Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-03-14
SESSION CLOSES
QU|ETLY.-LAST DAY
LARGELY ROUTINE
Vetoes Of Vancouver and Pend
Oreille Bridges and Everett
Trade School Sustained.
CONSOLIDATION BILL DIES.
Hedger- Hastings Measure Smoth-
cred in Senate-Houses Clean
up Calendars Wednesday.

Spending all of Thursday in endeav-
Oring to agree on amended bills and
sustaining three vetoes of Governor
Lister the Thirteenth legislature
closed its session early Friday morning
after a comparatively quiet day.
Governor Listers veto of the pro-
posed vocational school at Everett was
sustained by the senate, while in the
house the bills authorizing u mill levy
for the Vancouver bridge and $4,000
for the Pend Oreille bridge, also We
toed, were laid on the table, amounting
to practical confirmation of the ex-
ecutive veto. OF these, the senate bill
was the only one to arouse particular
argument.
When the Pend Oreille bridge bill
came up In the house Representative
Jens Jensen Of that district moved that
it be laid on the table, the motion car
rying unanimously. With the remark:
Southwestern Washington has lost its
cherished hope" Representative Nc
Coy Of Clarke county followed the same
procedure with the Vancouver bridge
bill. In both instances fear was express
ed by enemies of the measures that the
motions were merely spars for time
and that both bills would b eresuscita-
ted by the representatives along in the
wee, sma' hours of the morning when
some of the Legislators had gone home
and the others were tired and sleepy,
but these fears failed to materalize.
Wedn1sday, when the calendars in
both houses were cleaned up, was the
real closing day Of the session, the
clocks in both houses being draped
with newspapers and the members
grinding over bills until 3 o'clock
Thursday morning.
That morning the Democratic and
Progressives forced the house to pass
the Hedger- Hastings bill. consolidat-
ing into the state fiscal commission q
dozen Of the present state commissions
whose consolidation was recommended
by Governor Lister, but the measure
was smothered by the rules committee
of the senate and did not appear on
it's calendar.
The closing week Of the session was
by far the busiest, practically all of
the work having been delayed through
procrastination. Several hundred bills
never saw daylight, being smothered
by the rules committee of one house or
the other. Among the important meas
ures passed this week were: Mothers
pension; minimum wage for women;
direct election of United States senat-
ors; 100000 for 2anama-Pacific and
Panama California exposition, in &C.
cordance with the governors wishes;
logged-off lands bill; congressional re-
apportionment; new fish code; COM
promise road bills: opening of "U"
lands for settlement; loan association
bill; supplementary budget.
The legislature sustained the gov
ernor's veto of $671,O59 in the general
appropriation bill and passed over
$495. 900, the appropriations for the
Cheney normal school. The items sus-
tained were: for completing Temple of
Justice, $551,750, (provided in $4,000
900 bond issue against capitol land
grant approved by Governor Lister);
school for the blind, administration
building, $4,000; improvements. taxes
on state property, $4,000; school for
the deaf, improvements. $15,000; mill
tary fund, purchase of horses, $4,000;
state university, roa dto marine sta
ton, $3,5OO; state soldiers home, Gus
todian of commissary, $1,S00.
Expressing himself as strongly In
favor of industrial and vocational
training Governor Lister vetoed the
proposed trade school at Everett for
the following reason:
MY opinion Is that industrial and
vocational education should begin IN
the grade schools of the state. POSI-
bly, at some time in the future, after
this line of education has been estab-
lished in such grade schools, it will be
found advisable to establish state
school such as Is outlined in this bill.
IF this bill should become law, the
next legislature will probably be called
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