Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-02-19
TODAY IS LAST DAY
FOR NEW MEASURES
LEGISLATURE PUTS IN BUSY
WEEK-SENATE PASSES CAP.
ITOL BOND BILL.

With today the last upon which
bills can be introduced in either
house, except with permission of two
thirds of the members, the end of the
fourteenth legislature, just two weeks
sight, for today is the fortieth day of
the session.
The present, the sixth week of the
session, was marked with several
notable things, that of most general
interest being the veto of two of the
McArdle tax board bills by Governor
Lister and their prompt passage over
his veto by the house Wednesday and
the senate Thursday afternoon, while
the event of the week that most inter-
ested Olympians was the passage by
the senate Wednesday afternoon,
after considerable debate and stren-
uous effort by Senator Nichols Of
King to defeat it, of the bill author
izing a $4,O0O.0O0 bond issue for
capitol buildings, enabling the work
on the new buildings to start imme-
diately and removing the difficulties
encountered by similar bill two
years ago.
Bill Wins by 20 TO is.
The capitol bond bill excited con-
siderable discussion for an hour or
so before it was finally passed by a
vote of 26 to Is, Senator Nichols of
King leading a determined fight
against it. He proposed series OF
amendments intended to destroy the
effect of the bill and SO practically
kill it, but each in turn was voted
down. The only notifications In the
original measure were the elimina-
ton, on motion of Senator Jones OF
Pierce, of that section which would
have given the capitol commission
authority to change plans for the
group of buildings, and the other
one compelling the commission to
buy the Reinhart block across Main
street from the high school building,
making it optional for the commits
sion to buy this or adjoining prop
erty.
Mark Reed of Shelton, member
of the capitol commission, is also a
member of the lower house and that
body is said to be even more favor
able to the measure than was the
senate. and it is expected to go
through without difficulty. The bill
as drawn was endorsed by Governor
Lister and the capitol commission
and it is believed that, as modified. it
will receive the governors approval.
The measure authorizes the commits
sion to issue from $2.500,000 to
$4,000,000 bonds against the capitol
land grant, as the money is needed to
finish the Temple of Justice and to
construct new buildings, and pro-
vides that the interest on the out
standing bonds is to be paid from
the general fund, which is to be re-
imbursed by the sale of the capitol
lands.
Avalanche of Bills.
Naturally, with the last day for
the Introduction of new bills so close,
this week has witnessed the appear
ance of lot of measures that had
been held back for one reason or
another. and the last two days espe-
cially there has been a regular ava
lanche of them. Incidentally, the
house Wednesday night held its first
night meeting of the session, about a
week earlier than usual.
The big fight of the week, still In
the committee rooms, has been over
the distribution of the $4.0O0,OOO
road pork barrel" for the ensuing
biennium, each representative deter
mined ON getting his districts share,
and over the omnibus appropriation
bill for all the state departments,
which is rapidly being whipped into
shape. The Taylor utility bill, over
which there was so much of rumpus,
is dead and new measure will sue
ceed it.
Joker in Initiative Bill.
Some considerable CONSERVATION
developed among the so-called "cow
county" members, CONSERVATION
which may give the house organiza-
ton quite a little trouble, when the
"joker" was discovered in the bill
presented by the privileges and elec-
tions committee. purporting to con-
troll the initiative and referendum by
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