Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1927-03-11

bonds of other states and municipal
corporations thereof. and securities OF
corporations organized under the laws
of any state other than Washington.
Rehabilitation OF the state peniten-
tiary jute mill and operation thereof,
the purchase of additional farm hand
at the penitentiary and at the state. re
formatcry are provided for in a sen
ate bin passed by that body aud carry
ing an appropriation OF s24O.9 $50 A
ii passed the senate the bill carrie,
$4,000 for the penitentiary and So
600 for the reformatory.
Reapportienment Plan Killed.
Falling to receive the constitutions
two-thirds majority. Representatiy
Mark Reeds plan TO amend the sta'
constitution on reappointment wa
killed in the house.
As result. the legislative pregran
IN reapportionment for this sessio,
viii be confined TO the Howard Row,
bill which. as passed by the housl
gives King and Yakima counties on,
additional representative apiece. Il
still awaiting senate action.
Reeds proposed constitution
amendment provided that each COT
y should be given one Representative
egardless of its population. and Ia;
40 county should have more than
Der cent of the membership OF eth
house.
Refusal of the house to pass ii
senate bill re-establshing the VT
mems Industrial home and eli,
isought to the senate calendar L
.lteTnatiye bill of Senator Hurn
spokane, the only woman member, t.
establish state reformatory Tor
zen. After long debate the sena
4assed this bill, 30 to ., with an appr
orlation OF $4,000, and with pIo,
lon that the reformatoyg sAoull
ocated somewhere in western Was;
ag,on. The'senate also SANCTIONED
.rorriation OF SIS 900 for pureha
Of Q ste in western Washington for
home for the feeble-minded
The bill by Senator Shaw OF Clar
appropriating $4,000 for forest pr,
ducts research department at the III
yersity OF Washington was passed by
the senate,
Would Regulate Tourist Camps.
A house bill providing for the regu
lation and inspection of tourist camp
was approved in the house The bill.
grants the state board OF health pow
er to enforce rules and regulations
governing the location, main enancC
and operation OF tourist camp ground
and makes It unlawful for any county
city, community, corporation. firm OF
person to maintain or operate such
camp without a certificate OF inspec
tion, and permit to do SO
The senate indefinitely postponed d
measure which would have made 4
possible Tor parents to assign theli
children to other than charitable so
cieties or relatives within the second
degree OF kinship without judicial pro
ceedings,
The report of the committee on edu
cational instruction reeomme AIDED in
definite postponement of two meas.
ures, raising the University OF Wash.
ington quarterly tuition fee from SIT
to $50, and the Washington State col
lege fee from $40 10 &25 semester
The committee also recommended That
a bin converting the regents Of the
two institutions for yearly conference
do not pass
A house bill was passed by the sem
ate, allowing county commissioners to
sell property obtained through tax
foreclosures on real estate contract
instead of cash only.
Seattle aud Tacoma once more were
denied the privilege of extending the
services OF their municipal power
plants outside their corporate limits.
whom the senate % to 10 defeated the
bill sponsored by Senator AMetcalf OF
Pierce
Constitutional Amendment Proposed.
Representative Sims filed resolu-
ton for constitutional amendment
for the legislature TO meet once in four
years instead Of bieuninlly Terms OF
representatives would be four years m
stead OF two, while senators wm,i
serve eight years instead Of four
After exempting county ferries from
the gross earnings tax, the sonato
passed bill placing ferries and stepa.
beats operating on the waters of the
state under the jurisdiction OF the DO
parlment OF public werks and requir
Ing d certificate Of public convenience
and necessity Ter such operation.
The gtate OF Washington became a
mombor OF the Great Lakesst Laa
renee Tidewater association, fostering