Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-02-24

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The Senate disposed of fifteen bill
Tuesday by passing nine and indefi
nitely postponing six.
Among the most notable of those
passed was Roscoe's cigarette bill
which was reported favorably by the
committee with the amendment thai
it shall be an oilense for a person ever
to have a cigarette in his possession
The bill caused no discussion, anc
passed with but one negative vote
Smith of Whitman.
Senate bill No. l43, empowering or
ganized counties to contract indebted
ness and issue bonds for funding the
same, was passed.
Eshelman's bill, for the purchase o.
Barton's legislative manual, passed.
Senate bill No. 142-This bill
amends the law passed in 1890, for the
purpose of bonding counties for the
construction of roads and bridges, &C
that interest will be payable semi
annually.
New bills were introduced as fol
lows:
Hutchinson-To repeal the act es
tablishing State Normal School q,
Cheney, Spokane county, and estab
fishing State Normal School al
Davenport, Lincoln county, instead.
Sergeant-For the establishment Of
a State road across the Cascade
mountains through the Natchez pass
to connect Eastern and Western
Washington.
Senate bill No. 179 was passed. 1,
provides for the division OF the State
into two congressional districts.
Senate bill No. ISL, permitting Uni
ted States prisoners to be confined in
the State penitentisry at Walla Walla
was passed.
Senate bill No. las, providing thai
State lands shall bear an equal share
of the expense in the building o.
drains and bitches. was passed.
Senate bill No. IT'S, encouraging the
establishment OF law libraries in the
several counties of the State, was
passed.
House bill No. III, making the sal
aries of Judges OF the Superior court
and Supreme court payable monthly
instead OF quarterly. was passed unan
imously.
Adjourned.
In the House Tuesday the first i'm
portant business was the considera.
ton of House bill No. SO, providing
for an additional Judge OF the Supe.
rior court for King county. After an
hours debate on the measure, it was
defeated, 81 to SO.
The bill having been lost, Gilman
moved suspension of the rules to
take up Senate bill No. 165, the Dyer
bill, to provide for the holding of SEES.
sions of the Superior court in any
county in the State by Judge of the
Superior court of any other county
The motion was carried and the bill
was passed unanimously.
The following bills were introduced
Temple-Appropriating money to
pay 80 newspapers $lS.75 each, and
three newspapers $3.50 each, for pub.
fishing the official notice of the con.
stitutional amendment providing for
an increase of the Indebtedness, was
read three times and passed.
Washburn-A comprehensive meas.
ure providing for a State banking
system.
The Gilman bill providing for the
submission to a vote OF the people of
an amendment to the constitution
authorizing alien ownership of lands
within the corporate limits of any city
or town, or to lands containing any
valuable deposit of minerals, provoked
lengthy discussion in which the
whole question OF the alien ownership
of land was considered. The bill was
lost, 80 to %, the necessary two-thirds
not voting in the affirmative.
The House went into committee OF
the whole, with Ludden in the chair,
to resume consideration OF the Hoole
bill to create a railway and steamboat
commission. After debate Hoole, de-
cided that it would be useless TO at
tempt to pass the bill, and moved that
the committee rise and recommend
the indefinite postponement of the
measure. The motion was carried.
The bill was then indefinitely post
poned with practical unanimity.