The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-02-15
LEGISLATURE PASS
TWO DRY" MEASURES
Will Wipe Out Liquor Entirely; Eek.
penses Increase; Amend Mothers
Pension Law

DAY only IL 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 at
firms land grants and federal funds
to the college as agreed upon in the
conference.
Session Will Be Expensive.
1t is apparent that the present ses-
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 60 days.
In preliminary estimates of legisla-
tive expense this year the senate was
allowed a total of s36,312 and the
house S6l,57 to which is added $4,000
for two special legal advisors for the
legislators, making a total of $99,SS4.
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 a special program
Monday afternoon.
Lady From Yakima Loses Fight.
In futile effort OF 1.-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 1.-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 era bling was banded about so
freely that a half dozen legislators
at one time we're clamoring for recog-
milton on point of personal privilege.
The net result of it all was that
house bill %, providing for the estab-
lishment of an agricultural expert
ment station by the state college. as
introduced by Mrs. Williams, lin some
irrigated district of the state. as
amended by the committee, lin the
Yakima valley" was passed, ~ to p,
as it was amended by the house. pro
viding for the experiment station at
or within 20 miles of kennewick. Yak
ima's rival.
Two Dry Bills May be Passed.
Following the line of compromises
effected in the university. state col
lege ard 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 Anti-Saloon 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 a referendum petition.
The second bill will be the Johnson
Kuykendall regulatitve measure which
will be passed to become effective
March Is. II will be amended so as
TO be made strictly an ad interim
measure. to remain in effect only I'M
ill 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 Il
quarts of beer every 20 days under
restrictions much more rigid than
those of the present law, and aboi-
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 80 days after the gen
eral election of 1918, if approved by
the people, and if it should be rejected
at the polls the Johnson-kuykendaii
bill will remain effective indefinitely
Laws to Reclaim Lossed-OH Land
Comprehensive plans for state re-
forestration. on both the state and
county unit plan for improvement oil
logged-off lands, and also for coopera.
tive credit associations are provldeo
;.tradnaad in the sen