Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1915-02-09
.EC|l AZURE IS
STILL UP IN AIR
attention to partisan questions.
~. uou.e L eoiaIature Scheme

attention to partisan questions.
One House Legislature Scheme
A plan for a unicameral state legs
isture Of Is members. to replace the
present two houses with total OF lSS
members is proposed In Dill pre-
pared by Representative Robe. OF sno-
homish county. progressive.
The proposed 15-man legislature
would be in session continually, nnder
the Robe plan, each member would
draw $4,000 annually. and would serve
for six years. The plan 10 to elect
three members from each congression-
n district, and to elect one member
from each district every two years.
The salary roll Of the proposed lesis-
lature would be $4,000 for two years
and with other expenses this would
make the new plan cost about $10b.OOO
bsennially. about the expense OF the
l3e-membef Legislature now provided
70 meet 90 days every two years.
Another prohlbition DIV Likely.
King Alcohol promises again to take
the position Of hsadMner on the bill to
be presented 70 the 18th Warrington
legislature. Word from Seattle 10 that
. third anti-prohibithon measure h BE-
ing prepared for early introduction,
and that . final effort will be made to
obtain vote of the legislature to set
a special election before the prohibit
ton law adopted last November can
become effective. next January !.
Z While, on its face, the special cleo
ton plan would seem barred by the
action taken by the legislature two
weeks ago, the liquor men see loop
holes of escape from this conclusion.
One lies in the language OF the joint
anti-special election resolution, which
declares against submission Of initta-
tive measure No. 10 or any other meas
ure "in connection herewith" ut spe-
cial election. The measure to be pro-
posed, It is said, will be introduced ~
an entirely new and separate bill, and
not as an alternate for No. IS or in any
way "in connection Herewith"
According to member Of the SEN
ate, the plan proposed will be for the
present session Of the legislature to
levy a heavy excise tax upon all malt
and spirituous liquor manufactured or
sold in the state. a tax sufficiently
high to raise, before next November.
money to meet all expenses of q spe.
cial election.
While the liquor issue has not raised
its head above the surface for two
weeks, subterranean rumblings have
testified to the fact that it IL by no
means dead. Nobody, apparently. Is
much In favor Of initiative No. is.
which is the only liquor measure sure
OF going before the people. but which
10 loosely drawn and open to attack
from various sources.
Freak Dills Appear.
The legislature until last week has
been remarkably free from freak bills,
but q series of measures Of this kind
have made their appearance.
Unlawful metallic deception" b
made crime under the terms Of 8.
B. No. 17s. introduced ty Senator Pal.
msr, Of King. under which the sale
Of tin vessel represented - alumni
UNI. for instance, would authorize the
county prosecutor to subpoena witness
es and enforce testimony under oatn'
which is not permitted in investiga-
ton of murder or other felony cases
under existing law, and on conviction
of an agent the company making the
sale would be liable to revocation OF
its charter. This measure has been
referred appropriately to the commit
tee on irrigation and arid lands.
Some Of the other freak bills intro
duced include H. B. 80, by Ropresen'
tative Croft, Of Pierce. regulating the
manufacture and sale Of mattresses
comforters, pillows and other articles
Of bed clothing" H. B. No. 81, by KEEP
ressntative Gilkey Of Pierce, to COM
pel hotel proprietors to furnish Ss-inch
bedsheets to guests, and barring roll
or towels and the common drinking
CUP: H. B. 81, by Representative Croft
regulating the practice Of chiropody'
and recurring q state license for re-
moval Of "all superficial excrescences
such as corns, warts and callossities
IN human hands and feet and also the
treatment of bunions."
Hioh Court to Try Judges PROPOSED.
Creation of Special High Court
of Impeachment" to try charges pre-
ferred against judges Of the supreme
and superior courts, as substitute
for the judicial recall. was the move
proposal formally laid before the
Washington legislature by the state
bar association. A constitutions
amendment will be necessary to carry
the plan into effect.
The bar association plan calls ior
appointment by the governor OF q
court of 70 men, not more than five OF
whom are to be lawyers, to hear
charges Of corruption in office, ty-
ranny or oppression, moral turpitude
or mental or physical incompetency.'
When such charges are preferred
against any Judge this court would
have power to remove the judge II q
majority considers the charge sustain