Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-10-14


of Puget Sound have an interest i'll
his matter in common with those of
Eastern Washington. Upon the
completion of the line, that we are
promised will in II months connect
you by rail with the eastern portion
of our Territory, our product, If no
unjust legislation obtrudes, at its
present rate of increase, will have so
magnified as to occupy almost con-
tinuous trains from one end of the
line 10 the other for weeks and
N; nths in bringing the grain to your
shores; and your beautiful inland see
will be dotted the year round with
vessels that must come, carrying the
flags of all nations, to supply our
requirements of their products and
take ours in return to their distant
shores.
With the Inauguration of a change
like this, the larger vessels will come
here, and we have been assured time
and again that vessels can and will
ship from Puget Sound at from 81
to S. per ton less than by way of
the Columbia river. Every dollar
saved on the ton in the shipment OF
grain is 3 cents per bushel to the
producer. Taking, then, the smaller
sum of 81 per ton this would be 6
cents per bushel saved upon our
present crop of 100000 bushels or
S24O. 900 added to the taxable money
of Washington Territory this year.
Now when you increase this to half
our capacity, say 1000, 900 of bush
els, which will done in the next five
or six years, the sum saved to the
producer and the Territory would be
twelve hundred thousand dollars.
At the present rate of cost of from
$3.50 to $500 per ton you would
have, for your portion, on the ship
ment OF our present crop, in storage.
drayage and transfers, say not less
than six cents per bushel, or $24O,
600 to accure to your shipping towns,
and on the basis of 10000, GOO of
bushels you would have 81 200, GOO.
This would be u total saving of ST.
400, 900, OF about $50 to each in
habitant of the Territory, provided
its population should double within
the period of five or six years named.
But, gentlemen of Puget Sound.
do not understand that our wheat
is the only product we will send you.
We produce more than double the
amount of wool that is produced in
Western Oregon and Washington,
aud large surplusase of barley.
oats haxseed, bacon, and beef, and,
with an assured market, we can send
you all the corn that can be con-
sumed from Puget Sound to Los
Angeles. In return for these pro-
ducts we want your coal and lumber.
I cannot estimate the number OF
tons of your coal our country would
Consume; but l do know that our
rimbelless interior, reaching from
the Cascades to the Rocky Mount
aims, will furnish you, for all coming
tune, the largest market that can be
claimed for any one locality in the
world; and that the sum required to
buy this one commodity must, in q
few years, reach hundreds of thou
sands OF dollars per annum. Your
lumber must net you an equal
amount, and your fish will return to
you in metal as shining as their
silvery sides.
Again 1 say, then, let Us repeal
the law that discriminates against
ourselves, and will deprive US of all
these benefits. Let us secure to
ourselves all the railroads we can.
Let US invite the competition that
comes of non-restriction. Let US
secure. if possible, competing lines
across the Cascade Mountains by the
adoption of a policy that will offer,
at least. a moderate return for in
vestment, and then, if restriction
should become necessary, let us
trust to the intelligence of the peo-
pie who may come after us to en-
circle themselves with the necessary
safeguards against real or imaginary
extortiOn.
Mr.. Judson opposed the repeal OF
the act. He thought the policy Of
removing such restrictions as are
imposed by law would be an unwiss
one.
Mr.. Preston said that there were
no determinations against US by
the railroad corporation; but, on the
contrary, that there was an expressed
determination to discriminate in our
favor. Mr.. Willard had promised to
place grain on the Sound at precisely
the same rate as it will be delivered
at Portland, and he wanted the law
repealed SO as to allow him to do it.
MIR. Judson claimed that il the
law was repealed the company might
between individuals.
now restricted by statute, as we'll as
to discriminate in charges for the
same distance.
The vote on the bill stood, ayes 81,
noes 3; Messrs. Holcomb, Judson
and Karr voting in the negative.
H. B No. 10, to repeal an act in
relation to organization OF new
and changing of county
lines. Passed.
CT. Resolution relative to visiting
the Territorial Institutions, was laid
on the table and made q special
order for Monday.
The report of the SPECIAL commit
tee on Mileage was adopted.
G. j. Resolution, q tribute of res
pect- to the memory of President
Garfield was adopted, after which
House adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, Oct. IL.
Council met at the usual hour,
President in the chair.
After the usual order of business
incident to opening the session,