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U'JUtt MYM, FEliiilUY 17. 1905.
T'h- Pace Sot Is Followed.
V-w that both Senate and House of
th. pros ■ lit assembly are diligently
planning t<> avoid responsibility for
payment of party debts by employing
a horde of clerks and underlings, as
their i!r-t legislative act, at two or
three times the wage-rate p<v •//'• i of
the so railed laboring man, which
course, when added to the lavish appro
priations of the former session, hail im
pelled tiov. Mcllride to veto many
meritorious as well as iniquitous ap
propriations, many of which have b en
allowed by the present Legislature,
over lii-i veto two years ago, with an
equally protligatc current expense tec
ord now, it may be proper at this time
to refer, to the figures of I'JOJ, and con
sider facts that are specially pertinent
when an attempt is made to saddle
past appropriations upon a similar
extravagance for current necessities is
apparent, to say nothing of the
"grafts" which occasionally slip in,
even when conditions are not as favor
able for them as now.
In 1903, the most ample provision
was made for an effective service in
both houses, by the employment of a
regiment of clerks, janitors, postmas
ters, messengers, sergeants-at-arms
down to pages, for each. They were
certainly more than enough to have
kept the work, in all its branches,
fully up with business, without pay
ment of a dollar in exorbitant salaries,
or for extra time, even though they
may have adopted the most liberal (to
themselves) "union" hours of service.
But the principle of expansion was
then in its palmy days, and we have
the list of 50 employes in the Senate,
given in the Journal of that body,
page 671, extended to CC in the Audi
tor's roll, from which payment was
made, (See Auditor's report, pages -17
and 48), and in the House, page 745 of
House Journal, of 55 employes, ex
tended to 72 when the per diem came
to be paid by warrants on the State
Treasury. (See Auditor's Report,
pages 50 and 51.)
It is quite certain that the excessive
amounts paid the principal clerks,
with the ten days' extra allowance for
service in bringing up the records to
the limit of tbe term, will, on careful
figuring, go very far to make up an
averago of $4 per day for the entire
list tbe full 60 days of the Senate, at
the minimum allowance per day for
clerks, with doorkeepers, messengers,
sergeants at arms and postmasters in
cluded for enumeration some of
whom were employes only in name,
the greater part of the session. Two of
the Senate clerks drew $6 per day, six
$5, one |4.50, and the remaining em
ployes, exclusive of pages, thirty-eight
at $4. There were three pages who
drew only $2 each per day, but they
were boys and not voters. The sixteen
supernumeraries at $4 per day would
amount to an excess of $3,840.
The House record foots up about
the same. The official list shows there
were 56 employes, and the payroll 72.
There were, excluding the seven pages
at $2 per day (boys and non-voters)
48 clerks and supernumeraries draw
ing large wage rates. One clerk draw
$6 per day, four clerks and sergeant
at-arma $5, fourteen clerks, two post
masters and two assistant sergeants-at
arms $4, fourteen committee clerks
13.50, and eleven doorkeepers, watch
men and other employes $3.50 per
diem each. The payroll, (Auditor's
Report, pp. 50 and 51) show that 72
were paid, but the over-pay and over
time allowed would make the excess
several thousand dollars over the al
lowances of the whole " army" at the
minimum rate the full term. ;
The existence of such an authorized
payroll waa a most glaring exhibition
of profligacy, bad there been no
extension of time to one-sixth of a
term and no augmentation of pay to
from two to four times the uncertain
wage-rate doled out to the man of toil
—who " pays tbe bills"—for long
hours of labor, sometimes in inclement
weather and amid the many hardships
he has to encounter at all times.
The legislative graft was one of the
extravagances wbicb led to a sway of
the executive ax in cutting out appro
priations in 1903, aod is one of the
conditions that will demand careful
scrutiny by the executive now, if we
would not drift amid the shoals that
are so plainly in view. Those who are
too blind to see, have beard the rumble
of popular discon ten t, however, and now
many of them have their ears to the
ground to enable them to form some
plan for placating an outraged people.
