The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-03-02

that automobile men generally are
not seriously contesting the proposed
charges
The house also passed bills to regu.
late chiropractice, osteopathy, regula
| tons for creating state district re-
ports on vital statistics and two bills
which prevent cities from refunding
balances accruing in local improve
ment funds from payment of interest
and penalties.
Precedent Established.
Establishing a precedent, the Wash
ington legislature held a session on
Washingtons birthday. The house
had no calendar, and met only to well
come back the soldiers from Calexico,
Troop B and Signal Corps A.
The-senate, however, held a regu-
lar session, received committee re-
ports and acted upon four bills.
The largest crowd of spectators
that has yet attended a legislative
session was on hand when the houses
met in joint session in the house
chamber to welcome the returning
soldiers from the border. Governor
Lister addressed the guardsmen brief
ly, stating it was hoped no further de-
mand would be made upon them, but
asking them to be in readiness for
possible call. Officers of the guard
responded that they would be ready
and asked help in finding work for
discharged men.
Centralia Normal Favored in House.
Representative J. E. Lease of Lewis
county made a winning fight in the
house for the establishment of nor
NAL school at Centralia for the bene-
fit of southwest Washington. His bill
was bitterly assailed. All the soiled
linen of the higher educational fight
was aired in the debate, the state col
lege men uniformly opposing the
Lease bill, while the friends of the
University of Washington, including
practically all of the King county del
egation, supported it and prevented
its being killed.
The bill, as amended by Mr. Leases
suggestion, provides that fourth
state normal shall be established at
Centralia.
Probate Code Passes Senate.
The senate, after a continuous bat
tie of three hours, the longest and
hottest yet INDUCED in by either of
the houses at this session, over the
new probate code prepared by its judi
ciary committee, with membership of
IA lawyers, after a draft had been
submitted for criticism to virtually
every lawyer of prominence in the
state, passed the bill by vote of 80
to s.
One feature, which provoked
sharp clash, was a provision prohibit
ing trust companies from acting as
executors. administrators and guar
dians. The fight of the lawyers
against the trust companies was as
nothing, however. compared to the
clashes of the lawyers among them
selves.
Extra Juror Bill Passed
The house agreed to the emergency
clause on senate bill 1876 which pro
vides for the thirteenth juror in pro.
tracted criminal trials. The bill passed
the senate with the emergency clause.
but 1t was stricken out in the house.
The senate declined to accept the
amendment and the house receded.
The purpose of the emergency clause
is to make the law effective at once,
so that a thirteenth juror may set in
the Snohomish county l. w. W. trials
which will be held in Seattle next
month.
Woman Member Addresses Senate.
Mrs. Ina P. Williams, the woman
member from Yakima, established a
precedent when she addressed the sen
ate for 10 minutes on her bill provid-
ing for an experiment station in the
irrigated district.
Mrs. Williams had gone over to the
senate side to do little quiet lobby
ing for her measure. When the sen
ate was called to order she had not
finished explaining her bill to one or
two senators. Lieutenant Governor
Hart discovered the lady member and
invited her to sit beside him.
Mrs. Williams smiled an acknowl-
edgment of the honor, and stepping to
the presiding officers desk made
speech for her bill.
Legislative Brevities.
House bill No. l, requiring rural
telegraph lines to come under mini
mum wage regulations, passed the SEN
ate.
The house also passed senate bill
"a, making rules for piling and burn
ing slashings for the purpose of pre-
venting forest fires.
Senate bill 206 was killed with but
few dissenting votes. 1t provided that
field deputies of the assessor shall
make a record of crops, herds and
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