Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-02-22
THE LEGISLATURE.
CoDtinu, i from Second Page.

lFOHt second rage.
all special State funds ...u turning al
moneys into one general fund.
No. 1856. by Erlich, providing for :
State road from Marble Mount il
Skagit county to the Slate Creel
mines in Whatcom county, and ap
propriating $4,000.
No. 1897, by Stocking, relating to the
County Auditors duties.
No. 1888, by Gunderson, by request
relating to marking a channel in oys
ter beds.
No. 3S9, by yesterday, by request
relating to labor liens.
No. 800, by Buck, to apportion the
State into Congressional districts-firsi
district to include southeast Washing
ton; second to include the northwest
including King, Chelan and Okanogan
third district. the southwest.
No. 39l, by Starr, making it mis-
demeanOr to allow thistles to grow.
No. 392, by Earies, providing for the
issuance of liquor licenses in cities
and towns.
A greater portion of the afternoon
was consumed in discussion of Gunder
sons bill for selection and use Of
school text books; a motion to in
definitely postpone was lost.
In the Senate, yesterday, the Con.
ference committee on House Bill 60
providing for pilots and pilot regula
tions on the Straits of Fuca, recon-.
meHded that the Senate recede from
its amendment which simply struck
the emergency clause from the bill
The Senate adopted the report and
passed the bill with the emergency
clause.
S. B. No. 210, was introduced BY
CARRIER, providing for a new form Of
ballot.
H. b. No. 70, Comstock'. bill estab
fishing and maintaining free kinder.
gartens in schools, failed of passage.
The following passed:
II. b. 1872, making it an offense &c
adulterate paris greer used in spraying
fruit trees.
II. b. No. 100, making an appropri
alton of $3.50 for postage and inciden.
tails in the Attorney Generals office.
No. Isl, apprOpriating S., 500 from
the fish hatchery fund for the main.
tenance of salmon hatcheries for the
balance of fiscal year.
Substitute for S. B. 76, reducing the
season in which prairie chickens may
be killed from two and one hal
months to ono month.
S. B. 126, amending an act to pro.
vide for the assessment and collection
of taxes.
No. Is, an act appropriating $S4l
for relief OF II. N. Price.
No. 25, appropriating $1,000 for q
fish hatchery on the Grand Ronde
river.
At 11:30 the reapportionment bill
which was a special order, was taken
and after spirited contest, passed.
Yesterday the gerrymandering bill
framed by the Republicans was the
special order in the House, and OF
course passed by party majority, as
it did in the Senate.
Citizens OF Stevens county protested
against the Scent passenger rate OF
the Spokane Falls 4 Northern railway
and petitioned for passenger rate bill
with maximum of 3 cents a mile.
New bills were introduced as follows
No. 394, by GOrham, relating to the
salaries of county officers, costs and
fines in counties of the tenth class.
No. 1876. by Gorham, an act relating
to school teachers who violate their
contracts; provides for revocation O.
certificates for such violation.
No. 1886. by Andrews, appropriating
$500 for fishways on Chelan river.
No. 1877, by Sims, to give prosecut.
ing attorneys power to compel wit
nesses to give testimony before a
charge is filed against any person.
No, 39S. by Dow, prohibits goats
from running at large.
No. 399, by Dow, prohibits sheep
and goats from running at large and
provides penalty.
No. 400. by Fairchild, for the relief
OF J. H. Miller, of Whatcom.
No. 4O1, by Jones, providing for SUBJ