The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-01
CLOSING UP THE CALENDAR.
The Logfs1siure VIII No IndustRfous n
the Few Days That Remain.

The Lsgis1sturs WIN Ne Industrioss n
the Few Days That Remain.
OLYMPIA, Feb. 8.-f6pecial. - The
Senate convened this morning ct II
o'clock instead Of 10 o'clock, a. has been
usual, and remained in session without
recess for five hours. During this time
great amount Of work was done, the session
being unlively and devoted to final dis
position of bills. A large number Of Hill
code bills were passed. and several indi-
viduaI bills. There is disposition on the
part Of all to finish up their calendar by
the end Of the session. Only six working
days remain, and ~ it will be impossible
to hold evening sessions, owing to the
Sachs trial, all Of the work must be done
during the day.
The introduction on the last day on
which new bills are admitted Of III new
code bills seriously threatens to choke the
business Of the session in such manner
that either their consideration will not be
finished in proper manner, or other im-s
portant business will be necessarily laid
over. Some Of these bills are very lengthy,
and require much time in reading. In the
Senate Major Barton, the secretary, mate
rally assists the dispatch of business by
reading the bills with lightning rapidity.
So great is the majors speed that
few senators are able to follow him, and
they do not try. The major the other day
read thirty-page type-written bill in
clerical errors have been discovered in the
bills, and members insist that they be
considered in the same manner as every
other measure. The bills are of formal
nature, of course. but it is very iikely that
the legislature will be guilty Of inconsist-
ency and pass bills in direct conflict with
not considered more carefully. If it were
not for the Sachs trial, the Senate and
House might consider the bills at night
and have time to finish them all; but as it
is now, a very large part of the daily ses-
sion must be taken up in their considers
ton.
Hon. B. B. Glascock, Of Sprague, Lin
coin county, . member of the constitu-
tional convention, was in the city yester.
day and today, on his way home from
months trip TO California. After his ar
rival here Mr.. Glascock learned of the bill
of Huntington & Little, contractors, for
about IS, 100 as relief in payment of money
due on an unfinished contract on the
Medical Lake asylum. Having been one
Of the asylum commissioners that let the
contract, Mr.. Glascock was naturally in
terested in the bill. He said:
These contractors have no just claim what
ever, and am surprised that the judiciary COM
mittee OF the House should have reported It
missioners. The strange part Of this s claim is
that 1t has never been presented by the con-
tractors to the commissioners, and they have
jecting Il Hnntpgson Little .bsn nos II their cir
contract without notifying the commissioners
The supervising architect found that they had
teriaI furnished / think the other commits MS
sioners, Messrs. Drumheicr and Hallet, will be
glad to express their views on the matter II the
committees having the bill In charge will take
the trouble to communicate with them.
The telephone monopoly will not be dis
turbed by the legislature, though some
very uncomplimentary things were said
about their manner of business in the
House this morning Smyth of Pierce had
introduced bill reducing and regulating
charges and prohibiting bonuses, but the
committee thought this little too severe
and put in milder measure, allowing tele-
phone companies to change bonuses, but
he month"; 11s e eD Ds TSe Hou on
plainly considered this an attempt to in
terfere with the recognized right Of cor
pOrationS to charge as they please in WASH
ington, and indefinitely postponed the
bill. 1t is only petty monopoly anyway,
and those who suffer directly from It CON-
stitute only small part Of the legislature;
SO why should the majority interfere The
telephone lobby, which has been at work
for several weeks, can retire from the field
confident that their friends in Olympia
will look after them if there Is further at
tempt to meddle with their business.
The Palouse county bill went the way of
all such measures in the House today,
being lost by vote of "a yeas to 81 nays.
A strong lobby has been here for some
time working for its passage, and thought
they had things fixed in good shape. It
was proposed to divide by q north and
south line, cutting off county on the
east side fourteen miles wide and fifty-
seven miles long. The Whitman delega-
ton is divided evenly on the proposition.
Petitions containing 400 names for the
county were presented by Representative
pound remonstrance containing the names
of 2, 449 men and one woman.
Holt charged the friends Of the bill with
having used fraud to procure names and
Moore delicately insinuated that the re-
monstrants had taken a similar document
framed year ago for presentation last
year and pasted 1t on to this years re-
monstrance. Notice Of motion to re-
consider was given.
Senator Claypool's bill relating to at
tachments and garnishments. in which
the energetic young member from Pierce
has been especially interested, passed the
Senate by unanimous vote today. The
principal object Of the bill is to prevent
the assets Of the defendants in attach.
ment cases from being completely con-
stunned in expenses and fees of officers, and
to avoid multiplication of suits growing
out of one financial difficulty. One of the
principal features is that attachment
ties interested, and the bondsmen are
made parties to any action or order in at
tachment proceedings. Their are no sig
nihcant changes made in causes for at
tachment, the object being better method
OF handling property after attachments.
Goldman of Columbia made a very sharn
attack upon the "old school" physicians
today when Sharpstein's medical bill was
under consideration. DR.. Candy, the alo-
path member from Spokane, had elassed
massage practitioners with the great army
OF quacks who cure by nostrums and the
laying on of hands. Goldman Character
lied the school of Gandy's faith as the
great school which is afraid to enter into
the great field of modern inquiry because
they will discover something inimical to
their cherished belief" The bill, which
made minor amendments to the present
law, was defeated
fourteen-foot petition from Snohomish
county against the Owings Sunday bill
came in this morning and was duly re.
ferred. Senator Owings is spending much
of his time in prayerful consideration of
the adviSahifffv of NJ, hin h;a t,lf