Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-03-12

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lief of cities of the third class, has
been held off until near the close of
the session, and twice last week
llkens has attempted to call it up.
This morning he made last despcr-
ate effort to get it before the House
and succeeded. After spending the
entire morning considering amend
mcntS, the whole matter was settled in
five minutes in the afternoon BY
Fritz'S motion to table the bill. The
motion carried by vote OF 81 to "a.
The first work of the Senate Monday
was to eXtricate itself from the snarl
of Saturday on the railroad bill. First
it was recalled from the Engrossing
committee, without being engrossed
Notice was now given OF Il motion to
reconsider the vote by which the bill
was passed, and on unanimous consent
the motion to reconsider was put
without delay and prevailed.
An amendment and mutually salts.
factory report of the committee of the
whole was now presented. Under this
report the McReavv substitute for sec
ton | was so corrected rs to make the
XI.25 rate apply to hauls OF $50 or
more miles, and the so per cent rate
to apply to hauls of any distance,
amounting, in fact, to horizontal cut
OF 10 per cent on rates on all railways
from the rate i'll force on such road on
the I'd day of January last.
The most important amendment
reached in the compromise involves
the making over of the new section
that was offered Saturday by Senator
Baum. 1t is compromise that ac
complishes all the purposes sought to
he attained by Baum's resolution,
without the sweeping exemptions to
which the farmers SO strenuOusly
objected
The amendment to the railroad bill
follows:
Nothing in this act shall apply to
any railroad within this State which
does not exceed $50 miles in length,
or % any extension or branch of such
railroads or new railroads hereafter
constructed, and the building Of ex-
tensions or branches of any such rail-
roads shall not have the effect OF
bringing any such railroad within the
provisions of this act. But this shall
not be construed to exempt any rail-
road from the provisions of this act
rs to any shipment consigned to any
point in this State beyond the line of
such road. Any railroad or part of a
railroad, which on the first day of
March, 1897, would have been subject
to the provisions of this act, shall be,
and continue to be, subject to the
same Notwithstanding any change in
the operation, ownership, or manage.
ment thereof"
Concurrent memorial, by Warner,
asking the modification and revelation
of Cleveland's forestry proclamation
was read.
Senator Washburn offered rs sub
stitute n joint resolution, more far
in its provisions, but more
guarded in its demands upon the
President.
On motion of Dorr the vote of the
Senate was recorded by the secretary
for Warmers memorial Washburn's
resolution was also adopted by unani-
nous vote.
Senator Keith introduced a resolu-
ton on the same subject, which was
passed unanimously.
The Senate now went into COM
mittee of the whole on the general
appropriation bill, with Dorr in the
chair.
The appropriation for advancing
fees for survey of public domain was
transferred from the Public Land
Commissioners Office to the Governors
appropriation.
The schedule of fees for the Sccrc-
tary of States Office was amended on
motion of the chairman of the APP
preparation committee. 1t is as
follows:
Salary of Secretary OF State, 5000;
chief clerk, $1,000; insurance deputy,
81, 400; recording clerk, 81 500; extra
recording clerk; $1,S0O; bookkeeper
and stenographer, 81, 44O; messenger
boy, 1920; travelling expenses, $500;
distributing session laws, $500; index
ing session laws, 5000; indexing Senate
journal, 5000; indexing House journal,
5000; publishing constitutional amend
ments, $500; transcribing indexes,
$500; extra clerk hire, 1920.
Various amendments were made the
object of which was to reduce the ap-
preparations for various institutions.
The House Monday took summary
action on bills. There was no time
lost in idle discussion and and very few
of the bills were even read in full.
The Buckley wagon road bill was
bitterly opposed by eastern Washing
ton Populists. The bill passed by a
vote of AZ to Is.
Warner introduced concurrent res
olution asking for unanimous consent
to introduce memorial demonstrating
against the arbitrary action of Cleve-
land in reserving nearly one-sixth of
the public lands of Washington as a
forest reserve. The resolution passed
the House without dissenting vote.
NSidShty lii'tuc u ilOIlOH GlllS luOTH-
ing that beats all previous records for
railrOading legislation through. There
were twenty-five bills on the calendar
introduced by the Judiciary commit
tee and correcting details in the code.
Geraghty moved to pass the bills in q
bunch. The motion was declared out
of order and that motion made the
country members so suspicious that
it took several minutes to explain that
the bills affected no ones rights and
only made corrections in the existing
laws.
The House passed the following bills:
By Scott, relative to irrigative dis
tricts; by Moore, relating to the leasing
of mineral lands; by Koehler, estab-
fishing State wagon road on Wiskah
river i'll Chehalis county; by Wilkeson,
relative to trout fishing; by Moore,
providing for wagon road from Lyle,
klickitat county; by Kincaid, provid-
ing for wagon road from Buckley to
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