The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1907-02-15
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
Oyster Land Grab Bill Meets
Defeat in Senate.
Graves of Spokane Would MuzzIe
the Press Bill to District
the State.

NhG OH TO OISIFtCI
the State.
That all grain bags manufactured at
the state penitentiary at Walla Walla
shall De distributed to actual consumers
ana by counties over the state in pro-
portion TO grain production and sold al
not to exceed 10 per cent above the cost
Of manufacture is provided for in senate
bill No 81, by Senator Presby Of Klicki
tat county, was passed by the senate
MOndar OF last week and transmitted e.
the house next morning This bill n
passed was champinned on the floor hy
Boone and McGregor of Whitman.
Boone Is Astonished.
In the senate on the Sth Graves pro
tested against language used in the
resolution offered by Kline Of Whatcom
charging the national administration
with bad faith in the recent withdrawal
of land IN NhatcOm county from entry
Graves objected to the discOurtesv OF
the legislature in charging the president
with bad faith, saying so beligerent a
resolution might arouse the ire of our
belllgerent president. Senator Ruth OF
lhurston declared no language could be
strong enough to express the indigna-
ton justified by the withdrawal
Cotterlll OF King, who, like Graves, il
a democrat, also felt the language
should be toned down. Boone Of Whit
man facetiOusly remarked that the px-
preston in the resolution, I'VE view with
alarm" had familiar sound. But"
he added, II am astonshed that any
democrat should object to anv deClara
tion beginning with these words That
sentiment is certainly democratic, ac-
cording to the very highest democratic
authority" whereupOn the senate went
into commissions, voted down Graves
motion to refer and adopted the me
| mortal.
Districting Bill Favored.
The senate committee on congresson
al apportionment has agreed upon di
vision OF the state into congressional
districts along the lines Of the Rosen-
haupt bill. The districts proposed are:
tirst-WhatcOm, Skagit, SnohOmish,
King, Kitsap.
Second-San Juan, Island, Jefferson,
Clallam, Pierce, ThurstOn. Chehalis
Lewis, Pacific, Wahkiakum, Skamania
Cowlitz, Clarke and KIickitat.
Third - Stevens, Ferry, OkanOgan,
Chelan, Douglas, Spokane, Lincoln.
Whitman, Adams, Franklin. Kittitas,
Yakima. Benton, Walla Walla, Colum,
bia, Garfield and AsOtin.
Met a Tragic Death.
Senator Ruth's oyster land grab bill
met tragic death in the senate when
voted down on rinal passage, Is to %
The vote on the bill was:
Yeas - Anderson, Booth, Condor,
Jones, Kline, Metcalf, MinkIer, Paul
hamus, Piper, Potts, Presby, Reed, Ruth,
| Veness, WatsOn-15.
Nays - Allen, Blair, Boone. Bratt,
Brown, Cotterill, Davis, Eidemiller,
Hunter, Rutson, Kennedy, Knicker-
booker, McGregor, Nichols, Pauly ,Rands,
Rosenhaupt, Scott, Smith, Sumner,
| Williams-23.
Have Passed 13 Bills.
At the end Of the fourth week Of the
session Of the 10th Washington legisla
ture it has passed but 13 bills through
both houses, nine of which have been
signed by the governor. OF the most
| important are senate bills 9S. 90, 100
and 1O1, known as the A. Y. p bills.
providing for the sale of shore lands on
| Lakes Union and v ashington, and ap
propriating from the proceeds $4OO, 900
for the Alaska exposition and 5000, 900
for new buildings at the state univer
sity.
House Bills Passed.
H. B. 116-Requiring state officers to
make daily deposits Of receipts
II. b. 117-PrOhibiting pasturing Of
sheep on unfenced lands marked by a
plOwed furrow or posted notices.
Fl. B. 92-Providing for election OF
health officers
H. B. 93- Making more stringent
provisions requiring physicians to re
port births and deaths
H. B. 227-Appropriating $1S6.5O to
pay markers of teachers examination
papers. Deficiency.
II. B. 157-PrOviding for repairs and
Improvement of the state capital and
apprOpriating the sum OF $4,000.
S. B. 57-Allowing one party to at
tach hog fencing to a partition fence and
remove at will.
H. B. 112-Allowing cities to validate
Indebtedness.
II. B. 129, by Bassett - Relieving
banks from liability on forged and raised
checks unless objection is made by the
depositor within go days.
=. B. 16O, by Meger-AppropriatiDg
$20OO.25, deficiency for publishing cleo
tiOn notices last fall
Ii. substitute bill So by Hansen
Amending the delinquent children act to
provide male probationary officers in
first class cities.
Fl. S. B. 81, by Dickson-Providing
that one member of the community may
sell property in the event of insanity OF
the other member.
Senate concurrent resolution 10, by
Pauly, was passed, calling upon educa.
tional institutions for reports and state
ments of expenditures, etc.
House bill 145-Repealing directly the
old live stock inspection law heretofore
repealed bv later statutes.
H. B. 161-Requiring county clerks
and assessors to report on estates to
county attorneys.
II. B. 233-Creating the office Of state
librarian with salary OF $500
II. B. 13S-Prohibiting the practice
OF allowing driftwood, ETC., to accumu-
late in irrigation canals.
Il. B. 152-Providing that state tax
commissioners mot county assessors)
make final assessments of railroads.
i II. B. 27-PrOviding if employees are
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