Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1917-03-02
Legislative Session on Last
Week. Many Measures
to Be Considered
COMBINATION CHARGED
Would Muzzle I.W.W.'s. No
Non Partisan Primary
Law This Session

OLYMPIA, March 1.-(Special) J.
With the session expiring a week from
today, the legislature is going through
the usual speeding up process, and
to get the most important bills acted
upon. Many measures, of more or less
merit, will fall by the waysde in the
closing hours Of the session.
What is openly called a combina-
ton Of lawyers and doctors, which
professions have 80 members in both
houses, came very near precipitating
fight in the house over the probate
code which prohibits bank or trust
companies from acting as executors
Of estates. This bill is said to be sole
ly in the interest of a certain class Of
lawyers who wish a closed shop in
probate matters, and opponents of the
measure are not slow in charging that
the lawyers are receiving the support
of the doctors as the result of a COM
bination formed to put over the medi-
cal bill They point to the fact that
20 out of the 29 lawyers in the House
voted for the medical bill last week
and that the doctors are unit in
supporting the lawyers probate bill
MuzzIe |. w. WIS.
By vote of 81 to 5, the senate pass
ed a bill Monday, which is designed
to wipe out the l. w. w. element in
this state. The measure as passed
makes it a felony in this state to ad-
vocate crime, sabotage, violence or
other unlawful means of terrorism as
means of accomplishing industrial
or political reform. 1t also makes it
felony to advocate through printed
literature the above enumerated
things, and makes all members of such
organizations who gather or hold meet
ings equally liable.
The senate has also passed bill
said to be for the purpose of taking
the banks out of county politics,
which provides that county treasurers
shall deposit the public funds in banks
in amounts proportional to their as
sets, upon satisfactory offering of
bonds or securities.
Two bills involving each an appro-
priation of $4,000 from military
funds for the building of armories at
Aberdeen and Walla Walla, has pass
ed the third reading of the House and
has gone to the senate. The pros
poets for the passage of those bills
was considered excellent ten days ago,
but fear is now expressed that they
may be lost in the shuttle in the hurly
burly OF the closing days.
The hope of progressive members
of both parties in the early part of
the session to enact law providing
for non-p partisan ballots at the primary
elections for state and county officers
has gone glimmering. When the SEN
ate Monday was passing a mill making
second choice voting optional instead
of compulsory, an attempt was made
to amend by providing blanket bal
lot, but the senate said no.
At the first night session, held on
Monday night, it was found necessary
to lock the doors TO hold the members
down to their job, while seven meas
ures were debated and passed. The
measure which provoked the sharpest
fight was the Jitney bill, which had
already passed the senate, and which
places jitneys under the state public
service commission. 1t was attacked
as a corporation measure, fostered by
them in an effort to force the jitneys
out Of business.
The senate has passed a bill pro
viding for a state director of farm
markets, at a salary of $4,000 a year
whose duty it shall be to investigate
market conditions, commission merch-
ants operations. etc. He shall also aid
the farmers in obtaining harvest funds
fruit and berry pickers and farm help
generally, as we'll as to look after
the interests of farmers generally.