The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1899-02-23
THE LAWMAKERS.
Postpones the Mantz-Gray Case
In Senate and House.


Postpones the Arantz-Gray Case
In Senate and House.
In the Washington senate Wednes-
day. by vote of Is to 10, the Gray
Msntz contest case was indefinitely
postponed.
Two house bills passed the senate,
one providing for the adoption OF home
less or neglected children, and the
other granting to cities the power to
make reassessments for local improve
ments in case the original assessment
10 declared illegal.
A resolution from the Tacoma cham
Der of commerce was read in the sem
ate, asking that the bill providing for
the Carbon and White river state road
be passed.
A resolution was adopted instructing
the president to secure telegraphio re-.
ports from Manila as to the condition
OF the Washington regiment.
Bills introduced were: Appropriat.
ing SIS, 900 for state road from Port
Angeles to Hoquiam; providing that
hotels may secure liquor licenses for
$50 per annum; allowing attorneys to
serve justice court processes; appropri-
ating $4,000 for state road in What
com county; requiring electric wires to
be placed underground; making it q
felony for peace officer to receive
money from gamblers and others.
The New Capitol Bill.
The new capitol building bill passed
second reading in the Washington house
Wednesday. The normal school appro-
priation bill was favorably reported
back to the house and passed to third
reading. It carries $45.5O0 for the
Eliensburg school, $4,000 for the
Cheney and $40, 900 for the New What
com institutions.
The senate resolution regarding the
Washington boys who lost their lives
or were wounded at Manila was re-
ferred to the committee on military
affairs, SO that corrected list of the
dead and injured may be inserted.
Bills passed were: Amending the
act regulating the practice of medicine;
requiring corporations doing business
in this state to pay fee Of $25 and an
additional fee of 20 cents for each
81 900 of capital stock: providing a
penalty Of $500 for failure by corpora
tions to register with the secretary of
state; granting logging companies the
right of Way over state lands.
Road Bills.
The Washington senate. Thursday,
in committee of the whole most of the
morning session considered road bills,
which were passed in the afternoon.
They are as follows: Appropriating
$40. 900 to complete the state road from
Kettle Falls to Marble Mount; appro-
priating 5000 to complete the state
road from Wenatchee to the mouth of
the Twisp river; appropriating $15, 200
for a new road from Ventura, Okano-
gan county. over the Cascades to Vera
Cruz. Whatcom county; app1opriating
$25, 900 for state road along the north
bank of the Columbia river from Lyle,
Klickitat county, to Washougal, Clark
county; appropriating $4,000 for a
state road from Montesano, Chehalis
county. by way of Cosmopolis, North
river valley, Willapa, South Bend,
Nehma river. Nasel river and Gray's
river valley to point on the Columbia
at Brookfeld;. appropriating $4,000
to mplete the road between Buckley.
Pierce county and Yakima; appropriate
ing $500 for road from Cora, or
Sulphur Springs, Lewis county. by
way of the Cowlits pass to point on
the Natchez river, connecting with the
wagon road at or near Cowiche.
In the house Thursday bills passed
were: Prescribing the manner Of pub.
fishing and distributing reports Of state
officials: requiring railroads to protect
frogs and switches before June /; ap-
propriating $1,000 for deficiencies in
the Office of the superintendent OF pub
lie instruction.; repeating the 1887 law
relating to pubko blanks; prohibiting
The killing of imported game birds un-
| til October, 1901, providing for the
erection of a 5000. 900 capitol building;
appropriating $1O0,0OO for the new
building at the Pullman agricultural
college-$50, 900 for two dormitories.
IS, 600 for furnishing them. and
s., 600 for a sewer system at the uni
versity. and Sc. 600 for dining-hall at
the Walla Walla penitentiary.
| In tho Senate.
| In the senate Friday the 0Iay-Mantz
contest case was brought to an end.
Preston's motion to reconsider the vote
BY which the matter was indefinitely
| postponed was ruled out of order. On
motion Of Crow it was ordered that the
contestant Gray be allowed mileage
and salary to date.
The following bills were introduced:
Declaring that submerged lands In the
Columbia river, near Vancouver, are
not tide lands, but belong to the abut-
ting owner; to regulate the manufacture
and sale of commercial fertilizers; ap.
propriating 1885 for the state board Of
health; fixing the maximum steamboat
f-o;uhf vataa at K cents por 100 pounds