The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-02-06
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Eight hours a day and 4S hours q
week is the maximum.
Would Restrict Sale Of Firearms.
BY unanimous vote the senate pass.
ed a bill prohibiting the sale, barter or
giving away by any person, firm or
corporation OF pocket pistol or re.
volver unless the purchaser shall have
secured purchasing permit from n
! judge of a municipal or superior court
of the state.
! Before Judge can issue such a per.
! nit he must be presented with aft
davits from at least two reputable
citizens vouching for the good repu-
tation and record of the purchaser.
The measure, which was originated
by Senator Collins, is aimed to re-
strict the sale OF firearms and thereby
lessen the number of murders, holdups
and suicides by shooting.
Hot Fights Over County Division.
County division fights are threaten
ing in both houses. Three of them
concern east of the mountain counties.
In one case. that of Klickitat, the dele
cation is divided, although Represen-
tative Brooks and Senator Chappell
both come from Goldendale. Chap
pell is chairman of the county and
county boundaries committee in the
senate and the senate has passed a
bill cutting Cook county off of Klicki-
tat. with White Salmon as the county
seat.
Brooks is chairman Of the county
boundaries committee in the house,
and he was elected on the issue Of
keeping the county intact.
Yakima county will have the warm.
est fight to offer with propositions for
the creation of two new counties,
largely out of the same territory. One
of these, to be called Riverside, would
take the southeastern corner of Yaki-
ma, with Sunnyside as the county
seat, and Is townships in territory.
Senator Wende of Yakima introduced
the Riverside bill. Senator Collins Of
measure, providing for Simcoe county,
to cut Yakima in two east and west
including Toppenish and Wapato.
Representative Lum of Yakima Is
fighting any division plan.
Would Annex Some Of Lincoln.
Truax of Adams has an annexation
scheme for his county that is certain
to start trouble with Representative
Farnsworth of Lincoln. TruaX's idea
is to cut the southern tier of eight
townships off Lincoln, including the
towns of Sprague and Odessa. and
add them to Adams, on the theory that
Rizville as a county seat Is consider
ably more available than Davenport
Vashon and Maury islands, with a
population of 1000, are trying to Sc
cede from King county and the bill to
that effect has been introduced by
Taylor, Tonkin and Mess. There is a
merry fight before the joint commit
tees between the residents of the is
lands themselves as to whether they
want to secede.
Bridge Suggestions Asked.
With the return from Portland of
the Vancouver bridge committee Of
the legislature, arrangements were
made for a series of meetings at
which arguments for and against the
proposed bridge will be heard. Chair
man Nichols of the committee an
nourced that the committee wishes
to hear all sides of the question before
taking any definite action.
The report of the committee will be
in the form of a bill for the appro-
priation of this states share Of the
bridge cost. Just what the provision
OF the bill will be has not been deter
mined.
First Aid Bill Introduced.
The much-talked-of first aid bill,
giving to injured workmen more bene-
fits and quicker relief than Is pro-
vided In the present workmen's CON-
pensation act or industrial insurance
bill, was introduced in the senate by
Cotter. The bill provides that all en-
ployes and employers shall be assess
ed to raise the money to furnish the
first aid relief to employees.
A fight is to be made by employers
organizations Of the state on the
ground that the bill places an enor-
nous additional burden upon them
They will either try to kill the first
aid plan altogether or shift the finan-
cial responsibility off onto the state.
The labor unions and oranges Of the
state are said to be behind the first
aid measure.
Legislative srevities.
A bill legalizing prize fighting. sub
ject to the regulations of state ath-
letic commission, has been adopted by
the public morals committee OF the
senate.
The senate committee on game In
troduced a bill providing for the es-
tablishment OF complete state fish
and game department with board Of
commissioners.
A bill was passed in the senate pro-