Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-02-15
THE LEGISLATURE
A Brief Summary Of the Proceedings Of the
Seventh Biennial Session.

In the Senate, Friday, the Sth
President Mcbride appointed the fol.
lowing committees:
To visit Educational Institutions
Warburton, Sumner, Mantz, Welty
and Baker.
To visit Peni,entiary-Cornwel! and
Hamilton.
Rands, OF Clarke, offered a resolu-
tion providing for the appointment of
a joint committee, to consist of two
hold-over Senators and one Represen-
tative, to supervise the expenditure Of
all appropriations during the recess of
the Legislature, said committee to
serve without compensation, but to be
allowed its actual expenses. The res
olution clothes the committee with
power to subpoena and examine wit.
nesses relative to all expenditures, and
requires that vote shall be made to
the next Legislature concerning the
committee's work. The resolution
was referred to the committee on APP
Preparations.
The committee on State Charitable
Institutions reported favorably the
bill Of Preston to admit Indian war
veterans to the Soldiers Home at Ort-
ing.
The Joint Committee on Fisheries,
appointed to confer with q similar
committee from the Oregon Legisla-
ture, reported that they had agreed to
the following amendments to the fish
cry law:
: First-To extend the open season
from August 10 to August 18th.
Second-Providing for Sunday clos.
ing during the spring season.
Third-To introduce a new law rel
ative to spawning beds.
S. B. No. 3, providing for a def
cheney appropriation of $4,000 in the
State institutions, passed as amended
by the House.
In Committee of the Whole the
Senate agreed to report back unfavor.
ably the bill 70 appropriate 81 400 to
purchase 1000 copies of the Legisla-
tive Manual. The manual is being
prepared by private parties.
S. B. No. liz, appropriating $3.50 to
meet deficiency in clerical hire in
the State Treasurer's Office, passed.
The following bills were introduced:
No. 157, by Rands. relating to the
collection of delinquent taxes.
No. l5S, BY Rands, amending revs-
nue. and taxation law.
No. 159, by Angle. providing for
establishment of boundary lines be-
tween oyster lands of individuals and
those belonging to the State.
At the afternoon session of the Sen.
ate, by q vote of nineteen against to
fifteen in favor, the Preston Railway
Commission bill was defeated. The
bill provided for the appointment of q
Railway Commission by the Governor,
the Lieutenant-G Governor and the State
,, Auditor, thus taking out of the hands
of Gov. Rogers the appointive power.
Several Democratic Senators claimed
to have vored against the bill because
OF that fact. The bill had been en-.
crossed after the adjournment of the
Senate, and when the hour for its con-
sideration arrived every Senator was
in his seat. In order to be sure that
all OF the Senators were present, how
ever, a roll call was had and every
Senator responded to his name. The
roll call on passage was then ordered
and proceeded at once, no discussion
being had on the bill.
The vote in detail was as follows:
Yeas-Angle, Crow Of Spokane, Gar
Der, Hall, Hallett, Hammer. Mantz,
Megler, Moultray, Preston, Sharp,
Sumner, Tolman, Welty, Wiltshire
lis.
Nays-Andrews, Baker, Baumeister,
Biggs, Clapp, Cornwell. Crow of Whit
man, Davis, Hamilton, Heinrich,
Land, LeCrone, Rands, Reser, Ruth,
Schofeld, Smith, Stewart, Warburton
liz.
| At the conclusion OF the vote Sena-
tor Preston changed his vote to no in
order to move q reconsideration later.
In the House, Friday, the joint COM
mittee appointed by the Senate and
House to investigate the executive Of
fees of the State submitted report
stating that they have concluded that
it will be useless to push the work, ex-
cept on o much broader scale than
originally contemplated. The men,
bers had gone sufficiently into the
matter to realize that without heavy
clerical force, six months time and at
least 5000 to be used for detective
hire, etc., the investigation would be
farce.
1t has been Chairman Smiths con-
tention right along that hasty exam
ination of the executive offices would
be worse than none at all. Gov. Rog.
ers, when consulted, did not approve
of a thorough investigation unless the
former Republican administrations
we're included. The committee did
not feel like undertaking An investiga-
ton covering period of over twelve
years, and so told the Governor. For