The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-03-16
LEGISLATORS WORK
AT OLYMPIA FINISHED
Achievements Will Compare
Favorably With Previous
Session.

legislature has passed into history
with a record of achievement which
will compare favorably with prior leg
an average session. Some good laws
of real interest to the state at large
were passed and it is probably true
that some measures of real merit
failed
The closing hours of the session
witnessed spirited fight over the
question of granting relief appropri-
alton of $4,000 to Mrs. Julia Olsen,
widow of the murdered chairman Of
the industrial accident commission.
The first actual bitterness of the
session developed on consideration Of
the Olsen appropriation, when the
house fatty refused to agree to its
elimination. series of conferences
followed and the senate finally yield
ed on agreement by Morthland that
the state had a responsibility in the
case for allowing unquestioned pur-
chase OF firearms.
Presents Are Given Officers.
AS the end of the session drew near
the usual closing program of music
and speeches was rendered. From the
senate observation-disclosures Hart re-
ceived China set and Speaker Kelly
got chest of silver. Employees of
both houses made presents to Frank
Dallam, secretary Of the senate, and
Charles Maybury, chief clerk Of the
house. Two telephone exchange girls
stationed in the capitol received $120
each extra pay from the legislature.
Among the laws passed of major
importance may be mentioned:
A new automobile code.
Bone dry prohibition law, which
passed both houses by large MAORI
ties.
Submission to voters of question of
calling a constitutional convention.
First aid amendment to the work
mems compensation act,
Banking legislation, including new
banking code, placing the banks un
der stricter regulation, and a bank
depositors' guarantee act.
Passage of the bill reducing the
from 10 to IL per cent.
Probate code, simplifying admins
tration of estates.
viii Build New Capitol.
Provision for immediate work upon
the new group plan capitol, levy of
one-half of a mill, or 100000 annual
ly, being provided for this purpose.
Adoption of a road program claim
ed to be free of the faint of the pork
barrel and to be the best ever en-
acted
Passage of bill giving children q
right of action against those respon-
sible for the death of mother.
Two changes were made in the pri-
mary election laws, one eliminating
second choice voting and the other al
lowing absent voting at primaries.
Medical legislation, including the
creation of four new examining boards
for various forms of drugless treat
ment, as compared with one existing
state medical board
Adoption of a mining code, an irri-
CATION code badly wanted in the irri-
gated districts and which provides for
better protection to public interests in
handling irrigation matters, and an
amended fish code.
New Armorles Provided For.
Military legislation, including the
raising of the military levy to three
tenths of a mill, an increase Of $780,
900 annually, with the provision for
new armories at Walla Walla and
Aberdeen and the building up of the
national guard to comply with pro-
visions of the national defense act.
Educational legislation, including
the settlement of disputes in regard
to fields to be covered by the univer.
sity and the state college, prevention
OF future difficulties of this nature by
the creation of joint board of higher
curricula and the settlement of future
revenues by the addition of SO mill,
or $5S0,0 to the annual levy.
Two direct departures from past
legislative policy of the state are bills
making felony of teaching the syn
dicalism doctrine of the |. w. W., and
establishing the single standard of
morals for men and women, providing
equal punishment for both sexes in
statutory offenses. The l. w. w. law
makes teaching or urging the destruc-
ton of property a felony and imposes
a misdemeanor penalty on owners of
buildings where such agitation is
knowingly harbored.
ReapportIonment Fails.
Measures, good and bad, which were
rejected or failed of passage, include
a bill reapportioning legislators to
counties on population basis, bill re-
establishing capital punishment, bill
establishing fourth normal school at
Centralia with separate tax levy, re
medal amendments TO mothers pen
sion act TO restore aid to abandoned