Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-02-19

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was not understood by several. The
members were not satisfied, so a roll
call was taken, and when put on
record the roll showed failure to
table the motion by a vote of % to
32. This brought the whole question
before the House again for debate.
Baker made speech against the re-
consideration and wanted to know
why such action should be taken.
Geraghty of Spokane replied that
the passage of the act would do away
with the capitol fund, and, as there
we're great many warrants outstand-
ing, to do away with the fund simply
meant rcpudiation.
Roberts of Spokane, said that he
had no reason to change his views
since the bill came up before. He
was in favor of what was right and
just. He insisted that the passage of
House bill No. 2, would result in
legal complications. The holders OF
the warrants would have to he paid,
and to do away with the fund would
be along the line of reputation.
Warner lost no time in getting to
his feet, as he regularly every five
minutes bores the House. He sput-
tered and splashed and declared that
Roberts was I" off his base"
Roberts rose to a question of per-
sonal privilege and called Mr.. Warner
"down" hard, charging him with
misconstruing remarks made on the
subject. Warner didn't seem to be
able to control himself as he stumbled
on until the chair interposed, when
he got particularly wild. DR.. Mitchell
called him to order and accused him
of making mistatements, but Warmers s
wheels kept on revolving.
The subject was finally made spec
ial order for Feb. II at 2 o'clock.
The following new bills were intro
duced:
No. 431, by F. r. Baker, providing
system of inspection of illuminat-
ing oils by an inspector and suitable
number of deputies.
No. 432, by Stafford, providing for
the construction of wagon road from
Gle Elnm lake to Fish lake in Kittitas
county.
No. 433, by Moore, amending pres
ent road laws.
No. 4S4, by Warner, creating a
board of Capitol Commissioners and
providing for the creation and COM
pletion of capitol building.
The first three sections relate to the
organization of the board, which
shall consist of five members, and of
which the Governor and Secretary of
State shall be chairman and Secretary
respectively, the remaining three to
be appointed by the Governor. The
commissioners are to receive S. per
day. The board shall advertise for
plans from architects of the State of
Washington, and shall offer three
prizes to be awarded for the three
sets of plans of the highest degree of
excellence. The material used shall
be either rock-faced Tenino, Chucka-
nut or Wilkeson stone, and Washing
ton brick, iron, wood and terra Gotta.
No contract for the work shall be let,
but the building shall be constructed
by days work under the direction of
the Board of Capitol CommissioneV.
Bids for contracts for material exceed
ing $500 in amount shall be adver-
tised for in two daily newspapers. The
architect whose plans are adopted
shall be supervising architect, and he
and his assistants shall receive such
compensation as the board may al.
low, not exceeding $4,000. The
total cost of the building, steam heat
ing apparatus, ETC., shall not exceed
100000.
No. 435, by Hodgdon, compelling
candidates for public offices to nomi.
nate themselves by advertising Their
candidacy for ninety days prior tc
election in the newspapers. Delegates
in convention shall not be eligible te
be nominated.
No. 436, by Thacker, amending road
laws.
No. 42l, by Canutt, prohibiting de-
ficiency judgments and extending Pc
riod of redemption to three years.
No. 422, by Hooper, reducing tele'
graph rates one-third.
No. 424, by Hooper, reducing ex
press rates.
No. 425, by RAIDER, relating to in
structions to jurors.
No. 426, by RAIDER, defining false
pretenses.
No. 427, by Barlow, providing fol
the safer keeping of records of the wal
of the rebellion.
No. 42S, by Kincaid, proviking fol
the construction of State road from
a point where the county road inter
sects the west line OF section 9, town.
ship - north, range west, in King
county, thence up the White river
valley to the mouth of the Greenwatel
river and thence to the summit of the
Cascades, to American river, down the
river to where it empties into the
Pumpkin river, thence to the hatcher
river. The bill carries an appropria.