The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1913-03-14
Traitors Defeat
Important Bill
CONSTITUTIONAL AMEN
MENT THROUGH INITIA-
TIVE DEFEATED BY LEGIS-
LATORS WHO SIGNED
PLEDGES TO VOTE FOR
SAME.
Especial Correspondence.l J

| list of the legislators who pledged
themselves at the last election to vote
for the bill to give the people the
right to amend the constitution
through the initiative. Cut it out and
preverve it for use in the next cam
paign where you can do the most eff
fective work against that class of men
who would thus deceive the people to
get into public office and then violate
the pledge by which the voters trust
ed them:
Aagard, o. B., Clarke county-Oral
pledge.
Arnold, w. E., Lewis county-sign-
ed pledge.
Freeman, Miller, King county-Sign-
ed pledge
Hayes, w. Dean, Thurston county
Signed pledge.
Jensen, Jens, Pend Oreville county
Oral pledge and also bound by plat
form promise of Progressive party.
Mccoy, George, Clarke county-Let-
ter strongly endorsing the proposition
Mckay, T. H., Chehalis county-Sign-
ed pledge.
Newman, G. H, Whitman county
Pledged by letter
Rowland, H. K, Benton county
Signed pledge.
Siler, J. S, Lewis county-Letter
and signed pledge.
Stream, A. T., Pacific county-Sign-
ed pledge.
Sumner, Sam R., Chelan county
Signed pledge and sent letter strong
ly endorsing the measure.
Urquhart, John, Grant county-Sign-
ed pledge.
Hard Fought Battle.
The battle for this peoples measure,
which hung over from Tuesdays sl1ir-
mish, was resumed Thursday morning
and occupied practically the whole
of the day Time and time again the
enemies of the bill attempted to de-
stroy it's effect by tacking on amend
ments that would have rendered if
unworkable, but each time they were
defeated by a decisive vote, not strong
enough however, to indicate that the
bill itself could be passed on the final
vote when a two-thirds majority
would be required. Each of these
votes showed that there was a strong
possibility that it would be defeated
by vote of from five to seven on
final passage.
At late hour, Wednesday night, it
had been learned that through an er-
ror the bill had not been drawn in eX-
act conformity to the copy of the bill
that had been submitted with the
pledge blanks, which members had
signed. That threatened disaster, but
during the parliamentary skirmish
that followed the next day, on motion
of Thomas Murphine of King county,
the bill was referred to the committee
on logged-off lands, of which Muir
phine is chairman, with instructions
to report forthwith. BY that process
the bill came back with the amend
ments necessary to make it conform
to the exact bill printed in the original
pledge blank. These amendments
were adopted and it was plain that is
was in such a shape when it came to
the vote on final passage that no mem
Der could excuse his vote on the
grounds that it was not the same bill
that he he'd given his pledge to sup
port.
Defeated by Five Votes
The vote on final passage was as
follows, being five votes short of the
necessary two-thirds majority of all
the members of the house, which is
required to adopt a measure for
amendment of the constitution.
Yeas-Arnold, VIM. A, Axtell,
Black, Brislawn, Brown, Brooks, Bry-
ant, Capron, Chamberlin, Childe,
Christensen, Cookery, Craig, Croake,
Darling, Dunning, Earl, Falkner, Fon-
taine, Gilkey, Gilbo, Goss, Gray, Hast
ings, Hedger, Hurber, HILL Holmes,
Horrigan, Touser, Hughes, Hurd,
Hutchison, Kingery, Langford, Le-
Sourd, Mapes, Masterson, Mcfarland,
Merriam, Middaugh, Miles, Moll, Muir
phine, Neumann, M. NJ, Norton,
Oakes, Overman, Picken, Pierce, Reid,
Robe, Rowland, Dix, H., sisson, Smith,
Stevens, Stewart, Truax, Turnbow,
Zednick-60.
Noes-Aagard, Adams, Arnold, w.
E., Cleland, Connor, Davis, Farms
worth, Foster, Field, Freeman, Grass,
Greenbank, Halsey, Mccoy, Jensen,
Kennedy, Lum. MeArdle, Mccoy, Nc
Kay, Mess, Moren, Newman, G. f.,
Rowland, H. K, Siler. Sims, Steven
son, Stream, Sumner, Tonkin, Urqu-
hart, Wray. Mr.. Speaker-SS.
Absent and not voting Beam, Cat