Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-02-22
LEGISLATIVE.

lowing bills passed, which had orig
! mated in that body:
An act providing for immediate
collection of taxes on property about
to be removed from county or dissi-
pated.
An act for allowing examination of
teachers for life certificates and di
plomas semi-annually in places out
side of Olympia.
An act allowing State school funds
to be retained in county treasures
until appOrtioned.
An act requiring payment of fee
for entry of Judgment on verdict.
An act reducing fee for certificate
OF notorial character to fifty cents.
An act to allow cities and towns to
construct dykes to prevent damage
from floods.
An act requiring that if meetings
of directors are held without State,
full minutes must be filed at principal
office in State.
An act providing for destruction
of nOxious weeds by property owners
and road supervisors.
An act allowing appointment of
County Sheep Inspector by State
Veterinarian.
An act appropriating money to
complete payments in State road
contracts, which cannot be completed
this fiscal period.
An act allowing special city tax
not exceeding $1,000 for public Ii
brary purposes.
The House indefinitely postponed
a bill providing for uniform system
of receipts for warehouses.
In the House, Tuesday, the bill for
the division of ChehaliS county and
creation of Gray's HarbOr county,
passed by u vote of Y to II.
Also the bill giving the State
Board of Control care of the State
house, and supervision of the fin
ances of State institutions.
The corporation fee bill; the bill
providing for indeterminate sentence
for all convicts other than murder
ers, and the bill providing for ex-
animation and registration of veter-
mary surgeons, likewise passed.
The bills for creation of Kalispel
county and requiring the Land Com
missioner to report sales of school
lands to County Auditor, failed to
pass.
Twenty-Five new bills were intro
duced Tuesday, raising the House
number at that date to 406.
One of these was for providing a
bounty of $50 for killing q cougar, S.
for each lynx, wildcat, bear or coyote,
and 81 for each coon or skunk.
Another providing for an annual
license of 800 for selling liquors on
boats. or cars, or other public con-
veyances.
A bill giving nursery men, or deal
ers in nursery stock, a lien upon
trees until the purchase price has
been paid.
One authorizing the Commissioner
of Public Lands to contract for irri-
cation of arid lands and providing
that the proceeds for disposition of
said lands be applied to support of
the State University; one imposing
q fine of 81, 600, or Imprisonment, for
selling or giving away morphine, op-
ium, choral or allied drugs, and an
other appropriating $4,000 for con-
struction of a State road from the in
terror of Lewis county to Elbe, in
Pierce county.
The Senate met Tuesday afternoon,
to which time adjournment had been
made the Friday afternoon preceding
There was some discussion of Cot
terill's fivc-nile liquor license bill,
during which Graves declared that
I'VE have done little but pass bills
for the benefit of Seattle. l for one
am going to quit. If Seattle has any
more bills let her label them" The
original bill increasing the Labor
Commissioners salary was to $1,000.
Pauly offered to amend to $1,000,
Booth to 81, 200 and Davis to 81, 400,
at which latter figure the bill passed,
The following Senate bills also
passed.
To regulate corporations other
than those for profit and permit
lumbermen to form an exchange.
Regulating consolidation of con-
tiguOus municipal corporations.
To authorize first-class cities to
levy tax to fill cess-poOls and remove
garbage and brush.
To make salary of State Labor
Commissioner 81 800 per annum.
To amend constitution regarding
taxation.
Nine bills were introduced Tues
day, bring the total number of Sen
ate bills up to 23O.
One of these was to authorize any
county in the State to create ON as
sessment district to pay expenses of
river, lake, harbor or canal improve
ments and creating a Commission.
The improvement is to cost not over
81, 600, 900 and not in any event more
than l per cent of the taxable value
of the property in the district.
Gov. Mead, on the 18th, signed the
following bills:
An act apprOpriating 5000 for
maintenance of the capitol building.
An act appropriating $1,000. 25 for
publication of proposed amendments
to the Constitution.
An act amending the highway
commission law.
An act deciding tide-lands to Olym-
pia for park purposes.
An act deciding to Tacoma Point
Defiance tide-lands for park purposes.
On Wednesday, bill was intro
duced in the Senate to appropriate
500, 900 to improve Puyallup and
Stuck rivers and create a commits
sion.
Also one appropriating 1926, 900
for improvement of Cowlitz river;
$15, 900 of which is to be expended in
front of Castle Rock and a like
amount at Toledo, and creating q
commission.
On Wednesday, the last day for in
PRODUCTION of new bills, the total in
the House reached 1870 having