, 1889-08-01
CON NsTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
The SOIonS at Work.
The Fee Fiend~ Must Go---So Say the
Lawyers.
OLrnrGA- Lnlv u. 1889.


der o. business, President Hoyt reaG &
telegram fIom the American Sabbath
Union, asking that a provision be in
serted IN the constitution p obibiting Ia
Dor on the Sabbath. This telegram W as
signed by Editor Elliott f. Sheppard
and General o. O. Howard. The mat
ter was referred to the appropriate com
mittCe.
Mr.. Eshelman offered a petition
against prohibition.
MIR. Dunbar presented a remonstrauce
against prohibition.
Mr.. Dunbar presented remons
trance from KIickitht county, against
granting the right TO counties TO ISSUE
bonds to corporations as subsidies
Referred.
The judicial artical was then read fol-
tue third time and placed on its fnaI
passage. Sixty-seven voted in favor ot
the article and six against.
Prior to the passage of the Judicial ar
ticle, Judge Turner asked for suspen-
sion OF the rules to make an important
amendment to section 10, so that JUS
tices OF the peace may be made police
Justices in incorporated towns. The
amendment was carried.
The committee on miscellaneous sub.
jects made a minority and majority re
port upon the prohibition question.
The majority report which was as ioI.
lows, was adopted:
WHEREAS. Certain petitions and
memorials, from E. b. Sutton and 9th
ers, representing many Thousand of oui
citizens, praying for the insertion IL
the constitution of the state of Wash
ington, of clause forever prohi biting
within the limits of the state the manu-
facturc aud sale of alcoholic and malt
liquors as beverage have bean referred
10 this committee for its decision there,
on, therefor; believing that the voice OF
large a number of Our people should
receive proper recognition, and realizing
the fact that the right OF the majority tc
rule is the underlying principle of free
government, We recommend that the iol-
lowing separate proposition be submit
ted with the constitution for the Tntifi
cation of the people, aRd be inserted
therein, should the majority of electOr:
so decide.
l! shall not be lawful for any indi
vidunl, company OF corporation within
or cause to be manufactured, to sell, of
fer for sale or lu any way dispose of any
alcoholic, malt or spurious liquors, ex-
cept for medicinal or scientific pur'
poses.
The report of the committee on an ar
ticle for the organization Of cOuntIes
cities aud tow nships, was considered
There vas no difference of opiniou
engendered by this ARTICLE upti! section
Sth was reached, when a spirited and
heated discussion took place.
That section reads that the Legislature
shall fix the compensation by salaries OF
all county officers. Mr.. Crowly moved
to amend tho section, SO that sheriff:
should be excluded from the operation
OF the provisions OF the section.
Mr.. Crowley's amenduont was a fire
brand. A number OF the delegates ar
gued that they could see no reason VIII J
sheriffs should be exempt.
Many said that the sheriff's Office oI
all others should be made q salarie6
one, as the sheriffs were in the habit oI
making unjust charges. That the
sheriif's bills were nearly always made
up of constructive charges. Mr.. Stiles
the chairman OF the committee bitterly
opposed making the sheriff's office fee
Office. He said that if You allowed the
sheriff fees he became the political bos:
of tue county, and that be was opposed
TO bosses.
A number of the delegates were in ia
vor OF leaving the matter to the legisIG
ture. Mr.. StrurdeVaDt said the legisla'
ture is beyond our control and l might
say beyond our conjecture.
The amendment of AIR. Crowley was
defeated.
The majority of the delegates arguing
in favor of the abolition of the fees sys.
tenn, were lawyers.
OF course they are opposed to it, fol
the reason they do not like to pay fees
But | cannot zee how section 9Th is GO
ing to help them, as they will be cIm
PEELED to pay fees as in the past. The
only difference is that iuatead of the OF.
icers receiving the fees the county will
No officer, however, is going 10 be
very Jealous in Collecting these fees,
whe. he does not receive the benefit OF
them, Consequence of this will be, that
the fees will MT b5 collected, and the
county will yet be compelled to pay the
salaries.
The tax payers will find after theJ
have adopted this constitution that {
salaried system is more than the fee sys
tenn T,FFDY