, 1889-08-01

| ties was taken up.
| Mr.. kinnear moved to amend section
3 by striking out the words There shall
be no territory stricken from any coun.
ty unless majority of the voters living
in such territory shall petition for such
division. and argued briefly in favor OF
| leaving this matter to the legislator re
without any restrictions.
! Mr.. Weir opposed such action.
Mr.. Durie believed the whole of the
county to be affected should have q
voice ana not merely the portion to be
stricken oil. He therefore favored the
amendment.
MIR. ComcSys could not see the Justice
of giving the whole county voice. That
would be like
A PARTNERSHIP oF THREE,
where one wanted to get out and couldn
until the other two were willing to let
| him.
Mr.. Sullivan of Tacoma thought Il
perfectly safe to leave the section lust
MS 1t stood, where II both confers right
ON parties and establishes restriction
| in legislation.
Mr.. Minor said he was convinced that
| this provision was inserted in the mid
die of this section, out of sight as far as
possible, either by some mistake or else
for vicious or selfish purpose. IL was
a new thing to put into u state constitu-
tion and he thought he could sec the
reasons for attempting 10 get il quietly
in there. He had the honor to repre-
sent, in part u community which had
not long since had occasion to
Bow ITS HEAD IN GRATITUDE
to another section of the territory, but
he now thought he saw IL purpose in
their action, Not, perhaps, on the
part of all of them, for there were
nnhln nnnnrnIl@ hn. ~
still he thought he could sec that in
sending their -four and provisions some
of them at least had purpose That,
like physician, they feed us with
chloroform only TO dismembcr us.
Mr.. sullivan of Whitman said that but
for the speech of the gentleman from
King (Mr. Minor) he should have said
nothing. That gentleman is entirely
mistaken as to what other state consti-
tutions provide. In fact, there are only
three constitutions in this country but
what have just this provision i'll them.
This shows that there was no vicious
purpose, as charged by the last speaker
] think this amendment amounts To
very little any way, but It
inclined to vote for it, I would
not aftcrthe speech and statements the
gentleman (Nlinor). (ApplaUse, which
was vigorously rcpressed by the prcsi-
dents gaveD. While have tongue
that can speak ! will not sit silent and
hear a committee to which | belong or
friends with whom | am acting SO I'M
plunged.
MIR. Minor-Did not the gentleman
himself in the committee offer this sec
tionp
Mr., Sullivan explained in detail how
this matter had come up in the COM
mittce, and said he had consented to it
because he considered It u just limita-
tion and one that would
PREVENT LEGISLATIVE JoBBERY
"a simple restriction on the legislature
That they shall not strike off any por-
ton of county unless the majority of
the voters in the territory affected shall
ask for ii. II there is any viciousncss in
the question, il il with the other side,
who wish to leave the matter so that it
will be possible for the legislature to be
worked in private interests without
notice even to the parties directly in
tercsted.
Mr. stiles certainly hoped yesterday
that the gentlemen had understood this
very simple clause, which was taken
from the California constitution. As 10
the remarks that have been made here
am not going to allow myself to get out
of temper at any unimadversions ON my
member of this convention from whom
expected a cool, deliberate considera-
tion of this matter il was the gentleman
from King (Mlinor), but propose to dis
miss him and this matter by saying that
| believe that before night he will be
READY TO APoLoGIsE.
at least to his own conscience, for the
insinuatons he has made here, and SO |
Iau tha m a n l.s inf charity ~ IA IL
remarks. As to this proposed amend
ment | will say that | have never seen
such wilfil blind, obstinate miscon-
struction as has been exhibited on this
matter both to-day and yesterday. It
was inspired by scliishncss itself, and
dare not show itself otherwise than AS u
selfish proposition. This clause Is not
in any sense whatever special legisla-
ton. Nothing more general IN its
character could be devised. 1t merely
says TO the Legislature, "You shall not
cut OIL any county whatever unless they
want to he cut OIL.
Mr.. Griiiitts said that so far as he was
concerned the remarks of the gentleman
(Minor) didn't trouble him II bit. In
fact, he felt proud of being termed the
lieutenant OF so able chairman as the
one he was serving under (Stiles). But
he would say that in all the meetings of
this convention, although this struggle
about some little strip of land between
King and Pierce counties has been well
known among the delegates, the chair
man (Stiles) never by word or act or in
sinuation allowed single member to
even Know from him that any such
struggle existed. As to the very feeling
remarks by the gentleman from King
county (Minor), hc felt rs much SYM
pathy for the suiicrings of the city of
Seattle Us nybody, but he thought the
remarks of that gentleman (Minor)
were
IN VERY BAD TASTE
and should never have been uttered on
this floor because they gave ground to
others TO charge him with error, or else
a vicious or ambitious purpose, He
thought that when this matter had been
adopted by the committee of the whole
and then The convention had adopted all
the amendments of that committee, 1t
was time to make some progress and not
be Obliged to go all over these debates
again. As-to the clause which the other
side proposes to strike out, II they were
allowed TO prevail IL would leave an
untrammelcd power I'm the Legislature to
slice up Il county any way 1t plcascs.
How can we be charged with a selfish
and ambitious purpose when all we pro-
pose Is to restrict the legislature 50 that
when go to bed in Spokane county
may wake up in the same county; so
that the Wholesale slicing up of counties
cannot go on at the direction. Of any un-
principed or selfish parties without even
notice to the parties residing on the
territory
Mr.. Sohns favored the amendment.
Mr.. Buchanan could not sec any dan
ger in leaving the section, just rs 1t
stood. II simply restricted the legis-