, 1866-06-15
wALLULA CORRESPONDENTS.

WALLULA, June 8, 1893.
ED. SrGTtsNAS:-The election is over, and I
suppose somebody is elected, bnt that the elec-
ton will amount TO anything to wallA walIa
County, is matter of doubt From my under
standing of the mattet, we can be put into Ore
gln at any moment, and delay Is only caused by
the dreGnn election. Congress knowing that
aod fearing radical ssfeat 10 n-~sna, sAould
Walla Walis county be annexed before the cleo
ton, have quietly permitted us to grope our way
in Ignorance. Even now, should the annexa-
tion of this county prove disadvantageous to
the powers that be in Congress and Oregon, we
will doubtless be annexed, without an enabling
act allowing us to hold another election immedi.
ately, but must await the action of the Oregon
Legislature next September, to frame the neces-
sary laws for our government; consequently we
will be disfranchsed for year or two, ruled
out of the Washington Legislature, aud not per
miued to enter that of Oregon. What a fne
thing it is TO be the play thing of an unscrupu-
lOus, Rump Congress, and be governed by the
great States of Rhode Island, Connecticut and
Massachusetts If we remain in the Territory
there is another matter wish to call the atten-
tion Of our Legislature to, and that is another
Registry Law. The one the great Solons Of
Olympia concocted last winter don't disfran
chise more than e.lhird of the population
it should be amentrd so as to disfrauchise the
other two-thirds, ten we could live satisfied
and couteuted, knowing exactly where we stood
The idea Of our sOlons attempting to ape the
manners and style Of old and well settled COM
munities, and attempting to apply laws in this
Territory of magnificent distances that are
,nly applicable to old and well regulated com
! aunities, is preposterous and absurd. That the
| legistry Law passed last Winter might apply to
| te inhabitants of Rhode Island or Massachu.
SITS, where people have been known TO live and
DE- under the same roofs in which they were
ben, and were never known to have been out
sic of the line of the county in which they were
bon, am not PREPARED to deny; but the simi
la1y Of the language Of our Eegsry law, to
tina of some OF oui Eastern States, | should
judge the law did not first see the light at
Olynpa.
Th, people Of this, as well as all other Terri
| tories, ale for mag years, Of a migratory ma
mre Tie cOuutie must necessarily be large to
secure a proper number of inhabitants with
which tofopm Dunty. Take Walla Wala or
Stevens eountie, either of which is quite as
large as he Stae OF Rhode Island. Walla Walla
county ,ontaib about $500 inhabitants, and
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SCISSOR to ridejver either of these counties and
get all the prpery assessed, and all the voters
namcs registered, is unreasonable. He may
succeed in gazing all the property, but the Vo-
ters-neY6r. I know Of quite number living
J in thu county-some who have resided here
| since B4G-wuo were not registered, because
they dl not happen to b. gt home when the As
| sessOrame round.
| According to the Registry law of Washington
Terrltry, the \ :sessoe of eacu county holds tie
| eectin in has u'yn nArdS. @lne Assessors can
| Regisr wnUal tucl pIe sc, dud leave out whom
! they Ie s P, auI II tueIr u.mcS d. not appear on
| the Rlls of the Assessor a. voters, they cant
| vote; lat is the strict letter Of the law. Now
| it doe seem to me that any white man who has
| lived an Territory one or more years, and Is
| not dqualifed by crime, has an undoubted
| righto vote, ar consider it safer to leave his
| claim to that rIght-io an Inspector, two Jud-
| ges ad the people there decentralization to an
irresrn ,able, or perhaps. political demagegue
! Of anA assessor.
Im not finding :ault with the Assessors for
the lst year, | nave no doubt but they have
done heir duty, as well as II was possible for
themo 10 IT, but do say, that proper vote
Of th Territory can never be had under the
preset Registry law, or under any Registry law
that have ever seen, and in these days of po-
Utica corruption it stands us in hand, (if we
are ube choked down by such legislation as
occured last winter at Olympia) to keep good
look mt to whom we elect Assessor, for, ac-
cordg to our present Registry Law, he is the
mostmpor:ant officer we have to elect and
withut him we could not elect Constable +
CUMTUx.