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

Offices.
TUESDAY, Oct. II, 1881.
House met at the usual hour, and
after roll call, prayer and rca ling of
til" journal,
G. VI. No. |, praying Congress to
amend Sec. 1860 of the Revised
Statutes prohibitin, retired any
officers from holding civil offices,
passed.
H. g. No Il, by Mr.. FL 'lcomb,
bill regulating interest on money
and to prevent usurv. Places the
maximum rate at |! Per cent. per
month, and intlictS penalty of $500
and forfeiture of debt. Referred to
judiciary Committee.
II. i. No. 1G. by Mr.. Kuhn, an
act relating TO elections and modes
of supplying vacancies. Referred
with Instructions to print.
II. B. No. II, by Mr.. Smith of
Whitman, an act to change the
name of Charles Howard Harper to
II. Is No. 3, amending an act re-
latin. to Territorial Treasurer passed.
Raises the bond TO $50, 600.
G. 3. No. 8, repeating an act to
prevent extortion in the matter of
freights and passage.
MIR. Rees, in support of this
. measure said:
hope this bill will pass-not that
l deem that the act it proposes to re-
peal is an uni ust one in its intent;
but that, as it stands, it places the
| people of Washington Territory in
the position of discriminating against
| themselves and in favor of Oregon,
in the management of the only i'm
portant railroad we have ir the Ter
ritory. In this. refer to what we
have been repeatedly told by the
press of the Territory and the mama
gers of the Railroad Company, that
the act virtually prevents the COM
pany from establishing distributing
points for freight in the Territory,
and compels them, in order to avoid
the penalties of The law we propose
to repeal, to make their distributing
places in Oregon. l, as a representa-
tive of Walla Walla county, feel that
am here to represent particularly
the people Of that locality, and if
this duty is well and conscientiou~y
done, I am sure / will not misre; t.
sent the interests of Washington
Territory. Ifany of my people. when
l return to them, ask me why / aided
in the repeal of a law that l have
declared just i'll its intent, shall be
prepared to say to them l was mere
! ly rendering unto Cesar the things
that are Caesars and leGislating for
| Washington Territory, not for Ore
gon; that whilo the intent of the law
was just and right, the scales were
unevenly balanced and the prepon-
derance of weight on the side Of the
gentleman TO whom .esar's mantle
had unwittipgly been iven.
| We who live in eas arn Washing
ton are more interest, in the pro-
duction of wheat than :..,y other per-
suit, and we want all the markets
opened to us that can be opened for
its sbimment. We want this law
repealed, so that the Railroad com
pany, if it chooses, can fix rate to
deliver our wheat ON the shores of
Puget Sound as cheaply as it can on
the waters of the Columbia and
Willamette rivers. We have been
promised by their chief representa-
tive that they will do this, if left to
regulate their own business in their
own way. When Mr.. Willard told
US, few days ago that, if left un-
trammeled by legislation, the policy
of his company toward US as people
would be n benevolent one, l b.
lieve he meant what be said. 1 be-
lieve him for the reason that have
watched his course, as an interested
party, ever since he begun his sys-
tenn of roads in our Territory, and I
do not believe that he has publicly
made one promise that he has not
fulfilled.
The increase of production of
wheat in Eastern Oregon has grown
in five Yeas, from about 500 900
bushels to 1000 600, of bushels;
and, Mr.. Speaker and gentlemen, of
the House, we have n country with
capacity equal to 100000 of
bushels, and with your present facil-
tiles you could not carry our present
product over your road from here to
Kalama in six months. We want an
outlet for this produce, and we be-
lieve Puget Sound is the best that
can be given us now and in oil time
to come.
We have tried the Columbia river
route. We find it unsatisfactory
now, and what will it be when We
produce our 40,O00,000 of bushels
for transportation? Its name, since
Bryant sung of it
| THE dead are there"
through all the years that have since
interviewed has been associated with
occurrences of death and disaster, I'm.
til foreign merchantmen have come to
believe that sailing their vessels into
its mouth is sailing to as almost GER.
tain destruction as venturing within
the circle of the mighty maelstrom.
The traditions that have surrounded
its name are unfortunately too much
verified by facts. The changing
sands foated down to its bar by the
waters of the mighty river, are being
perpetually washed back again and
piled up by the waves of the sea in
such changing forms that they defy
even the experienced navigator to
locate its channel. The larger ves-
sells cannot cross the bar and there
is no cause for wonder that the
smaller ones are not willing to make
the long tortuous trip around Cape