, 1889-07-18

SUNDAY IN oLyntPr
Delegates Taik, surnffsos and Wishes
Who win the Servants He.
lsPErIAL rrIrnnAM IN rur nRx.rul

trfttiAL IfLfihAN IO TIE fENEINsl
OLYMPIA, Wash, July li.-Olympia il
quiet place on Sunday, IL was cool
and comfortable until afternoon, when a
gentle rain commenced to lay the dust.
"What a.place this Is to sleep" said one
Of the Bunch Grass delegates to Colonel
Nick Owings, and who, when the we'll
known Olympian objected to the man
ner in which he made the statement, the
| delegate said that he meant he felt like
sleeping ever since he came here.
That's the reason You fellows have
been doing so little work." replied Ia
coma delegate, and when the laughing
ceased in the crowd King county dele
gate added: "The Sound climate Is
good sleeping climate, but ii anybody
thinks Seattle or Tacoma are not wide
awake, they ought TO pay visit over
| there"
Just then John l.. Wilson stepped up
and remarked that Spokane Falls was
not in the sleepy row by any means.
olympiai is quiet on Sunday, but is stir.
ring itself to become railroad and
steamboat center for this end of the
Sound. The city authorities have
caught the infectious spirit of improve;
ment 30 lively in other Sound cities, and
are grading the streets. The citizens are
building a fine large hotel, new houses
are going up here and there and, best of
all, "A standard guage railraud is to be
built from here to Grace Harbor. The
latter is not all talk. The gentleman
who Is TO begin the, work and push it to
aud influence of Eastern capital
Is back of him and the road
has been surveyed. Within two weeks
there will be number ofca pitalists here
who will do as much In this part of the
country in the way of railroads rs has
been done for Waila Walla county, and
I..tr no guhafAau .tthar
"Wnat we want" said the &c ntleman
referred to, sis a legislature that will
not drive away capital. Look at Indiana.
II has never legislated on railroad rates,
and the result has brought competition
and cheaper rates than any other state
in the Union enjoys. There is but one
little piece of railroad in the hands Of
a receiver in the whole state, and that
was built on nothing. In Iowa
the railroad legislation has practically
conflscated the railroads Most of the
com mpnnies there have taken oil fast pas
sengur trains, and made the freight
trains the fast trains. The railroad COM
mission there, consisting of three men,
knows no more about railroads than a
pig knows nbout theology. and the result
II that the railroads have gone to the
courts, thence to the supreme court of
the United States, where their eases are
pending. Many of the railroads of that
state have been temporarily onioined
from carrying out ridiculous laws passed
ngogues. Millions of dollars are
waiting in New York for investment in
this favored region of the United States,
but capital is turned vixen laws are
passed which take the control of mans
money entirely out Of his own hands.
Just enough law for railroads Is suiiici-
ont. Too much of IL Is not good Tor IN
AiviAnalg QnrnnrntinuN.N
The arrival OF John II. Allen, the dele.
gate in congress, who was prevented
from taking his seat by the unexpected
passage of the enabling act, has. started
The political fire under the cauldron and
the politicians are moving around IL like
the witches ir Macbeth throwing in
their contributions to keep up the
'Tbnbble bubble" the trouble
which will grow hotter as the
election approaches iu October. That is
| less than dozen weeks hence, and who
will be governor, representative or sen.
ator is the absorbing question. When |
suggested to an inland delegate that 1t
had been pretty well determined upon
/ that Ferry of Seattle would be the can
didate for governor, he replied: I'VE
/ want that place for one OF our statesmen.
| We think That the interior of the now
state has talent enough for that position.
/ What's the matter with making Colonel
l. - llONlfli vi hiAN = "
emor and leaving the Sound country
and eastern section 70 hght II out for
| the two senntorships.
There is Ralph Dunbar, too, who
would make good candidate from the
center. Don't you see that II an interior
man Is nominated for governor, Spokane
/ Falls and Walla Walln could fight Il out
among themselves for Cannon, Turner,
/ Allen, Brcnts or Calkins for ono senator,
| and Seattle aud Tacoma could boil and
bubble for Ferry, Thompson, Squire
] Haines or Hoyt for the other"
One Of the Seattle delegates told me
| that the Queen City wanted a United
| States rsnator aud did not care for the
governorship up to date, and little par
agraph in newspaper here nominating
| *, dunbar Of Klickitat for that position
made the Goldcndale statesman laugh
/ when II was brought to his attention.
| John l.. Wilson of Spokane Falls who
| said ho Is here as n locker on and not as
a political fence builder, is an ayowed
candidate for congress. Wilson inherits
his fathers eloquence and Is an effective
stump speaker.
MIR Timer, chairman OF the judiciary
committee of the convention, Is spoken
OF for
cHIEr JUSTICE,
SO is W. Lair Hlll OF Seattle, who dis.
in am able manner, before the committee
on that subject. Judge Turner'S com.
mittee has decided TO reduce the mum
Der OF superior conrt judges for the new
state from seventeen to twelve, and 20
reported 10 the convention, This viii
make the districts as follows: First,
a,ardeld. Columbia and Asotin; second,
Waiia Walla and franklin; Third,
Adams. Douglas and Lincoln; fourth,
Whitman; hith, Spokane, stevens and
Okanogan, sixth. Yakima. kllckitat
and Kittitas; seventh, Clarke, Cowlitz
and Skainia; eighth, Wakiakum, Pacific,
Thurston, Chehalis and Lewis; ninth,