The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-03-09
HOUSE and SENATE
ARE STILL CLASHING'
Fighting Over Appropriations
With Poor Prospect of Pass
age of Important Laws.

Olympia. only a few days
If the session left and the two houses
It loggerheads over many questions,
he prospect of the passage of inn
sortant laws by the Legislature is not
rood. The one bill of general inter-
.st which has passed both houses is
he measure to repeal the anti-cigar-
stte law. Both houses have passed
In initiative and referendum bill and
! bill to restore sjudgeship nomina-
ions to the direct primary, but
amendments were made that will re-
Iuire further voting.
The Senate and the House have
FLASHED hard over the matter of ap-
propriations and from the general i'll
feeling between the members of the
I'VE branches, 1t Is apparent that
arge number of cherished schemes
will fall by the wayside.
OF the things that actually must be
leted upon is the general appropria-
ion bill. The House and Senate have
Zach passed bill to suit the mem
sers of either branch, but at a wide
variance with each other The House
aas fatty refused to concede that the
Senate has the right to amend it's ae-
ton by adding another 100000 to the
estimates it decided were sufficient to
sun the institutions for the biennium.
The Senate is arbitrary in it's view
that. as it Is the senior branch 1t has
the right and the power to force the
House to recede from its former po-
alton and accept the Senate's view
Teachers Measure May Fail.
The teachers retirement measure
will probably not reach the Senate, as
the encouragement has held that one
Of the provisions of the bill is uncon-
stitutional. The fund out of which
retired teachers were to have been
pensioned was to have been raised by
an assessment on the teachers actu-
ally engaged In the profession, and
also a | per cent Of the common
school fund was to have been diverted
into the teachers pension fund At
tprney-General Bell holds that the
constitution expressly states that the
common school fund can be used for
the benefit of the schools and for no
other purpose. To pension teacher
would only result in an indirect bene.
fit to the schools by taking from the
active list teachers who are too old to
have charge of a schoolroom,
Remove National Grand Officers.
The military investigating commit
tee having made its report to the Leg
islature and recommended retiring all
the head officers, which would include
Colonel Matt Gohrmley and Colonel
Otto A. Case, big war will be pre-
cipitated over the provisions for the
national guard. These officers hurried
to Olympia as soon as the report was
submitted and protested strongly
against their removal. They have a
large following of influential friends
In both houses who are working to
save the officers and see that there is
enough money appropriated to main
tain the guard in the state of efficien-
cy. Other members don't think the
state Is much better off with the or
ganization, and there has been so
many scandals arising during the past
two years over the maladministratio
Of the military fund that the attempt
to get a considerable appropriation
will meet with hard shedding.
Utilities Bill May Pass.
The public utilities bill has been
passed on to the House and has
good chance of enactment. This bill
was framed by Harry Fairchild.
chairman of the present railroad COM
mission, and will incorporate with the
duties Of the railroad commission the
supervision Of all the public utilities,
raising the pay of the commissioners
to $4,000 per annum and designates
that the present railroad commission
ers, H. A. Fairchild, A. ]. Lawrence
and Jesse T. Jones, be the first COM
missioners on public utilities. It is
estimated 1t will need $150,00O to
carry on its work for the next two
years.
j viii Continue Jute Mill.
The Senate has decided that the
5ute mill at the state penitentiary is
to be operated another two years, and
then II it Is found to have proved
losing DrODOSitiOn to close IL Tho