The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-03-10
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ON SUNDAYS
IN THE BIG CITY H0STfLRlfS
If Senate Bill Becomes Law--Senate
Opposes Nomination of Judges
0y Direct Primary.


ernor a place will be found for three
more of the faithful, as it provides
for a commission of three besides
several state officers who are men,
bers ex-offcio.
BY ''judicious" pruning the
omnibus appropriation bill VIII. it is
thought, be kept down to something
in the neighborhood of million
above all possible receipts.
The eight hour bill FOR women
workers, after long being the shut
tie cock OF the session, was sent to
its last long home by indefinite post
ponement in the senate.
Nothing has yet come of the con-
ference called by Governor Hay, in
regard to an investigation of state
officers. The session was an eX-
tremely stormy one, state officers
and legislators being at times on the
brink of resorting to force
The original code as reported by
the commission and amended by the
senate has passed theh ouse by with
sun IlOlC dultHQlitHlS W NIlNII ibt
senate has so far refused to accced.
While on local option the senate
seemed to be liberal, the situation
seems to be changed and the house
is the more liberal of the two in
dealing with the criminal code.
Work will be pushed on a build
ing designed especially for State
Printer Boardman. 1t will be fire
proof structure in the business por-
tiono the city and the terms of the
contract call for its completion
early in May.
The friends and promoters of the
initiative and referendum were
caught mapping in the house and the
bill died an untime-y death, without
even the Formally of a roll call. It's
friends especially desired to place
Athe members of the legislature on
record and the attempt will be made
TO push the measure to vote in the
senate
A bill has passed the senate
which will mitigate the horrors of
the dry Sunday in cities of the first
class. BY taking your meals in n
hotel of more than one hundred
rooms you may have liquor served
with them, proprietors paying three
hundred dollars year for what Is
known as the Sunday liquor license
for that purpose.
A wireless telegraph station is be-
ing installed in this city which will
put it in communication with the
extensive wireless system which is
rapidly covering the earth and the
waters on the face of the earth.
The state senate has gone on rec
ord as opposed to the nomination of
superior court judges by the direct
primaries, also in favor of placing
judges who have served eighteen
years and attained the age OF sixty
i've on the retired list at half pay,
retirement being at the option of
The Judge.
Governor and Mrs. Hay gave re-
ception and ball at the Tumwater
club the evening of the fifth instant
In many respects the most brilliant
social function of brilliant society
season
The bill for state health COM
mission at $1,000 year is up to the
governor, carrying with it an appro-
priation of $4,000 for the expense
Of the commission.
The bill to place telephone and
r,1a al, IiOn ha rnwtlla inn
o. the railway commission has also
passed both branches.
The excursion to the exposition
ground set for the sixth was aban-
doned owing to the rush of work,
ana Il Saturday session held in both
houses In spite of long hours, that
IS iot legislature, and of hard work
up to midnight OF March II Will
Doubtless find much unfinished bust
ness on the calendar.
The parties who We're after $780,
'0t@ Tor deepening Puyallup and
Stuck rivers aud thus preventing the
arrusi foods have consented to q
reduction TO $50 900 and like
shave has been accepted by those in
favor of an appropriation for the
Upper Columbia. in which form the
bills arc likely to pass. In the lat
ter matter Captain McDermott has
been at the head of the lobbyists
presenting a mass Of Data accom-
panied by maps and statistics which
wa hard to get around
1'h. festive legislature is no ex
ce9t,Ir TO the rule that "a prophe
is Got without honor save in his OWL
cOU9try" Notwithstanding the pop
ulaF belief that legislator is q biz
man at home and small fry at the
capital. This may be true of ma
tionai politics where the legislativ,
body IS much larger, and whose al
-,ncsi continuous session gives th'