, 1888-01-26
What Our Regular Correspond
ent has to Say.
A Newsy Letter from the Terri
t0rial capital.
Giving the Spokane Contingent
q Send Off.

As the REVIEW was informed by tel
sgraph Inst evening, the substitute was
aefeated, and Lewis's bill was adopted
Nv vote of five to four, Messrs. Steele,
uoOko and Roeder being absent.
STRAY NOTES.
Dan Drumheller and Judge Booge
are making friends all around the cir
Gle, aud are enjoying their visit here.
J.F. Parks, of Spokane, is here, .and
ID AN outspoken candidate Tor the at
torney generalship, should the bill Gre
ating that Office pass.
There was Il six inch fall OF snow
Monday night. 1t is slush now.
The Spokane crowd are all jolly
good fellows and immensely popular.
1t is Tho general sentiment that II the
representatives and visitors here from
the Falls city are representative citi-
sens Spokane must be the brightest
town lin the territory. q.
Gowry suppoi ted the substitute and
in answer 20 Lewis bjections to the
bill called the attention Of the council
10 the fact that for sixteen years the
leading minds of the country had been
engaged in framing just such bill ms
this. That after u most exhaustive re-
search they brought forward the ia
NOUS Interstate law which was de-
signed ~ do justas this bill progresses
10 appoint commission to adjust the
matter uf freights and fares that will
- q benefit TO all. Convey reminded
Lewis that in his hurried review Of the
till he overlooked the provisions made
~ amendments that successfully pro-
vided for the remedying ofitist such de-
1scts az Lewis claimed.rne bill was full
of. He urged for his substitute the
ACT that while it does not go on ut
great and elaborate way to prescribe
che manneIyof going into court to force
tho decfees Of the commission it does
Ay, point blank, the commission
Oh lk have power to summon witnesses
aud enquire into the management and
>nanner Of conducting the business OF
railroad companies. He did not be-
heve in filling up the statute books
with voluu,inous and technical laws,
while at the same time the object
sDught for by the people could be Mt
taincd by = shorter and more prac'i-
cable ball. Further, he did not believe
in saddling deot of $4,000 or $l0,.
600 year upon the people for the
purpose Of slfording several men the
spportunity to take u periodical jun
keting "trip at the expense of the peo-
pie and accomplish no good.
Lewis, in liis usual lengthy and
word-stinging way, quoted from the
decision rendered in the CAGE Of the
Wabash railroad company vs.. the
State Of Illinois. He reviewed the facts
in this decision as far as it affected the
people OF the territory. The gist OF
this decision was that territory as u
state can control and regulate the
freights and fares OF all its railroads.
Mr.. Thompson remarked that Lewis
remarks highly amused him, partcu-
larly, as 1t recalled to his mind the old
story Of the boy with his hand in the
jar Of nuts. With his hand full he
could nj get it out, but
when he let go half of
them he withdrew his hand
rapidly. Sust 30 with this commits
Aon. If the bill offered by Lewis were
20 pass, the main objection to it in the
Arst place would be its cost. For the
Arst two years of it would cost about
Ql6,OO0. besides the incidental ex-
senses, and this alone would bring dis
ssputs upon the commission at once.
BY the adoption Of the substitute the
cost would DO something like 1850.
This fact alone commended it to the
GoOd graces Of the people. GabeI, dur
ing short talk to the council wanted
Il first OF sll plainly understood that
up TO two years age h WAS in favor OF
railroads, and always voted for them,
and in their interest. But he must
confess that since then he had expe.
Eienced a. change of heart. He OPP
posed the substitute on the ground
that it did not go far enough. 1T
this juncture he took occasion to ar
rxign Mr.. Thompson for his remarks
during his speech. He said that the
delegates from eastern Washington
had come to Olympia to cnch the
railroad. He said in rather vehement
language that the representatives OF
eastern Washington had come there
with clean hands, and with deter,
mination TO fight for their rights. In
his plain forcible manner he depicted
20 the members of the council the
'-r~st and unjust discrimination that is
made BY railroads ag ms, the produce
Of eastern Washington. The rate on
wheat, he said, Was 20 cents bushel,
and cited as an example his own care.
During the eight years that he has
been u IN mer he produced $1,000
bushels Of wheat. on which he paid u
transportation tax Of $l0,400.
AZ the conclusion Of Mr.. Gabel's
ep ech, Mr.. Thompson asked the in