The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-03-23
Speaker CUES Estimate of Work
Of the Legislature.
AL INTERESTS PROTECTED.
New Mortgage Law Deals Jamtly
Fishing Industry Dealt with
Generessly-Laborin Men Dene-
Cared For-Economy In the House.


representatives Of the late legislature.
with Mrs Cute ard their son have re-
turned from Olympia Mr.. Cute was de-
iatresi at the state capital fer nearly two
weeks comparing the journal Of the house
and transactinR other business required
OF him. On Thursday evening of las,
week, ptsoisc reception was rendered the
speaker and his wife by the citizens OF
Olympia at the Olympia hotel 1t was
largely attended.
Probably no member Of the last iegsssa.
ture is in position 10 give better re-
sumo Of the work OF that body than the
speaker OF the house. As every one who
was al Olympia during the session knows,
Mr. Cute kept constantly posted concern
ing the measures that were before the
legislature. He carefully studied the bills
as they came from committees and no
member OF the house was more rigid Ia
his, examination Of the bills acted upon
than the speaker. Asked yesterday for an
estimate OF the work accomplished by the
legislature and an opinion Of the laws
enacted he said:
s'The sixth legislature did nothing TO
interfere with or disturb the business In
passed many laws which will be OF benefit
10 the people The Bedford act authorix-
ing the payment of general fund warrants
out Of moneys in the permanent school
moneys In the general fund. will. IL the
&C, Is held TO be valid and constitutional.
result in the investment OF $3S0.00 of the
permanent school fund in general fund
warrants and save to the state annually
thousands Of dollars in interest
The act which reduces the interest on
state warrants from 70 ; per cent. per
annum will have the effect OF saving to
the state <91a per year.
by the Mcdonald school book bill,
cities and towns having high schools would
have been allowed II 1870 10 purchase
their own school text books and be freed
from what has been to the state OF
Washington, the pe-nicious system OF state
uniformity. But this bill was vetoed by
the governor.
Mortgage Law Repealed.
THE enigmaticaI and unsatisfactory
mortgage law passed by the legislature
Of 1897 has been repealed and the old law
with improvements that are just alike To
the debtor and the creditor has been re-
enacted.
THE bill relating to negotiable instri-
ments, now in force In eleven other states.
and recommended by the National Bar
Association and the American Bankers
Association. is one of the most important
measures enacted. 1t fixes and crystal
lies and makes uniform the law re.at-
ing to negotiable instruments
The legislature was very generous TO
the fishing industry OF the state and has
made a liberal appropriation for the es-
hatcheries. The money appropriated for
that purpose is received from licenses paid
BY men engaged In the fishing business
and Is appropriated from the fish hatchery
fund. II is 20 be hoped that the hatch
cries will supply the tAg annual demand
for salmon and that they will be the
means OF preventing their determination.
"A number of rnsrftorious bills I'm the
interest OF labor were recommended for
passage by the Western Central Labor Tn
ion Of this city, all OF which passed the
house with one exception. The act prohi-
biting wilifui and malicious b.acklisting of
employees for the purpose of preventing
them obtaining employment, or the pub
fishing Of them as members Of a secret
organization to prevent their securing en-
Payment. the act requiring railroad CON-
panles to block and protect switches. frogs
the horseshoers' bill are laws of consid-
In Interest Of Farmers.
Among some Of the laws in the in
tsrest OF the farmers Of the state Is the
act requiring "A uniform system OF stamps
on butter and cheese made in this state
and prohibiting the sale OF imported but
ter or cheese as Washington products /:
also requires vendors OF worked ovar
ranch butter TO stamp the same 'Renoyat-
cd Butter The act requiring milk cans
10 lie stamped. showing the capacity Of The
same will tend 10 invIre just measure
men, TO the vendors and purchasers OF
milk.
Important bills were passed which have
FOR their object the protection OF the
state school and granted lands and the