Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-02-17
BANQUET STOPS BUSINESS.
The Olympia so1ons Adjourn to Dine
With Standardized Foster.

1h0 olympia SOIOn9 Adjourn to Dine
With Senator-Elect Foster.
Both houses of the Washington legis-
lature adjourned from Tuesday evening
until P. M. Wednesday, in order to
give ample time to legislators and
members of the press to participate in
an informal banquet rendered at Ta-
coma by Senator-elect Foster.
In the senate Tuesday resolutions
commencing the bravery Of Washing
ton troops at Manila were adopted.
The Gray -Mantz election case was
taken out of the hands of the committee
which had been appointed to submit
the matter to the; supreme court, and
the matter will now be practically set
tied by the senate as whole.
The permanent school fund invest
ment bill was amended to. permit, in
vestment in government and state
bonds at par, per cent interest. or in
county, city and school district bonds
at per cent. The bill was then Or
dered engrossed.
Bills introduced were: Allowing
o. M. Hidden $103.50 for drawing
plans for the waterworks for the Van
couver school for defective youth; COM
pelling the serving of notice of action
within 80 days after the filing of COM
plants. At present complaint may
be filed and while not being served,
any accounts involved do not outlaw;
appropriating $40. 900 for the compile
tion of the state road established in
1887 from Wenatchee via the Methow
river to the mouth of the Twisp river;
allowing cities to advance from one
class to another at special election
called for that purpose.
House Routine.
At the opening of the morning ses-
sion of the Washington house Tuesday
the speaker presented another iemon-
STRANGE from the citizens of Stevens
county against the,creation of the ooun-
.ty of Ferry.
Bills introduced were: To prohibit
the removal of improvements from
mortgaged property, without the con-
sent of the mortgages; prohibiting the
sale of personal property, title to which
has passed by conditional sale; pre-
scribing rates to be charged on sleeping
cars; for the protection of farmers ct
AL, in the purchase of fertilizers; to
provide for the extens ion of tax rolls
by county auditors; (two bills) to
amend the law relating to the organiza-
tion and incorporation of municipal
corporations; approrpriating $715.63
for the relief of Captain Harry st.
George; prescribing the manner of
using the label of the typographical
union; approrpriating $400 for fish
way on the Skykomish river; to enforce
the payment of delinquent taxes on
timber lands before the removal of the
timber; relating to placing poison for
the destruction of wild animals: relat-
ing to the bonds of prosecuting attor-
neys.
The house went into committee Of
the whole on house bill 157, submit
ting constitutional amendment, per-
mitting alien ownership of lands. with
Judge Mount in the chair.
When the committee arose it recon-
mended that the bill be referred to the
judiciary committee.
The committee on public buildings
the indefinite postpone
ment of the senate capitol bill and the
passage of substitute bill that does not
recognize the award of contract made
by the old commission to F. 81. Goss.
The house indefinitely postponed the
senate bill, and ordered that the substi-
tute bill be printed.