WOMEN TO PAY POLL-TAX. —As a
result of hasty and inconsiderate legis
lation, the Senate passed a bill the
other day which makes women sub
ject to poll-tax. Doubtless the omis
sion of tbe word " male" was unin
tentional, but intent does not count
when plain, unequivocal language is
to be construed by the courts. The
act reads "every inhabitant over the
age of 21 years" in cities shall be sub
ject at the will of the City Councils of
the Third class, to a poll-tax not ex
ceeding |2. It is claimed that the
author of the bill intended to include
women, as the Supreme Court had de
clared any exemption subjected the
law to the defect of class legislation.
WHEAT is rapidly soaring to the
$1.50 limit in Chicago, and the market
is exceedingly panicky. The juggle is
a deliberate one and the effort will be
made to carry the price up to more
than $2. John W. Gates is the "bull"
who is figuring on a corner that will
exceed that price set by Itichardson
in 1888, and $1.85 attained by Leiter
ten years later.
Shams of Modern Politics
Why s' ti'd tin- capital of a State
he 1 cat< ! v.t! special reference to its
availability for travel? The claim
that it should be, made so persistently
just now, passes without applying to it
any ipiery which might lead to an in
telligent consideration of the subject,
instead of grairing a claim that can
he so easily controverted by reason.
The sessions of the Legislature are
never less than the limit fixed by the
constitution—sixty days—and the en
actment certainly contemplates that,
when the law-maker arrives at the
capital he shall remain there till the
close of the term, when the " freight"
is paid on his return from the seat of
government, just as it is paid to carry
him to the scene of official labor, out
of the State's finances—even though it
may he that he carries and travels on
a pass, in violation of the law he is
sworn to support.
It may be true that, despite all
etl'orts made for his entertainment as
an official guest of the people at the
capital, the community may not be so
large as to satisfy a giant's ambition,
especially when the prospect is before
him that his pose iu the lime-light is
of brief duration. He thinks lie may
augment his pleasure in larger towns,
but this is, to same extent, delusory.
The results are generally a vindication
of the affirmative side of the familiar
question of debating clubs, the relative
pleasure derived from pursuit or pos
session of any acknowledged desirable
object in life. The generally convinc
ing argument asserted is, that with
the majority of temperaments, pursuit
gratifies and possession satiates.
The regular recess taken by the
present legislature, from Friday till
Monday, to afford a junket to Seattle
or Tacoma, is unusual, bpt so are
other characteristics of the assembly
that has developed many surprises.
That more consideration should be
given the important measures before
then), aud that they might avoid the
blunders of hasty legislation, did they
remain at their posts and endeavor to
earn the per diem and mileage paid
them, seems to be a reasonable propo
sition ; and that to separate tbe legis
lative functions as much as possible
from the clash and turmoil of business
centers, to say nothing of the frivoli
ties of the " Vanity Fair" always open
to the wayfarer in larger cities, is desir
able, has been shown by almost un
broken precedent. Nearly all the
State capitals are isolated from the
business centers, and very few are as
" accessible" to tbe whole State as tbe
commercial mart of each common
wealth.
It seems so incomprehensibly stupid
for vest-pocket politicians and road
corner newspapers to urge this condi
tion for a removal to a larger place,
that very little effort has been made
by sensible people to controvert it;
but now that the parrot-like utter
ance is again doing service to place
the State-house on wheels, we deem it
a duty to merely stick a pin into the
bubble to show how easily it is shat
tered.
The proposition is incontrovertable,
unless indeed those contemptible mer
cenary wretches who lead men by the
nose through pandering to their van
ity by flattery, their venality by posi
tive or indirect bribes, or arouse their
fear by bulldozing methods, are the
modern statesmen, and the example
of tbe leading States, to protect the
integrity of law-makers and the purity
of the public service, is the work of
fools.
