White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1926-01-22

The minority organization support
ing Governor Hartley had, however,
its full membership in those days and
when the Banker bill was vetoed all
efforts of the majority to garner the
required two-thirds of the House
proved futile and the governor was
sustained.
Session Failure, Says Hartley.
The Kittitas land settlement plan
finally went through, but it was only
after Governor Hartley had been con-
suited and, furthermore, it was only
on the terms he approved.
The hostility between the legisla-
tive and the executive department
was certain from the first seriously
to interfere with general legislation
for the welfare of the state at large
1t made it impossible for Governor
Hartley to obtain the laws he deemed
best for the peoples interest. Touch
ing this point, the governor said in
his message last Monday:
"Not one of my major proposals
has been accepted in good faith and
considered upon it's merits. This ses-
sion to date can be written down as
almost a total loss"
The majority of the Senate and
House do not feel that way about it.
While it is true the ruling factions
did not give Governor Hartley all the
statutes he requested as to education,
timber, reclamation and the state in
situations, it accorded sufficient
weight to his recommendations to APP
point committees to investigate these
subjects thoroughly and report back
to the regular session next January.
Hartley Ideas Adopted.
The governors proposals as to rec
lamation led to the closing out of the
White Bluffs Hanford soldiers settle
ment, steps to complete the White
stone irrigation project and to the re-
lieving, temporarily, of the Black
Lake district drainage settlers of
burdensome bond interest.
The legislature accepted the gov
ernor's views as to speedier court
methods for Furnishing criminal Of
tenders. AS advised by him, it estab-
lished the Judicial Council and passed
oovorol hi1Ie nronorod br tho C+o+o
Prosecuting Attorneys Association.
Immediate and sympathetic atten-
ton was given Governor Hartley's
first-message views on the local i'm
provement district bond situation in
this state. There was, however, this
difference-the governor would have
liked something done to relieve the
innocent purchasers Of worthless L.
l. d. bonds but the legislature, while
willing to protect future buyers
amply, declined to enact any retro
active measure.
Governor Hartley also obtained a
requested statute consolidating pub
lie offices in smaller counties, for the
relief of taxpayers in those COM
munities.
Governors Bills Rejected.
Among the measures the legisla-
ture refused the governor, though,
were ones providing for:
State printing of school textbooks.
A nonsalaried board of educational
administration to supplant boards of
regents, trustees and directors in the
common schools.
Calling for constitutional amend
ment for the adjustment of the Of
flee of state superintendent of public
instruction.
Reducing the primary highway
construction program.
The adjustment of the uniform law
commission.
The adjustment of indeterminate
sentences in penitentiary cases.
In the way Of general laws, subject
to executive approval, the legislature
gave the city of Seattle a budget law
along the lines indicated by Council
man e. L. Blaine; civil service pen
sion system, after it is approved by
the people; means to finance the pro-
posed Denny Hill regrade without in
flicting upon property owners; paved
the way for Seattle to build tunnels
for rapid transit; enacted necessary
statutes to take care of Seattle's sew
erage problems, and made possible
the acquisition of the area demanded
by the United States government for
the Sand Point aviation field, and
voted four additional superior judges
for King County.
1t established Western Washing
ton industrial school for feeble-mind-
ed, appropriated 100000 for new
women's industrial home and appro-
priated 100000 for state participation
in the Sesquicentennial Exposition at
Philadelphia this year.
Other Bills Await Approval.
To this list of measures must yet
be added the reforestation bills, which