The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1915-02-19

the lortleth day.-A preferential preSl-
dental primary bill has been fled
The house passes a universal registra-
ton bill.-A public defender is pro
posed. Tax interest rates have been
reduced.-A new frst-aid bill has been
introduced in the senate.
Olympia.-The record of the first
five weeks of the present legislative
session so far as the actual final dis
position of bills is concerned is eight
bills passed by both houses; three of
the eight signed by the governor; two
In his hands for approval or veto;
three not yet transmitted to the COVER
nor; "a senate bills passed by the SEN
ate; "a house bills passed by the house
and IL bills killed in one house or the
other.
There are 406 bills introduced, of
which lat are in the house and 259 in
the senate.
OF the eight bills that have been
passed through both houses four are
house bills and four are senate bills,
and provide as follows: Appropriation
of $50, 900 for regular expenditures of
the session; appropriation of SIS 900
for legislative printing; right of occu-
pant of oyster lands under the old Cal
iOU mt m nrrobaca the s+afa,s oro
sionary title to such lands; right of
county commissioners to sell destroy
cd county property up to 5000 in value
without advertising; reappropriation
Of $4,000, an unexpected balance, for
the use Of the Cheney normal school;
~abbreviation of citations from and ref
to repealed statutes; reor-
E~anization of the state and board by
making 1t to consist of the land com
missioner, state auditor and secretary
OF state; and the reorganization of the
state board of equalization by making
1t to consist of the state land commits
sioner, state auditor and one member
Of the public service commission.
Bills that Have Failed to Pass.
The bills that have been killed, in
surfing that they will not be enacted
into law this session, were designed
to provide as follows: Half-mill levy
for the public highway fund and the
permanent highway fund each; consol-
idation of the state and travelling IL
braries under a new commission; ster-
ilization of inmates of the state penal
institutions whose offspring would in
serit criminal tendencies; appropria-
ton of SIS, 900 for an armory at Walla
Walla; changing of day for execution
sales from Saturday to Tuesday; reor-
ganization of the state land board,
state board of equalization and state
tax commission SO as to continue exec
utive control of M and the fixing
of rates and measurements to be fol-
lowed by publishers in doing county
printing.
When the legislature re-convened
Monday after its weekend recess, it
began the 85th day of the session. The
107 bills of it's own not yet acted upon,
and 25 senate bills that have been
passed by the senate and transmitted
to the house. The senate had before
1t 220 bills of it's own and "a house
bills passed by the house and trans
mitted to the senate,
Few Bills After This Week.
The house has already adopted a
resolution that no bills may be intro
duced after the 40th day without the
consent of the house by a two-thirds
vote, and the senate is expected to
follow its usual custom of placing a
like limitation. This means that after
this week no bills other than import
ant ones will be permitted to be placed
on the books, and it apparently insures
that there will be not more than half
the number before this session that
were before the session two years ago.
The conflict between the republican
control of the legislature and Cover
nor Lister is as clear cut as two years
ago, and just as determined on both
sides, but because the governor is less
strongly represented in the legislature
he is unable to- make his opposition
felt in the manner that he did last SEES
sion. AS a result the political manip-
ulations of both sides have less zest,
and ever the passage of the two Nc
Ardle bills taking the control OF the
land board and the board of equaliza-
ton from a~ppointive officers and vest
ing it in officers elected by the people
failed to cause any great stir.
Presidential Primary Bill.
Representatives of the three pollti-
cal parties filed a preferential presi-
Dental primary bill. The act bore the
m OF Murphine (Pl, Hill CD, and
Hastings Or. II provides for a May
urinary at which presidential candi-
dates in all parties shall be voted on.
and at which the delegates to the ma
tional convention shall be elected.