The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-02-18
PROTECT BUYERS
FROM CHINESE EGGS

Olympia, a,-Foreign eggs will be
plainly marked by letters two inches
tall stamped across the case, if a
bill passed by the senate Monday,
Becomes law.
The measure is designed to pro-
tect the consumer from Chinese eggs
with which the markets have been
Hooded since the tariff was removed
Eggs which have been treated by
any process must be marked "pre-
eerved" and those which have been
( stored longer than ninety days
{ ''storage."
Olympia.-The record of the first
live weeks of the present legislative
eession 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.
or 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 $4,000 for regular expenditures of
the session; appropriation of $4,000
for legislative printing; right of occu-
pant of oyster lands under the old Cal
low act to purchase the states rever-
sionary title to such lands; right of
county commissioners to sell destroy
ed 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
erences to repealed statutes; reor-
ganization of the state land 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
of the public service commission.
Bills that Have Failed to Pass.
The bills that have been killed, in
suring 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 new commission; ster-
ilization of inmates of the state penal
institutions whose offspring would in
herit criminal tendencies; appropria-
ton of $4,000 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 same: 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 35th day of the session. The
house had before it for consideration
1O7 bills of its 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 q
resolution that no bills may be intro
duced after the 40th day without the
consent of the house by 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 hall
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 botf
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 ses
sion. AS a result the political manip
ulations of both sides have less zest
and even the passage of the two M
Ardle bills taking the control OF the
land board and the board of equaliza
tion from appointive officers and vest
ing II in officers elected by the people
failed to cause any great stir.
Presidential Primary Bill.
Representatives of the three poiiti
"a, narties filed a preferential presi
DENTAL primary bill The act bore th'
names of Murphine (P). Hill CD, an'
hastings (R. 1t provides for a Ma!
urinary at which presidential candi
dates In oil parties shall be voted on