The memorial, having received the constitutional majority, was declared passed.

A committee appointed by the Speaker, consisting of Messrs. Davis and Kelly, escorted to the rostrum Mr. Fred Adams, Speaker of the House at the Sixteenth session.

MR. SPEAKER:

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, OLYMPIA, WASH., January 13, 1921.

We, your committee on Claims and Auditing, beg leave to report the following number of miles of travel and the amount due each member as mileage coming to and going from this Seventeenth session of the Legislature, and recommend that these amounts be allowed:

We concur in this report: Anna Colwell, John T. Raftis, Root. Gleason, H. P.

On motion of Mr. Hastings, the report was adopted.

INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING OF BILLS.

The following bills were introduced, read first time by title, ordered printed and acted upon as indicated.

House Bill No. 11, by Joint Committee on Executive Recommendation: An act relating to and to promote efficiency, order and economy in the administration of the government of the state, prescribing the powers and duties of certain officers and departments, defining offenses and fixing penalties, abolishing certain offices and repealing conflicting acts and parts of acts.

Passed to second reading.

House Bill No. 12, by Mr. Tripple: An act prohibiting municipalities from levying taxes on property for the construction, purchase, operation or maintenance of any public utility such as a power system, a traction system, ferries, docks, wharves, warehouses, or any other business enterprise of a municipality, and excepting from the provisions of the act a water system, a lighting system and ferries used strictly in connection with highways, and defining that a municipality as used in this act shall include all cities, counties and port districts, and make this act not apply to levying taxes for the payment of obligations already legally incurred by municipalities, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act.

Referred to the Committee on Municipal Corporations of the first class. House Bill No. 13, by Mr. Leo L. Miller: An act creating the Industrial Commission of Washington, the Industrial Welfare Bureau and certain District Industrial Boards, defining their powers and duties, abolishing the Industrial Insurance Department, State Medical Aid Board, State Safety Board, Local Aid Board, Industrial Welfare Commission, Commissioner of Labor, Bureau of Labor, Mine Inspector, Deputy Mine Inspector, State Mining Board, State Mine Inspection Department, their assistants and employees, vesting the rights, powers and duties of said boards, commissions, departments, inspectors, officers, assistants and employees in the Indutrial Commission of Washington, Industrial Welfare Bureaus, District Industrial Boards, transferring certain rights, powers and duties now vested in the Public Service Commission to the Industrial Commission of Washington, providing penalties for the violation thereof, and repealing certain acts and parts of acts.

Referred to Committee on Labor and Labor Statistics.

House Bill No. 14, by Mr. Bassett: An act to prohibit vivisection in public schools, and providing a penalty for the violation thereof.

Referred to Committee on Education.

House Bill No. 15, by Mr. Beeler: An act providing for the regulation, sale, disposal and use of narcotic drugs; providing penalties therefor; providing for the quarantine and treatment of narcotic drug addicts and the promulgation of rules and regulations governing the same, and providing for the repeal of Section 2509 of Remington's 1915 Codes and Statutes of Washington.

Referred to Committee on State Charitable, Penal and Reformatory Insti

tutions.

House Bill No. 16, by Messrs. Houser and Rude: An act authorizing and directing the State Highway Commission to re-convey certain premises secured as part of proposed location of Pacific Highway, which location was afterward abandoned.

Referred to Committee on Roads and Bridges.

House Joint Memorial No. 1, by Mr. Erickson:

Memorial of the Legis

lature of Washington to the Congress of the United States referring to naval defense of the North Pacific Coast.

Referred to Committee on Memorials.

On motion of Mr. Davis the House adjourned.

C. R. MAYBURY, Chief Clerk.

E. H. GUIE, Speaker.

FIFTH DAY.

MORNING SESSION

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

OLYMPIA, WASH., Friday, January 14, 1921.

The Speaker called the House to order at 10:00 a. m.

