Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-02-26
VOLIJME XXXVII.--NUMBER Is.
THE LEGISLATURE.

Plummcr Tuesday while tempOrarll.
acting as chairman. Plummer de
manded the journal be corrected t.
show the appointment. Daniels trie'
to pacify him with the assurance /
was call right" but Plummer insisted
on the correction being made, whicl
was finally done.
A resolution by Keith authorizing
the payment of $35 each to member
of the Vancouver investigation com
mittcc was adopted, The bill for tn
relief of ii. c. Ashenfelder's widow
was made a special order for 3 p. NJ
March Sd.
Senate bill 9G, by Taylor, providing
for personal notice of sale by execu
ton, was passed without opposition.
Places on investigating committee
made vacant by the withdrawal OF Nc
Reavy and Pusey were filled by thu
appointment of Paul and Wilson.
A petition for Superior Court Dis
trict for Douglas and Okanogan cOun
ties was read and referred to the Judi
ciary committee.
The following bills were introduced
No. 225, by McReavy, for speedy
construction of State capitol ant
granting an appropriation.
No. 226, by Wooding, relating te
Superior Court Commissioners.
No. 227, at request of Commissioner
of Education, for codifcation of school
laws.
No. 22S, by Lesh, appropriating
money for State Fair.
No. 229, by Lesh, relating to schools
No. 23O, by Miller, fixing salary OF
Clerk of Supreme Court.
The Judiciary committee reported
back the following bills.
House bill No. 137, requiring regis
tration in school elections; Senate bill
No. 116, deficiency judgment meas.
ure; Senate bill 81, regarding Board
of County Prisoners, which were laid
on the table; Senate bill No. 43, Great
ing State Board of Supervisors; Senate
bill No. 16O, mortgage foreclosures
Senate bill No. 129, relating to survey
ors, which were placed under general
file; Senate bill No. "a, allowing briefs
to be typewriter; Senate bill No. l55
relating to prosecuting attorneys
Senate bill No. A, practice act, the
reports on which were adopted. They
also submitted substitutes for House
bill No, 164, fixing per diem and mile
age in criminal actions, and House
bill No. SO, to set aside taxes for bene.
fit of fire department, which were or
dered printed. Senate bill No. 1S5, to
prevent corruption at elections, and
Senat bill 96, practice act, were rec,
commended for passage.
As soon as the journal was read
Wednesday, Geraghty rose to point
of order, stating that House bill No
255 was passed on a suspension OF the
rules to consider reading Of the bill
the third reading-when such reading
was not had in open house at all, but
in committee of the whole. Geraghty
said the proceedings were unconstitu'
tional and not parliamentary.
The chair ruled that the proceed
ings were entirely correct. Roberts
insisted ON the ruling going on the
record and Cline 80 ordered it.
Warner then moved that the vote
by which Bakers subterfuge resolution
to reconsider the vote by which the
bill was passed was tabled be reconsid'
cred. A roll call was demanded and
proceeded slowly. One after another
the members rose to explain change
of vote and when the call was con-
cluded the vote was a tie-37 to 81
Mathiot changed from nay to yea and
before the vote could be announced
Marshall and Libby (Reps) changed tc
nay. The motion was lost by a vote
of 36 yeas to 3S nays.
Roberts Immediately arose to aques'
ton of personal privilege. He said
that he had voted nay on the bill yes
terday and changed to yea for the pur'
pose of reconsideration. He desired to
be set right before his constituents and
asked to have his vote changed on
the record to nay. The change was
ordered.
Williams, amid much laughter,
moved to reconsider the vote by which
the investigating committee was dis
charged. Warner seconded the mo.
ton, but it was promptly voted down.
The House went into committee OF
the whole with Kittinger in the chair,
to consider fish bills Nos. 352 and 419.
After fighting on parliamentary
points for thirty-fve minutes, and
twice appealing to the House for fur
ther instructions, the House reconsid-
cred the vote by which it went into
committee of the whole and the mat
ter was taken up in the House.
A. S. Bush championed the pound
net and other trap tishermen's cause.
Wilkeson and J. M. Edwards spoke
for abolishing the traps. The noon
adjournment interrupted the debate.