except such fees as are a charge against
the county or staCe. Salaries shall be paid out
of the county treasury. Justices in cities of the
first class allowed clerk, at such salaries
| as the county commissioners may allow. Actual
| travelling expenses of constables shall be paid
| Justices and constables shall not, in any case
except for the state and county or in other cases
prescribed by law, perform any services unless
fees paid in advance. If justices or consta-
bles fail to- perform such SERVICE when the fee S
rendered, they shall be liable on their official
| bonds. All fees earned prior to the passage and
approval of this act shall be retained in lien of
salaries herein prescribed.
Senate bill 10, by Kinnear, is the anti-Pinke1-
ton bill, which provides that it shall be unlawful
| for any person, corporation or association, or
| their agents, to organize, maintain or employ
an armed body of men in this state for any pur-
pose whatever. All parties so offending shall be
fined from 1000 to $4,000, and in like sum for
| each day they shall continue to offend. Such
| offender also, if a person, may be imprisoned
| not exceeding one year.
Senate bill %, by Kinnear, authorizes the
Eate auditor and secretary of state to deliver to
| zach member of the Legislature copy of the
code of 1881, and the session laws and journals
bf the House and Senate for 1S89-90.
Senate bill %, by Van Houten, creates board
Of health and bureau of vital statistics, to be
composed of five members appointed by the
governor.
Senate bill 29, by Van Houten, is concerning
appropriations of water for irrigation, mining
and other purposes.
Senate bill 30, by Kinnear, cedes to the United
States the jurisdiction over lands needed for the
| Improvement of rivers and harbors, and for the
purchase and condemnation thereof Such par
cells or tracts shall be exempt from taxation by
the state
Senate bill AZ, by Kinnear, relates to revival
and continuance of judgments. The old statute
provides that suit shall be brought in five
years to revive a foreign judgment. This act ex-
| tends the limitation to domestic judgments so
that action under it to revive a Judgment must
be brought in five years.
Senate bill AZ, by Eshelmau, provides for the
e So
man at the capitol during recess of the legisla-
ture, and for assisting in making an inventory
and record in the state library.
Senate bill 46, by McCroskey, defines the
effect of warehouse receipts 1t provides that
after receipts are given no second receipts for
| the same deposit shall be issued unless plainly
marked duplicate" No warehouseman shall
mix together any grains of different grades in
his possession, deliver one grade for another
No such deposit shall be removed, transferred
or shipped while the receipt is out without the
written assent of the holder of the receipt. All
receipts and checks made negotiable.
Senate bill 40, by Luce regulates the pratskosx
of pharmacy, and provides that it shall be I'M
lawful for any other person than a registered
pharmacist to retail. compound or dispense
drugs, medicines or poisons. All practitioner
shall obtain certificates after examination by the
state board of pharmacy, unless they shall be
graduates of reputable schools of pharmacy.
Senate bill 50, by Claypool, appropriates S18,-
700 for the state militia deficiency.
Senate bill 81, by Wilson, provides that every
owner adopting mark or brand, shall record
with the county auditor his mark, brand and
counter brand, dewlaps and wattles, by deliver
ing to such auditor such marks upon a piece of
leather and description of the same. The au
ditor shall keep a correct record of such marks.
etc., in a separate book, and shall satisfy him
self that they different from any other.
Counterfeiting, initiating wrongfully using
such marks, ETC., by others is misdemeanor
Senate bill SO, by committee on judiciary, pro-
vides that the reports of the decisions of the su
preme court shall be published by the state
printer, under supervision of the supreme court
and reporter thereof, in volumes of not less than
700 pages. The style and binding shall be
similar to the Kansas reports. They shall be
printed ON sixty pound paper or more, bound
in good law sheep, with double backs. The
state printer shall preserve stereotype plates of
pages of each volume. Reports shall be sold at
$3.50 per volume, and all moneys received there
for shall be turned into the state treasury.
Senate bill 81, by Judiciary committee, legal
ICES municipal interpretations of the fourth
class by providing that no act of any board of
county commissioners in incorporating within
shall be deemed invalid; but all acts proceedings
and orders of such boards are hereby legalized,
and all proceedings, orders and ordinances of
such municipal interpretations and special cleo
tons, held by virtue of such orders or ordinances