Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-02-14
oLYypI,, SATURDAY IOgyINC. FEB. II, 1874
ouR TERRITORY IN CONGRESS.

Our Washington correspondent, un.
der date of 2lst ult., states that the fol-
lowing bulls have been introduced i'll
Congress ty Judge McFadden, and
were then pending before the several
committees to which they had been re-
ferred: For the survey of Skagit, Sno-
homish and Chehalis rivers; for mill
tary wagon road from Wallula, via Yak
ina City to Seattle; for an appropria-
ton to build the Capitol at Olympia and
and one to build Custom-House ut
Port Townsend; one relating to certain
Oregon and Washington Territory war
debts; to improve navigation on the Co.
lumbia river, which he has likewise Of
fered in the Senate; for donating the
tide flats ut the southern extremity of
Budl's Inlet to the town of Olympia
to donate the military reservation at
Steilacoom to the the Territory for tue
purpose of an Insane Asylum; to au-
thorize the County Commissioners Of
Thurston county to issue bonds to aid
in the construction of railroad from
Budd's Inlet to intersect the Northern
Pacific Railroad at Tenino; one relating
to the Seattle Railroad, and another
donating the tide flats at Seattle to aid
in the construction of q rail- DAD; one
granting the right of way to the Seattle
and Walla Railroad and Transportation
Company and for other purposes; and
one relating to the District Courts and
United States Marshal and District At.
torney.
The last bill, if it becomes law, will
make some important changes in judi
cial matters. It fixes the terms of the
courts and makes the compensation OF
officers named the same as in the State
of Oregon.
Judge McFadden has presented the
memorials of the Legislative Assembly
relating to grant of the tide flats in
Elliott's Bay; grant of 800 acres OF
land to VIM. Packwood, as compensa-
ton for his discoveries of stone coal and
minerals in the Cascade Mountains, and
one relating to the Seattle and Wallo
Walla Railroad Company. He has
likewise presented the petition of 254
citizens of Olympia praying that the
tide fats in Budd's Inlet may be donat.
ed to the town, but the legislative mem.
orial for that object was never received
at Washington.
The Delegates from the Northwest
have been trying to obtain an appropri'
alton for the repair of what is known
as the Mullan road, and for the con
struction by the War Department Of q
line of telegraph through Idaho te
Walla Walla.
It is thought that the bill known as
the Sarseant-Page Bill. relating to the
sale of timber lands in California, Ore
gon and Washington, will pass. If il
should, it will enable all who so desire
to obtain timber lands, not adapted t.
agriculture, on fair terms, and thus en-
able loggers to become the owners o
the timber which they cut. The tex
of the bill was published in the STAND
ARD of the 31st ult., but through al
oversight we failed to state its origin o.
condition at that time.
Our correspondent writes that Judge
McFadden has been before the Senate
Committee on Territories in relation t.
the donation of the military reserve a
Steilacoom for purpose of IN Insane
Asylum, on which the committee have
agreed to make favorable report, ant
he hopes soon to have favorably reported
back the Olympia Railroad bill. He i.
constant in his attendance to bushes.
before the several departments, in some
of which he has secured the desired &C
ton, but of course has not succeeded il
all.
There are several additional post
routes which, at the instance of the
Delegate, have been incorporated into
the general post-route bill, which vii
be reported by the committee in abou
two weeks from now.
FIRE AT STELAcooM.- On Sunda,
night, the 9Th instant, Harmon's Hotel