The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-01-20
RECALL CANDIDATE
BILL PASSED
STATE SENATE PUSHES BILL PRO.
vIDING FOR RECALL
NOMINATIONS.
Election Of United States Senator a
Perfunctory Affair in View Of Prim-
airy Selection-Poindexter and Cot
teriIl Palced in Nomination.

| Olympia, Jan. 16.-The bill provid
ing for method of nominating candi
dates at recall elections passed the
senate today by unanimous vote.
| Senator John A. Whalley, who had
| charge of the measure in the senate
proposed an amendment which pro
vides that the candidate who opposes
the incumbent at recall elections must
| file petition signed by number OF
voters equal to 5 per cent of the vote
| cast for candidates for the office al
the previous election.
Passes Without Debate.
The bill originally contained pro-
vision for petition signed by 1000
voters. The amendment was adopted
and the bill was put upon it's passage
without debate.
In explaining the bill Senator Whal.
ley said:
"This measure will provide a way
out of the dilemma in which the peo-
pie of Seattle find themselves at this
time. Through an oversight, the recall
provision of the Seattle charter pre-
scribed no specific method by which a
recall candidate to oppose the incum-
bent could be nominated This bill is
designed to correct errors of this sort
and to make clear just what the meth
cd of procedure should be-
The bill was ordered sent to the
house Immediately.
Whitman College Memorial.
The joint memorial introduced by
Senator Josiah Collins, asking con-
gress to pass the bill granting to
Whitman college 900 acres of land,
comprising the Fort Walla Walla mill
tary reservation, was passed by the
senate after lively fight. The Uni
ted States senate has already passed
the Whitman college grant, and the
bill is now on the house calendar.
Senator ]. R. Stevenson proposed
that the Collins memorial be sent to
committee in order that the people who
were opposed to Whitman college get
ting the land might be heard
Opposition to Measure.
A telegram purporting to come from
the laboring people of Walla Walla
was read, which said that it was the
desire of a large number of Walla
Walla citizens that the military reser-
vaJlon be sold in acre tracts.
Another telegram signed by r. H.
Johnson said that $92,5O0 had been de-
posted in Walla Walla bank as a
part payment for the land at the rate
of $500 an acre.
The motion to refer to committee
was declared lost by the chair, and
the memorial was then passed by a
vote of 80 to Z.
Senator George U. Piper's plan to
employ women as stenographers in the
senate has been accepted. Today Sec
rotary w. T.. Laube announced the Sc
lection of three women for clerical
positions. The names of the additional
employees of the senate announced to
day are: Jessie D. Mckinney, Minnie
IL. Hyde, Annie Nook, F. NJ Garland,
H. R. Lindley, John A. Homer and r.
w. Watts, stenographers; Robert
Pitchforth, journal clerk.
Vote on Senator Tomorrow.
An indication of how little the legis-
lature has in mind the election of a
United States senator, owing to the
operation of the primary nominating
law, was shown today in the house
when an adjournment was taken with
out providing for the balloting, which
will be done tomorrow.
The house had adjourned until 2
o'clock when the attention of Speaker
Taylor, was called to the fact that the
senate would vote for United States
senator at II o'clock. The house i'm
mediately reassembled and the hour
for taking the vote was set for 11:5O
o'clock.
Both houses will ballot separately
tomorrow. On the day following they
will meet in joint session and, under
the law, if the journals show that q
candidate has received majority of
both houses he shall be declared elect.
ed United States senator.
Nominating Speeches.
Senator Harry Rosenhaupt will NOM
mate Miles Poindexter as the Republi-
can candidate in the senate, and the
nomination will be seconded by seven
teen senators. In the house, Repre-.
sentative Harvey H. Phipps will make
the nomination speech for the Repub-
licans and more than thirty members
will second the nomination.
The Democrats will nominate George
F. Cotterill as their party candidate.
Representative F. w. Garrecht will
make the Cotterill nomination speech
in the house and Senator HI. M. White
will perform that service in the SEN
ate.
Utah Plans Fair Exhibit.
Salt Lake City, Jan. IA bill was
introduced in the lower house Of the
state legislature today providing for an
appropriation OF 100000 for state ex-