The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-03-14
AT THE STATE CAPITAL
important Doinss Of Our Legislators Il oIvr
Pia-Bils Passed.

All day Thursday the struggle over
the general appropriation bill was ON
IN both houses Of the Legislature. and
adjournment found each bodv VIII,
its Dill passed, and all in readiness
Ior the appointment of a conference
committee. The conference will take
al least day, and another day win
PROBABLY be exhausted in wraneline
over the conference report. The an.
preparations are the heaviest in tho
history of the state. Several times
during the day the wiser members Of
the two houses have felt constrained
to admonish their fellows concerning
the wisdom of economy. The senate
Dill carries an aggregate of $2,oS7.-
2ol, and the house bill $2,172,547 95.
difference of $85,2s6 95 in favor
OF the senate. The appropriation bill
includes the expenses of all state of.
hcers, and of the state educational
penal, charitable and reformatory in
stitutions. In this sum, however, is
not included the 100000 deficiency
appropriations already made at this
session, the $350,000 capitol appro-
priation, the soldiers monument ap-
preparation, nor any of the $25, 900
private relief bills. Taken altogether.
the appropriations of this session
70
The principal struggle in the SEN
ate centered in the appropriations for
the three state normal schools and
the university. The items of the va
rious state institutions, of a penal,
reformatory and charitable nature,
were passed without question.
All this time the senate had been
in committee of the whole, with Sen
ator Tolman, of Spokane, in the chair.
After the bill had been threshed over
all day, it was discovered that but two
amendments had been made to it..
These were the insurance items Of
$1,000 each for the reform school and
the soldiers home. Otherwise the
bill was left just as it came from the
committee. The committee of the
whole arose, and the bill was passed.
In the House.
The house Thursday passed the fol-
lowing bills:
Senate bill 166, by Preston, giving
public Libraries greater power, by en-
abling them properly to take care Of
gifts, endowments, etc.; substitute for
senate bill 81, by the committee on
labor and labor statistics, for the ex-
animation of horseshoers; substitute
for senate bill 70, by the committee
on labor and labor statistics, fixing
the 10 hours as a days work for fe-
male employees.
Senate bill 156, by Stewart, provid-
ing that national and state holidays
shall be school holidays, was indef-
nitely postponed.
The house held a night session and
passed several bills, including one pro-
viding for the state inspection OF oils
and creating the Office of state oil
inspector.
An effort was made indefinitely to
postpone the bill prohibiting the &C.
ceptance of free passes by public Of
ficials, but it failed, and the bill was
ordered engrossed.
A bill aiming to prohibit the use OF
fishtraps on Puget Sound south of a
given line near the northern boundary
of Kitsap county, failed of passage.
Gunderson's bill changing the code OF
public instruction was passed.
House memorial No. IL, by Mccoy,
urging congress to charge stockmen
a small fee for grazing privileges on
forest reserves, the money to be spent
in building roads through the reserves,
was adopted.
House bill No. 54, by York. to more
definitely define the boundaries OF
Pierce county, was indefinitely post
poned.
House bill 1853, by Gunderson, amend
| ing the food fish laws, failed to pass.
Lewis and Clark Exposition,
A concurrent resolution passed ootn
houses Monday authorizing the gov
ernor to appoint commission OF fve
/ .,.,,ors to co-onerate with the COM