OF THE

EXTRAORDINARY SESSION, FIRST LEGISLATURE

OF THE

STATE OF WASHINGTON.

BEGUN AND HELD AT

OLYMPIA, THE STATE CAPITAL,

SEPTEMBER 3, 1890.

ADJOURNED SINE DIE, SEPT. 11, 1890.

OLYMPIA, WASH.:

O. C. WHITE, STATE PRINTER.

JOURNAL OF THE SENATE, EXTRAORDINARY SESSION.

FIRST DAY.

SENATE CHAMBER,

OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON, September 3, 1890.

12 o'clock M.

Senate called to order, pursuant to governor's proclamation, at President of the Senate Laughton in the

12 o'clock meridian.

chair.

The following was read:

PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR.

STATE OF WASHINGTON, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

To the Legislature of the State of Washington:

WHEREAS, An extraordinary occasion exists requiring the assembling of the Legislature of the State of Washington:

Now, therefore, I, Elisha P. Ferry, governor of the State of Washington, by virtue of authority vested in me by the constitution, do hereby convene the legislature of the State of Washington in extraordinary session, in the capitol at Olympia, on Wednesday, the third day of September, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and ninety, at the hour of twelve o'clock meridian.

The purpose for which the legislature is convened is the enactment of a legislative apportionment law.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the state to be affixed, at Olympia, this 25th day of August, A. D. one

Roll called, and Senators Austin, Baker, Fariss, Forsyth, Guilfoil, Houghton, Kinnear, Landes, Long, Luce, Parkinson, Payne, Preston, Rinehart, Thompson (G. T.), Van Houten, Vestal, Wil