, 1890-01-30
cast rate bulls over 10. months old found
runni ng ut large between March 1 and
June 10 passed.
TUESDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
The anti-BoodIc Investigation Ended
at Last.

at Last.
OLYMPIA, Wash, Jan. 2s.-Thc great
anu-bOollo society story, which
has been tho sensation for two weeks
has resulted to-day in Scotch verdict
The house spent over three hours In
wrangling over tho matter, and wound
up by apply ing the whitowash brush to
Messrs, Moultray and Cook. That was
tho best tho house could do, and 1t did
not satisfy the two members. They
wanted the reporters to bo either expelled
or censured. but, as they had
ted in their testimony before the
investigating committee that they had
undertaken the organization of n soci'
city that was not needed for the expedi-
tion OF business and that was not prac-
ticablc, tho house could not give them
the clean bill of health they desired.
The majority of the members OF the
house believed as Messrs. Kuhn, Judson,
Of Pierce, and Chairman Edens, of the
invest eating committee, believed, that
an effort was on foot TO organize an un-
necessary society, and that IT the re-
porteTs had waited q day or two some
body would have been hurt, and thatthe
reporters wouli not have been the ones.
The Investigation was farce from the
beginning to the end.
In the first place, there was no author.
ity for the investigation In the constitu'
tiUn. No specific charge having been
made, there was nothing to investigate.
No ono ever committed the crime of or.
ganising an an,i.boodlc society. Then
the house insulted the investigating
committee by refusing to enforce the
power to extract testimony. mo Won
der the legislature is in contempt with
the people" rs Mr.. Kuhn expressed it.
Despite the earnest protest of the
sensible members, the house insisted on
hearing the evidence takcn by the COM
mittce read. The failure Of the invcsti-
eating committee to present a verdict
made matters worse. There were ire
quent motions to dispense with the
reading OF the evidence, but not until
there had been call of the house did
the mot ion prevail.
The house aftcrwnrd reconsidered
the mot ion, and continued the reading,
which consumed three hours.
All OF this time little Clark, of Spo-
kane, whom the Seattle press has
dubbed the clown of the legislative
circus" had been preparing resolution
to expel Reporter Scott of the Seattle
Journal and the corres spondent Of the
REVIEW. lie scratched out the REVIEW
mans name, and made At apply only to
Mr.. Scott.
The resolution was strongly con-
domned By Messrs Minis, Evans, Tuck
er Kuhn aud Judson, Of Pierce. The
cause of Mr.. Clnrk's resolution vas MIR.
Scott's article in the journal, which was
stronger than those published in the
other papers.
Mr.. Kuhn loudly declared that the
evidence convinced him that but for
Mr. Scott the society would have been
organized, and that il Mr. Scott had
waited forty eight hours the society
would have materialized.
MIR Judson, of Pierce, reiterated Mr.
kuhn's remarks, and said that Mr..
Scott lid nothing more than what an
enterprising correspondent should do.
MIR. Shaw, whom Messrs. Cook and
Moultray had claimed as a member of
the society, said there was no doubt but
that there was fundation for the story.
Mr.. pIummcr said that he was con-
WINGED that there had been an effort to
classify the members OF the house into
two sets,
Mr. Clark maintained that II the
house did not cxpcl Mr.. Scott the anti
Doodle story would bc used against the
republican party next fall
Speaker fcighun grew red ". the face,
and promptly raped Mr. Clark to order
for branching oil into politics.
Mr.. Eddy was the only one who sup
ported MIR, Clnrk's resolution.
The house then, by an almost unnni-
nous vote accepted Mr.. Blair's substi-
tute. whltcwashing all concerned, and
little Clark. folded his iontl like the Arab
and silently stole away
Tho investigation has cost the state
about $500