, 1889-08-01
The Delegates do not Favor Having a
Public Printer.
OLYMPIA, July %, 1889.

OLYMPIA, July %, 1889.
The convention assembled this mcTn-
ing with many vacant seats. A number
of the delegates took advantage OF the
long recess, from Saturday afternoon
until Monday at l:30 p. M, to run over
to Tacoma and Seattle. Owing to an
accident to the ste amer ''State Cf Wash
iDgtou" many were unable TO return Oh
time on Monday.
Mr.. Minor introduced resolution
that the judicial committee be instruct
ed to formulate u separate general arti-
Gle on Impeachment and removal from
Office. Adopted.
By Mr.. Power o resolution was intro
duced that the convention recommend to
! the next legislature that it provide for
the payment of the salaries of the addi-
tioDaI officers as follows: Reading clerk,
Sc per day; journal clerk, So per day;
pages, 81 per day. The amount recon-
mended fos pages is very liberal indeed
aud more than is usually paid for such
services.
Mr.. Dyer, (by requestD that no mem
Der Of the legislature. Judge of any court
of record, prosecuting attorney, mayor
of any city, city attorney who shall ac-
cept pass over any railroad or naviga-
ton line, having an Office or doing bus
mess within this state, shall forfeit his
office and be thereafter Ineligible TO be
elected or appointed 10 any office within
this provision.
In our opiTion the penalty for so ont
raA cons crime rs accepting pass
should be imprisonment for not more
than ninety. nine years, and not less than
for life. 1 trust that your lately elected
mayor, the Hon. Joseph A. Kuhn. will
see to it that he gets his passes before
this wise and much needed article in the
constitution is adopted.
The report of the committee on city,
county and township organizations IS
now before the convention. Tee report
is quite long and contains many impoE-
tant provisions, but it is impossible,
owing to your limited space for me- to
write of them in detail and have there
fore selected few of the leading ones.
Among the Offices provided for are the
following: County commissioners, sber-
if, county clerks, treasurer and prose-
cuiing attorneys. Power is granted to
the legislature to provide such other CT
fees as the county may require
Upon examination it will be noticed,
that no provision is made for the office
OF county auditor. 1t may be that the
committee contemplate baviug the coun-
ty clerk perform the duties low per-
formed by the county auditor. LII so, 1t
is unwise, as the judi committee ha'
provided that the county clerk shall be
ex-cfficio clerk of the court. The ot1ce
of clerk of court, in my judgment. should
be entirely distinct from The duties usn-
ally performed by the county auditor.
II the county clerk is only to perform
tue functions tf th court, then the com
mittee Las been most unfortunate IN it's
selection of title for that officer. He
should be known az the clerk of the
court Of the county i'll which be resides,
The following section in the article
meeia with my hearty approval: Nc
county officer shall be eligible to hold
his tffies for more than two terms ID
succession. Tie article also provides
| that ih., Legislature shall fix the com
peu.atioa ny salaries OF al county oth-
GERS aud e.g cuusia hles in cities having 1
DoruIation of five thousand. 1t will be
seen bv this provision thnt tie fee sys'
TEN is to tie abolished. The fee tif I'D
must 90" This is a cnmmeDdable step
We trust, however, that the Legislature
will fix such salaries rs will enable mer
OF ability to become Candidates for the
offices.
Evidently Ills oun,niltee IRE not re-
IigiousIy iuc!iued, or, [ misinterpFet tho
language Of tie section, which provides
that, no county, nor The inhabitant:
thereof, uur The property ther' IL, shall
be released or discharged from its pro
poriionate share of taxes.
| | take this section to meau, thai
churches and all eiemosysary institu
ito ns, shall be subiect to taxation. You
correspondent does not profess any re
lisious zeal, vt he feels that churches
and charitable institutions should be cx
empt.
An endeayor was made this Afternoon
TO take up the prohibition question, bu
consideration was postponed ullti
Wed ncsday.
/ new. I, knew until to day what an aw
! ful creature a public printer was. Grit