The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1909-06-12


tiona house of representatives:
Il am well within the bounds of truth when l
say that if it were not necessary to have quorum
there need not have been member of the house
come to Washington to attend the special session,
except the republican members on the ways and
means committee. and the tariff law would have
been substantially the same as it will be anyhow"
It will be observed that the gentleman says that
congressman are only necessary to make up q
quorum. To act as dummies; to stand up and
have their noses counted to give legal sanction to
the will of the trusts Their only excuse is that
the will of the trusts is the will of the majority of
the people, and in this contention they have the
best of the argument, for if the will of the trusts
were not the will of the people, the people would
send men to congress who could not be controlled
by the trusts
The Chewelah Recorder states that the new or
dinance regulating saloons has been passed by
that city, and that hereafter ladies will not be
allowed to loiter in the saloons This is step in
advance and shows that Chewelah will some day
equal Colvile in the matter of civic righteousness
for in this fair capital city the ladies and the so
cety leaders are never in saloons, either lott
ering or playing blackjack or by any other method
passing an idle hour.
Several new kinds of crime now exist for citizens
of Washington. The new civil and criminal laws
passed at the last session of the legislature went
into effect yesterday. 1t is a msdemeanor to give
or receive tip. The possession or use of cigar
cites or cigarette papers is crime. No person
suffering from tuberculosis any Of several other
contagious diseases can be married, nor can an
imbecie or insane person,
No women are allowed in place where liquor
is sod all screens and distractions must be re-
moved from the front of saloons. Professional
nurses must be examined and licensed by state
board. Insanity is no longer considered defense
for any criminal act No woman under the age
of as or.man of any age, except he marry woman
over the age of 49, shall marry, who is common
drunkard, habitual criminal imbecile, feeble
minded, insane, afflicted with pulmonary tuber-
culoss in an advanced stage or with several other
contagious diseases.
The county auditor will hereafter require that
all applications for marriage licenses be accom-
panied by certificate from physician as to the
health of both parties to the marriage and an
affidavit from disnterested person that they are
not drunkards or habtual criminals. The penalty
for persons marrying in violation of these pro-
visions is a fine of not more than $1,000 or i'm
prisonment not more than three years.
Besides being equipped with fire escapes hotels
must have on each floor gong not less than nine
inches in diameter for use in case of fire. Bed
sheets in hotels must be 7 1-2 feet long and 81
inches wide.
Every person owning or managing drinking
saloon public dance hall or music hall who shall
knowingly give employment to or sell or give in
toxicatng liquor to any woman, to any habitual
drunkard or to any person previously convicted of
felony shall be guilty of misdemeanor
The definition of vagrancy includes fortune
tellers and palmsts who ask any fee, receivers of
stolen property, persons who solicit prostitution,
drunkards, gamblers found in a place where there
are gambling devices, able bodied men who solicit
aims, persons who are on the street late at night
without visible business, persons who lodge in
barns or outbuildings users of cocaine and num-
ber of others.
Meals without intoxicating liquor may be served
and prepared, tobacco, milk, fruit, confections,
newspapers, magazines and medical and surgical
instruments may be sold on Sunday.
The provision against the employment of child
rem makes punishable any person who employs
boy less than IA years old or girl less than 16
years old unless the boy or girl has written per-
mission from judge of superior court.
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The attorney general has ruled that under the
new criminal code it is illegal to use any obstruc-
ton whatever to obstruct the interior view of
saloon Partitions or anything else which will
prevent a complete view from the street of the
entire place where liquor is sold are illegal He
holds also that meals may be served Sunday in a
restaurant which is in a room with bar, provided
the bar is absolutely closed.