Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1915-01-26
MAY Lend funds
ON FARM LANDS
Iverson, Of Kitsap, Introduces
Bill in Senate Providing for
Using School Money
Legislature Makes Record
With Close Of Week and
No Vote Yet Taken

OLYMPIA, Jan. 25.-A bill with far
resching possibilities was introduced
to-day by Senator Iverson Of Kitsap
county, providing for lending school
fund money to farmers.
! The bill is designed to afford some
rrelief to the farmers as contemplated
by the rural credits advocates. It
permits the lending Of money belong
ing to the state school fund when the
loan is secured by real estate mort
gage. Under the present law only
county. city and state bonds are le-
gal investment for school money.
James M. Hogan was this afternoon
seated as a member of the house Of
representatives, taking the place de-
clared vacant by the house following
the report Of the special contest COM
mittee Of that body. Hogan will rep
resent the Forty-eighth district in Sno-
homish county. He is a republican
and takes the place held by Thomas
H. Swale, progressive. who was Ger.
tified as elected by lead Of two
votes. The recount showed Hogan
was elected by vote of 3172 against
S164.
The Taylor bill providing public
service utilities must show that ne
cessities exist before entering q field
already served by a similar concern,
was the object Of attacks this after.
noon by representatives from several
Of the leading cities Of the state, in.
GLIDING Spokane. Seattle and Tacoma,
- we'll ~ . number Of the smaller
cities and towns.
While the week opens with indica-
tions Of some accomplishments by the
legislature. notably in the chance Of
taking some action on Senator e. e.
Boner's bill providing for q session
Of the Chehalis county superior court
at Aberdeen, last week, the second
week Of the session slipped by with
nothing done in the way Of legisla-
tion. Not a bill was voted on in eth
or house during the week, an unheard
Of occurrence in Washington legisla-
ture. BY the close Of the second week
at the last session of the legislature
q dozen or so bills had passed each
house and several were in the hands
- kh0 onvorunp
The time of the Legislators appar-'
entity wns occupied with the liquor
question, political jockeying OF the
two houses.
How far the legislature 10 behind
the work of previous sessions is indi-
Gated by the fact that the bills intro
duced at the close Of the second week
total only 157. Of which 110 are SEN
ate bills and ~ house bills. On the
same day Of the last session 359 bills
had been introducod-142 senate bills
and 207 house bills.
This comparison is not altogether
to the discredit Of the present legis-
lature, for the house has innovated
the plan Of first submitting its i'm
portant measures to committees. II
the bills are approved by the commit
tee they are then introduced a. COM
mittee measures, the expense Of print
ing bills that would have no chance Of
favorable consideration thus being
saved.
Liquor Question Disposed Of.
But while the legislature made no
progress along legislative lines, 1t
positively disposed Of liquor legisla-
ton, which otherwise would have been
. busy source Of trouble. and it clean.
cd up most of the combinations Of
the gubernatorial appointments and
sent the governors vetoes to commit
tees.
The liquor question has been wiped
off the map by passage of the Joint
resolution pledging the legislature to
call no special election.
Opinion is divided outside the legis-
lature % to the policy Of the action
with respect to liquor legislation. The
vets are emphasizing the fact that the
two petitions bore an aggregate Of
nearly 100000 signatures and declare
with considerable heat that these Pc
titioners were not even given the cour.
tesy Of q hearing"
OF course the action pleased the
drys and also was satisfactory to q
large number who were opposed to the
expense OF the proposed special elec-
tion. Both democrats and republicans
are claiming the credit there be for
getting the matter out Of the way be-
fore II interfered with other legisla-
ton.
Recommendation Considered.
The legislature has shown marked
disposition to give serious. considera,
fNnu<@nuoA m pawa A.