The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-02-16
STATE LEGISLATURES
WORK AS REVIEWED
Number of Measures Approved
BY the Governor Totals
Thirteen.

Expenses are IncTeaseu-CSPeT'We
station Provided For-compromise
on Dry characterization Meas
ures introduced--Moth Pension
Law Amended - Governor Given
More Pewer-Eight-Hou Law for
Women Changed.
Olympia.-The state legislature is
making slow progress in passing bills
up to the governor for signature.
When the session adjourned over Sun
day only 13 bills passed during the
present session had been approved
by Governor Lister No vetoes had
been filed.
Two of the bills signed last week,
substitute house bill Is and house bill
143, were the compromise bills by
which the state university and the
state college settled their differences.
One assigns graduate work between
the two institutions and the other af-
firms land grants and federal funds
to the college as agreed upon in the
conference.
Session VIII Be Expensive.
1t is apparent that the present SEES
sion is likely to be more expensive
than the session two years ago and
it would not be surprising if an emer-
gency appropriation of at least $4,000
will be necessary in order to carry
the 1917 session through the consti-
tutional so days.
In preliminary estimates of legisla-
tive expense this year the senate was
allowed a total of s36,312 and the
house $61,572, to which is added $4,000
for two special legal advisors for the
| legislators, making total of S99,884.
To cover this the legislature appropri-
ated 100000. Both houses then in
creased the customary force of EN-
ployes and raised salaries to the ex-
tent of $4,000 additional that will
have to be provided for,
No legislative business was transact
ed Monday. Both houses memorable
ed Lincoln with special program
Monday afternoon.
Lady From Yakima Loses Fight.
in a futile effort of "the lady from
| Yakima" Mrs, Ina p. Williams, the
only woman member of the legisla'
ture, to stem the tide of defeat turned
against her on her one pet measure,
personalities were exchanged in the
house which If other than the lady
had been involved, might have result
ed In fisticuffs AS it was the charge
| and denials of being besmirched by
! successful and unsuccessful pork bar
rel grabbing was banded about SO
freely that. half dozen legislators
at. one time were clamoring for recog'
milton ON point of personal privilege.
| The. net result of it all was that
house bill 20, providing for the estab-
lishment of an agricultural expert
ment station by the state college, as
introduced by Mrs. Williams, "in some
irrigated district of the state" as
amended by the committee, Fin the
Yakima valley" was passed, ~ to Il,
as It was amended by the house, pro
viding for the experiment station at
or within 20 miles of Kennewick, Yak
imas rival.
Two Dry Bills May be Passed.
Following the line of compromises
effected in the university, state col
lege and water code controversies, an
agreement was reached at the session
of the senate committee on public
morals by which two dry" bills will
be passed at the present session OF
the legislature. The first will be the
Halsey bone dry bill, drafted at the
instance of the AntiSaloon league,
and already passed by the house. This
bill, abolishing the permit system, will
become effective 80 days after adjourn
ment of the legislature, unless it is
held up by referendum petition.
The second bill will be the Johnson
Kuykendall regulatitve measure which
will be passed to become effective
March Is. 1t will be amended so as
to be made strictly an ad interim
measure, to remain in effect only I'M
til the bone dry law comes into opera
ton.
Cuts Down Booze Allowance.
The Johnson-Kuykendall bill allows
the importation of either one quart
of whisky, two quarts of wine or u
quarts of beer every 20 days under
restrictions much more rigid than
those of the present law, and abol-
ishes the handling of liquor by drug
stores.
If opponents of the bone dry bill
should fail to secure the necessary
$4,000 signatures to refer it, the bone
dry bill will replace the Johnson-Kuy-
kendall bill in June. If the bone dry
bill should be referred it will not be
effective until 30 days after the gen.
eral election of 1918, If approved by
the people. and il it should be rejected
at the polIa the JOhnsOn-K uykendall