The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-27

| ton asking that law be passed providing
| for the election OF city attorney. city clerk
and city marshal by popular vote.
| A message from the senate announced
| the passage OF senate bill No 90, by For
rest of King, to enable cities and towns to
| validate certain warrants in excess of their
| limitation, and it was referred 10 the
/ judiciary committee.
/ The judiciary committee reported back
! house bill No. ~. by Gilman of King pro-
/ viding for the appointment of a public adj
/ ministrator, and recommended that it
| pass, with an amendment making the
office appointive for a period of SIX instead
| Of four years.
/ the public administrator elective every
two years, instead of having it an appoint
| i've Office. He wanted to put such offices
in the hands of the people directly, and
| thought they could be trusted to do what
was right. and he believed that officials
should give an account OF their steward
! ship once every two years.
| Tucker said the office was simply sort
| OF private secretaryship to the superior
| judge, anyway, and believed that officer
| should be made responsible for the proper
! appointment. Mcmillan Endorsed this
| view.
Mays. Nelson and Scott favored the
amendment, on the ground that the peo-
| pie themselves should have the naming Of
| SO important an officer.
Gilman opposed the amendment. On
| general principles, he said, it was right to
have all officers elected by the people, but
TINS was peculiar exception. and the rea-
son was good for making it so; the public
administrator was to take charge OF ali es-
| tates OF deceased persons, and this bill
puts safeguard around the officer which
makes him responsible to the court for his
actions. Gilman declared that in so i'm
po-tant and purely non-poltical an office
the judge of the court could be trusted to
name better man than could a political
convention. He felt that there was a cry
ing need for the passage of this bill, be-
cause under the present law these matters
OF settling estates are very loosely attended
to- and he wanted to see it adopted as the
committee suggested.
Ludden also spoke in favor of the COM
mittee's recommendation. He called at
tention to the section requiring the adj
ministrator to give satisfactory bonds for
the faithful performance of his duty, and
he believed the character of the court
| would guarantee in all cases proper APP
poIntment under the bill as it came from
the committee
Smith of Douglas was opposed to the
creation of any more offices, and would
| oppose the whole bill.
Neergaard favored the passage of the
| bill, because he believed it was needed
| Bakers amendment was lost. Yeas So,
nays 80.
| Mays moved to recommit the bill, but
| it was voted down. Mays then moved as
| an amendment to make the bond required
| of the public administrator SIS, 900 instead
| OF 5000, and this was also lost, as it was
shown that the judge could require a
| larger bond at any time.
Mead moved that the bill be put on final
| passage, and Judson spoke against its
| passage. He declared that it was simply
scheme TO make more public offices, and
he did not think the people would endorse
such thing. He knew of a case in Cali
fornia, he said, where the public admins
| traitor had actually killed a man whose
estate he was to administer upon, simply
because he could not wait for him to die
Judson said the people were now COM
| planning about too many offices, and he
was with the people. These public officials
were always conniving together, and it
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the number of offices now provided for by
law.
The bill was then put to vote on final
passage and failed to pass, the vote being
as follows:
| Anderson OF Whitman, Anderson of Whatcom,
| Burton, Bush of Chehalis, Gilman, Green berg,
| Hoole. Kari, Keller, Leo Ludden, Mead, Meany,
Mentzer, Merchant. Morrison, McElwain. Nc
| MILAN, Nelson, Nash, Neergaari, Payne, Pierce
| of Levi, Rinehart, Roscoe, Roth, shade, Sher-
man, Temole. Tucker. Turpin, Webb, White,
Wheeler, Winchell, Mr.. Speaker.
NAYs-i0
Anderson of Pierce Baker, Brock, Bush Of Pa
| cfc, Cameron, Collin. Cowan. Crockett. Denn,
| Durant, Edmonds, warts, E1bert, Parrish.
Eos err, Green, Hamil Heliker, Hurd. Jud >on.
| Kline, Latterman, Mays. Moore, Mulkey Nc
| Kenzic. MeMurnhy, McNew, Pierce OF Lewis
saee. scott, Shelton, Smith of Okanogan, smith
| OF Douglas, Smithson. Speek, Tull. Weed, West
fall, Woodwork.
The judiciary committee also recon-
| mended the passage of house bill No A.
| by Weed of Yakima. abolishIng the days
of grace On negotiable papers. Weed
moved that the bill be recommitted, but
this was vSted down and it was placed on
third reading and final passage. Mentzer
warmed up in opposition to the proposed
bill, which he declared was in the inter
ests OF the bankers and lawyers only He
could see, he declared, how it would be
possible with this proposed bill enacted
into a law for man worth $50 900 to have
his credit ruined by a sight draft for $500
made on him. BY aboIishing the days of
grace a draft is payab on sight and can
be protested M once. He did not believe
the bill could be defended. He then
moved to indefinitely postpone the bill,
and it was done by unanimous vote
House bill No. SIS. by McElwain of King.
was also recommended for passage by the
judiciary committee. 1t is a bill relating
to the conditional sales and leases of real
property. and on motion Of Hurd il was
passed by the house without dissenting
vote. seventy-tve members voting IN the
affirmative
The house then went into joint session
with the senate-after the Joint conven-
| ton dissolved.
Meany gave notice Of amendment to the
| house rules SO as 10 send ali bills and reso-
buttons appvop-iating money to the APP
| preparations committee to he embodied in
the general appropriation DILL At the end
! az tho session