The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-03-08

"Ai' oO pidcllcSily no 1undS IOr rae
tory inspection in the next -wo years,
and factory inspecting is he chief
junction Of the labor department The
total allowance for the department is
left unchanged at SAB 900, which leaves
$4,000 in the budget that is not ap-
propriated for any specific purpose
Money Not Provided for Rise.
The governor further discovered
that while the new mining code in
ereases the deputy inspectors salary
to $1,000. the appropriation bill allows
him only $500 a year, the former fig
ure. In passing ON relief bills the
governor will call upon the appropri
alton committee for the detailed in
formation upon which it acted in
granting the various items.
Considerable curiosity is expressed
as to what the governor will do with
an item of $4,000 allowed for two
years maintenance of the mansion
since he declared last fall that he
would not occupy the mansion after
April l and refused to allow any reso
luton for its maintenance in tho
state board of finance report as the
result of the state auditors action il
disappearing certain vouchers on the
mansion fund returned by the COVER
nor
Tho inint rfot
notwithstanding, included the mansion
maintenance this session. adding en-
tertainment as one of its legal uses
and making vouchers upon it subject
to approval of the governor alone Ii
has been intimated that Governor
Lister would be willing to devote the
mansion fund to the investigation of
the state auditors office, which he
recommended in his message, and
bill to authorize which has been in
troduced in the house by representa-
tive Hodgdon, of Grays Harbor.
Powers Denied Governor.
Senate bills passed make federal
ioi Ii iooH UouuS lcSoi iuNcStlucut lOi
trust funds; change certain closed
seasons on game birds; fix industrial
insurance commissioners bonds at
$4,000, and the commission claim
agents at $4,000: permit county road
work amounting to more than $25, 900
to be transferred to the supervision
of the state highway commissioner;
places the sale of tuberculin under
supervision of the state agricultural
commissioner. and authorize organi-
cations of cooperative credit associe-
lions Under the rural credits plan.
A bill by Kuykendall and Johnson,
intended to insure rigid enforcement
of the bone-dry law by empowering
the governor to remove negligent
peace officers upon complaint Of the
attorney-general, was killed on argu-
ment that it conferred too much pow
er on the governor.
House Adds More to Tax Burdens.
By vote of 81 to Al the house
passed house bill "a, establishing a
fourth normal school at Centralia. and
authorizing a onetenth mill levy, rails
ing 100000 annually, as the initial
provision for financing the new insti-
tuition.
BY vote of rs to IS, the house also
passed substitute house bill 249, estab-
fishing half mill levy, to raise $780,
900 annually, for immediate prosecu-
ton of the capitol building program.
without awaiting sale of the capitol
land grant.
These measures, together with the
educational millage tax bill, as passed
by the senate, and the military code
already passed by both houses, pro-
vided increased millage taxes aggre-
eating 1.55 mills. which If passed in
their present status would add ST.
$50 900 annually to the state tax roll.
the bills in question carrying an in
crease OF more than 20 per cent, with
out taking into consideration whether
the general fund appropriation of the
present legislature will necessitate an
increase in the general fund levy.
1t is reasonably certain that some
of the increases proposed will be re-
duced considerably before they reach
the governors office.
Divorce Law Tinkerinp.
With 10 dissenting votes the senate
passed the bill by Palmer authorizing
yranting of divorces on simple show
ng of eight years separation, aimed
} correct special cases in King coun-
!, coupled with a provision making
he divorce law more rigid in another
particular by removing the power of
he judge TO grant a decree for any
ause not named in the statute.
After the general appropriation bill
lad been passed by both houses of
he legislature it was discovered that
the appropriations committees had
forgotten to add the emergency
clause, threatening to prevent the
fro,n