Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-02-26

vldes for constitutional amendment,
as follows:
That section six of article seven OF
the constitution OF tia State OF WASH
/ iaSton he AID the same is hereby
! amended To read Il, follows: Section
Is All taxes levied and collected for
State purposes shall be paid in money
into the State Treasury: Provided,
That a system OF non interest bearing
State warrants, receivable Tor taxes, is
hereby authorized and the Legislature
Is empowered 10 enact such laws as
snail carry this provision into effect.
The bill passed 10y vote of 81 to
81.
The House suspended the rules and
passed House bin No. 2Sl, by Hansen,
which provides:
That section | OF ali act entitled
An act exempting the proceeds of
lie insurance from liability for debt,
and declaring an emergency" APP
proved March 20, 1895, is amended to
read as follows: Section |. That the
proceeds or avails of all life and acct
dent insurance shall be exempt from
all liability for any debt
The bill passed by vote of GS to 4.
An emergency clause prevailed.
House bill No. 29l, by Geraghty,
was passed by vote OF 81 to II. The
bill provides
| No city or town now organized, or
which may be hereafter organized in
this State, shall require by its charter
or otherwise the ownership of a free
hold or other property as a qualitica-
ton for the holding of any Office in
said city or town.
An emergency clause was added to
the bill as all three cities of the first
class have elections before the time
when the law would go into effect.
House bill No. lib, by Wilkeson,
providing method for the dissolution
OF towns of the third and fourth class,
and the appointment OF receiver to
wind up their affairs was passed.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
committee on Commerce recommended
by vote OF s to 3 that the compulsory
pilotage bill came up to-day on the
T.,
the House clerk had managed what
the pilots had failed to do with the
committee. Pierson, chairman of the
committee was absent when the at
tempt to smuggle the bill through was
made. The opposition woke up in
time to prevent the move of its friends
to substitute the minority for the ma
~. hat /.
7. NJ. Smith made desperate fight
for his bill. Frank Baker spoke
against the measure, making strong
plea for the indefinite postponement
of the bill. He reviewed the discussion
in the committee and recited that in
San Francisco and Portland everything
was being done to shake off the pilotage
octopus.
Strive compared Puget Sound to
the Columbia river. He contrasted
the awful bar harbor and treacherous
currents of the Columbia to the
fourtcen-mile wide entrance at the
straits. He referred to the fact that
large numbers Of vessels now came to
Port Angeles and the Royal Roads OPP
posite to lay until they got charter.
In case of compulsory pilotage, no
vessel seeking" would come to an
American port to lay for a charter.
He related how federal Office holder
in Seattle and number of others
constructed vessel to be used in con-
nection by number of pilots. They
tried cruising off Flattery and failed
and the same people were now here to
force the passage OF this bill.
Warner declared the bill hold-up
measure"
Libby presented petitions from
nearly thousand ship owners and
hundreds of captains demonstrating
against the bill
H. ID. Smith, on behalf of eastern
Washington farmers, hoped the bill
would be defeated
The bill was indefinitely postponed
by vote of so to 81.