Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-02-22
THE LEGISLATURE.
A Brief Summary of the Proceedings of the
Seventh Biennial Session.

were introduced as follows:
No. 1917, by Rand-, an act amending
the law relative to revenue and taxa
| ton.
No. 1913. by Schotield, an act provid
ing for State wagon road from Mon
/ tesano to Port Angeles and appropriat
ing $4,000.
No. 1893, 10y LeCrone, an act regulat
ing the sale OF poisons.
No. 100, 10y Hamilton, an act for the
relief Of J. NJ. Van Sicle and maxim!
an appropriation.
No. POI, by Hamilton, an act pro
viding for a wagon road from Railroad
Avenue, Tacoma, to country district.
of Pierce county and appropriating
$4,000.
y Petition was presented from
produce and fruit dealers OF Seattle
asking that the present Horticultural
law be not repealed and stating tina,
it was the only measure that ever al.
forded any relief to fruit growers oil
this State.
These bills passed:
S. Il. 1913, to protect seed buyers in
the State. This bill compels seed
growers to put the year in which they
were grown on the package.
:. b. l2l, an act to curtail the prop.
agatiOn of criminal classes. This bill
provides that persons convicted of
rape and incest or sentenced to third
terms in the penitentiary or sent there
for life shall be castrated.
Substitute for S. b. 20, to regulate
the hours of employment Of females
by mechanical and mercantile estab-
lishments.
The committee substitute for S. B..
50, requiring horseshoers in cities Of
the first, second and third classes to
pass an examination and providing for
a board of examiners in said cities and
providing penalty for violation.
S. B. 126, which provides that the
County Commissioners may employ
attorneys to foreclose tax delinquency
certificates created con siderable discus
sion. Senator Smith, who introduced
the bill, is himself against it. In King
county the County Commissioners and
County Attorney Fulton we've at var
lance on the question, but the Com
missioners now want Mr.. Fulton to
have charge Of the business.
At III 20 Senate went into commit-
Tee of whole to consider H. B. 201,
which appropriates $1,000 for a mon
ument to the nine unclaimed dead of
the First Regiment Washington volun-
teers. The Governor, Adjutant Cen
eral and Colonel commanding the First
Regiment N. G. w. are made CON-
mission to execute the provisions of
the act. The bill was amended so as
to have the monument erected in Syl-
vester park instead OF ut the Masonic
cemetery where the dead are buried.
The bill was then passed.
House reported having concurred i'm
the Senate amendments to S. b. l01
to regulate the practice OF medicine in
the State. This precludes osteopaths
from assuming the title of doctor.
In the afternoon besides considera.
ton of a revenue and taxation meas
ure, which occupied much time, the
Senate went into committee of the
whole with Senator Mantz in the chair
10 consider the Tolman Railway Com.
mission bill. The bill is almost iden-
lical with the Preston bill, defeated
some time ago, except that the Toll
man measure provides that the Cover
nor should name the commission
while the Preston bill
look that power from the Governor
The report OF the committee was
favorable to its passage, but on roll
,all it was defeated by the following |
vote:
Yeas-Angle, Cornwell. Crow. H. D..
Crow, l.. c., CARRIER. Hall. Hallett,
Mantx, Preston, Reser, Toll
nan, Welty, Wilshire-l4.
Nays-Andrews, Baker, Baumeister,
Biggs, Clapp, Davis, Hamilton, Hem
itch, Land, Le Crone, Megler, Moul. |
ray, Rands, Ruth, Schofield, Sharp,
Smith, Stewart, Sumner, Warburton
20.
In the House, new bills were intro
iuced as follows:
No. $40, by Gorham, relating to
false pretense.
No. 81, by Gorham, relating 10
costs in civil actions.
No. 372, by Gunderson, amending
the revenue and taxation laws.
No. 1913, by Ulmer, providing for a
State road from Moniesano TO Port
distance OF about $50 miles,
and appropriatiug $4,000 therefor
work to be done under the supervision
of commissioners, one each to be ap-
pointed by the Governor from Che.
halls, Clallsm and Jefferson counties,
their salary to be s. per day.
No. 374, by Ulmer, to abolish the
State Board OF Audit and Control and
providing for the management of State
institutions by an executive council
consisting OF the Governor, Lieutenant
Governor and Secretary of State.
No. 375, by Slime, amending the law
relating to the assessment OF personal
property.
No. 376. by Jones, relating to county
boards of equalization.
No. 81, by Jones. providing for
plating irregular tracts Of land.
A memorial by Mccoy was intro
duced, relative to grazing on forest
reserves.
Much of the afternoon was taken
up in consideration OF H. b. %, an act
to establish code OF probate law and
procedure. 1t passed.
II. B. No. 2l1, by Rosenhaupt, to
enable cities and towns to validate
certain warrants and other obligations
issued by the corporate authorities in
excess of their legal authority, passed.
II. b. SO. by Rosenhaupt, creating a
State geological survey, abolishing the
State mining board and establishing
the position OF State Geologist, and
carrying an appropriation OF S. 900 an
nually, was taken up on third reading.
The board OF geological survey is TO
consist OF the Governor, Lieutenant
Governor, State Treasurer, President
OF the State University and the Presi-
dent of the Agricultural College, who
shall serve without compensa ton.
The bill passed.