The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1917-02-09
STATE LEGISLATURES
WORK AS REVIEWED
Controversy Between State
Educational Institutions
Is Settled.


Bill Ro-establishing Capital Punish.
neutrality-suspicious. Bill 10 Passed.
Referendum of Bene.Dry Bill De-
featsd-DoubIe Number Of Klsetlsn
offIeIals-Extra Jurors Provided
For-Tsx Board Abolished.
Olympia.-The chief accomplish
ment OF the legislature during the
past week was the settlement OF the
controversy between the State Uni
versity and the state college After
two attempts to reach a settlement,
which broke up with disagreements
and charges of bad faith, and agree
ment between the factions was final
ly reached after an all-night session
in the office of Governor Lister. Par
Elephants in the final conference were
Governor Lister, Speaker Kelly, Rep
resentatives James H. Davis and
Mark Reed, DR.. Suzzalo and Win
lock Miller Of the University, and DR..
Holland and Regents w. 7. Ritz and
ID. T. Conan of the state college. AS
q result two bills, substitute house
bill No. Is and House bill No. 143,
were agreed to by President Suzzalo
of the state university and President
Holland, Of the state college.
Without a dissenting vote In either
house substitute house bill Is. carry
ing out the compromise recommends
lions dividing the courses of study
between the University of Washing
ton and Washington state college,
and house bill 143, concurring land
grants and other federal aid to the
college, we're passed under suspen-
sion of rules.
State College Retains Courses.
The right of the state college to
retain all postgraduate courses in sci
ences and engineering is to remain
undisturbed. The right of the college
to all land grants and endowments
from the federal government for ex-
detrimental and extension work under
the Morrill, act and it's SUCCESSORS
specifically Is reaffirmed.
Forestry and architecture now
given at the college are to be retained.
but no degrees are to be given In
these courses. Only one degree has
ever been given by the college In
architecture, and none In forestry.
A "joint board of higher curricu-
la" is created, to consist OF the presi-
dent and two regents of the univer-
sity, the president and two regents
of the state college, one normal
school principal and one trustee
from each of the other normal
schools. This board Of nine Is en-
powered to act in the capacity of a
continuous survey board. keeping
cost data on courses at all institu-
lions, and making recommendations
biennially to the governor and lsgis-
lature.
Capital Punishment Advocated.
Next to the educational matter,
legislation resulting from the murder
Of Industrial Insurance Commission
or Olson held chief interest.
Senators Boner of Grays Harbor,
Kuykendall of Garfield, Phipps and
Croft of Spokane, Jones Of Pierce,
Carlyon Of Thurston, and Cox and
Cornwell of Walla Walla introduced
in the senate a bill re-establishing
capital punishment.
Informal polls of the senate show
q sentiment in favor of restoring cap
ital punishment in Washington. Sew
eral senators predict the capital pun
ishment bill will carry overwhelming
ly. Sentiment in the house seems
favorable, too. due principally to the
brutal Olson murder
Penalty In Hands Of Jury.
Advocates of the bill point out that
the measure as introduced is differ
ent from the capital punishment law
in effect before and different from
the bill introduced two years ago by
Senator Sharpstein. The former law
placed the death sentence in the
hands Of the court and the Sharpstein
bill did the same, but the bill now
in the hands of the senate, introduced
by nine members, puts the authority
for imposing the death penalty in
the hands OF the jury.
There is a psychological reason for
the senate bill placing the matter in
the hands of the jury. One Of the
strongest arguments of the anti
death penalty advocates is that the
possibility of a courts imposing the
death penalty stands as hindrance
to conviction in some instances. Psy-
biologists say the doubt in the minds
of the jury as to what punishment the
court will impose makes the jury hes
itate about bringing in a verdict Of
guilty, especially where they believe
leniency should be shown. On the
other hand, if the jury has the matter
of punishment in its own hands, this
sentiment will be eliminated,