Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1925-02-20

That body took up and passed the bin
promptly but few changes in the orig.
nal alignment being made. There
was neither rancor nor undue excite
ment In the house debate, the discus
ion being rather tame for vetoed
BILL When the bill went to the senate
1t was believed in legislative circles
that 1t stood n good chance of being
passed by that body.
Senate Organization Broken.
Senators and others intent upon sus.
tanning Governor Hartleys veto of the
seed wheat bill made an intensive fight
10 block two.thlrds majority in the
upper house. The lines which split
the senate during the first four weeks
were broken down. Most of the sena.
tors who had elected g. J. Cleary pres
ident pro TEN and who were referred
to as the Hartley organization" in
1 earlier legislative news stories, lined
up to pass the bill over the governors
veto. The so.called W. w. Conner
organization rallied to the support of
the governor,
| The Seattle chamber OF commerce
injected additional interest in the fight
by taking up the interests Of the east
side farmers and ursing the passage
of the bill, However six out of the
eight King county senators voted to
sustain the governor and Senators
Robert Grass of Seattle and Paul
llouser of Renton, who spoke AGAINST
the bill, charged that banking interests
were behind the effort to get state
funds for the farmers They claimed
the bankers held mortgages on farm
lands which state.supplied seed wheat
would provide with crops.
Senator William Bishop of Jeffer-
son, Charles q. Myers of Lincoln, w.
j. Sutton of Spokane and ]. C. Nc
Cauley Of Kttltas made the principal
peas LOT the farmers.
House Prolonss Session.
Immediately after the senate voted
house members set in motion the plan
TO hold the legislature in session until
reconsideration could be attempted.
Instead Of proceeding with plans to
adjourn Wednesday the house passed
joint resolution resembling its former
pledge to wind up the business of the
session and adjourned until morning,
thus forcing the senate to acquiesce in
prolonging the session. But, as told,
the delay was unavailing.
When the house agreed to abandon
its fight the bond bill, requiring that
at bond elections in counties, cities,
port and park districts, number of
voters equal to at least fifty per cent
Of those participating in the last pre-
ceding general election must partici-
pate to legalize the election, and the
tax commission bill were quickly
agreed upon in conference and passed.
An effort was made to include utility
bonds in the list of those to be rati.
fled by election but the effort failed.
The senate won, in its tax commission
bill, its fight to subject appointees to
confirmation by the senate and also
won fight to enable the tax commits.
sion to use department of public works
records in fixing tax valuations on
properties under the departments
jurisdiction.
Seed Bill Wrong In Principle.
While action on the tax commission
and bond bills was pending a legisla-
tive committee visited Governor Hart.
ley and asked him to assure senators
that he consented to a reopening of
the seed wheat bill controversy in the
upper house. The governor, reiterat-
ing his former declaration that he be-
lieved the bill wrong in principle, told
the committee that he had not dis.
cussed the measure with any senator
except those who had opened the sub
iect to him. To make himself clear /
Governor Hartley subsequently sent a
letter to both houses repeating the
statements he made in his veto mes. |
sage and emphasizing the fact that its
future fate was in the legislatures /
hands.
Governor Hartley's statement of the /
principle involved in his veto is sum.
med up in the following extract from /
his veto message:
Those farmers in whose behalf this
legislation is framed are appealing to |
the state for the reason that those
whose business it is to loan money are /
unwilling to extend further credit in |
the drought-stricken areas In other |
words, We are here asked to put the |
finances of the state into proposition
which is considered unsafe and I'M
sound for private capital. This | am
unwilling to do"
Thirty-seven Bills Passed.
The legislature adjourned leoyinu