Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-03-18

partment and board of public works
was passed. by the house with minor
amendments. The house also passed
the senate bill empowering the high
way department to purchase Clar
county's interest in the Columbia riy,
bridge at Vancouver.
Arbitrarily Conflict Averted.
The session began with the shade
of pro and anti-Hartley conflict upo
it; the conflict that had disrupted Ii
1925 extraordinary session but pass
without any battles reaching the int
sity of the previous meeting.
The only time Governor Hartley
ceived any strong condemnation
the floor of either house was the d;
the senate refused to confirm six ,
his university and normal school boar
recess appointments.
BY vote of 20 to 10. the senai
during the last day of the sessio.
again refused TO confirm appointment
made by the governor to the Uniye
sity of Washington beard of regent
and one trustee to The Cheney norma
school.
The Apprentices submitted were =
Fl. B. Jordan, Paul H. Johns, ]. /
Berry, Roscoe A. Batch and Sidney
Lewis to the university beard of +
gents and R. S. Hunter to the Chene.
normal board of trustees.
The senate's action is an echo 8
the two-year controversy between Gov
error Hartley and majority of I'll,
legislature over the conduct OF tit
schools affairs.
The controversy reached its heigh
last October when the Hartloy-appolnt
ed regents dismissed DR.. Henry SUI
Eallo as president of the university
a movement to recall the goverro
followed President Suzzallo's remova,
Appropriations Total s62,2a4asc.
Appropriations for the biennium to
tailed approximately s63,2Si.36O, divid
I'd as follows:
General omnibus appropriation bill
s3i,6OO.0OO
Supplemental appropriation bill, 81.
100000.
Roads, s27,1S4.S6O, including reap
preparations and the one.half mill per-
manent highway fund levy.
The general highway bill In 1925,
not including transportation and the
permanent highway fund levy. was
Si4,s27,000 However, the 1925 budget
did not take into consideration motor
vehicle receipts for rs months as does
this one. but only for "a months,
The Finch BILL, which passed the
senate. authorizing the port of Grays
Harbor to construct and operate a
railroad into the state timber stand
on the Olympia peninsula, was indie.
flnitely postponed in the house.
The senate refused to concur In
house amendments to senate bill re-
arpropriating s3,t34000 from the
motor vehicle fund for road construc.
ton.
Three Motor Code Bills Passed.
Three OF the motor code bills were
accepted by the house with senate
amendments after conference. The
bills We're the anti.theft yogistration
of motor vehicles and the regulation
of vehicles acts.
Amendments by the senate to the
regulating act placed the speed limit
outside Of cities at 40 miles an hour
instead of eliminating the speed limit
altogether, as the house had done. In
side city limits the speed is 25 miles
an hour.
Any danger Of the highway patrol
becoming state constabulary was re
moved with senate amendments fixing
rules so that the patrol may enforce
only the vehicle laws. Highway pa
irolmen not In uniform may investi-
gate automobile theft matters in other
states. but are not allowed to appear
in uniform outside OF Washington.
The plan for compromise of the
state timber controversy was lost in
the senate when the house bill Great.
ing consolidated state land board
failed to reach the calendar. The san
ate bill requiring conimon-user priv
ieges OF private logging railroads also
failed. The less important land cod
and a compilation OF existing laws
was passed by the senate after agree
ment in house amendment, but this
was the only measure OF the oompro-
mise plan that made the grade.
Ten 5ills Vetoed During Session.
Ten bills we're vetoed during thu
session and all but one were sustain
ed or tabled The one vetoed meas.
ure overridden. amends the state Law
to permit persons related by marriage
to intornarry.
The house hill, amending the exist
ing horticultural code. which passe