Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-02-01

No. 1913, by Raine, to amend the
code, concerning indexing deeds and
other records III county auditors of
q fees.
No. 194, by Corliss, hy request, tc
prevent incompetent persons from
managing coal mines.
/ No. 1915, by Anderson, for State road
on Little Pend dOrillc creek in north.
eastern Washington; repeating the act
providing for the Marble Mount road
and appropriates $1,000 for new road
over practically the same route.
No. 10, by Britton, an act regulating
the liability OF surviving members OF
partnerships, was read for the third
time and passed
No. &C, by Stocking, prohibiting a
copartner from fraudulently account
ing in a partnership, and declaring an
emergency, was passed.
No. lG, an act appropriating $1,000
for deficiency in State Land Commits
sioner's office, passed.
A memorial was received from the
King County Bar Association, praying
for the appointment of two additional
Judges of the Supreme Court.
A concurrent resolution by Senator
Preston, requesting that the battle
ship to be built by Moran Bros. be
chrstcncd Washington, was adopted.
At the afternoon session a House
Joint Memorial was presented by Hast
ingsr memoralizing Congress for a
lighthouse at Deception Pass.
yesterday, for the Mayor and citi-
zens OF Tacoma, gave an invitation to
the Legislature to visit Tacoma on
Friday afternoon and evening. Bush
OF Pacific objected to junketing"
trips and said it was not good policy
for the House to accept the invitation.
Other members favored the acceptance
and the invitation was accepted.
House Joint Resolution, that a COM
mittce of three from the House and
two from the Senate to investigate ex-
ecutive departments Of the State, the
committee to consist of three Republic
can and two Democrats, was adopted.
In the Senate, Wednesday, Hallett's
bill providing for the taxation of col
lateral inheritances, passed. The bill
exompts all legacies going to members
OF the immediate family, and fixes the
tax to be paid by heirs up to and in
Guiding the third degree of relation
ship as follows: From ST. up to So
600, one-hslf of one per centum.
From $1,000 to $4,000, three per cent.
From $4,000 to 100000, four and
one half per cent. Above 100000,
six per cent.
The bill further provides that rela-
tives beyond the third degree and
strangers to the blood shall pay double
the amount paid by relatives and in
Guiding the third degree.
The Senate also passed Warburton's
bill providing for the creation of bar
ber's commission and requiring the
registration and examination of bar
bers. The bill applies only to cities OF
the first, second and third class.
Wilshire's bill permitting appeals to
the courts from the decisions OF the
Board OF State Land Commissioners
passed, as did bill appropriating
$500 to meet deficiency in the Office
of the Secretary of State.
In the House, the following bills
were read and referred:
No. 1876, by Gorham. making slight
correction in Hills code.
No. 1877, by Gorham, amending Bal
fingers Code by reducing the cost in
cases OF appeal from justice courts to
gu Tor court. The present cost is
Sc. Under the proposed law it is fixed
at So.
No. 1913, by Hastings. providing for
the construction of State wagon road
from Olympia to Port Angeles at a
cost OF $4,000.
No. 1879, by Stocking. relative to the
collection of taxes in the State of
Washington, making the assessed val
uation on property conclusive where
parties do not appear before Board OF
Equalization to protest.
No. 200. by Ferguson, reducing tolls
charged by boom companies from IS
cents per thousand to so cents.
No. POI, by Philbrick. providing for
the erection in Olympia of noun
ment at cost not to exceed $1,000 to
the soldiers OF the First Washington
Volunteers.
No. 202, by Milan, relating to reve-
nue. and taxation and exempting from
taxation private property used for pub
lie road purposes.
No. 9S, providing for the abolish
ment OF the Commissioner on Horti.
culture was indefinitely postponed on
of Committee on
Horticulture.
The following bills passed:
Nc. II amending an act relating to
official bonds. This bill provides that
bondsmen OF county officers, except
surety companies, shall be residents
of the State and of township officers
residents of the county.
II. B. "a, appropriating $500 to cover
a deficiency in the Office of Secretary
of State.
A petition signed by Kate Turner
Holmes. President, and by other off,
GERS of the Federation Of Women's
Clubs of the State of Washington, and
addressed to the House OF Representa-
lives was read asking support for the
bill now pending providing for circu-
lating libraries. The bill creates a
library board and appropriates $1,000
for the work. The object of the bill is
to reach remote places in the State
with eood readipo mattar
S. B. No. 3, appropriating money for
deficiencies in State institutions was
reported back by the committee on
Appropriations with the recommends
ton that the same do pass, with the
amendment that section 8, appropriat.
ing $4OO to cover a deficiency in
the Board of Audit and Control be
stricken out. The other deficiencies
provided for in the bill include one at
the State penitentiary and another at
the Soldiers Home. The House