The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-02-12

make their appearance-A special high
court is proposed-Referendum bill:
may be invoked on McArdle bills.
olympia.-Little of Importance 10
he state at large was accomplished
during the fourth week of the present
ses-ion OF the legislature, but this
weak the session promises to see the
real. legislative grind started by I
houses. During the first 20 days or
ganixation and the preliminary phases
of the LIQUOR question absorbed gen
eral attention. During the past week
the development Of the patronage
Ugh with Governor Lister made par
tisan politics the issue to the exclu-
sion of other business. Now thai mas
been cleared out of the way IN the
house and that body is showing a ois-
position to do some hard work.
The house organization is conunu-
ing to exercise its influence to dlscour
age the introduction of useless dis
with the result that only los nave
hssn introduced. At the same time In
the last session the house had SS'
bills introduced. More than hall the
members Of the house have
ne measures whatever.
Senate Bills Numerous.
The senate Is running true to form
with it's usual large bill productloh'
With less than half the membership
~ the house more than twice the num-
hsr Of bills have been introduced, The
senate has gone farther thar the house
In the work OF actual legislation now
ever having started its regula cal
endar two days earlier.
The senate has had less partisan
nolitics thar the house to interfere
With legislative work. Now mat the
McArdle bills shearing the governors
mowers and prerogatives are over from
the house, the senate may have to pay
a~ttention to partisan questions.
One House Legislature Scheme.
A plan for a unicameral state legis-
,.,ure of IL members, to replace the
nresent two houses with a total OF lSs
members is proposed in a bill pre-
pared by Representative Robe OF sno-
bomish county, progressive.
The proposed 1b-man legislature
..u 10 IN sassion continually, under
the Robe plan, each member "ouio
draw $4,000 annually, and would serve
for six years. The plan Is 10 eject
three members from each COMPRESSION
Al district. and to elect n MEMBER
from each district every W years
The salary roll of the proposed iesls-
l.ture would be 100000 for W years
and with other expenses this you'd
make the new plan cost about sloo'VVo
biennisIly, about the expense OF tne
,ae.member legislature now PROVIDED
IN meet so days every two years.
Another AUTHORIZATION Bill Likely
King Alcohol promises again TO take
the nosition of headliner on the bill to
be presented to the 14th Washington
legislature. Word from Seattle ls mar
a third anti-prohibition measure is De-
ing prepared for early Introduction
"a hat final effort will be made to
obtain a vote of the legislature 10 SET
a snecial election before the prohipi-
t,on law adopted last November can
hecome effective, next January l.
while. on its face, the special cleo
,;on nlan would seem barred by the
action taken by the legislature TWO
waeks ago, the liquor men see loop
holes of escape from this conclusion
One lies in the language OF the JOINT
~snt,-special election resolution Wnlch
declares against submission OF lniuia-
tive measure No. Is or any other meas
IRE oin connection herewith at spe-
ITO, election. The measure to De pro
posed. it is said. will be introduceu as
an entirely new and separate DILL anu
not as an alternate for NO. Is o. III any
wav ain connection therewlth'
- AA am
According to a membe OF tne sen
ate. the plan proposed will be tor tne
present session of the legislature 10
lew a heavy excise tax upon all matt
and spirituous liquor manufactured OF
sold in the state, a tax sulliciehus
n,vb IN raise, before next November
money to meet all expenses OF a spe
cial election.
while the liquor issue has not raised
its mead above the surface for t~0
weeks, subterranean rumblings nave
testified TO the fact that 1t is by no
means dead. Nobody, apparently Is
uuch In favor of initiative NO 10
which is the only liquor measure SURF
II going before the people, but wnich
ia loosely drawn and open to attack
from various sources.
Freak Bills Appear.
The legislature until last week mss
kbeen remarkably free from freak oiils.
ut a series of measures of this KIN