The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-02-09

templates an agreement between the
state and the federal authorities. so
the state instead of having scattered
holdings in the reserve will have
compact bodies OF timbered lands
near the borders OF the reserves.
Divert Fees to State Treasury.
II bill recently introduced In the
legislature becomes law each OF the
state examining boards which have
Deen collecting fees and dividing the
receipts among themselves, will have
70 turn the receipts for examination
over to the state treasurer. The
boards affected by the contemplated
legislation are: The board OF medi-
cal examiners. nurses examining
board, board of veterinarian examin-
ers, BARRIERS examining board. en-
balmers' board, pharmacy board dem
tai examiners and board of OPTIC
metry.
The bill provides that all fees col
lected must be RENTED to the state
treasurer monthly and where the
boards have treasurers to these Off
Gals are required to give $1,000 bonds
to the state. The examiners are TO
draw IS day for time actually en-
pioyed in the examinations and for
necessary expenses. but neither pay
nor expense money can be drawn only
by sworn vouchers.
Reapportionment Fight Starts.
Predictions that the big fight of the
legislative session would be over the
reapportionment of representative dis
tricts proved well grounded when the
bill for the creation of Pend d'Oreille
County out of Stevens County came
up for second reading in the House.
The line was clearly drawn between
the King County delegation and allies
and representatives of the districts
now regularly referred to as the Cow
counties when. the discussion was
conferred upon the question whether
Stevens should retain two represen-
tatiyes and the proposed new county
be given one representative or to al
low the two counties but one repre-
sentative each.
: The proposed act to leave Pend
d'Oreille County without a represen-
tative was voted down by q to Is.
While the representatives of the
small counties are congratulating
themselves that they won the first
skirmish in the reapportionmentf fight.
they realize that the big fight will
come when the House takes up the
question in its final course.
New Apportionment Bill.
Senator Espy of Pacific County I'm
troduced q bill in the Senate for the
reapportionment Of the state accord
ing to the plan in vogue for the selec-
ton of the national Congress. Ac-
cording to Senator Espy's bill each
to one senator no matter what the
population of the county may be, but
the members of the House of Repre-
sentatives are to be divided among
the counties according to their popula-
ton as shown by the federal census.
Since the bill provides for a consti-
tutional amendment it was referred
to the committee on constitution and
constitutional revision.
No Governors Cabinet.
The House killed the bill recon-
mended in the governors message
providing a cabinet form of govern
ment for the state. The bill provided
for the appointment by the governor
OF all state officials now elected. The
House also killed the bill providing
commission government for counties.
Liability Law Feared.
The employers liability law as pro-
posed by the state liability commits
sion, Is, perhaps, the measure that Is
being most holly contested by the
corporations. mills and factory own
ers. A delegation of over so lumber
men appeared before the Joint meet
ing of the House and Senate commit
tees on labor and labor statistics to
protest against the proposed work
mems compensation act. This meas
ure is to provide fund subscribed
by every employer In the state. the
assessments for which will be in pro-
portion to the salary list paid to
workmen and whenever, by accident