Just imagine the nerve it requires
in a man of the stamp of George Stev
enson to take the contract for delivery
of a law in tbe interest of any corpor
ation, a seat in tbe U. S. Senate, for
any man who has money, or, as now, a
removal of tbe capital, for a satisfac
tory equivalent, or to gratify his spleen
and punish those who have refused to
be bis tools. By a stretch of imagina
tion the reality may be faintly grasped,
but the audacity of tbe act is beyond
comprehension when we endow man
kind, who have at times acted as his
tools, with the ordinary self-respect
and dignity of freemen. Does it not
fairly make the angels weep to see bow
poor frail humanity, can be led by the
nose by such a soulless mentality, such
an immoral monstrosity, and influ
enced to vote for a man of mediocre
ability to fill a place in the U. S. Sen
ate, or in supporting legislation in
conflict with the interests of constitu
ents who elected them, as has been
in times past, and is attempted to be
done now. *
If law-makers have votes to sell,
the humiliation comes when tbe bar
gain is struck and the price paid, and
we may respect, to aome small extent,
the individual who candidly admits
that he has yielded to tbe song of the
mercenary siren, on the plea of neces
sity, and urges as an excuse that mortal
flesh under such circumstances is
weak at best, but all respect is lost for
those who can be dragooned into doing
despicable acts solely through threats
of'personal vengeance.
WASHINGTON dispatches state that
the confession of Judge Tanner rather
amused Senator Mitchell than other
wise. It is difficult to see wherein
there is cause for diversion in the de
velopment of such criminating details
of the conspiracy formed to steal the
public lands. It is likewise reported
that Mr. Mitchell has no thought of
resigning and will bluster the matter
through, if possible. It requires, how
ever, much talent as an actor to carry
the part to a satisfactory finish.
SCHWA BACHER'S new eight-story
building in Seattle, filled with an ex
tensive stock of merchandise, was de
stroyed by fire last Saturday night,
involving a loss of about half a mil
lion dollars. It was, however, heavily
insured.
How Have the Mighty Fallen:
Late developments leave but little
doubt that Senator Mitchell is guilty
of the charge of complicity with the
Oregon land frauds and of acceptance
of money to advance the work of da
spoilers of tiie national domain. A
confession of Judge Tanner, in Judge
Bellinger's Court, in Portland, last
Saturday, leaves no d mht but that
the repealed indictments are warrant
ed, and that he will be called upon to
answer us anv other felon.
But this is Dot the worst feature of
the late development of crime in high
places. The number of public men
that have fallen is significant of a low
ebb of moral responsibility. No less
than five U. S. Senators, holding an
office that has been held almost cipiel
in honor to the Presidency, are now
under indictment for felony. Thomas
C. Piatt, oue of the oldest members of
the American " House of Lords" is
threatened with expulsion for viola
tion of law, and is at the same time
threatened with a breach of promise
suit; Senator Burton, of Kansas, lias
faced the U. S. courts several times
and been convicted of bribery on every
trial; Senator Dietrich, of Nebraska,
is under indictment for violation of
law, and Senator Smoot lias had an
exhaustive trial before the Senate for
violation of the moral code, and now
we find a second indictment of Sena
tor Mitchell, with ample proof of guilt
of bribery and malfeasance in office,
of which, before the confession of Tan
ner, he made such solemn denial amid
tearful emotion, and with such em
phatic defiance in the Senate a few
weeks ago! The spectacle is indeed
humiliating.
Moral delinquency is just as epi
demic at times as corruption of tha
flesh. A wave inducing a mental ob
livion of rectitude operates with the
same deadly effect as the simoon of the
desert upon animal vitality. Example
is contagious, and nothing conduces
so quickly to the mural degradation of
class or community as dishonest ex
amples of those holding positions of
honor and trust.
How TRULY ESTHETIC ARE WE!—
It seems that President Bryan of the
Washington Agricultural College is
over from Pullman to have the word
"Agricultural" stricken from the
uame of tbo institution over which he
presides. It seems that tbe word par
takes too much of the smell of the
sod to suit his patrician nose. Well,
well; " Upon what meat does this our
Cit'sar feed, that he has grown so
great"! What harm can be done the
cause of education to direct scientific
inquiry to methods for perfecting
thorough study of cause and effect, in
the most honorable calling on EarthT
Why not dignify the cause of educa
tion by associating it with tbe noblest
mission of man, to supply humanity
with the best of products that may be
drawn from the alchemy of natureT
This criticism is justified by the fact
that Mr. Bryan is said to have been
trading what little influence he has
for removal of the capital to secure the
change of what he regards as a ple
beian name.
