Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-02-03

| L hc IloiSc iuJOuTIleu uIltll IL Id A.
NJ. on Monday.
In Joint Convention, Saturday, 80
votes were cast. Allen received 81,
Turner 1G, Griggs 81, Teats and
Dunbar l.
The Senate finished its business in
less than half an hour Monday.
Twenty-one Senators were in attend
ance. The following bills were in
troduced:
By Miller-To amend the act to
establish general and uniform sys.
tenn of common schools.
By Claypool-To provide for the in
corporation of associations for social,
charitable and educational purposes.
By Hutchinson-To abolish the
poll tax.
By Edens (by request)-To amend
the act authorizing the issue of bonds
for road purposes.
By Brown-Appropriating $4,000
for the establishment OF a State Nor.
NAL School in Kitsap county.
| By Brown-In relation to liens.
Adjourned until ii o'clock Tuesday.
The House met at II Monday, i'm
mediately went into joint session with
the Senate, and after the dissolution
OF the joint convention, took recess
until 2 o'clock.
| At the afternoon session a resolu-
ton by Payne for the appointment of
a joint committee to draft memorial
to Congress favoring the acquisition of
the Sandwich Islands was unanimous
ly adopted.
Egbert offered a resolution intended
to be scathing, commenting the Ore
gon Senators for securing appropria-
tions for Washington, and in an at
tempt at irony thanking Senators Al
len and Squire for their efforts in the
same direction. The resolution, on a
standing vote, was laid on the the ta-
bic, 80 to q.
The House then took up the special
orders for the day, five Laughton ve-
toes of House bills of the last session.
The first veto taken up was that of the
bill requiring railroad corporations
to fence their tracks," 1t was passed
over the veto by vote of 6. Those
voting in the negative we're: Cameron,
Karr, Mcany, Sallee. Those absent
were Helliker. Mead, Smith OF Okano-
gan, Sp,ck, Tull, Washburn. All
others voted in the affirmative.
The bill "to make time checks for
labor negotiable and bear interest
from date of issue," was passed oyer
the veto. The negative votes were
cast by Brock, Bush of Pacific, Green,
Kelly, Mentzer, Nelson, Roth, Temple.
The absentees were the same as on
the previous vote.
The veto of the bill to require rail-
road companies to construct and main-
tain connections from one railroad to
another was also overruled by vote
of 62 to 10. The 10 were: Anderson
OF Whatcom, Cowan, Crockett, Green,
Kelly, Nays, Pierce of Lewis, Weed,
Winchell. The same members we're
absent as during the roll calls on the
bills previously considered.
The veto OF the section OF the agri-
cultural college bill, making the board
body corporate. was sustained, all
voting against its passage over the
veto except Anderson OF Whatcom and
Collin.
The famous Wasson railroad bill
was passed over the veto with only
two votes in the negative. those of
Mentzer and Sallee, II voting in the
affirmative. Those absent we're:
Heliker, Smith of Okanogan, Speck,
Tull and Washburn.
The House then adjourned until 10
O'Clock Tuesday morning.
Seventy-nine votes were cast on
both ballots for Senator Monday.
Thirty members were paired, and
three were absent and not paired. The
following was the vote:
Allen-Anderson OF Whatcom, An
derson of Whitman, Brock, Brown,
Bush OF Pacific, Cameron, Edens, Far
rish, Gilbert, Hoole, Horr, Karr, Kel-
ler, Kelly, McElwain, Mckenzie, Nc
Murphy, Meany, Merchant, Morrison,
Neergaard, O'Neill, Pierce OF Lewis,
Rinehart, Roberts, Roth, Rutter, Ser
geant, Speck, Tucker, Weed, Wheeler,
Van de Vanter-33.
Turner-Greenberg, Hurd, Ludden,
Mcmillan, Mentzer, Moore, Nash, Mel
son, Pierce of Klickitat, Sherman,
Smithson, Temple, Westfall, Van
Houten, Woodworth-15.
Griggs-Anderson of Pierce, Camp
bell, Cowan, Crockett, Donahoe, Ed
monds, Foss, Foster, Gilman, Hamill,
Hutchinson, Judson, Leo, Letterman,
Mays, Miller, Mulkey, Payne, Shaw,
Shelton, Turpin-21.
| Teats-Baker, Burton, Collin, Denn,
Durant, Edwards, Egbert, Scott, Smith,
Of Douglas-9.
Dunbar-Bush of Chehalis-1.
yesterday, Washburn and White
were absent and not paired. Those
paired were: Heliker and Shade, Kin
near and Claypool, Frink and Nc
Croskey, Kellogg and Smith OF Whit
man, Roscoe and Webb, Belknap and
Cooper, Hastings and Helm, Sallee
and Ide, McNew and Smith OF Okano-
gan, Arrasmith and Tull, Forrest and
Richards, Mead and Kline, Winchell
and Greene, Forsyth and McManus,
Dyer and Eshelman.
PROMISING deposits OF Ignite coal
have been discovered near Charleston,
kitsap county. The veins will be