Washington legislator William Owen Bush introduced a bill at the state house in Olympia to create one or more agricultural colleges.
By a narrow margin, the Washington Senate passed a bill approving Whitman County as the site of the state's agricultural college. The bill still needed House approval and the governor's signature.
The Pullman Herald reported that the city of Pullman had allocated a 160-acre tract of land and $12,000 in the hope of persuading the state of Washington to build the college there.
The Washington House of Representatives set aside a bill, passed in the Senate, to create an agricultural college in Whitman County. Representative Joseph Gandy, of Spokane, introduced a bill to create a five-person commission, with members appointed by the governor, to determine, among other things, the location of the college.
The Washington State Senate passed a bill that included a provision to combine the proposed state agricultural college and school of science into a single entity.