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

Taylor, Baum and Miller of Wall
Walla opposed the bill because OF tn
small number necessary to initiate
Senator Dorr, of the Republicans, vote
for the measure.
Houghton moved that the Senat
refuse to concur in the House amend
mcnts to bill SO, the sugar bounty bill
and that a conference committee b
appointed. Carried. The committe
is as follows: Houghton, Hall an
Hill.
The House bill for the protection c
men working in coal mines was passed
House bill 81, relative to fees to b
paid by incorporated companies, wa
amended and passed.
Wilson's motion to reconside
Senate bill lii, the personal propert
exemption bill, prevailed. The bill
was then amended and passed.
House Bill subjecting the franchise
of private corporations to sale upol
execution and upon an order of sal
under foreclosure of mortgages wa
passed.
House Bill 519, to provide for tn
punishment of recalcitrant witnesse
called to testify before committees ap
pointed by legislative bodies, etc.
passed.
House Bill SO, to provide for tn
better protection of railway switches
failed to pass, ayes 12, nays 7.
House Bill 243, providing for {
uniform system OF public blanks TO
use in the counties of the State, oc
casioned discussion. Keith read .
circular letter sent to county officer
by publishing houses advising them tt
to defeat the bill. The bill
passed % to9. Wilson gave motto,
that he would move to reconsider.
House Bill 232, establishing boart
of pardons and defining its duties ant
declaring an emergency, passed.
= House Bill 375, in relation to tn,
adoption of legal heirs, passed.
House Bill 81, relative to regulatin,
the mode of proceedings to appropriate
lands for incorporate purposes, wa.
passed.
In the House Wednesday Senator T
]. Miller's resolution directing the
State officers to Immediately select
the State granted lands passed un-
animously.
The Senate bill protecting owners
of liquor bottles, kegs, etc, was passed
Senator Coles bill preventing de.
ficiency judgments was passed by q
vote of 63 to 10. Ames was the only
Republican voteing for it and Mathiot
alone of the fusionists voting against
it.
The House receded from its amend
ment to Senate bill 1O3, relating tt
State penitentiary salaries. The Hous.
had cut the Warden's clerk to $S0(
and the Senate insisted on 81 600.
The following bills were passed
Senate bill providing for the purchase
of supplies and desks for State Offices
at wholesale; Senate bill providing fo
a beet sugar bounty; Senate bill pro
tecting trademarks; Senate bill re
lating to street assessments, after be
ing amended; Senate bill requirin,
contractors to furnish bonds for labor
ers' pay; Senate bill giving laborers' {
lien; Senate bill relative to levying Oh
securities deposited by insurance com
panies; Senate bill preventing tn
tapping of electric wires; Senate bill
appropriating $3,757 for the relief o
Mrs. H. c. Ashenfelter; House bill re
lating to the recording of mining 10
cation notices; House bill to establisl
a museum at the University.
Senate Bill II, providing for the in
corporations of cemetery associations
was indefinitely postponed.
State memorial for an export bOunt.
on wheat was defeated, II to so.
The first business transacted in tn
Senate, Thursday, was the passage o
a concurrent resolution offered b,
Senator Deckebach, reciting the fac
that on this day Hon. William Nc
Kinley is inaugurated President of tn
United States, and extending to hin
the hearty congratulations of the Leg
islature of the State of Washington
The resolution expresses the earnes
and sincere wish that his administra
ton may be crowned with the bless
ing of the Almighty, and shall Prov
the instrument through which TIN
people may receive the prosperity 81
necessary to their happiness.
The Populist Senators were some
what suspicious of Deckebach, bu
after three full readings of the reso
luton all of them but Rinehart wer'
satisfied that it was not loaded, so i
was passed with but one dissentin.
vote, which, from his remarks, Rine
hart indicated was because of it
recognition of Almighty God.
The special committee investigat
ing the reform school at Chehalis re