Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-03-07
SOME OF IMPORTANT
NEW LAWS ENACTED
tSIRES PASSED BY BOTH
HOUSES AND SIGNED BY ACT
ING GOVERNOR.

Among the important measures
passed by the legislature and signed
by the governor 50 far are:
S. b. 18-Provides municipal au
thorities may raise or lower street car
fares on lines owned by the city;
gives public service commission juris-
dction over rates to be charged by
privately-owned lines.
Appropriations of $4,000 for
armory at Everett and 100000 each
for armories at Aberdeen and Walla
Walla.
S. B. 94-Allows county commits
sioners to fix the salaries OF road SUI
pervisors. Provides that where good
roads associations submit the names
of four candidates for appointment as
road supervisor it must be shown the
members of the association own rs
per cent of the area of land contained
in the district
S. B. 112-Authorizes erection and
completion of capitol building group
at cost of $3,500,000 and memo
rial to soldiers, sailors and marines
of this state who lost their lives dur
ing the war with Germany, at a cost
of $4,000; bill appropriates $780,
900 to be expended during the COM
ing biennium.
S. B. 1879 New automobile code
making general increase of automo-
bile license fees of 100 per cent up
wards; creates motor vehicle fund
and changes manner of distributing
funds; provides half the expense of
maintaining the motor vehicle depart
ment in the secretary of states Office
shall be expended from this fund and
half borne by the general fund; ap-
propriates 100000 for mainte-
nance at 5000 per mile of state roads
by counties, cities or towns through
which they pass and appropriates bal
ance of fund to general road construc
ton or paving; emergency.
8. B. 221-Automobile code; con-
tains new regulations for automobile
headlights and spot lights to avoid
use of glazing headlights; says ship
ping weight shall be taken as weight
of automobiles; defines automobile
stages and prohibits employment of
stage driver under FL years of age;
emergency; three sections giving Sec
rotary of state full control of issuance
of licenses vetoed by governor; veto
sustained.
H. B. 3-Appropriates 100000
for survey Of Columbia river basin
improvement project.
H. B. 5-Gives veterans of the war
with Germany, or their widows, same
preferential right to public employ
ment as is enjoyed by Civil War and
Spanish-Amerlcan war veterans.
H. B. prohibits employment Of
/ persons not citizens of the United
States as teachers in the public
schools; provides that superintend-
ents may grant permits to teach to
aliens who have taken out first papers
and have necessary qualifications.
permit subject to revocation; also
provides any person whose certificate
has been revoked for failure to teach
patriotism shall not be permitted to
teach in public schools Of state.
H. B. 20-Making it unlawful for
board of school directors to discrimi-
nate in compensation between male
and female teachers; exempts exist
ing contracts.
H. B. 28-Amends dry law by max
ing it unnecessary for state to prove
that defendant in liquor prosecutions
does not come within exempted class.
H. B. 40-Provides so per cent of
all fines, forfeitures and penalties COL
lected under the dry law shall 60 to
state current school fund and SO per
cent to county treasurers to be kept in
special fund to defray expense of OBJ
tanning evidence in other cases; at
present all goes to current school
fund.
S. B. So Increasing supreme
judges salary to $1,000 a year; an
increase of $1,000; superior judges
to $4,000, an increase of $500, and
permitting payment of $1,000 to
judges in first class counties.
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