Roll call showed all members present, excepting Messrs. Erickson, Knapp, Meserve, Nash, Rogers, Ryan (C. W.), Ryan (J. H.), Tripple, Winfree and Wolf, all excepting Mr. Ryan (J. H.), being excused.

Prayer was offered by Rev. Frank B. Huffman, of the Central Christian church of Olympia.

The reading clerk proceeded to read the journal of the proceedings of Tuesday, January 13th, when, on motion of Mr. Anderson, further reading was dispensed with and the journal was approved.

The reading clerk read a communication from the American Legion, Seattle, indorsing proposed legislation for the encouragement of instruction in Americanization work, and same was referred to the Committee on Education.

Mr. Meacham moved that when the House adjourned it adjourn until 12 o'clock, noon, Monday, January 17, 1921. The motion was carried.

REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, OLYMPIA, WASH., January 13, 1921.

MR. SPEAKER:

We, your Committee on Privileges and Elections to whom was referred the matter of the contest between Frances M. Haskell, contestant, and David Lewis, contestee, as representatives of the 38th Legislative District of the State of Washington, beg leave to make the following report:

First: Your committee met in committee room 304 on Thursday, the 13th day of January, A. D. 1921, at 2:00 p. m., all members being present. The contestant was

represented by her attorney, Guy E. Kelly, and the contestee being represented by his attorney, Frank P. Christensen. The committee immediately proceeded with the matters involved in the contest.

Second: Your committee finds that the contestant has made a prima facie case entitling her to have the matter of residence and eligibility of the contestee investigated by your committee and determined.

Whereupon your committee on Privileges and Elections recommends that it shall be given the power to issue subpoenas and compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of documentary and other evidence and that a hearing be held at such times and places as may be determined upon by your said committee, and at the conclusion of their proceedings report back to the House their Findings of Facts and Conclusions of Law in the premises.

THOS. F. MURPHINE, Chairman.

We concur in this report: W. H. Kirkman, Logan L. Long, Wm. Whitfield, John Anderson, Geo. W. Hopp, Arthur S. Cory, Charles M. Baldwin, S. A. Mann, W. O. Mansfield, Fred J. Mess, Howard C. Lucas, J. H. Davis.

On motion of Mr. Murphine the report was adopted.

REPORT OF JOINT COMMITTEE ON EXECUTIVE RECOMMENDATIONS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, OLYMPIA, WASH., January 14, 1921

MR. SPEAKER:

We, your Joint Committee on Executive Recommendations to whom was referred the second message of Governor Louis F. Hart to the State Legislature, Seventeenth Session, 1921, have taken the same under consideration, and we respectfully report the same back to the House with the following recommendations, to wit:

The Civil Administrative Code.

As to that portion of said message devoted to the Civil Administrative Code, your committee would respectfully suggest that the recommendations embodied therein are incorporated in House Bill Number 11; that this is a subject of vast importance to the welfare of the State and worthy of the most careful consideration of every member of the Legislature.

The Public School Administrative Code.

As to the recommendations in said message on the Public School Administrative Code, your committee would respectfully recommend that this matter be referred to the Committee on Education.

Soldiers Additional Compensation Act.

As to that portion of said message devoted to the Soldiers' Additional Compensation Act, your committee would respectfully recommend that this portion of said message be referred to the committee on Revenue and Taxation and that after consideration by such committee the same be referred to the Judiciary Committee to investigate the constitutionality of the legislation therein recommended. As to that portion of said message devoted to the provisions for the payment of the first year's interest on the bonds, it is recommended that this question be referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

Protection of River Lands.

As to that portion of said message referring to the prevention of losses caused by the annual freshet of rivers, this committee would respectfully recommend that this question be respectfully referred to the Committee on Harbors, Tidelands and Waterways.

Alien Ownership of Land.

As to the recommendations in said message to prevent a violation and evasion of any subterfuge of Section 33 of Article 2 of the Constitution your committee would respectfully recommend that this question be referred to the Judiciary Committee.