The Vashon Island record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1916-1919, 1919-03-13

Acting Governor Hart vetoed three
sections Of house bill AZ because OF
senate and house misunderstanding.
The act was designed to admit vet
Grams of the war with Germany to
county care when needed. and as in.
lroduced carried official recognition OF
Veterans OF Foreign Wars" one OF
several organizations of recent birth.
The senate struck this title. the house
wrote 1t back and in conference man.
ipulatlon the bill was left in such
shape that both the G. A. II. and Span.
ish-American veterans organizations
would have to act Jointly in obtaining
relief for member OF either. The
counties Stlll retain permission to
grant such relief, however.
carlyon's Road Bill is Passed.
The Csrlyon s30.0OO,OO0 bonding bill
which passed the senate with but six
votes in opposition, was passed by
the house by a vote of 81 TO 20. The
bill creates state trunk line high
way fund" for the paving of state
highways designated in the bill as fol
lows:
Pacific highway from Blaine to Van
ccuYer: also highway running from
Seattle TO Tacoma, via Des Moines.
Sunset highway from Renton to Spo-
kane and east to the Idaho line. cover.
Ing the entire distance from Puget
Sound to the latter boundary.
Inland empire highway. which tray-
erses eastern Washington through the
Palouse country to the Canadian line
north OF Spokane,
Olympia highway. starting from Ia
coma and encircling the Olympic PEN
insula
National park highway from Taco
ma to Ashford and Rainier National
park and from Elbe 20 the Pacific
ocean at Holman.
The auto license revenue OF this
state will take care OF both principal
and interest in the s3o,Oo0.0Oo indebt-
edness and also provide for malnten-
ance. 1, is expected to provide means
for paving approximately 1000 miles
OF highway In six years.
syndicalism Bill Changed.
Something OF precedent was Great
ed hy the senate In passing substitute
s b. 1856, which repeats the syndical-
Ism bill passed over Governor Listers
veto early in the present sessior. The
syndioaiism bill made agitation OF syn
dicalism felony, including members
Of audiences where such agitation is
carried on as liable to the penalty.
The bill passed hits those who advo-
cate, advise or justify crime, sedition,
violence. intimidation or injury as a
means of effecting or resisting any in
dustrial, social or political change.
Divorce Code Bill Approved by Senate.
Repensing of its action, when S. B,
165, undermining the state divorce law
and making 1t more difficult to obtain
divorce DEGREES, was defeated, the sen
! ate reconsidered the bill on motion NJ
Senator Hutchinson, of Spokane, and
passed the bill by a vote of 90 to 10.
The bill had previously been defeated
when II lacked one vote of receiving
the constitutional majority OF 70.
The object of the bill is to cure the
evils OF the existing statute. and with
this in view the new code eliminated
the principal cause of action upon
which many suits filed in Washington
are based. namely, personal inc.gni
ties. rendering life burdensome."
Auto Stages to Be Regulated.
The public service commission is
given jurisdiction over stage lines
.axicabs and sightseeing cars. while
the cities are left to control the iit
/ ney buses, under senate bill 1873. which
passed the senate by a vote Of "a tc
l5 This bill requires stage lines. tax
icab operators and owners Of sight
seeing machines to apply 10 The state
/ public service commission for permits
to do business.
Legislative srevIties
The senate defeated the Myers oil
to place strike votes under the juFis
distion Of the county AUDITORS.
The house passed bill requiring
that each foreign-born egg offered FOL
sale in this country be indelibly sten
ciled with the name OF the land Of rs
nativity
House Bill No. 26a, by Representa-
tives Elliott and Healey OF Pierce, re
latine to the government and contro
Of the state soldiers home and the