ENGLISH WALNUTS AS A PROFITABLE
PRODUCT.— Capt. C. N. Hogan, In
spector of Horticulture, in a letter to
the Centralis News-Examiner, claims
that soil and climate, in Lewis countyi
are well adapted lor raising English
walnuts. The trees bear in five years
from planting, when the stock is from
the grafted trees grown iu this State
or Oregon. They should be planted
forty feet apart, which admits of culti
vation of ground crops on the ume
land. On a ten-acre tract, Mr. H.
figures that tbe product—after com
ing into full bearing, say in ten years,
—would be from fifty to one hundred
pounds per tree, which, at the whole
.sale price of walnuts, would aggregate
over $2,500 as annual yield of the
tract.
A RAILROAD TO THE MOON, PROBA
BLY. —It is reported in Portland that a
movement is on foot to construct an
electric railroad from Tacoma to that
city, via Olympia, and have it done is
time to carry visitors to the fair. The
proposition reads very much like tbe
" stuff" sent out by all World's Fair
syndicates, to secure free advertising
for hauling in gudgeons. Tbe idea
that 200 miles of road and a ferry pro
vided or a costly bridge over the
Columbia can be built in four months,
is preposterous. Why the cult us wawa
could not be done in that time.
LAND OF THE " RED APPLE" WINS.
—A prize was lately awarded by the
Boston Fashion World for the best
letter written by a youth on " What I
saw at tbe Bt. Louis Fair." The letter
taking the award was written by
Harry C. Binkley, Ash Grove, Mo.,
and is published in that paper. Among
the matters of peculiar interest to the
STANDARD'S readers is tbe sentence :
"I think Washington leads in apples."
Another expression that was nearly as
satisfactory follows it,"California had,
I think, the nicest building of all the
States."
IT seems that Anlteny and Piles,
our full-fledged and just "pipped"
Senators, have undertaken to defeat
Harry Wilson's appointment to an
European diplomatic post, simply be
cause his brother, John L. Wilson,
was a candidate for the Senate, in the
late contest. The most profound par
tisan feeling does not justify such per
sonal meannesß.
As the wavelets caused by the land
frauds extend along the shore, there
are people who live on Budd's Inlet,
who have just cause for apprehension
judging by the circles caused by
stones hurled from their own hands.
It may be that U. S. Senators will not
be tlie only ones compelled to play
at checkers with their noses behind
prison bars.
Interesting and Frotitable Meeting.
The meeting of the Horticultural
Society, in the Superior Court-room,
Saturday afternoon, was well attended,
over half the audience being ladies,
doubtless attracted by the topic,
•' Poultry," as well as the individuality
of the speakers announced for lead in
the discussion. The subject wa3 ably
presented by George C. Israel, in a
statement otbis experience in raising
" Squabs" as well as poultry. He gave
it as bis opinion that the raising of
pigeons might he made a profitable
industry ; that the demand eeems un
limited at the restaurants in the
larger cities for the birds, at sll j>er
dozen; that the cost of raising, under
favorable conditions amounts to about
two thirds that sum; that to make
money at the business would require
some capital aud much intelligent
care aud attention. More money can
be made from poultry and that was a
branch of the business better under
stood and with fewer essential rules to
guaranty success. Mr. Israel has ex
perimented in several breeds of blood
ed stock, but was unable to give any
reason for preference for either, as bis
carefully kept record, with a due al
lowance for conditions and figures
based upon the season favorable to
each, would result in little ditTcrence
in yield. Kach variety lias its points
of excellence, and he thought the best
breed for each owner was the one per
sonally favored. His favorite, be
thought, was the Rhode Island Red,
although there were other species that
were excellent producers. He advised
warmth, cleanliness and proper food
at regular iutervals, as the prime es
sentials for success. At the close ol
his remarks, the thanks of the society
were expressed for the very intelligent,
interesting and useful discourse.
Mrs. Ada J. Lewis, the wife of a
farmer on Bush Prairie, followed in a
carefully prepared essay on poultry.
