Senate Proceedings and Bills in Debates and Committees
The week featured extensive committee meetings and readings of bills on streetcar operations grain inspection and school election funding. Discussion covered labor protection in coal mines railway switches and citizenship, with amendments on referendum and two-thirds approval debated and a sheep inspector proposal advanced but later halted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hansen
J. King
Bureau of Hubory
Gernshity
Ber
Iployes
Vent
Ernoont
Edwards
Senate
Investigations Ended as Legislature Delivers Report
Both houses reconvened to receive the Senate Investigating Committee report on the Warner case and then discharged the panel. Warner retains his seat after the panel found no dishonorable intent but halted further action. Senate considered High's constitutional amendments. all died except the secretary of state and superintendent of public instruction proposals.
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House
Senatorial Investigating Committee
Warner
Squire
Senate
Senator High
Superintendent of Public Instruction
House Passes Amendments On State Institutions Inquiry
A wave of petitions opposed fishtraps abolition and compulsory pilotage bills as lawmakers tackled a long inquiry into state institutions. Rader's joint resolution moves an inspecting committee for multiple schools and asylums, while Taylor's senate bill and Struve's legislation on legal heirs aged under 21 advance.
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Rader
Cheney and
Ellensburg
Medical Lake Insane Asylum
Whatcom Normal School
The
State University
Reform School
Steilacoom Insane Asylum
Agricultural College
Soldiers’ Home
Taylor
Senate
Struve
Washington Senate redraws congressional districts and bill action
In the senate on Tuesday Taylor moved a bill to divide Washington into two congressional districts. Yend's bill passed removing the jute fabric and brick manufacture ban from prisons and enabling broader state production. A concurrent resolution calls a joint committee to Cheney normal school and Eastern Washington insane asylum and to the Pullman agricultural college. Keith's bill on county superintendent qualifications also passed.
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Senate
Taylor
State of Washington
Clallam
Jefferson
Kitsap
Island
San Juan
Whatcom
Skagit
Snohomish
King
Okanogan
Douglas
Stevens
Lincoln
Spokane
Mason, Ghehalis
Thurston, Pierce
Lewis
Wahkiakum
Cowlitz, Clark
Skamania
Yakima
Kittitas
Klickitat
Franklin
Wall
Keith
House Passes Sheep Protection and Other Bills
The house approved W. Baker’s measure shielding sheep from disease and protecting flocks. Ways’ proposal for $2500 personal property tax exemption was introduced. Barlow’s plan to cut the supreme court reporter’s salary passed with few votes dissenting. Merrifield’s amendment aiding cheese makers cleared the chamber alongside Ames’ seduction statute revision. DeMattos would cut juror per diems, and Gerry’s bill to abolish the lieutenant governor’s office passed 57 to 14, not taking effect until Daniels’ term ends January 1901.
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House
W. Baker
Representative Way
Barlow
Supreme Court
Merrifield
Ames
DeMattos
Gerry
Daniels
Thompson named to state Exposition vice president post
George W. Thompson of Tacoma is appointed by Governor Rogers as vice-president for Washington state of the Trans-Mississippi Industrial Exposition to be held in Omaha in 1898.
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George W. Thompson
Tacoma
Rogers
State Treasurer issues fund warrants call for 14,226 to 14,814
State Treasurer Young issues a call on the general fund warrants numbered 14,226 through 14,814 with a total amount of 21,124.96 dollars. The call matures February 11.
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Young
Washington Adjutant General Boutelle Retires From Office
General Boutelle of Washington has retired from the adjutant-general’s office and turned duties over to the governor’s private secretary amid legal questions. A report claimed Moscow Idaho’s First National Bank closed, but the bank states no failure occurred and remains in good condition.
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General Boutelle
State of Washington
Adjutant-General
First National Bank of
Moscow
Daho
First National
Lawmakers debate school code and money as bills advance
The morning session opened with routine business as several bills moved forward. A concurrent resolution by Lusher to form a committee to examine Brown's school law codification and publish the school code was adopted. New bills include property sale under execution, insurance contracts, garnishments, and railroads. Davis's debt and judgment payments may be in U S dollars with greenbacks debated but the amendment was adopted. A road project from Grand Forks to La Push was proposed with $10,000. Bush’s reform to reduce the state horticulture board to three members and cut per diem is also noted.
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House
Bein
Lusher
Brown
Senate
Cole
Warburton
Range
Davis
United States
Taylor
Tange
Crow
Carr
Deckebach
Miller
Thurston
Yead
Bush
Clark
State Board of Horticulture
Mr. Bush
Bill to Abolish Lieutenant-Governor's Office Postponed
The senate postponed indefinitely a house bill to abolish the lieutenant governor's office in 1901. A concurrent Cuba belligerency resolution and several new senate bills were debated, while the house discussed coal mine legislation and prison labor for road building.
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Senate
House
Committee On Elections and Privileges
Keith
Congress
Cuba
Yeends
Taylor
Paul
Douglas
Okanogan
McReavy
Crow
State of
Washington
Cowboys Rampage at Shelby Junction Stuns Opera Cast
Telegraph reports from Shelby Junction Mont describe drunk cowboys terrorizing train passengers and Columbia Opera Company members. The ringleader threatened the station agent, shots were fired, doors kicked, and assaults occurred before the sheriff prepares arrests tomorrow.
