Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-02-06

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Adjourned
A oasGRACEfTL PxoCEEDlsG.
4 Let Of siaekEuards Atseaps 60 Cast
eAiam e. seattle and Hing
County.
Shortly before the meeting Of the
legislature, the Northern Pacific Rail-
road Company and the Oregon Railway
and Navigation Company pooled issues
in organizing . strong lobby to be pres
ent at Olympia during the session to
work for the defeat Of asy and all meas
ures tending to relieve the people of the
wrongs psrpssrssed upon them by the
railroad companies. The principal work
this lobby was required to perform vas
10 defeat the repeal Of the gross earn
lngs tax law. which exsmpts from tax
alton all the property owned by CON
pany operating a railroad In the Terri
tory. To show the workings of this
measure. V Is only necessary TO state
that by its provisions the sawniills, City
Dock, Ooean Dock, valuable water front
property. and hundreds Of valuable town
lots in Seattle, and thousands Of acres
OF land In King county. belonging to
the Columbia and Puget Sound Rail
road Company, are exempted from tax
alton altogether on tie payment of 9
small percentage on the gross earnings
of the road. By this Law King coanty
loses several thousand dollars revenue
every year. The Law applies alike to all
companies, and the above instance is
cited to shsv the iniqoity Of it. The
corporations did not want that Law re-
pealed. Neither did they want a rail
road commission appointed to regulate
their traffic and prevent oiscrimi-
nations against towns and indivId.
GALS. And, as stated before. to
prevent this a strong lobby was
organized at Olympia, With abundance
of coin. A tine suite of rooms we're fur
nished, q full bar, with plenty Of whis-
key and cigars opened. and she machine
set in working order. The first thing to
do Was to get control Of one branch of
the Legislature, and this was easily 60
oompliShed, az several members of the
Council were notorious corporationists,
aud tools of the Northern Pacific Rail-
road Company. One or two others were
soon induced to join the railroad
crowd, and the machine was in running
order, with strength Of seven 10 five.
All bills affecting railroads In any man
ner, after passing the House, would be
referred by a vote of seven 10 i've to
the Committee on Ways aad Means, in
the Council. of which G. w. Young was
chairman, instead of to the Judiciary
Committee, where they should have
gone. Ii is openly charged that Mr..
Young would carry these bills directly
to the headquarters Of this railroad
lobby, where enc of the attorneys com
prisIng the lobby would prepare his re-
port for him. fhe report against tbs
repeal Of the gross earnings Law, signed
by Young, 10 said to have been written
by Mr.. sears, Of Tacoma, the chief
moRul Of the lobby. The result 10 well
known. Every bill which had for its
object the best interests Of tue people,
and which affected the railroads in the
slightest degree, we're killed by the
famous seven in the Council.
This brings as down to the disgrace
ful insult to King county. Daring the
session Judge Lewis in particular and
the whole King county delegation
poured hot shot into this unscrupulous
lobby and its masters. aiders and abet-
iors, and Of course incurred the dir
like of this set of men, who, beat on
getting even. perpetrated the shameful
lnsulh on the evening of the close of the
session. At 8 O'Clock one Of the railros d
members of the Council moved to take
a recess till 1890 at night. The motion
carried, and no sooner had the men,
bers left their seats than lot Of the
railroad strikers, With L. II. Cavauaugh
at their head. took possession Of the
Council chamber TO bold a mock Legis-
iature. Csvansugh was elected Presi-
dent, and little fellow from Whstoom
named De Mattos was elected Governor.
Ee proceeded to read printed message
previously prepared for him, which was
full Of the ooarsest jokes and vilest ut
terances toward Seattle. King cousty
and the representatives Of this county
in the Legislature. The document
fairly rseked with blackguard utter
Anoes aud vile innuendees. This pro-
ceediDR was kept up for over an hour,
and be 10 said to the credit Of some of
the better cit zens Of Olympia, they left
the chamber hugely diseasted at the dis
play the railroad elaquers were making
of themselves. While this Was going
On q big, fat, drunken fellow, gath
cred together Q mob of banners and
hoodlums. and hung Judge Lewis in
efiigy 10 lamp post in the streets of
Olympia. Nothing was left uudone
by the railroad tools aud their vhiskey-
soaked allies to heap opproerium upon
Judge Lewis, the Representative of
King and Kitsap counties In the House;
a gentleman so much the superior Of
any Of his traducers that comparison is
impossible, and a man who honestly
aud faithfully represented his constitu-
ents, and who sndeavored to carry out
bis pledges made before the election
and the principles Of the platform on
which he was elected. For doing this
he vas publicly insulted at the Capital
City by q mob OF hoodlums, Who wished
to break bis influence With the people
For shame. Olympia, for shame. The
proud boast OF your hospitality to
strangers and visitors, which was your
browning glory for 30 many years, has
thus been trampled in the dust by Q
crowd Of worthless hoodlums.
DO the better class Of people in the
Capital City indorse ssoh work as this?
Are the peoples Representatives 10 be
pablioly insulted In your streets With
eut the protest Of the respectable citi-
ssns? II not, then let Q public protest
be made against the dein9s Of Thurs
day night. II 90, item shame DO upon
OWN pia--ahe deaArvea her imuAndinp