She advised kind treatment of the
biddies and careful a'ttention to their
few wants. She likewise emphasized
the necessity of warmth and cleanli
ness in the poultry yard, and gave
many excellent suggestions regarding
attainment of success in this leading
industry and resource of the farm.
She said it outclassed the product of
silver and gold per sonum, in this
country, and she might have said
more than doubled it, for the product
of the precious metals in 1903 aggre
gated $143,797,700 in value, while the
egg crop reaches each year about 1,-
166,000,000 dozen, according to a re
port of the Secretary of Agriculture,
which at an average of say twenty
cents per dozen, yields the enormous
sum of $333,200,000. Her comments
were likewise greeted with applause.
Several other speeches followed
mainly in commendation of the sug
gestions of the previous speakers,
after 'which Mrs. B. B. Lord, of New
York, who came West in the interest
of Grange work and to visit her son,
C. J. Lord, of this city, addressed the
society. She is an intelligent lady, of
pleasing address, whose soul seems
to be in the work to which she has
devoted much of ber time the past
twenty years. She endorsed the opin
ions expressed by previous speakers
regarding the care of poultry, and then
alluded to the beuefits derived from
"Organization Among Farmers," her
assigned topic. The high apprecia
tion in which she holds the tiller of
the soil, is evident in every sentence
she uttered. She has lived on a farm
nearly her whole life, and is an en
thusiast on the subject; clear and
decisive in her reasoning, and nobody
cau llotcu to la or rotoiUsma wtlkouL
being impressed with her sincerity.
Mrs. Lord expressed the most en
thusiastic u>preciation of our Western
climate, and was surprised aud de
lighted to find flowers in bloom here
in the depths of Winter. She declared
that those who complain of the cold
weather we have experienced the past
fortnight, know nothing of the cold
weather as experienced in the East,
with the thermometer frequently far
below zero, accompanied by blizzards,
nor did she think they could appreciate
flowers where they grow in such
profusion. She had seen enough of
our" inclement season" to decide to
make our State her future home.
She thought that if this is Winter,
what must the Springtime and Sum
mer bet
The lady promised to attend the
next meeting of the Society— of which
she was elected an honorary member—
at the meeting on the second Saturday
of March, at which she hoped to be of
some service in the way of promoting
the objects of the organization.
THE historical injunction to " Burn
This," which appeared on a postscript
to a letter written by au eminent
politician years ago and was quoted all
over the country, has been frequently
repeated by Mitchell, in his corre
spondence with his law-partner, Judge
Tanner. Here are some of the sig
nificant sentences, which could have
had only one object, concealing trans
actions that would not bear the light
of day, just such as have been made
public by confession of the partner
and confederate:
P- S.—Don't show Harrv this letter, or
tell him anything in it. Don't let him
see our books. Toll him nothing.
Keep all important papers in
safe, and safe and office carefully locked
as these scoundrels will get in if possible!
F. B.—BURN THIS without fail.
It seems that time locks were not
sufficient to keep uoder cover such
iniquitous acts.
GEN. Lew Wallace, author of Ben
Hur, once Minister to Turkey and
a veteran of the Mexican and Civil
wars, died at his home in Crawfords
ville, Ind., Wednesday night, aged 78
years.
THERE are now now 736 prisoners
in the State Penitentiary.
'lis Always Thus.
" The Republican party does not oc
cupy an enviable position on the (jura
tion of tho railroad commission. The
last State Convention refused to embody
such a proposition in its platform. The
Republican legislators in the past re
fused to pass such laws. After the
election there was a change of sentiment
apparently by many of the prominent
Republicans of the State. Kach candi
date for the otlice of United States Sena
tor declared in favor of a Railroad Com
mission ; so did all the leading journals.
The Governor in his message advocated
it. Several such bills of one kind or an
other have been introduced. The Leg
islature is now warned that the people
w ill accept nothing less than a commis
sion that will in spirit and in truth be
clothed with sutlicient power that it can
regulate railroads to the fullest extent.
This is a case where the people of the
State w ill permit of no trilling, jugglery
or evasion."— .Seattle Ji.publir.ua.
