Gunnison Gazette | 1911-02-03 | Page 5 | Came near Prohibiting Marriage

Came Near Prohibiting Marriage. Olympia, Wash.In passing the third reading of the bill preventing marriage of white with other races on Monday, the state house of representatives represen-tatives nearly made it a crime for any person to get married in Washington, Tacked on to the bill was a provision that persons who shall contract such marriages should be guilty of a gross misdemeanor. The printed bill was minus the word "such." The error was discovered in time and the proviso stricken out, so that now the hill holds inter-racial marriages null and void.