- Committee of the Whole
Committee of the Whole
Washington State Constitutional Convention 1889
Washington's first constitutional convention met between July and August 1889 to draft the state's foundational text.
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Membership (76 members):
- Charles P. Coey ( 01. First District ) Visualize
- S. H. Manly ( 01. First District ) Visualize
- J. J. Travis ( 01. First District ) Visualize
- W. W. Waltman ( 01. First District ) Visualize
- John J. Browne ( 02. Second District ) Visualize
- James Z. Moore ( 02. Second District ) Visualize
- George Turner ( 02. Second District ) Visualize
- Hiram E. Allen ( 03. Third District ) Visualize
- Thomas C. Griffitts ( 03. Third District ) Visualize
- H. F. Suksdorf ( 03. Third District ) Visualize
- Frank M. Dallam ( 04. Fourth District ) Visualize
- Hanford Wentworth Fairweather ( 04. Fourth District ) Visualize
- Benjamin B. Glascock ( 04. Fourth District ) Visualize
- J. T. McDonald ( 05. Fifth District ) Visualize
- Austin Mires ( 05. Fifth District ) Visualize
- John A. Shoudy ( 05. Fifth District ) Visualize
- Joshua Philander T. McCroskey ( 06. Sixth District ) Visualize
- E. H. Sullivan ( 06. Sixth District ) Visualize
- C. H. Warner ( 06. Sixth District ) Visualize
- George Comegys ( 07. Seventh District ) Visualize
- James A. Hungate ( 07. Seventh District ) Visualize
- John M. Reed ( 07. Seventh District ) Visualize
- Daniel Buchanan ( 08. Eighth District ) Visualize
- Samuel G. Cosgrove ( 08. Eighth District ) Visualize
- W. B. Gray ( 08. Eighth District ) Visualize
- Melvin M. Godman ( 09. Ninth District ) Visualize
- Lewis Neace ( 09. Ninth District ) Visualize
- Robert F. Sturdevant ( 09. Ninth District ) Visualize
- Nelson Gates Blalock ( 10. Tenth District ) Visualize
- Daniel J. Crowley ( 10. Tenth District ) Visualize
- B. L. Sharpstein ( 10. Tenth District ) Visualize
- Ralph Oregon Dunbar ( 11. Eleventh District ) Visualize
- Jacob T. Eshelman ( 11. Eleventh District ) Visualize
- William F. Prosser ( 11. Eleventh District ) Visualize
- Addison A. Lindsley ( 12. Twelfth District ) Visualize
- Louis Sohns ( 12. Twelfth District ) Visualize
- George H. Stevenson ( 12. Twelfth District ) Visualize
- Ozra A. Bowen ( 13. Thirteenth District ) Visualize
- James A. Burk ( 13. Thirteenth District ) Visualize
- J. F. Van Name ( 13. Thirteenth District ) Visualize
- John McReavey ( 14. Fourteenth District ) Visualize
- Arnold J. West ( 14. Fourteenth District ) Visualize
- Henry Winsor ( 14. Fourteenth District ) Visualize
- George H. Jones ( 15. Fifteenth District ) Visualize
- Allen Weir ( 15. Fifteenth District ) Visualize
- H. C. Willison ( 15. Fifteenth District ) Visualize
- Edward Eldridge ( 16. Sixteenth District ) Visualize
- James Power ( 16. Sixteenth District ) Visualize
- J. J. Weisenburger ( 16. Sixteenth District ) Visualize
- Harrison Clothier ( 17. Seventeenth District ) Visualize
- Thomas Hayton ( 17. Seventeenth District ) Visualize
- Albert Schooley ( 17. Seventeenth District ) Visualize
- Silvius A. Dickey ( 18. Eighteenth District ) Visualize
- Richard Jeffs ( 18. Eighteenth District ) Visualize
- John C. Kellogg ( 18. Eighteenth District ) Visualize
- David E. Durie ( 19. Nineteenth District ) Visualize
- Trusten P. Dyer ( 19. Nineteenth District ) Visualize
- Thomas T. Minor ( 19. Nineteenth District ) Visualize
- John P. Hoyt ( 20. Twentieth District ) Visualize
- John R. Kinnear ( 20. Twentieth District ) Visualize
- Matt J. McElroy ( 20. Twentieth District ) Visualize
- Morgan Morgans ( 21. Twenty-first District ) Visualize
- W. L. Newton ( 21. Twenty-first District ) Visualize
- George W. Tibbetts ( 21. Twenty-first District ) Visualize
- Gwin Hicks ( 22. Twenty-second District ) Visualize
- Theodore L. Stiles ( 22. Twenty-second District ) Visualize
- P. C. Sullivan ( 22. Twenty-second District ) Visualize
- Charles T. Fay ( 23. Twenty-third District ) Visualize
- Henry M. Lillis ( 23. Twenty-third District ) Visualize
- Robert S. More ( 23. Twenty-third District ) Visualize
- John F. Gowey ( 24. Twenty-fourth District ) Visualize
- Francis Henry ( 24. Twenty-fourth District ) Visualize
- Thomas M. Reed ( 24. Twenty-fourth District ) Visualize
- Samuel H. Berry ( 25. Twenty-fifth District ) Visualize
- Robert Jamieson ( 25. Twenty-fifth District ) Visualize
- Oliver H. Joy ( 25. Twenty-fifth District ) Visualize
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Sessions (25)
The Committee of the Whole considered the Rules of the Convention.
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The Partial Report of the Committee on Legislative Department and the substitute offered by J.Z. Moore were taken up for consideration.
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The article on Judicial Department was reported.
