The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-19
Pau|y and Henderson are Given
Chalrmanshlps
COON ANNOUNCES us SELECTIONS
APPOINTMENTS CONFIRMED BY
VOTE OF Is TO IS, REGU-
LARS VOTING NO.

OLYMPIA, Jan. 19.ABy vote OF
25 to Is, the nays being registered by
the regulars the senate yesterday
confirmed the following committees
| announced by Lieutenant Governor
Coon.
The committees and chairmen are:
Agriculture, Blair; appropriations.
Vanness; banks and banking, Boone;
cities of the first class, Jones; claims
| and auditing, Eidemiller; commerce
and manufacturing, Condor; congress
sional districts, Rosenhaupt; cOnstitu-
ton, Williams; corporations, other
than municipal, Davis; counties, An
derson; dairy and livestock, McGre-
gor; dykes, drains and drainage, Mink
Ter; education, Reed; educational in
situations, Nichols; election and privi-
leges, Presby; engrossed bills, Pogue;
enrolled bills, Metcalf; fisheries, Wat
son; game and fish, Potts; harbors,
| Cotterill; horticulture and forestry
| Gum; insurance, Hutson; irrigation
and arid lands, Scott; judiciary,
Graves; labor and labor statistics.
Hunter; medicine, dentistry and n.y.
giene, Brown; memorial, MCGOWAN;
! military, Piper; mines and mining,
Kline; municipal corporations, Smith;
printing, Kennedy; public buildings,
Ruth; public revenue and taxation,
Sumner; purchases, Booth; railroads
and transportation, Paulhamus; roads
and bridges, Bratt; rules, the presi-
dent; salaries and mileage, Allen;
senate employees other than regular,
Stevenson; state charitable institu-
lions, Sands; state granted and school
and tide lands, Poison; state library,
Knickerbocker; state penal and re-
formatory institutions, Pauly.
Local Option.
Metcalf introduced the direct pri-
mary league bill and a bill to repeal
the law of two years ago, which allows
one corporation to own stock in an
other.
In the house II bills were intro
duced, the most important being the
local option measure presented by
Johnson of Yakima. 1t provides that
a majority of the residents of pre-
cinct, ward or county can secure local
option by petitioning the county COM
missioners. There is no election fea-
lures.
Yesterday the speaker announced
his committees. The chairmen were:
Agriculture, Cameron; appropria-
tons, Thompson; banks and banking,
Coles; claims and auditing, Erickson;
commerce and manufacturing, Davis;
congressional appointment, Megler;
constitutional revision, Beach; COM
pensation and fees, for state and coun-
ty officers, Griffin; corporations, other
than municipal, Lambert; county and
county boundaries, Glenn; dairy and
livestock, Troy; dykes, drains and
drainage, Caches; educational, Ram
sey; engrossed bills, Taylor; enrolled
bills, E. C. Davis; federal relation and
immigration, l. N. Stephens; fisheries,
Shultz; game and game fish, Croft;
horticultural and forestry, Peddycord;
harbors and waterways. Reeves; hos
pitfalls for the insane, Byerly; house as
signments, Long; insurance, BaSsett;
internal improvements and internal
affairs, Hutchinson; irrigation and
arid land, Johnson; judiciary, Reid;
labor and labor statistics, Huxtable;
medicine, surgery, dentistry and n.y.
giene, Fulton; memorials, Slayden;
mileage and contingent expenses,
Blackmore; military affairs and sol
diers' home, E. p Gilbert; mines and
mining, Palteman; miscellaneous.
Rank; municipal corporations of the
firts class, Hanson; municipal corpor-
atiOns other than the first class, HO-
gan; printing and supplies, Miller;
privileges and elections, Strobridge;
/ public morals, Sayer; revenue and
| taxation, Ranck; railroads, Dickson;
| loads and bridges, Stevenson; rules
and order, the speaker; state capitol
and grounds, Carlyon; state library,
Rice; state normal schools, Olsen;
state school and granted lands, Horn
berger; state penitentiary, F. C. Jack
son; state school for defective youth
and reform schools, McRae; state uni
yersity, McMaster; tide lands, Mccoy;
water and water rights other than
/ irrigation, Henderson,; Washington
State College, Sherrey.
Both houses adjourned until Monday
afternoon