The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-02-03
STATE ROAD WILL BRING BRIDGE
Little Chance to Secure Appropriation Unless
Designated as State Highway Crossing.
Other News from the Capital.
(By the Courier's Special Olympia CouespondenD

That stern opposition may pc eX-
pected to Kennewick and Pasco's
request for a s25O,OOO bridge is evi.
denced by the treatment accorded
the Wenatchee people.
The last legislature voted $3.50,
600 to purchase the Wenatchee
bridge. This session only Al mem
bers of the house voted in favor OF
buying the same bridge for 1925,
600, the bridge company having
knocked $65, 900 off the price they
asked two years ago.
AS 49 votes are necessary to pass
any measure in the house the pro-
position to purchase the Wenatchee
bridge was declared lost, though
only 81 had voted against it.
Both Nelson Rich and B. B. Hor-
rigan voted for the passage of the
Wenatchee bridge purchase, believ-
ing that this would give them more
standing in asking $3.50, 900 for the
Pasco- -Kennewick bridge.
DR.. w. NJ. Beach of Mason, who
led the opposition to the Wenat-
chez bridge purchase in the house
referred to the Kennewick- -Pasco
proposition in his speech.
If we vote this money to help
Wenatchee," he said, "Kennewick
and Pasco will expect a bridge of
their own across the Columbia.
Next Vancouver will want us to
build a bridge. These bridges should
be built out of the funds of the coun-
ties
The main chance of the twin
cities on the Columbia appears to be
the designation of their location
as the crossing place of the great
trunk road to the west side. If this
designation can be secured the rest
may be easy Shedding.
Trouble With Suf1raeettes
Harry Van Horn, of Richland.
who is doorkeeper of the lower
house, has been experiencing some
difficulty in keeping suffragettes off
the floor of the house.
The new house rules are very
strict. They not only keep outsiders
off the floor when the house is in
session but between the hours of 9
in the morning and 10 at night.
Some of the women lobbyists,
however, fail to understand that the
rule is intended to apply to them
and consequently Van Horn is ac-
cumulating more gray hairs.
Last week May Arkwright Hut
ton of Spokane, the woman's rights
leader of eastern Washington,
brushed past Van Horn before the
doorkeeper could more than gasp.
He appealed to Speaker Taylor of
the house for help as Mrs. Hutton
weighs around the 200 pound mark.
Van Horn was not advised to
chase the suffragist away just then
and she continued to lobby in favor
of the eight hour law with group
of interested representatives. Next
day, however, another man was
placed on the inner set of doors and
now any militant suffragette. who
wishes to 60 into the housechamb b er
must pass two watchful guards.
Option Fight Starts
Local option has again become
an issue in the legislature with the
introduction in the senate last Fri
day of the county unit bill. The
bill was introduced jointly by %
senator's, a majority of two, thus in
suring its passage without amend
ment TO the upper house.
Whether the bill can be forced
through the lower house remains to
be seen. The house is normally
wet" by eight votes. 1t is pos
sible that five of these votes might
be changed to "dries," thus giving
the bill a majority, if enough trad
ing is done. 1t is expected that
the introduction of the bill in the
house will either be the signal for
its instant shelving under the rule
adopted at the beginning of the ses.
sion or the start Of month of log
rolling.
The dry senator's in whose
names the county unit bill was in
troduced are:
J. A. Falconer, Snohomish coun-
ty; John D. Basset, Franklin,
Adams and Walla Walla counties;
Frank c. Jackson, King; Emerson
Hammer, Skagit; d. H. Cox, Walla
Walla; David S. Troy, jefferson