The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-01-11
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LOCAL OPTION QUESTION
MAY BE REOPENED AGAIN
Message of Governor Hay IL Read
After Which House Takes Re-
cess for Day-Legislature Now
In Full Swing.

OAY MFlA, Jan. 1V.-AII0f listen.
ing to the governors message today.
the senate resumed its session while
the house took q recess until tomor-
row. In the senate Ave bills were
introduced, ONE Of which provides
for new insurance code. It repeats
the present laws and makes the in
surance inspector. appointive instead
of elective.
Senator Landen, Of King county.
introduced q bill providing that edi-
torial comment on court decisions IL
not contempt. Senator Metcalf in
troduced q bill to restore the SUI
preme court nominations to the d.
rect primary. After the governors
message was read the democrats
were heard to object to the recon-
mendation that supreme Judges be
appointed instead Of elected.
The governors stand on the local
option question is expected to re-
open the fight Of two years ago.
Governor Hays message was In
part as follows:
Pay Convicts.
The governor recommends the en-
actment of law providing for the
payment of fifty cents day to con-
victs employed on road work after
they have been so employed six
months
He recommends further strengthen
ing of the local option law. including
the passage of county unit law and
the enactment of regulations provid-
ing that the sale of liquor in licensed
territory after January 1, 1912, be
confined to the hours between sunrise
and sunset, on the lines of the Ne
braska daylight saloon law. Governor
Hay says
THE people are determined to go
to any length to wipe nut the ubuse'
of the liquor traffic, even to absolute
prohibition of the manufacture and
necessary"
Public Utility Commission.
The governor recommends the
adoption Of the employee compensation
law recently drafted by commission
OF employers and labor leaders. He
also advocates the creation Of public
service commission and a public reve-
nue. commission.
In referring to the subject Of con-
servation Governor Hay asserts his
opposition to national control of the
natural resources within the state,
and says:
81 feel that the state would be in
excusably derelict if it failed to make
Immediate provisions for exercising
its own prerogatives in controlling,
administering and preserving it's
natural resources"
In discussing the movement toward
the cities and the difficulty in finding
competent teachers willing to remain
in rural communities a recommends
ton is made that country school
boards be authorized to erect resi-
dences equipped with modern con-
veniences for the habitation Of the
school principals.
Urges Short Ballot.
Among the constitutional amend
ments recommended for submission to
the people are those permitting coun-
ty officers to hold Office for more than
two consecutive terms, simplification
3 Of court procedure by requiring that
all civil actions be tried before jury
of five. with q vote of four sufficient
to return a verdict, the adoption of
the short ballot and the recall for all
municipal. county and state elective
ofYices, and provision for the appoint
ment Of supreme court judges by the
governor.
The Panama-Pacifc exposition at
San Francisco in 1915 is endorsed In
the following words:
KNOWING the people Of California
the wonderful natural resources OF
the state, its beautiful scenery, sa-
luxurious climate, coupled with that
optimistic conviction so firmly fixed In
the minds of all the people of the
western states that the Pacific slope Ii
the only country worth while, 1 am
convinced that the success of theil
exposition or anything else they I'M
dertake is an assured fact. 1t is oul
bounden duty to join in this great un
dertaking, and 1 recommend that you
by resolution or in other suitable
manner, make it known that the peo
pie of this state endorse the actions
of the citizens of California, and tina
you take such other action as ma!
seem advisable to insure substantial
cooperation in this laudable under
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