The above extract is from a dyed-in
the-wool Republican paper, and is as
true of tbe party trend now as it has
been of its record of the past decade.
In 1896, it changed, without any ex
cuse or premonition, from tbe silver
to tbe gold standard. Then Blaine
departed from rock-ribbed protection
to reciprocity, and the stalwart Mc
kinley acknowledged that a revision
of tbe tariff schedule was necesssry—
"by its friends." Then tbe trusts
grew, and grew—like Jack's bean
stock—under the sustaining baud of
the party that bad given its pledge to
monopoly, until the strenuous Roose
velt, reading the warning sign io the
clouds loweriog over the American
people, and, gave orders to enfoce the
Sherman law, and the complaisant
party which bad become such an adept
at turning somersaults, immediately
fell into line, and tbe dampbool fac
tion of Democrats who had voted with
tho Republicans in 1896, dominated
their party in convention, at St. Louis,
and nominated a man they believed
would draw support from tbe moneyed
power.
There is no wonder that protests
come from such consistent Republi
cans as the writer of the paragraph
quoted, when the same deviating
course has been so notably followed in
tbe late campaign in this State. Tha
Tacoma convention eliminated from
its platform all recognition or support
of a Railroad Commission, and its
leading members went on record as
opposing either an appointive or elec
tive commission. But there came up
such a murmur of discootent from the
masses, that each and every caodidate
for Federal or State office was had to
make a plank, favoring tbe measure,
to save himself from defeat. This was
done with just as much assurance as
the party had often before reversed
itself. Whether or not the matter was
satisfactory to tbe corporations in
volved, is a matter of conjecture, but
it is presumable that " a reform by
frieDds" of the measure will carry with
it no very great apprehension of any
thing that will interfere with the
established order of things. There is
hardly any possibility, if a commission
bill is passed, that either its provisions
or tbe appointees under it, will be of
the sort to " ruo amuck" of corporate
interests, and the Republican might as
well abandon all hope of " regulating
railroads to the fullest extent."
The people of the State are just as
likely to have dust thrown into their
eyes hereafter as they were last No
vember, and it will require aomelbing
more thau the Republican's assurance
that the " people of the State will per
mit of no ttifling, juggling or evasion."
Thej| seem to be in a mood to go
right along in the same beaten path
way, despite persistent warning and
repeated experience.
Turn ricstdeut ot »(>«. United States —
Theodore Roosevelt—did soother un
usual thing the other day, which con
firms the belief that it is truly the
"unexpected" that happens with him.
He dined in the slum district of East*,
side, New York, as guest of the Hun
garian Republican club; an organiza
tion that has not yet been American
ized enough to drop the name of their
nativity. The function was held in a
restaurant named " Little Hungary,"
which still further emphasizes, if pos
sible, a divided loyalty to patriotic
instinct. It is the rendezvous of all
classes of foreigners, and anarchists
as well, as was shown by the extra
ordinary precautions taken to guard
the President from assassination by
supposed friends. It is said that the
promise was made while Governor of
New York, conditioned upon the
then vague possibility of some time
being President of the United States,
and gives life to the suspicion that
thia is not the first time be has visited
disreputable quarters.
FURTHER PROVISION FOR WARD POL
ITICIANS. —A bill was favorably reported
from joint committee, this week, to
create the county of Beuton from
portions of Yakima and Klickitat. A
proposition to divide Douglas county
and create still another political sub
division, has met with considerable
opposition from several former resi
dents who are here to protest. It
seems that the whole action is but
a part of a systematic plan to create
and farm out offices for political
strikers. All legislation of the term
now drawing to a close has been in
liue of perpetuating their pull at the
public teat.
OLYMPIA has cause to feel sore at the
people who made a botch of the capitol
construction job .—Reveille.
Certainly they have. Some of us
felt sore when the job was planned,
and predicted that others would feel
the wound after the deal was consum
mated.
THE House of Representatives hava
held up the Statehood bill by a de
cision not to concur in Senate amend
ment eliminating Arizona from the
boundaries of flew Mexico. This be
ing a joint bill, tbc Statehood of
Oklahoma is likewise defcatod.
