The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-01-11
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Tand to prevent further Withholding
of state funds by municipalities.
This latter result might readily be
achieved by requiring that all liquor
licenses bear the signature of the
state treasurer, which signature and
seal would be affixed only after the
state has received it's percentage of
the license fee. Anothr means of at
tanning the same end would be to
make 1t a misdemeanor on the part
of municipal officials to fail to turn
over promptly to the state treasurer
the states proportion of the fee.
Investigation shows that the state
Is not deriving the revenue it should
from the inheritance tax law, many
county and judicial officers failing to
inform the state treasurer when
estate on which the tax should be
collected come into court l recon-
mend the amendment of the inheri-
lance tax law to compel the proper
officers to make these reports to the
state treasurer.
State Inspection of Banks.
statutory and constitutional pro-
visions concerning criminal and civil
liability of bank officials should be
supplemented by legislation so that
deposits in the different banks of the
state will be safely guarded by the
custodians and paid on demand.
"With the purpose in view of pro-
tectng bank deposits, a system of
state inspection of state, foreign and
private banks should be provided to
the end that every depositor can rely
upon the integrity and honesty of
every banking institution subject to
regulation by the state, holding itself
out as bank and inviting deposits.
"The late Governor John r. Rogers
mentioned this subject in his message
to the legislature of 1899, and in part
said:
1.-THE state Is able to and certai nly
should throw around such institutions
the safeguards now existing with re-
lation to national banks. The bust
ness of banking is eminently a public
one depending for success upon the
use of deposits made by the public.
The people who do business with the
banker, and the general public, thus
acquire right to know the state
of affairs prevailing in the insttu
lions upon which business in the sew
eral communities is made largely to
depend Honest and prosperous bank
erS will welcome examinations at fire.
quent intervals, which will give them
60 i,
ing and Increase their business. while
dishonest and unsuccessful ones
should be wecded out, to the great
advantage of communities infested
by them.
Governor John II. McGraw in his
message of 1895 said: The legis-
lature should address itself reso-
lutcly to the enactment of such
law as will render the word bank"
when inscribed on public depository
a positive synonym of security
Irrigation Code.
Il would commend to your earnest
and careful consideration the report
which will be presented to you, of
the irrigation commission appointed
by my predecessor, Governor Nc
Bride, to Investigate the subject of
irrigation and recommend such
changes in our system of irrigation
as might be deemed for the best in
terests of the state.
''The remarkable progress in recent
years in the science of irrigation and
the almost miraculous results we
have seen in this state following the
application of water to hitherto bar
rem and reproductive lands, bring us
to realization that in our vast arid
and semiarid lands of eastern Wash
ington we have an asset of immense
potential value. Under wise and be
nign enactments by the congress of
the United States the general gov
eminent now stands ready. under GER
tain conditions, to reclaim for our
people and for our prospective popu-
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