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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1897
Page
3
A Washington legislative session records passage of a bill cutting freight charges for railroads to a 15 percent level with scale by distance. The body also debates prizefighting implications, approves a committee investigation, and authorizes funds and private railcar provisions while naming governor appointments and a failed Senate quorum.
The judiciary committee introduced a bill to punish recalcitrant witnesses before legislative committees. It passed final passage with 64 ayes to 83 nays and aims to supplement a separate Lexon committee proposal.
The senate met at 2 P M on Saturday but the roll call showed no quorum. A thirty minute recess followed and the roll call again showed barely a quorum. Due to many absentees, the senate adjourned.
The Cline bill to wipe out saloons and wholesale liquor houses passed the House 47 to 80. It creates a state run commission overseen by the governor with county and local dispensers, bars retail sale to on site drinking, limits purchases to half a pint to five gallons, and aims to curb minors and drunkards while funding boards from liquor profits. Chiefs expect Senate approval.
The morning session of the house Tuesday focused on consideration of a constitutional amendment to submit the initiative and referendum to a vote of the people. The bill passed.
The senate approved eight bills with two house bills among them. Major items include a 1 cent per pound sugar bounty for three years, a $50,000 annual cap, and a $4 per ton beets payment. De Mattos' measure to cut jury fees drew rural opposition and was tabled. The session also passed guardian claims rules, municipal actions without bonds, anti theft of electric currents, and street car employment standards. The house concurred in amendments to Land's street car bill, now sent to the governor.
After a long floor discussion the house approved the Hansen Edwards Day substitute bill abolishing fishtraps poundnets weirs fistwheels pursenets and other fixed devices. Only seinets pillnets and seines may be used in waters under Washington jurisdiction. The minority plan to bar traps in fresh water and four miles offshore was killed by 5 ayes to 17 noes and the bill passed 50 to 2.
A list of house introductions includes Powell measures to prevent candy adulteration and chattel mortgages, Williams proposals on arbitration estates claims action starts and school land improvements, Barlow liquor ban on university grounds, and multiple items on taxation, road funding, county officers, and education. Other bills cover telegraph firms, land board repeal, surveyor exams, personal property exemptions, honey adulteration, railroad connections, election wagering, food fishes protection, delinquent taxes, and a uniform public schools system.
Johnston's house bill fixing witness fees in civil actions at 2 dollars and mileage at 5 cents was indefinitely postponed in the senate Wednesday by the senate judiciary committee. A petition from Douglas and Okana gan counties asking to combine them in one district and split from Lincoln county was read. Many reports of committees were adverse and ordered indefinitely postponed.
Senate and house activity was light with key measures referred to committees. A Lexow investigation proposal was sent back for corrections while rape crime and prison staff cuts advanced to the governor. A Carey arid land act plan for Washington arid lands was debated but not acted on, with $30,000 requested and arid land powers outlined.
The house railroad committee met Thursday night and agreed to report favorably on the Turner railroad commission bill. Chairman Canutt reportedly withdrew opposition after learning that a bloc of twenty nine Turner allies planned to oppose Canutt and supporters who refused to consider the commission bill. A Senate visiting group inspected the Medical Lake Asylum and reported favorably on the hospital and its management. Talver’s anti fellow servant rule of law bill saw its passage reconsidered and referred to the labor statistics committee.
Washington legislature weighs a sweeping bill to abolish fishtraps wheels and fixed appliances in waters under state control It imposes licenses for setnets gillnets driftnets and seines and restricts fishing times and gear lengths A minority bill accompanies the measure while other regional notes touch on Athens Turks and a Kansas suffrage setback
The Mexican government revokes the Topolobampo colony charter on the west coast. More than 1,000,000 acres were involved, with hundreds of colonists from Illinois Michigan and Kansas undone by misjudgment and failed irrigation work. Losses exceed 1 million dollars and the venture ends in hardship as settlers return home.
Louis Kramer of Missouri now in Binghamton New York claims a scentograph will receive and magnify odors. The device distills perfume from odorless liquids and may detect adulteration in groceries and counterfeits in bank paper. It stands about twelve by eight inches and could be mass produced for fifty dollars.
The passage extols financial aid for a future company post patent and warns on avoiding cold drafts while keeping the mouth closed. It stresses rest after hoarseness, warns against prolonged time in cold outdoors, and notes water and air as food carriers. It favors butter for pulmonary invalids as a diet adjunct.
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