White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-03-14
Washington
State Analyst
By LEW sELvIDGE

locked on two or three important mea-
sures. In that case the clocks will be
stopped and the senate and house will
remain in session without recess until
the end is reached After midnight
March 18th the legislators will go with
out pay, and without sleep-except as
that may be taken in the chamber
and nearby lounges-for recess Is
impossible after the stroke of mid
night.
Important measures left to the last
few days, and many of them are, usu-
ally end up in conference committees
where house and senate members try
to reach compromise on conflicting
amendments to the bills. After the
conference committee has sWeated
through the hours, its report may or
may not be acceptable to either house,
and the work must be done over again
The last hours are nerve straining,
racking hours of sleepless labor. Then
it is no fun to be a legislator.
One of the first major pieces of leg
islation to be approved by both houses
was the state agricultural adjustment
act. 1t went to the governor some days
ago and is expected to receive his APP
prevail The law extends the life of the
state AAA for another two years, but
it limits considerably the power of the
director of agriculture in enforcing
code provisions. just how the act is
different from the previous law will
not be determined until the director
of agriculture figures out the new set
up. It does provide for the giving OF
consumers some place on boards de-
termining code policies, so that the
consumer will be protected to larger
extent than formerly in fixing prices
and practices.
The boys in the house must have
their jokes. For years the counties out
side metropolitan areas have been
called "cow counties" Recently all of
the house members outside King coun-
ty signed memorial asking that pro
per steps, be taken to set up King
county as separate state. It was
limited that King county delegates had
been so talkative in telling the rest
of the members how the state should
be run, that the others in the house
figured King should have a chance to
run state that way, but that they
wanted nothing to do with that kind
OF an arrangement So they suggested
King withdraw from the state and Gre
ate it's own government along the lines
they had been arguing for
This session will cost the taxpayers
about $175,0O0 First appropriations
approve 4 by both houses were for ex-
penses of running the legislature. First,
$125,OO0 was voted for salaries, both
for legislators and employees, and $15,-
900 for printing. Then the members
introduced so many bills that they de-
cided another appropriation of $4,000
was needed for printing, and then they
| hired so many extra clerks to help in
the record breaking volume of business
that they needed $4,000 more to pay
them. The near all-time record for the
number of bills introduced, 1854 being
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time record set in 1918 when 1871 were
introduced thus proves costly for the
taxpayers.
1t is yet uncertain just what the
legislature will do regarding the plan
to investigate the VERA. Both the
house and senate have approved a
resolution calling for such an inves-
LEGATION, to be made in the next six
months, but thus far the bill appro-
priating SIS 900 to pay for such a probe
room. 1t may be dragged out before
the session closes, and again there is
good reason to believe it will never
reach a vote on the floor of either
house. In case the money is not pro-
vided, the only source of funds viii
be from the governors emergency
fund Whether or not Governor Mar
tin will dig up the cash is matter
of speculation. He suggested the audit
be made at the start of the session
but has not publicly followed up tha
request and political gossip says he i
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and may not push the audit now, since
federal authorities are apparently sat
isfied with conditions.
A bill to provide $1O,O00,000 for relic
work has been approved and sent tt
the governor With the bill creating
new department of public welfare, ant
one for old age pensions, they consti
tute three points in the governor
four-point program for social security
The last is the $39,0OO,000 taxation bill
The taxation bill contains primaril,
a two percent sales tax, besides in
creasing some other rates under tn
present business and occupations ta
!, law. 1t also provides that the two pc
cent must be passed on to the con
sumner. That u.s. when you buy an ar
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