THEY SEE A HANDWRITING ON THE'
\\ ALL. —The other day. Senator Kin
near, realizing that his party was hav-1
ing a fair-sized mill. stone bound to its
neck by the atrocious extravagance of
tho legislature, who brought to the
capital a host of political strikers, to
reward them for party service by sine
cure positions during the sixty days of
inning party bosses have upon the
public treasury. Fifty-two of these
ward politicians were foisted upon the
State, by the Senate alone, but the
public outcry against such palpable
perversion of funds has become so
loud that it has reached the ears of the
bosses and they have bad to confess
the blunder by an attempt to right it.
i The report recommended that seven
teen heads be placed on the block,
from the Senate's quota of f>2, but it
has been ascertained that the fuglemen
will not he dropped from the pie-roll
without a struggle, and have begun
just the kind of ward campaign waged
by pot-house politicians in their home
bailiwicks. The House hss likewise
been in meditation, and heard any
thing but commendation from their
constituents, and are on the back
track to release fr >m service the
supernumeraries placed on the pay roll
for partisan services. The disparity of
the number of employes—over 100 in
this Legislature—with that of Oregon,
only fifteen in number, shows to what
fearful lengths this extravagant pro
cedure has extended.
Since tbe above was written, the
Senate have repudiated the report of
committee recommending dismissal of
seventeen sineeure appointees, and the
gang will report weekly at tbe pie
counter to tbe close of the session.
THEV TACKLE THE WRONG MAN.—
It id very propable that those Smart-
Alec State Senators who telegraphed
President Roosevelt to ignore Senator
Foster and await the award of the
" loaves and* fishes" till the Senator
elect, Mr. Piles, appears on the ground,
have wholly misjudged the tone and
quality of impulse the President acts
upon. When a Massachusetts Senator
complained a short time ago, that an
appointment was made against bis
wishes, be was very pointedly informed
by the President that all Federal ap
pointees were selected by the Presi
dent, and not the State representatives
in Congress. That will be about the
action he will accord those little-big
men who sit in the north hall of the
State capitol. The was
signed by thirty-two Seirators, and it is
safe to say it will not perplex the Pres
idential mind thirty-two seconds.
Now W E'LL HEAR LAMENTATIONS.—
Heney, U. S. District Attorney, who
has so successfully unearthed land
frauds in Oregon, it is said, will extend
his inquiries to this State, aud that a
beginning will be made at tbe term
which begins at Tacoma, on tbe last
day of this mootb. It is known that
tbe barter of timberUnd claims has
been common in this State tbe past
score of years, and tbafa salutation ol
" Have you sold your timber land
right?" was common as " Good morn
ing!" Uncle Sam, be it known, does
not recognize the statute of limita
tions in matters of affecting his inter
ests, and we may luve " Hot times in
the old town" ere many moons wane.
ANOTHER TKI-KETTLK FOR PARTY
FAT.—C. R. Paine, of Chinook, has
been slated for Public Printer, in tbe
Senate bill to reinstate that officer as
a party adjunct for timely rake-offs for
partisan usea. While the bill provides
for appointment by tbe Governor, it is
understood that the combine" on the
bill has taken tbe matter out of ex
ecutive fingers so far aa the first
beneficiary is concerned.
Notice.
To WHOM IT MAY CONTBHN :
This Is to certify thai I will not be
held reß|K>iisible for any debts contract
ed by my wife, Charlotte Young.
A E. YOUNG.
Little Rock, Feb. 17,1905.
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Clean up vour orchards and you will
grow smooth, clean apples and pears.
Materials for sprays at
MANN'S DRUG STORE
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WaslM
THIS SATURDAY
FEB. 18,1905
Price 15c a Yard
WORTH DOUBLE
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SCHOOL BOOKS
AND SCHOOL SUPPLIES
OF ALL KINDS ....
W all Paper
STATIONERY, ETC., ETC.
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General Groceries
FLOUR AND FEED
HAY AND GRAIN
End of Bridge, Next to Hewitt's Drug Store,
Will meet Olympia prices. Highest cash price
paid for /arm produce.
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