Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-03-03

year alter the hen attaches, made q
special order for Friday next at II
o'clock A. NJ, after discussion which
disclosed strong opposition to the bill
Senate bill No. lGl. to repeal the
act providing for the taking OF cen
>us hicnnially by county assessors
passed.
House bill No. AZ, providing that
the total amount allowed on account
"t the salaries of county officer,
deputies and clerk shall not exceed
the amount OF legal fees collected or
account of the office in which they art
employed, passed.
Adjourned.
The Senatorial ballots taken were
the eighty-sixth and eighty-seventh Of
the session. Both resulted: Allen
4G, Turner 81, Griggs %, Van Patten
., Dunbar l, McCroskey l, Warren |
total lOi; necessary to a choice SO
The pairs we're; Van de Fanter and
lde, Rutter and Van Houten, Kellogg
and Smith of Whitman, Sallee and
Hoole.
In the Senate yesterday House bill
No. 202, amending the code in relation
to the duties of prosecuting attorneys,
was passed, as was Senate bill No.
203, by Foss. amending the code rela-
tive to the printing and distributing OF
ballots.
The Gilman bill for the prevention
of corruption at elections, and requir.
ing the publication of election ex-
penses, was defeated after warm de-
bate, by tie vote II to II.
Ludden's House bill providing a
bounty for the manufacture of beet
sugar, passed. The bill, as it passed
the House, provided bounty of one
cent per pound for the manufacture
OF the sugar, and one cent to the pro-
ducer Of the beets with the proyiso
that the State bounty should not be
operative while the government is pay
ing bounty, AS at present, The
Senate adopted an amendment max
ing the bounty one cent a pound, and
striking out the proviso.
Senator Claypool submitted report
from the conference committee on the
Roscoe cigarette bill, recommending
that the Senate recede from its amend
ment making it an offense to have
cigare ties in ones possession. The
| report was adopted and the Senate re-
| coded from the amendment.
4 telegram to Senator MoManus
from Henry Hewitt, Jr., inviting the
members OF the Legislature to visit
the city of Everett on Sunday next was
read, and the invitation was accented
with thanks.
At the afternoon session two bills
for the construction of State roads,
connecting Eastern and Western
Washington, were passed. The bill
was by Sergeant of Pierce for the con-
stFuGtion Of road through Natchez
pass, from Buckley to North Yakima,
and uppropriating $4,000. The other
bill also appropriated $4,000 for a
road through Skagit pass, north of
Mount Baker, from the north boundary
of the city of New Whatcom and
thence by the best possible and prac-
ticable route to point on the Methow
river in Okanogan county.
House bill No. lM, relating to liens
OF mechanics and Others on real estate,
WAS lost on tie vote.
The Agricultural College Investigat.
ing Committee presented its report.
House bill No. 33l, relative to cities
of the third class was passed.
Adjourned.
The mileage committee, in the
House yesterday, presented for allow
ance the mileage and expense accounts
of the members of the Agricultural
College investigating committee and
OF the committee appointed to visit
the Soldiers Home. Yesterday MORN
ing Mays opposed the allowance OF
mileage To Sergeant-atArms Ward,
amounting to $1,000. in connection
with the college cnmmjttee's accounts,
on the ground that Ward was at home
in Whitman county on other business
when detailed to serve the committee.
Tull also fought the item. Mcmillan
and Neergaard favored its payment.
II was allowed.
The joint committee appointed to
visit the Hospitals for the Insane pre-.
sented its report.
House bill No. AS, providing for
liens upon saw logs, epars, piles Or
other timber, and upon lumber and
shingles, came up as q special order,
and 50 numerous were the amend.
ments that were offered to it that its
consideration was not finished at the
expiration Of the morning session.
When the Hopse RECOMMENDED in the
afternoon the bill was passed..
H. C. r. No. "a, to permit the in
PRODUCTION Of general appropriation
bill, was presented by Temple, chair
man OF the appropriations committee,
and adopted by the two.thirds vote re.
quired by the Constitution.
Roscoe extended an invitation to
the House to visit Everett on Saturday
and Sunday. The invitation was
almost unanimously accepted.
The Ludden sugar bounty bill pro-
voked another vigorous discussion OF
principles o! political economy. The
bill came up on a motion to concur in
Senate amendments striking out the
Webb proViso spspepdipg the payment
of State bounty until the Federal
bounty ceases, and reducing the boun.
ty from 3 cents to cent per pound.
The motion to concur was carried on
roll call by q vote Of AZ to 10,
A message from the Governor veto
ing House bill No. 832, permitting q
second appeal in certain felony cases.
Leo, who introduced the bill in the in
terest of Pecani, the Italian convicted
of murder at Tacoma, raised the point
that the bill had become law, the
Governor not having returned it with
his objections within the constitu-
tional time Of five days, it having been
received by him on February %. Leo
moved that the bill be transmitted to
the Secretary of State. Wheeler
moved that consideration OF the matter
be deferred until 10 o'clock tomorrow.
After debate, LeO's motion was adopt
ed, IS to !, L4dden voting in the mega
tive. The Speaker suggested that
some disposition be made Of the mes
sage, whereupon Mcmillan moved that
it be laid on the table. Morrison
as substitute that the message be
placed on file. Mcmillan accepted
the substitute moved, and it was car
ried.
The Agricultural College investigat-
ing committee presented its report.
Temple introduced House bill No.