The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1913-02-13

the house, goes 10 the SENATE loi
| immediate action. 1t provides that
white aliens may own real proper
| ty in the state of Washington, and
the bill evoked considerable discus
sion when it came up on a special
order of business last Thurday.
! One of the chief measures soon
to receive the attention of the
house will be house bill No. 60,
introduced by Corkery of Spokane
and Rowland of Pierce. known as
the Mothers Pension bill. If the
writer was to place a bet on the
result it would be that the bill
meets death, fer it is considered 4
Progressive measure, and it mat
| tereth not how meritorious, it is
one of the slogans of the ''unho-
ly alliance" that anything with a
Progressive tag shall go down to
defeat. But the Progressive men,
bers will be found fighting FOR
those measures desired by the
people to the very last.
The people will be glad to know
that they have at last some elg-
islators who realize the state is
burdened with useless commissions
and that no little sum can be saw
ed by abolishing some of these
boards. Hedger of WA1a Wfla
has introduced in the house bill!
abolishing the state tax commits
sion, and placing the work under
the public service commission, rec
rotary of state and attorney gen.
eral. That this commission bids
fair to be abolished is quite ev-
ident from the feeling among the
legislators.
c. L. Chamberlain OF Whitman
who led the opposition to the Cor
kerry and Murphine recall of iudg-
es bill, has introduced a bill which
provides for the removal OF dis
honest and corrupt judges by the
governor of the state. The bill is
in the nature of a proposed con-
stitutional amendment and has been
referred to that committee for
consideration. The governor must
hold a public hearing, giving all
parties thereto full and free oppor-
lunity, to be heard, and if the
governor decides the judge is
guilty then he shall remove The
latter. and there is no appeal from
the governors decision There lis
no likelihood of the bill passing.
The house has passed 4 bill fix
ing the public highway levy at
one and one-half mills.
Speaker Taylor got himself in
bad further last week, and also
showed to what extent he desires
TO carry his arbitrary powers of
presiding officer of the house, when
he cornered six of the best seats
in the gallery for particular friends
during an evening session. 1t ap-
pears that the speaker assumed con-
siderable more authority thar is
accorded him by the constitution or
otherwise when he delegated one
of the doorkeepers to rope off Xix
gallery seats and then stand guard
over the same until the speaker
guests should arrive. The act. pre-
venting as it did. some of the o.
lympians. from obtaining seats,
has not set well with a good
many who witnessed the affair, and
similar occurrence might cause
an '.unholy alliance from other
quarters.
The machine worked almost al
smoothly as usual last week, yet
there were some jars and creak-
ings which indicate that unless con.
siderable oil is applied it may
shortly refuse to work at all. Now
the oil is costly-costly to the peo.
pie of the state. The oil consists
of promises of jobs and generous
appropriations for every "I-fly-up-
the-creek' scheme of each member
OF the "unholy alliance.
Hughes was able to secure the
necessary two-thirds majority for
his bill submitting the question OF
alien ownership OF land to the vo-
tiers at the next election. Manyof the
Progressives voted against it. On
the other hand. many of them vot-
ed for it, as they felt that to refuse
to submit to the people was denying
their own principle which is to the
effect that the people have the
right to settle all important mat
ters The "Standpats", however,
were not so consistent with theil
votes, as practically all of them vo.
ted to submit the alien ownership
question to the people. while they
voted to refuse the people the righ'
to vote ON the question OF the Re-
call of Judges. Many OF the Pro.
gressives who voted to submit the
alien bill to the people. at the same
time declared that they would wori
and vote against its adoption al
the general election.
The Progressives were able, witt
the help OF several desertions from
the Fusionists to defeat the scheme
to hand over to Jakey Furth ant
the N. P. Railway about 400 acres
of land that would be laid bare a
the end of Lake Washington u,
the lowering of the lake by canal
Representative Dunning last weel
introduced w. H. kaufman's bill
for placing a royalty on fish and
the bill was sent to the committee
on revenue and taxation. Mr.. Dun
ming. who has introduced the bill