Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-02-18

be SO for all Offices with salaries
of less than $1,000 q year and an
additional sum of per cent Of such
excess in event of larger salaries
being paid. The measure also pro.
vides for penalization of corporations
who contribute to campaign funds.
The non-partisan election measure
will be known as initiative measure
No. 10; the first aid measure will be
known as measure No. 20; the home
rule bill will be measure No. 81, and
the fish bill initiative measure No. 20.
New First Aid Bill.
The first aid bill provides for ad-
ministration of first aid by the indus
trial insurance department., the ex.
penses of such aid to be audited out
Of the industrial insurance fund OF
the particular class to which the en-
ployer belongs. The cost Of trans.
porting injured workmen to places
for treatment shall be borne outright
by the employer in whose plant the
injury occurred.
The act also provides that there
shall be a medical advisory commit.
tee composed of a chief medical ad.
wiser of the commission, the president
Of the state medical society and the
president of the state board of
health.
The home rule bill gives cities ex-
elusive powers to regulate rates of
public service utilities, although it
does not abolish the public service
commission.
The main feature of the fish bill is
the fixing Of a schedule of taxation
Of fish caught, in addition to fixing
license fees on apparatus and fishing
gear. The measure provides that the
fish commission may prohibit fishing.
Fish traps and pound nets are pro-
hibited and set nets are to be regu-
lated. The taxes to be levied under
the act are as follows:
Chinook. Tyee, King, Black Mouth
or Spring salmon, Is cents; Steel
head, 6 cents; sockeye or Blueback.
3 cents; Silverside or Cohoe. 2 cents;
Chum or Dog salmon. cent: Hump
back or Pink salmon, Y cent; each
100 pounds Of smelt or herring or
fraction thereof. cents: each 100
pounds Of shad or cod, rs cents; each
100 pounds Of shrimp. rs cents: each
sturgeon, 80 cents: each gross Of
crabs, Is cents; each ton of clans,
gross weight in shells, rs cents.
The legislative committee. which 10
sponsor for the four initiative meas
ures. is made up Of F. J. Chamber
lain, Puyallup: George F. Cotterill,
Almer McCurtain, Charles r. Case
and Miss Lucy Case, all of Seattle.
With one exception this committee
was also godfather to the famous
seven sisters, which were filed early
in 1914. and which were voted on in
November of that year.
Five Months to Get Legislation.
Under the initiative law, measures
can be proposed ten months before
the November election. The election
this year will be held on November
Z, SO proposed measures could be
filed after January z. Five copies of
the proposed measures were filed
with the secretary of state by Miss
Case. They will then be sent to At
torney General Tanner. who will sug-
gest ballot title for each measure.
He has 10 days in which to do this.
The proponents of the measures are
then at liberty to circulate petitions
Tor signatures. The completed petit
lions bearing the signatures must be
iled four months before the election,
Or before July z, so the proponents
have about five months in which to
the petitions.
Miss Case said that the four bills
proposed are the only initiative meas
Tres to be proposed by the legislative
this year.