The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-02-13
|wHA1 WASH|NCT0N'S
SOLONS ARE DOING
Tina Limit is Placed on Intro
ductjon Of Bills
s7o MEASURES PROPOSED

Hat1I Bits TVt S$~S''
1oo-consestion Expected During
Closing Weeks-Reeall OF Judges
n.ss.ted-No Increases For Nation
n, Guard officers-WilI Rebuild
Cheney Normal.
Olympia.-The state legislature clos
al the fourth week of the session with
record of six bills passed by both
houses. During the week the senate
oassed Fl bills and the house %.
The total number of bills passed by
hoth houses is rs, but they have only
concurred on the six appropriation
measures. OF these 76, the senate has
nsssed a total OF AZ bills, while the
house has put through 20. The sen
ate has indefinitely postponed one,
while the house has given this sort or
an easy death to four and has, By
twice voting. it down on final passage,
ruillotined fifth, the recall of judges
proposition.
A total of $40 bills have been intro
duced In the two houses. including all
manner and kinds OF reforms pertain
ing 10 every condition of human exis-
teuce in the state of Washington.
Numerous Bills May Cause Congestion
With new bills piling up at a rate
that threatens congestion of bust
ness that will result in hundreds of
bills being cast into oblivion without
ever being considered, the Legislature
will lock the gate against new bills on
the 40th day of the session.
This action was decided upon when
It was announced that the total num-
Der Of bills for the session will run
close to 1900, or nearly 500 more than
the highest number introduced at any
other session in the history of the
state
The prospects for the present SEES
sion are worse than those of 1911,
because of the increased number of
bills and the unusual care that marks
the consideration of all questions es
pecially by the house. The slowness
u attributed to the factionalsm which
enters into the majority of questions
While the time limit on new bills has
been shortened ten days from the linn
1t Of 1911, it is believed the increased
number of measures will make the
general result the same. Congestion
and rush is expected to mark the clos
Ing weeks of the session.
After the Big Tax Dodger.
Among the enactments of the sen.
ate during the past week have been
several tax bills which, 1t is asserted,
will have the effect of putting stop
to some alleged big tax lodging. These
include the provision for the assess
ment of fishtraps, fishtrap locations
and fishing locations and Of all water
craft by the state tax commission.
Several bills which might be said
TO be Of less serious moment to the
state, including the placing of boun-
Ties on crows and magpies, providing
rules regulating automobile and other
vehicle accidents on the public high.
ways, and bill making a public Off.
eial or employee just as liable as any
otner salaried person for his debts,
are included in the senate bills passed
BY that body.
Inc National Guard reorganization
DILL shorn of all its increases in the
monuments for officers, was another
measure finally passed upon by the
senate.
10 the house the good roads bill to
increase the tax for the state highway
'und from " to ~ mills was easily
'ae most Important of the bills passed.
Inc passage of the lazy husband"
Dill was the measure of most general
human interest" in the houses grind
appropriation for Cheney Normal.
Inc Cheney normal bill, appropriat-
lug s'oo'oOO for the rebuilding of the
normal school on the east side of the
mountains, was the first big appropria
w" measure to be considered. outside
VI mat for the expense of the legis.
'ative session.
ADDITION to this appropriation
measure the house during the week
uas passed numerous small relief hills
nese are In the nature of debts owed
W 1ne state which take a legislative
Enactment to discharge.
Many Tax Bills Introduced.
on the calendar Of the two houses
.fs ~ different measures providing
20. changes in the taxation laws, p
"scuns the election laws and nine
v'eVi0ins for constitutional amend
.sn''' Bills for appropriations call
-" 'otal OF more than Sis, 900, 900.
Included In these are logged.off land
'p,0prlation measures and measures
'ns Tor state aid in building roads
'Au making other improvements,
PROBABLY no more impertart hi,, hoe
sea passed by either house than the
,s sau TAX levy measure, put through
tue house by a vote of 10 to o. rh;s
s sv''aes I" the increasing of the
~ u,s highway fund levy from a half
49,, % FILL and a half In dollars
"a =, -saa. an increase from $500, 900
N'soo'ooo a year. The bill demon.