The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-12-12
HUTCHINSON Of
SPOKANE ASKS
POINTERS
Wants Use of State Money
at Insane Asylum
Audited.

kane to stir the pot at the manquet
rendered eastern Washington legis-
lators at the Spokane hotel last
night.
In answer to telegram inform
ing him that among the appropri-
atoms which would be asked for
the Medical Lake asylum this COM
ing session, was an item of $4,000
for a new building, he said that
two years ago he was one of a
committee which inspected a new
building in the rear of the main
building, and until recently it was
not occupied on account of UNFIT
ness, but that furnishings have
been moved in so showing could
be made to the legislators, who
have accepted an invitation to visit
the institution next Tuesday.
Il want you gentlemen next
Tuesday to examine that building
and see what graft or other cause
made it unfit" the senator said.
He cannot go there Tuesday him.
self, but intends to visit the place
before the next session, so as to
post himself on data with which to
make a fight against any i'll adj
vised expenditures there in future.
The legislators SHE'D at the anti
race track gambling proposition
like frisky colts, and placed on file
telegram from o. c. Hanson of
Seattle, asking the endorsement of
his bill making race track gam
bling a felony like other forms of
gambling in this state.-
Following a reading of the tele-
gram, Jesse Huxtable moved it be
placed on file, and as there was
no dissent Chairman Fancher COM
piled. This action should not be
construed to indicate lack of
sympathy with the bill, as several
legislators expressed themselves as
ready to consider it. Early in the
evening it had been decided not
to take definite action on any par
ticular proposition, owing to the
fact that many representatives and
senators of the section were not
present.
The question of alleged miscon-
duct of Milo Root, supreme court
justice, was taken up in COM
munication signed by H. Barnard
of the Spokane Stamp Works. 1t
was placed on Ale and not dis
cussed: Mr.. Barnard said:
I'm view of disclosures recently
made affecting our supreme court,
/ offer the following suggestions:
That no decision of the court be
rendered except by concurrence
of a majority of the members,
whose signatures, duly verified IN
der oath, shall be appended; that
the so-called per curium' decisions
be absolutely prohibited; that a de-
cision in given case must be
handed down in given time which
the legislature may deem proper;
that proper method of notifica-
ton to litigants be provided in lieu
of the shifty methods of postal
card notices now adopted; that
other rules and restraints be pro
yided for the conduct of the SUI
preme court which shall safeguard
the liberties and rights of the peo-
pie, and providing that the hum
blest and poorest citizen of the
land shall receive equal justice
with the proudest and most
wealthy"
A communication from Police
Chief Rice, which recommended a
law making the carrying of burglar
tools felony, and the changing of
the criminal assault laws, was also
placed on file.
A proposition by State Senator
Harry Rosenhaupt that a steering
committee of two senators and
three house members be appointed,
was opposed by Judge Buck, to
whom was explained the accom-
plishments possible by the COM
mittee. 1t was decided that ]. A.
Fancher, representative-elec from
Spokane, who was made chairman
of the temporary organization,
should call the members from east
ern Washington together in Olym-
pia before the opening of the SEES.
sion, for the purpose of appointing
the steering committee.
The members stood as a unit to
further the upbuilding of educa-
tional Institutions, and the opening
of the upper Columbia river. No
formal resolutions were passed, but
all the speakers referred favorably
TO educational advancement, and
many to the river project.
State Senator Peter Macgregor
Of Whitman county, said that the
Washington state college would
ask for an appropriation of $780,
900 for experimental stations,
Equipment and maintenance.
When Senator D. Fl. Cox began
TO talk about the penitentiary. par
ficularly a new $4,000 jute mill
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