The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-03-05
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STATE LEGISLATURE un,
ADJOURN NEXT
WEEK.
Upper House Gets Down to H,,,
est Grind Of the Session-Cr;.
inal Code Under Considerato.
Many Trifling and Vicious RIM
to Be Killed.

Olympia, March 1.-Unless Order,
by thirds majority, no bills
be introduced in the senate after todsN
and then the Legislative mill will !.
gin to grind in earnest.
Only ten more working days Of u.
session remain, Night as well as d.,
sessions will be necessitated in o,as
to make any reasonable impression y.
the mass of proposed laws suspenda
between the two houses.
A raft of bills Of trifiing or yic;o,.
import have been passed up to the sen
ate, which may be reckoned On !,
smother a large part of them. i
The measure providing for tn, Ella.
ton of county commissioners by di,
tricts instead Of by the county as !,
whole has been baited out of the iuai
ciary committee, and owing to tbs
activity and persistence of some stron,
influence is supposed to be in line fl,
passage, although it probably will b
much amended.
Consideration of Code
Consideration of the criminal cod.
was renewed at 10 O'Clock this morn.
ing. It has required seven and a half
hours of constant work to dispose Of
two-thirds of the reading, and it NAV
be safely anticipated that the senate
will wear away the better part of an
other day in reaching a vote on final
passage.
With the criminal code out of The
way the senate will be confronted with
another time-consuming code bill
This is the new military code, which
was passed by the house last week.
Strong pressure from the outside will
be demanded to push road Legislation
along. If the senate passes the house
repeal of the state aid law, powerful
influences in the house threaten to cut
down the senate l mill highway levy
to one-half mill for state roads. On the
other hand, the levy bill is likely to be
held up in the house until action is
had in the senate on the repeal bill
which is not yet on the general file.
Meanwhile the road apportionment
bill cannot come in from the HIGHWAY
department until one of the three
schedules for a percentage division Of
the funds is justified on the basis Of
the amount Of money to be used dun.
ino tho hiounia1 torn
Three Bills in the Air
Three possible apportionment bills
depend upon whether he half mill lew
and the state aid road fund are main
tanned, whether the half mill levy istC
be the order with the state aid fund
abolished, and whether, with the re
peal of the state aid law, mill lev!
is to be granted for the hurrying Il
completion of the state roads.
The house is loaded down with time
killing labor. It takes up the lengthy
school code tonight and will thereafte
be confronted with the task of CRAP
ping the criminal cole, to be sent owe
Tuesday. This co 1e is expected to &c
quite severe handling in some particu
lars in the house, and a rough tussl
over the gambling amendment may b
anticipated. Tuesday morning the neV
local option bill which is to appear il
the form of an amendment to the sen
ate substitute bill No. 121, is a specia
order, and it's passage may take up tn
day.
Primary Law to Receive Attention
Senator Ralph Metcalf's bill amend
ing the primary election law will be re
ported from the senate committee o.
privileges and elections during the day
Several of the proposed amendment
have been stricken from the bill. Tn
important changes proposed by the bill
as it will come out of the committe
will be the exemption of supreme cour
judges from the operation of the pr
mary law and the awarding of posi-
tions on the ticket by lot.