Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1883-02-08
THE COUNTY SEAT BILL.

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Councilman Taylor sent US a copy
Of the bill for the re location of the
county seat and wrote upon the back
of it in pencil the following:
passed 1t is Just aud right, and
you folks knyw it is just. So don't
make fuss. Ysu hno'c it is Just
The people are my masters. People of
the WHOLE county. l say as on d.
vision-Let tho people rule. Tax pay
ers will get county buildings now with
out cost to them. Towns mast put up
or shut up, Love to all
TAYLOR"
The last part of the above we did
not understand tin he return Of Mr.
Baird, who says that after the bill as
printed came from the House and was
under consideration in the Council, a
proviso was added to the effect that
The place winning should, before any
removal took place, dep sit sufficient
amount Of money with the county
treasurer Of the county to build suitable
county buildings and pay all expenses
of the removal, and that the bill passed
the Council in that form. Hence We
suppose that is referred to by Taylor
when he says Clowns must put up or
shut up" The bill with he amend
ment was sent hack to he House, but
had not been con ,dered when Baird
left. The opinion was favorable to the
House concurring in the amendment.
As Mr.. Mcconnell uses the same ex-
preston in his letter in reply to Mr..
Parker of the Ne,rs, to wit. "Put up
or shut up" we are inclined to ,hiuk
that Mcconnell had reference to this
amendment, and would not do much
towards defeating the amendment in
the House. The bill in that form
smacks Of placing the county seat up
at auction to be sold to the highest
bidder among the towns, and certainly
must be Of very doubtful validity. I,
might do as an inducement for rail
road corporation to run their railroac
to town, but as act Of Legislator,
in locating county seat, it certainly
has no precedent within the range O
our knowledge, and its validity nigh
easily BIO questioned. If the bill ha,
passed in that form it has done ava,
with the objection urged against remov
al on account of increased taxation tt
build county buildings and pay the ex
penses of removal, and throws this en-
tire burden upon the winning town, as
, voluntary contribution. VIVA, is to be
come the standard cost Of these build
! ings does not appear from anything WI
yet know of the bill. But we presum,
it must be adequate to the imporrano,
and demands of the county. They,
may be towns outside of Lewiston tina
are so financially situated as to be read,
to contribute an amount adequate fol
this purpose. But We think they ar,
few, and We question whether any IL,
viii do this thout much reluctance
especially when it is known that an
other change Of county seat is anon,
the events liable to occur at an earl,
day when our annexation to Washing
ton is fixed fact, which now looms VI
with fair proportions. From all vi
can learn had the objection to disturb
ance of county seat been inserted in tn,
remonstrance to division of the county
it would have been as extensively sign
ed as the remonstrance against divisio,
and then all this buster would hav,
been avoided, But hardly any one hat
reason to suppose that relocation o
county seat would be sprung, and henc
the omission. But the Moscow eugi
neers of the scheme failing in division
/ suddenly sprang relocation, when W
? had not time to get up a general re
t monstrance of the people against ii
{ and now it only remaius for the peop
to rebuke this latter scheme by ignor
! ing the place and the men at the Jun
election by their vote to have the coun
. ~ seat remain where it is till the tim
r has fully come to divide the count
and fix the county seat where will bes
, suit and convenience the people.
To COMMERCIAL TRAvELEgs.-Ii yo
r want to take in the whole country whe