Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-03-10

church property from taxation. Tull
opposed the amendment. lie wanted
the building of churches encouraged,
and the finer the churches the better.
Bakcr said that the old exemption to
the amount of $1,000 was unjust, but
this bill was much more SO in respect
to churches. He charged members
with supporting the exemption clause
Tor fear Of social Ostracism and the
enmity OF the church member. He
dlscoursed upon witchcraft, religious
bigOtry, the doctrine of eternal pain.
Mays entered upon Jealous defense
OF Christianity. THE reason sir" he
declared, that the gentleman from
Pierce, sir, is not wearing breech
clout, like his ancestors, sir, is found
IN the aid given civilization by the
churches, sir. Christianity made civil
lization possible, SIR" Mays was called
to order at the end of his time. OBJ
Jections were made to suggestion
/ that he he allowed to continue. He
stated that he had "just one word
more" to say. This announcement
was applauded, and cries OF Consent.
them" were heard. Mays then closed
with the declaration that even the
enlightened heather" exempted their
religious edifices.
The Scott amendment was lost, 81
to AZ. The motions to limit the ex-
emption of church property to $1,000
and to $4,000 respectively, were lost.
An amendment by Pierce of Kick
itat to limit the exemption to churches
in which seats are free was adopted.
On motion of Nash grounds, 10 by
200 feet in size, of library, hospital,
and asylum buildings. and of institu-
tons for fallen women and homes for
the aged and intirm, were exempted.
The exemption OF hospitals not sup
ported entirely by charity was stricken
out, on motion OF Shelton.
An amendment offered by Mentzer
to provide Tor but one real estate valu-
alton every two years was adopted.
City and county property was ex-
cmptcd, on motion OF Wheeler.
The poll tax sections were stricken
out.
At 90, after having passed on &C
OF the l4S sections of the bill, the COM
mittee rose and asked leave to sit
again at 1880 o'clock. Leave was
granted.
On motion of Roscoe, the " sitting"
committee was directed to put House
bill Nos. 1873 and l34, time check bills,
on the preferred calendar.
A recess was then taken until 7 80
o'clock.
The Committee of the Whole re-
sumed consideration of the revenue
bill at the evening session, and
amended in varioss particulars. The
principal amendments were: Raising
the limit OF school tax levy from six to
eight mills; reducing the limit of
bridge tax levy from five to three
mills; striking out the sections pro-
viding for institnting suits in the SUI
perior courts to collect delinquent
personal property taxes in cases where
the County Treasurer is unable for
want of goods whereon to levy, to col
lect such taxes; striking out the clause
allowing rebate OF three per cent. on
taxes paid on or before Feb. Is next
prior to date OF delinquency.
After having passed upon 10i OF the
l4S sections the House at 9 80 arose
and asked to sit again.
In Mondays joint convention 104
votes were cast. The following were
paired: Rutter and Richards, Parrish
and Greene, Van de Nanter and Idle.
Edens and Speck were absent and not
paired. The ballots resulted as fol-
lows: Observation-Disclosures As, Tur-
ner %, Griggs Is, Van Patten 8, Gill
man 8, Dunbar l Kinnear |, McCros-
key /, Shaw l. Those who voted for
Gilman were: Cowan, Crockett, Ed
monds, Foster, Hutchinson, Kline,
Mulkey, Shaw and Turpin. Winchell
voted for Kinnear and Gilman voted
for Shaw
Ninety-fifth-Allen A, Turner 90,
Gricgs Is, Van Patten 8, Gilman 8,
Kinnear 2, Shaw 2, Dunbar |, McCros
key |, Smith of Whitman |. The
changes from the ninety-fourth ballot
were the following; Sallee voted for
Smith, Roscoe for Kinnear and Moore
for Shaw.
Anderson's railroad bill passed,
Tuesday morning, by vote Of 81 to l,
with the amendment suggested by the
majority report OF the committee. The
bill as it passed provides that no ndi-
vidual, company or corporation own
ing, operating, managing or leasing
any railroad, or part of railroad, in
this State, shall charge or receive
greater or higher rate for carrying
wheat. barley, flour, flax seed, rye or
other mill stutis, oats, potatoes or hay,
than So per centum of the rates actu-
ally charged for carrying said articles
or commodities on the third day of
January, 1893, provided, that no
greater rate than S5 per ton shall be
charged for carrying the articles or
commodities hereinbefore enumerated
for haul of 500 miles or less.
fuckers House bill No. al was in
definitely postponed. The bill provides
for the levy of tax of 81 mills on all
property in the State, the amount so
collected to be paid into the State
Treasury, and redistributed among the
counties throughout the State in pro-
ton to the number of school children
in the several counties. Senators
Dyer, Frink and Kinnear urged the
indefinite pOstDOnement of the hill as
an unjust measure, subjecting certain
counties to unequal taxation for edu
cational purposes. Senators Rutter,
Sergeant and Brown defended the bill,
but the motion to postpone carried,
ayes 90, noes II. Those voting in the
negative being Senators Belknap,
Brown, Claypool, Donahoe, Edens,
Forsyth, Gilbert, Kellogg, McCroskey,
O'Neil. Roberts and Shaw. Not voting,
Eshelman and Helm.
Senate bill No. no, by Dyer, relat-