, 1889-08-15

shhh nave ulhRTtaeu. Inty iNE SUR
rounded us with Al lobby gro sn rich
from the unauthorized use Of I his very
airociousiy ask this convention TO turn urn
the whole property over TO them. A re-
quest more audacious and atr ocious was
never before made TO body of honora-
bio men.
Griffitts said the provision was one of
the greatest evils he ever sAtv. Yester-
day in the report he had trie d hard to
Keep these subjects of tide lands and
school lands. separate, but ii seemed inn
possible, and so the gate m igilt as we'll
60. wide open and the whole subject
taken up. One of'the first lpr, ,positfons
which had come in here was h. Is own, to
the effect that every acre o { the state
lands should never be sold. 7 This com
mittee supported it. Two re solutions
alling for Information on lh ese state
land matters were offered here and one
was defeated and the other aul )pressed,
| and now the only land that u, recon-
| mended to be reserved from sale is a
little bit of
STRIP or LAND
for harbor rims, and the sal ne reports
| recommend that the strip be handed
| over TO the cities bordering on them.
That was proposition whicl he GER
talniy should not favor. BE sides that
he feared the legal deduction would be
that by reserving this much pecitic,illy
the state would preclude itself from serv-
ing any more. So he should take his
stand and retreat no farther than he
was driven, on the proposition that here
| or later no single acre Of the state land
should be sold. He hoped that the
members would keep their teJnpers in
disoussin such grave matters and not
into a police court channel. He pro-
posed later on to put in a clause that
should declare void every attempt hith-
erto made by the ter Titorial legislature
to give title to thes a lands or embar-
rass the states title.
Cosgrove made th. point that the
question of state land was not now up.
The chair said the c, invention had de
cided to consider these two subjects to.
gether and so the gentl emanwas In or.
der.
Griffitts closed with brief appeal to
tho members to vote against the pro.
posed section.
Cosgrove referred to he, recent parlia-
mentary passages betw, zen himself and
Moore and deplored
tn LACK OF JEAN
imputed to him by that gentleman, but
he declared th at he wou Id not descend
to the depths of his WI lgarity in reply
ing.
Dunbar raised point that this tide
lands and harbois we re both before tb @
committee of the wi iole yesterday, bat
that committee mad u partial report
and that report is nov ' the only one l)e.
fore the convention, IL le tide lands ques-
ton being still before the committee of
the whole.
The chair ruled agtii that both ques-
tions were before the &C invention.
Dunbar appealed ant | the chair was
not sustained. He ther eupon ruled that
from this fha UantI.ax naf unu1I
fine themselves to the di lsoussion of the
harbor limo question alo ne.
Cosgrove continued n few moments
and then Dunbar called him to order for
wandering away from tn equestion under
discussion
The chair stated tho question, and
requested the gentlemal I from Garfield
(Cosgrove) to keep to Il, although he
said the course OF the I convention wa,
surprising TO him. IL las d first decided
to take up these two req uests together
now it had decided to di scuss only the
harbor question. He Ii AIRED later on,
when tide lands came up IL wonid make
trouble not TO be able to efer 10 the har-
Dor question. e.l
Dyer believed Durie wa IS sincere in his
motives and did not quet ition them for a
moment, but the greate II good to the
greatest number was til he highest law
lie wanted To so upon 10 co ri for one as
saying that he had
NOT ONE DOLLARS WORTH
of interest directly or in,ij ,rectly I'm the
tide flats on Puget Sound Ur anywhere
else, and so he presumed ,e could dis
CtlsS the question nnparti ally.N He IA
vored the tide land strip as proposed
but should vote again st ID nrie's propo-
sition.
Hoyt said the only question was
whether the cities or the state should
control. He believed it be tier to leave
it in the state, and tho re fore opposed
the proposition to vest the n control in
the cities.
Dunbar followed brief, in the same
vein.
Bowen moved the preyi Gus question.
So ordered
On Duries proposed sec, ion this was
the Vote-ayes 3, noes 20.
fr05ser moved an annent lment to sec
ton ! TO make the ,harboi lines perma-
nent and said his only lbject was to
prevent frequent changes.
Stiles doubted the vii dom of the
amendment and so did turner
The chair stated inst the harbors
rapidly filled up, and GIFTED Seattle
aboard of the United States inan-of-war
Decatur, which lay whera The Oregon
improvement Company's docks now
were.
Mr. Reed moved to amei Id by substi-
tuting government meand Ell line" for
Zine of ordinary high tide and did
this in the interests of certai nry-to pre-
vent litigation and have a 81 ettled line
instead OF u doubtful and chan ging one.
West moved to substitute "t be line of
vegetation," and said that wa.' always
there while the meandcr line so. uetirnes
disappeared.
Hoyt said vegetation comes to n stop
ten or twelve feet short Of high water
mark.
Turner began with sonte reflections re-
garding the meander Lines, but was
CALLED TO ORDER
by Hoyt for wandering from the line of
vegetation. West mediat,d between
them and withdrew his amendment.
STILES moved to insert the word ''riv-
ers" in the section so as TO include
rivers in the establishment of harbor
lines. Adopted.
The convention adjourned till p. NJ.
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