Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-02-10

OF the county attorney.
II. B. No. 2J3, hy Wheeler of King
Relative to the collection of taxes
and forhidding the levy OF road OF
bridge taxes on property within any
incorporated city or town.
\ memorial to Congress asking for
the establishment Of national road
department and for the teaching OF
road engineering in agricultural
colleges, was introduced by Meany and
referred
! 4 Senate concurrent resolution
fayoring the annexation OF Hawaii
was adopted.
Action was taken on bills as follows
Mr.. Hoole occupying the chair during
their consideration
II. c. K. No. &, relative to an in
crease of the circulating medium
Made a special order for Tuesday
February IL. A motion to indefinite
ly postpone the bill was lost by a vote
OF - to A.
II. b. No. ia, relative to garnish
ments. Ordered printed with amend
ments, and made a special order FOL
Friday
H. b. No. 81, for the detention o.
domestic animals, and giving lien
for damages upon such animals
Passed.
II. b. No. 100. relating to the bust
ness OF logging. Indefinitely post
poned.
II. B. No. 1l5, amending the act tc
secure to creditors a just division o.
the estates Of debtors. Passed.
H. B. No. $50, relative to making q
declaration of forfeiture of certain con
tracts Passed
II. b. No. 1913, giving justices of the
peace jurisdiction of proceedings in
forcible entry, forcible detainer and
unlawful detainer of real property
Indefinitely postponed.
II. b. lag, providing for the fore.
closure OF chattle mortgages. Indefi
nitely postponed.
H. B. No. 164, providing for the
transcribing of county records where
they have become worn or mutilated
Passed.
H. B. No. 172. giving the owner OF
real property sold at executive sale,
the possession, rents and profits Of
such property during the redemption
period of one year. Passed
S. B. No. 81, fixing maximum com
pensation to board of prisoners at 60
cents per day. Passed.
Adjourned to 10 o'clock Tuesday.
On the joint ballot, Monday, the
10th of the contest, So votes were cast,
40 being necessary to a choice. OF
these John B. Allen received Al, Geo.
Turner II, c. w. Griggs %, c. w.
Young7. The votes for Young were
cast by the populists, who abandoned
Governor Teats for the candidate OF
their party for Governor at the No,
vember election. The following were
paired on the first ballot: Rutter and
Helm, Forrest and Richards, kinnear
and Claypool, Neergasrd and Wood
worth, Hastings and Turpin, Edens
and McManus. Winchell and Nelson,
White and Roscoe, Kelly and Mast,
Dyer and Eshelman. Those absent
and not paired were: Burton. Bush
Of Chehalis, Edwards and Smith of
Okanogan.
Before the second ballot was taken
number of members who had ar.
rived on the late train reached the
hall. Ninety-nine members voted on
the second ballot. so being necessary
to choice. The vote stood: Allen
As, Turner 81, Griggs a. Young 8.
Those paired we're: Neergaard and
Woodwork, Hastings and Turpin,
Edens and McManus, Winchell and
Nelson, White and Roscoe. Absent
and not paired: Burton, Bush of
Chehalis, Smith of Okanogan.
On Tuesday. Gilman of Whatcom
introduced q bill in the Senate to
provide for township organization. 1t
was very long and took up the morn
ing session. In the afternoon the
reading was confined, and after it was
finished, the bill was laid upon the
table.
The State Library bill was amended
80 as to give the Librarian 81, 800, and
allow him an assistant at $500 per
year. The library is to be kept open
from Z to 10 o'clock every evening ex-
cept Sunday. The bill passed, with
an emergency clause.
Senator Campbell of Pierce, intro
duced a resolution for the purchase of
$50 copies of the real property statues
of Washington Territory, compiled by
T. o. Abbott, of Tacoma, was referred.
The statues are to be distributed
among the members Of the Legisla-
ture, State and county officers.
The same committee recommended
the indefinite postponement OF S. B.
No. 63, regulating fees of County
Clerks in probate cases. The report
was adopted and the bill postponed.
New bills we're introduced as fol-
lows:
By DISCRIMINATING the code pro-
viding for the organization, mainte-
nance and discipline Of the State mi
litia; also, for the aid of the Washing
ton State Historical Society.
BY Shaw-For the relief OF J. T.
Goss.
BY Rutter-To establish bureau OF
statistics, Agriculture and Immigra-
ton as provided for in section "a, Ar.
ticle 2, OF the Constitution.
By Forrest-To prescribe the powers
of counties relative to public works
and structures for county purposes.
By Ide-For the relief of C. II.
Braenn, and appropriating $770 for de-
ficiency on Cheney normal school con-
tract.
By Van de Vanter-Creating a
State Board of Land Commissioners.
H. B. 254, regulating fish traps, and
other appliances for catching salmon
on the Columbia river and Puget
Sound, was referred.
Adjourned until 10 o'clock Wednes-
day.
The House on assembling, Tuesday,
the Committee on Privileges and
Elections submitted q majority and q
minority report in the Gaskell-Ed-
wards contest. The majority recon-.
mended that further proceedings be
not had and the case dismissed, and
the minority favored further investi-
CATION.
The matter was made the special
order for next day at 10 o'clock.
Mcmillan offered resolution pro.
hibiting the Chief Clerk from address
ing the House and requiring him to
communicate with it through the
Speaker - impliedly censuriny Mr..