The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-03-10
|R0AD Bills PAssl
BY HOUSE !
SEVERAL MEASURES ARE A..
UPON WITHOUT MATERIAL
AMENDMENT.
Action Not Taken. However. NJ.
After Opposition Had Put H.
Hard Fight and Lost-senat. D..
Eight-Hour Bill for Women.

.'S'sOos os' TOT women.
Olympia, March 4.-The bouoo i
representatives grappled with tho o.. y
roads problem this afternoon ho,s,
the members to their seats hahias
locked doors after a call of the hon.
passed thirteen bills having to do wia
this proposition, and appropria,o s',a
these several bills a total Of e. ~ y
1905. '-''S''
After a bitter fight had been MAJ,
on the first road measure offered !
calendar, the members as uh.,
made. no active resistance TO tne nlsa s
of the committee. There was na'
sistent hail of amendments bnt tho..
were always voted down, and the hin.
went through with no further rs.'
friction.
Notable Fight Is Made,
But the fight that followed tho =,
fering of the first bill was rema,s
able. In entire good temper thos.
members opposed to the state disburs
ing large sums for highway improve
ments measured swords with the snon
sors for the bill. The organization a,
the good roads advocates was. how
ever, strong enough to carry eyerv
point and to vote down every amend.
ment.
House bill 421 extends state roads
2, 5, 6, 8 and 10. This bill was at the
top of the list.
Auto VS.. Farmers, He Says.
Representative Todd attacked the
measure as part of the Sam Hill sys.
tenn" He declared that the roads
committee was dominated by Hill and
that the list of bills which followed
the one under consideration were all
part of Mr.. Hills plan. Hill, he said
wanted automobile driveways, while
the farmers needed wagon roads for
their own convenience, without regard
to whether or not they connected Ger
tain cities:
Representative McNeeley, chairman
of the roads committee, who acted as
spokesman for the good roads advo
Gates, replied that Mr.. Hill had mol
been consulted and that he was in nc
wise responsible for the proposed leg
islation.
The road bills passed follow:
~ The Highway Bills.
H. B. 421, extending state roads
2, 5, 6, and 10.
H. B. 421, appropriating $45,70O fol-
salaries and expenses of the STATE
highway commissioner and assistants
H. B, 4S4, appropriating $94,S29.s(
for completion of roads now unde
contract.
H. B. 554, removing the qualiica
ton of civil engineer as applied tt
highway commissioner and adding
member of the state railway commits
sion to the highway commission.
H. B. 55S, providing for system
of state quarries, appropriating $780,
900 therefor, and providing for tn
employment of prison labor therein.
H. B. 481, providing bridge across
the Skagit river.
$500 in One Lump.
H. B. 45S, appropriating $4,000 fo
the Improvement of state highways
H. B. 357, fixing wages for employs
on roads.
H. B. 4S3, providing for commits
sion to investigate the matter of tn
states rights SO far as they conflc
with the claims of the Chicago NIL
waukee & Puget Sound road at Sno
qualmie pass and appropriating $lO'
600 therefor.
H. B. 513, creating the Pacific hlsn
way from Blaine to Vancouver AM
$275,000 therefor. Tnf
senate in caucus has agreed not u
build this road, but to build instea'
q road running east and west.
H. B. 557, appropriating for the Mes
kell rock quarry $4,000 from the quar-
~ fund.
H. B. 452, appropriating $50O.5o lOl
the relief of Skagit county for money,
paid in excess Of legal claim on roa'
46. :,
s. B. 81, levying tax of half MI
for state road Improvement.
The morning session Of the nous'
was devoted strictly to routine Won r..
Senate amendments to house DUE
were concurred in on q number y
bills, standing committee reports ~el.
heard and q few bills OF lesser import