The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-02-22
THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.
Senator Boone Introduces Anti
Trust Bill.

In his advocacy OF his antitrust bill,
senate bill No 151, Senator H. NJ Boone
Of Whitman county il seeking to secure
the enactment Of a law which will make
it possible to break up the grain buyers
combine, which for several seasons past
has, by an agreement, fixed the prices to
be paid by it's members for wheat
throughout the wheat growing districts
of Washington. The constitution of the
state provides that trusts and monopo-
lies shall not be permitted to exist in
Washington and makes it the duty of
the Legislature to pass legislation which
will prevent them. But this mandatory
duty Of the legislature has never yet
been complied with, although nine egis-
latures have convened since the constitu-
tiOn was adopted. 1t is this neglect of
preceding legislatures which Senator
BOOne's bill now seeks to remedy, with
especial reference to the trust of the
wheat buyers
The Boone bill declares in section /
that no incorporated company or as
sOciatiOn OF persons shall directly or in
directly combine with any other COM
pany, foreign or domestic, for the pur-
pose of fixing the price or limiting the
production or transportation of any
III EecIIOU Burn COM
binations are declared to be illegal and
punishable by imprisonment in the state
penitentiary not less than one, nor more
than five years, and fine OF not less than
one, nor more than five thousand dollars.
The other sections of the bill relate to
the methods of its enforcement, which
are full and complete, even to providing
that If any such company has been re-
strained by court from violating the
act and is found guilty of violating that
Injunction, it shall be the duty of the
county court to declare the charter of
the company forfeited and appoint re-
ceiver to take charge of it's property and
wind up its affairs. II foreign corpora
tiOn it shall not thereafter be permitted
to transact business in the state. Pro-
visions are made also whereby persons
injured by such a combination NAV re-
cover in civil suits double the amount of
their damage and costs Of such suit.
Another Tide Land Bill.
Representative Freudenberg OF King
county has introduced in the house OF
representatives. another tide land bill,
house bill No. 249, designed to make it
easier for private individuals to get
possession of the states valuable tide
lands at appraised valuations and with
out competitive bidding The bill has
had so many predecessors of similar ma
ture that its appearance creates no sur
prise or astonishment, and those inter
e-ted IN its passage have even secured
for it the indOresment of the Manufacture
ers' association, the chamber of com
merce and the city council OF Seattle.
At the End of Fourth Week.
At the end of the fourth week OF the
Washington legislature the senate has
passed 40 senate bills and 27 house bills,
a total Of rs. and the house has passed
70 house bills and IA senate bills,
total of 81. The number of bills that
have passed both houses, therefore, is Al,
Of which p originated in the house and
IA originated in the senate. OF these 10
have been signed by the governor.
BY Whitman's Representatives.
$40, by Whitlow-Requiring all stall
lions to be registered at the state college.
223, by McGregor-Providing that all
voters of county to be divided may
vote on division.
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