Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1889-03-04
SALIMlGUNDL

The expensive session OF the last leg
islature leads the Oregonian to re-
mark:
The legislature vas the most expen-
sive one the state has ever had. Sec
retary of State Mcbride estimated the
cost Of the session at $4,000, and the
legislature, to make due allowance for
any discrepancy one way or the other,
appropriated $4,000 for the purpose
This amount, It has been found, will
not cover the cost of the session, which
will be somewhere between the amount
appropriated and $4,000, as com
pared with $4O,435 in 1887, $50, 900
1873, and $1,000 in 1868.
And also the same journal continues
in the same strain:
Committee clerk hire for the late
legislative session aggregated $4,000,
thus beating the record of the previous
session by about $4,000. Clerks come
high, but the law-g:vers say they must
have them, and the part of the dear
people, their admiring constituency, is
to pay for the luxury. It is said that
the clerks employed this year were
handsomer than those of former ses
sions. This being the case no grumb-
ling is permissible.
As matter of fact there was a
shameless expenditure of money, and
if our Governor had given some atten'
ton to these extravagancies going on
under his eye he would have included
these clerks in his veto message Of the
r. r. Commission bill when he said,
that the state would be relieved of IL
great burden, and the r. r. Commits
sion ssBoard and its clerk would also
be relieved of all work, except the
onerons work of drawing their salaries
quarterly and riding on free passes all
over the state"
We notice that Mr.. Connor makes
a very severe charge in his communi-
cation against Joe. Simon and the
Portland Republican ring, because
they defeated every bill or proposition
that looked to the ameIloration of the
,laboring man, yet on the other hand,
they favored the rich man at all times.
THERE is lack of honest indepen-
dence with many Legislators. The
trade theory was quite apparent this
year. s'You vote for my measure and
I will support yours" was a maxim of
the last assembly in Oregon. This is
far from commendable, and in some
instances leads to downright dishon-
esty.
Bro J. W. Watts has been "white-
washed" by the senate. That body
would not believe Mrs. AIcPhearson,
nor would they believe the affidavit of
the young lady in reference to Watts
requirement of her to give him one
dollar per day of her salary provided,
he secured for her q clerkshir. which
he did. The East Oregoniam talks
thusly about the matter.
Senator Watts of YamhilI, accepted
twenty dollars as payment for his in
fuence in getting the claim of Mrs
McPhearson through the legislature
At the end of the session the charge
was made against the senator, and he
denounced it as an internal lie, but
Mrs. McPhearson mildly stated, in
womanly way, that she did promise
the (dis) honorable "Fogg Horn"
twenty dollars for his services. Did
anyone ever hear of such baseness in a
senator beforel Senator Watts term
has expired and with it his usefulness
to the people of Yamhill. He pretends
to be minister, is temperance advo-
cate, lover of high moral ideas, and
a member of the grand old party, yet
he is found selling himself for twenty
dollars and accepting that from a
widow in needy circumstances. This is
the man who wants to be United
States marshal under President Harri-
sons administration. VIII he be, is
the question.
THE REVIEWS new departure has
met with such fattering success that
we now find that when we begin the
publication of our daily, that We will
have to continue the semi-weekly,
therefore we bid adieu to the weekly
issues for good and for all. Weeklies,
even as country newspapers, are to the
public mind as vehicles for conveying
the news, as the stage coach is to the
travelling public for transporting goods
or passengers Both the weekly and
stage coach are too slow IN their respec-
tive orbits to meet the demands of
this wide awake part of our country.
THE Herald says that we ''imitate" :"
Certainly we do. "Covet the best