Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-03-12
THURSDAY SEES END
OF 60-DAY SESSION
CONTINUED from page l.;

O'Clock Thursday morning, the SEN
ate finishing it's calendar about mid
night.
The session closed without any
liquor legislation, the house rules
committee voting by a narrow mar
gin Tuesday not to put on the calen-
dar the bill reported out by the
public morals committee. This meas
ure would have permitted breweries
to operate and sell. their product as
long as the product Of outside brew
cries could be purchased in the state.
That same evening the senate rules
committee. by voting TO consider no
new bills, effectually stifed the
liquor bills introduced in the senate.
Various Views Of Session.
All kinds of views as to the ses-
sion are of course current. There
are not a few members who pledged
at the start to the organization, we're
compelled to stay with 1t. yet now
felt considerably peeved at some Of
the stunts the organization, mean
ing Sims, McArdle. Davis and Conner.
pulled of, and this feeling was butte
noticeable during the last week or
80. The criticism most frequently
heard and generally admitted as just
is of course upon the political feat
ure, which began with the opening
OF the legislature and continued until
its close. Said one Of the most rad
ical critics:
1.-The legislature went on a polit-
ical debauch at the outset of the SEES
sion and when it was willing to sober
up and play sane statesmanship. like
the topper who has ben laying in the
gutter. it could not find the door.
The main issue, carried by the legis-
lature from start to finish to the ex-
clusion Of other interests that might
have been handled to the betterment
Of the states affairs, was to 80 con-
troll the actions of the session as to
defeat Governor Lister in 1916
should he attempt to succeed him.
self" re
Other reviewers of the legislature
J condone this political tendency by
declaring that state affairs were not
neglected in any case; that there was
no great amount of new legislation
to be enacted, and IL politics found a
place in legislative matters it was be-
cause party leaders had to have some
thing to do.
Progressives Are Alienated.
Nevertheless it Is true that, by the
various amendments 1t proposed the
majority party has practically made
the initiative, referendum and the
recall imperative in this state, and by
such action has thrown from the party
ranks many of the more progressive
of the Republicans and the members
Of the Progressive party who had a
tendency to swing back into the G.
10. P. This is evidenced by the fact
tat the Progressives in both houses
Joined with the Democrats in voting
against these measures on their orig
inal passage and again when the or
ganization put them over the COVER
nor's veto. -l.
The party has also allowed Its po-
litical leaders In Olympia to STAN
pede the party into the corporation
ranks, and the result has been the
opening of a wide breach between the
Grange, Farmers Union and Fedora
ton of Labor in the state, and
the strengthening of the Democratic
state administration and it's follow
Ing. The underdog when the session
opened. Governor Lister, with the aid
OF Progressive and Democratic MEM
hers in both houses, has come out in
the last few days Of the session with