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The article on Judicial Department was taken up and amended.
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The article on Judicial Department was further discussed and amended.
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The article on Judicial Department was further discussed and amended.
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The article on Judicial Department was further discussed, amended, and then referred back to the Convention.
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The report of the Committee on Organization of Counties, Cities and Townships was taken up for discussion and was referred back to the Convention after an amending process.
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The report of the Committee on Executive Department and Pardoning Power was taken up for discussion and amending.
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The article on Executive Department was further discussed, amended, and then referred back to the Convention.
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The report of the Committee on Preamble and Bill of Rights was taken up. The article on Preamble was referred back to the Convention for the purpose of referring it back to the Committee on Preamble and Bill of Rights. In the afternoon, the report of the Committee on Military Affairs was also taken up.
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The article on Militia was further discussed and amended before it was referred back to the Convention.
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The reports from the Committee on Preamble and Bill of Rights were taken up, agreed to, and referred back to the Convention. The committee then took up the reports from the Committee on State, County and Municipal Indebtedness for the discussion of the article of the same name.
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The article on State, County and Municipal Indebtedness was further considered then agreed to and referred back to the Convention. The report from the Committee on Corporations Other Than Municipal was then taken up for amending.
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The article on Corporations Other Than Municipal was further discussed.
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The article on Corporations Other Than Municipal was further discussed. The report from the Committee on Water and Water Rights was then taken up.
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The article on Water and Water Rights was discussed before being referred to the Committee on Revision, Adjustment and Enrollment. The article on Eminent Domain for Ditches, Drains, Etc. was then taken up before being referred back to the Convention. The article on Corporations Other Than Municipal was then taken up, amended further, and referred back to the Convention.
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The reports of the Committe on Revenue and Taxation were taken up or the consideration of the article on the same. After deliberation the article was referred back to the Convention.
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The report of the Committee on State Institutions and Public Buildings was taken up, the article being amended and referred back to the Convention. The article on Seat of Government was then taken up, amended, and referred back to the Convention. The reports from the Committee on Legislative Department were then taken up for the discussion of the article on the Legislative Department.
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The article on the Legislative Department was further amended and discussed before it was referred back to the Convention.
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The report from the Committee on Elections and Elective Rights was taken up, and the article was amended and then referred back to the Convention.
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The report of the Committee on Harbors and Tidewaters was taken up. The article was discussed and amended before being referred back to the Convention.
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The report of the Committee on State, School and Granted Lands was taken up, and the article on the same was amended.
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The committee continued to discuss and amend the article on State, School and Granted Lands.
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The article on State, School and Granted Lands was further amended. It was then agreed to and referred back to the Convention.
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