The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1927-02-03

session. Toward the close of the
last session Mr.. Reed led the move
to change the rules that permitted
reconsideration of the vetoed edu-
cational bills. 1t will be recalled
that Mr.. Hartley declared the pro-
cedure was irregular" and the
supreme court ruled in favor OF
the legislature.
Now, after establishing the pre-
cedent, Mr.. Reed came out to drop
the reconsideration" rule, thereby
yielding to the claim of the Hart
ley minority. The senate rules
committee refused to go with Mr..
Reed. Moreover, Pliny Allen and
others, who took the gait with
Mr.. Reed in the special session,
stood out for retention of the rule,
complaining that dropping the rule
was '1aying down in face OF OPP
position" In other words, they
saw Mr.. Reed running out and
bowling to Mr.. Hartley and ID last
ditchers declined to follow their
leader. So the majority split and
Mr.. Reed must do a lot OF beating
back to regain his power OF the
special session.
While Mr.. Reed was slipping,
his rival, Ed Sims, leader OF the
Hartley minority who fights hard
and takes it with grin, stood pat
and thereby found himself on top.
So it must be conceded that, at
this time, in the house, the re-
sourceful and unyielding Mr.. Sims
is boss of the works.
Harmony shrieked when Mr..
Hartley's regents fell-the senate
refusing to confirm the following
appointees: Roscoe Balch, Spo-
kane; Paul Johns, Tacoma; A. H.
B. Jordon, Lowell; Sidney Lewis,
Clear Lake; and one Cheney nor
NAL trustee, Richard Munter, Spo-
kane. They were turned down af-
ter the senate rang with verbal
cracks at the governor, Senator
Morthland leading with charges of
"dirty deal' and political domi-
nation of schools"
The unconfrmed hold until the
close of the legislature, when they
automatically drop, and when Mr..
Hartley may reappoint them.
Friends of the university plan
to follow up with bill to prevent
easy removal of regents by the
governor. The bill would permit
dismissed regents to appeal to the
supreme court and require the gov
ernor to prove his charges.
Senator Heihner, democrat, in
troduced an income tax bill. Rates
would be two per cent on the first
$1,000 up to six per cent on $4,000
and over. It looks as if the bill
will sing it's swan song in COM
mittee.
Senator Carlyon submitted
bill to prevent more toll bridges,
putting the existing toll bridges
under stricter supervision. His
bill would commit the state to the
policy of "the free and open road"
The old age pension bill, passed
by the senate over the governors
veto, is likely to stop in the house
lin fact it probably will have
reached the limbo of lost things as
this is read. Mr.. Hartley wants his
veto sustained, especially after the
senate rejected his appointments,
and three or four Hartley men are
likely to switch to sustain the We
to. It takes 33 votes to sustain a
veto in the house, and the anti
pensioners may total SO.
The constitutional amendment
for classification of property, urg-
ed by the governor and the state
tax commission, will probably not
make the grade in the house. It
is being opposed by Mr.. Sims, Mr..
Reed, former Speaker Danskin
and others who claim it is too
wide open-that it would give the
legislature too much play in class
ification. The same group, minus
Mr.. Reed, defeated it in the spe-
cial session.