The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-01-19


Information covering every part of the
state, and a board of horticulture and
agriculture to furnish information in
those lines.
Lobbyists are fayed by the COVER
nor as follows:
Representatives of the peoDIe at
tending the sessions of this body are
always given far and consiedrate
hearing. There is, however, a distinc-
ton between advice of this nature and
that offered by those known as profes.
sional lobbyists. Their corrupting in
huence is one of the patent public evils
that demands restriction"
Recommendations. =.
Gov. Mead also made the following
recommendations:
That there be created a department
OF archives to care for the earlier rec
ords OF the state, and for their proper
arrangement.
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That the state erect monuments over
the graves of William Wallace. gov.
ernor of the territory of Washington
In 1861, and or Marshal F. Moore, also
for several years governor of Wash
ingtOn territory.
That appropriation be made to cover
expense of collecting pictures of all
OF the governors of the territory and
for oil paintings of the four former
governors Of the state. Ferry, McGraw,
Rogers and Mcbride
That the fund system be abolished
and the various fees going to create
it be paid directly into the general
fund.
That provision be made for the col
lection from corporations of their an
nual license fees Immediately after
they become due.
That there be created the Office of
state bank examiner.
That visits be made regularly by
members of the legislature, between
sessions, to state institutions. that
such visits be provided for by law, and
fund to pay the necessary travelling
expenses be appropriated.
That adequate salaries be paid to
the superintendent and assistants in
the state hospitals for the insane, to
the end that physicians ably equipped
and experienced might be employed
That state infirmary for the aged,
the infirm, the lame and the helpless
be established.
That the law defining the judgment
to be entered where person charged
with grave offense under the plea OF
insanity, be amended so that the per-
son so charged should be committed
to an insane department of the state
penitentiary, and should remain there
during his natural life, or until such
| time as a competent tribunal or a
board of alienists, with the approval
of the executive shall direct his dis
charge.
That the salaries of the supreme
court and superior court judges be in
creased.
That provision be made for sittings
of the supreme court at stated times
in the city of Spokane for the pur-
pose of hearing cases arising in all or
portion of the counties in Eastern
Washington.
That law be passed regulating the
hours of service of employees Of trans
portation lines on land and sea, pro-
viding that only experienced and ef-
ficient men should be employed.
That measures be enacted providing
for the division of the state into con-
gressional districts, the proper safe
guarding of all public funds placed on
deposit, and fixing the rate of, inter-
est thereon, and that additional ma
chinery be installed in the factory op-
Grated by convict labor at the state
penitentiary for the manufacture OF
jute paper.
That a measure be enacted that will
in effect carry out the legislative in
tent expressed in the act Of 1903, pro-
viding for the construction of armories
in the cities Of Seattle, Spokane and
Tacoma.
That there be created state board
of horticulture and agriculture.
That the powers of the state board
of health be enlarged SO that that body
may protect the purity of water used
| for domestic purposes.
That there be established at q suit
able location an institution for the
care of persons afflicted with tubercu-
lOsis.
That a commission be appointed to
| recodify the school laws Of the state.
and that provision be made for the In
spection of high schools b ythe state
department of public instruction.