The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-10-11
JOTTINGS FROM THE CAP
ITAL.
OLYMPIA. Oct. 9. 1877.

1TAIi.
OLYMPIA, Oct, 9. 1871.
ED. 1NTELLIGENcER:-T long pro-
tractcd and unpleasant spell OF rainy
weather, which characterized the OPEN
ing days of the session. have given
place to warm and balny days with
skies mottled with roseate clouds. that
predict speedy return of the com
pl;nents of the season" from the rain
god. The year is in its shesf and the
maple forests along the Sound present
a medley array of crimson and gold
where once all wore the emerald hue.
They seem like The banners of son'e ad /
vaucing army clad in natures royal ,
reRimentals and exultaut in such Il
majesty az nothing human ever wore. .
The sultry summer sun has given way
to chisp autumn breezcs. and the swai
lows have plumed their wings for =
flight to warmer cline Long stream .
ing flea of Changing wild-fowl. wing
their triangular flight amid falling dew, /
through the rosy twilight. air This is
the s-ason Of peaceful rest and balIny
steep
AS SIMPLE PR POSITION
The foregoing is correct enough. Tut II
ven logGed where do you might Think
differently. The man who shores "ccu-
pies toe next room To me, and the ar
| t,,,on If tn. rooms are evii-ttly madc
of the same stuff ~ the sounding b, ards
| of - piano For the last three night |
/ have called ont Turn over and obiigc'
bu, he W mt hear it. He evidently has
been to the Emerson ministries and
dreams Of Karl Sterle's s,lo OH the VIC
hncelio wish you would call on Mr.
| B.Ilene and see what he viii. charge to
come up here and put surface. con
dens+r into this fellow If he can b.
rugged to cut off At tbree-eig CHS
stroke and follow up by expansion, l
sdon't think he will exhau-t quite SO
loud. His room has two bed, III it and
while the other boarders pay from 81
to IS per week, the occupant of the
other bel not o ly gets his board free,
but chrome besides. They hold
chloroforw under his nose to wake Inn
up.
THE TERRITORIAL SECRETARY,
Col. N. H. Owings, finding the appro-
priation exhausted. from which the
stationery was to be supplied to the
Legislature, has prepared a bill to meet
thu deficiency, which has alyeady passed
the house. In the Council it will meet
with considerable opposition. which
opposition AIN not altogether prepared
to endorse The original bill provides
for the disbursement Of certain sum
Of money under the Secretary's super
intendence. and subsequent demand
for relief to the Territory at the hands
of Congress There is disposition,
however, to kill the bill with amend
ments, which seems to me manifestly
unjust. The opponents of the bill want
the money paid out under the superin
tendence of committee from each
House. 1t they do this, when the relief
bill COMES up at Washington, the Sec
3 rotary of the Treasury will not proba-
, bly, advocate its passage unless the
, money goes through Mr.. Owing's hands
and the proper vouchers returned to
the department. Of all the federal
D officers sent out here like him the bes:
, for there is the least pomp ard affccta
, ton about him.
q Washington Territory is short of fur d.
. for contingent Legislative expenses at
this session, is something of an enigma
In obedience to an order of the Secreta-
3 ry of the Treasury, the late Secretary
/ Hon. II g Strive furnished his estimate
to the last Congress placing the ex-
psnses of the Territorial Secretary
Office and contingent expenses of the
: Legislature at 1920. When the ap-
preparation bill came up before Con
gress the Secretary of the Treasury
recommended the committee on Ways
/ aud Means to cut it down to 1910.
, thus taking of $3.50. For some unex-
planned cause the amount cut off I'D.
peared in the bill as the amount To be
given. and Washington Territory is just
81, $40 worse of than Idaho, Arizona.
Montana. or any other of the Terrific
ries. This is evidently no work Of spite
on the part of the Confederate House"
or they would have served them all
d alike. regard it rs an inadvertent
clerical error And had our Delegate
in Congress,
THE HON. ORANGE JACOBS
Been of az much service to the people
Of this Territory as u wart on maple
tree it could not have happened He
could have gone before the committee
on Ways and Means and satisfied them
that $3.50 was no money to furnish sta.
tionery for Legislature of forty men,
bers and twenty clerks. let alone run
ming the Territorial Sec-etary's office
for the entire year. Where our dele
gate was or what he was doing while
the appropriation bill was being con.
sidered in the committee on the whole,
the Lord only knows-he might have
been exploring the ruins of Nineveh.
or he might have gone 10 Central
Africa and employed Stanley to come
back with him and help him to ind
Charley Ross. But one thing is GER
tain, he was not attending to his bust
ness, to attend to which be was elected
by the people Of Washington Territory
over a man who is the very soul of
promptness and punctuslity. There is
not now stationery enough to run the
Legislature another week. and some of
the clerks haze had to purchase books
required by them in their several de-
partments