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Spokane
Russell Harding
Great Northern Railway
Shelby Junction
Mont
Columbia Opera Company
Great Northern and
Canada
Tain
Shelby
I. M. Kingsbury
Lincoln's Plug Hat and Abe's Famous Tie Exhibit
A vivid portrait of Abraham Lincoln's tall plug hat serving as storage for papers and a focal point of his postmaster days in New Salem. The piece notes his gaunt six foot four frame, the hat’s size and utility, and an eyewitness account of celebrations after Lincoln's presidential election.
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Washington
Abe
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Douglas
Bat
Clary Grove
New Salem
Lifesaving Lincoln Tale From Austin Gollaher
Austin Gollaher recalls saving Abraham Lincoln from drowning after a creek crossing. He describes school days, the famous hat scene, and Lincoln’s sister Sallie as his sweetheart, noting the Lincolns later moved to Indiana and he never saw them again.
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Lincoln
Abe
Abraham Lincoln
Sallie
Sallie Lincoln
Indiana
Sugar beet testing planned in Medford valley
A mass meeting at the Medford opera-house discussed testing sugar beet raising in the valley. About seventy five farmers agreed to plant a quarter acre each to gauge yield and sugar content, with local merchants funding the seed. If successful, San Francisco parties plan a beet processing factory of sufficient capacity.
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Medford
Opera
San Francisco
Northwest lumber combine eyed to control foreign trade
Tacoma reports a new lumber combine to regulate Northwest cargo mills Washington and British Columbia aiming to extend the foreign lumber trade and standardize prices and grades. The Central Lumber Company is dissolving, with St Paul and Tacoma Lumber and Bellingham Bay Improvement Company reportedly not joining.
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Tacoma
Northwest
Washington
British Columbia
Central Lumber Company
St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company
Bellingham Bay Improvement Company
New Whatcom
Freight train collision near Montgomery kills two men
A head end collision on the Louisville & Nashville near Myers switch twenty miles from Montgomery, caused by a telegraph operator's signal failure, killed engineer Link Wickland of Montgomery aged 28 and brakeman Weller of Middleboro Kentucky. The fireman is fatally hurt and the operator fled into the woods. Occasional mentions of pure native iron in meteorites are cited.
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Montgomery
Ala
Louisville & Nashville
Myers
Link Wickland
Eniineer
Weller
Middleboro
Plague Outbreak Reported in Afghanistan Amid Russian Troop Cordon
A trans-Caspian governor reports plague at Kandehar Afghanistan prompting a Russian troop cordon around the Amoo Daris region. A Bombay dispatch says the plague exceeds control with 114 deaths reported Saturday and even vultures in the towers of silence dying.
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London
Tashkend
Russia
trans-Caspian
Kandehar
Afghanistan
Amoo-Daris
Turkestan
Bombay
Village massacre reported by Athens dispatch
A Neue Freie Presse dispatch from Athens says 1,500 Christians, the entire population of an unnamed village, were murdered by Mussulmans. The report notes the ratio of victims and asserts the act was carried out by Muslim attackers.
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Vienna
Neue Frie Presse
Athens
Mussulmans
Attempted fire at Alert Bay Indian school reported
News from Victoria states an arson attempt targeted the Indian industrial school at Alert Bay last week. Fifteen children and Rev. A. E. Corker were inside the building during the incident, marking a second such attack within two weeks.
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Victoria
Alert Bay
A. E. Corker
Lincoln’s Washington Inauguration Trip Secreted to Avoid Risk
The piece notes Lincoln’s secret journey to Washington for his inauguration, reflecting how friends advised secrecy to prevent danger. It recalls accusations of cowardice by opponents and his quote about avoiding risk in Baltimore, arguing he chose safety when no risk was needed.
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Ilinois
Lincoln
New York
Mr. Lincoln
Washington
Baltimore
Disraeli on Lincoln Assassination Echoes Homely Image
The quote by Benjamin Disraeli describes Lincoln’s death as plain and innocent, suggesting the moment removes pomp from history. It emphasizes the human, unglamorous side of a nation’s tragedy and its lasting impact.
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Benjamin Disraeli
England
Lincoln
Ceremonial of diplomacy inspires nations and mankind
A concise reflection on diplomacy highlighting its power to touch hearts across nations and stir domestic sentiment among people, suggesting unity and shared purpose in public life.
Lincoln and the Grapevine Surveying Tale
The text recounts a legend about young Abraham Lincoln surveying with a grapevine due to poverty preventing a chain purchase. It notes some surveyors recall poor chains of the era and suggest the anecdote may have some probability, though it is not generally credited.
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Lincoln
Lincoln grammar notes in North Dakota found with Offutt receipt
The 1830 Lincoln studied grammar while clerking at Denton Offutt's store in New Salem. The document is in North Dakota, owned by Robert Rutledge's widow of Casselton. Inside the front cover is a $30 receipt to James Rutledge, signed by Abraham Lincoln.
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Abraham Lincoln
Denton Offutt
New Salem
North Dakota
Robert Rutledge
Casselton
James Rutledge
Offutt
Lincoln
Minneapolis (Minn
Lincoln and Miss Todd in Springfield Affair
The 1859 visit of Miss Mary Todd to Springfield leads to speculation of an engagement with Abraham Lincoln amid rival Stephen Douglas. The piece notes Todd's flirtations with Douglas, Lincoln's doubt, and a break then renewal of the engagement, set against political rivalries in Illinois. Later a rural anecdote shows farmers asserting the administration's courage on foreign policy toward Spain.
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Miss Todd
Mary Todd
Kentucky
Springfield
Edwards
Speed
Lincoln
Mr. Lincoln
Ilinois
Douglas
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