The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-03-21
THE NEWLY PLEDGED.
Some Of the Advantages Of
Statehood.
WORK ~ The DELEGATION.
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psiasseas N Prcspsct-Ths
Census Returns.


pscted that the bill dividing the state OF
Washington into four districts and pro-
viding for tho holding Of federal courts
thore vii soon become . law. The bill
which has passed the Senate and which
has been noted at some length by the
P0sT-In7KiLrsExcEa was introduced By
Senator Alien who pressed IL through the
judiciary committee room and had IL called
up In advance Of regular business The
same bill precisely has been introduced by
Mr.. Wilson in the House and as soon IS
the committee passes on IL and reports II.
thsre viii be but little delay in
making IL . Law. The process win be
hastened by the simple substitu-
ton in the House OF Mr.. Alien 3
bill already passed for the House bill, and
that viii be Ill that is necessary. The
House bill. after favorable report, viii be
indefinitely postponed. and one motion will
Be al that is necessary 70 make the bill =
Law. Washington is the second of the new
states to get the Judicial part OF its
machinery into working order. South
Dakota was the first. the bill dividing that
state into districts having passed both
bodies Of the congress about two weeks ago.
II 10 IN important step in the history Of the
blossoming of state from territorial bud.
The action Of the House committee will
not BE- long delayed, and probably the
action above outlined viii Be taken within
two weeks-
The advantages that will come TO the
new states by reason Of their admission are
Of course many, and not the least of these
10 the amount of advertising they get from
their representatives here, and the meas
ures they introduce. 1t Is safe to say that
the country at large has heard more Of the
state of Washington during thefew months
it has been . full-feged state than IL did in
as many years prior 70 that time. Meas
ures looking 10 the improvements along
its coast. the opening of ITS Indian reser-
walton, the development OF commerce
along its rivers, and the facilitating of the
government business by public buildings
at its chief cities, ali call attention 10 the
fact, more forcibly than any advertising
pamphlets could do, that there
10 state out In the far
northwestern country which ranks
IN growth ahead and In importance just
beside the older states OF the East. The
business done in the cities of Seattle, Ia
coma and Spokane Falls Is constantly
pressed upon the committees by the repre-
sentatives OF the state In their endeavors to
secure public buildings. and the immense
and rapidly growing commerce of the
state along Puget sound Is constantly
brought out by the efforts Of the represent
atives with the committees that have
charge Of appropriations Il river and har-
Dor improvement These things which are
going on In the committee rooms are q
part of the news that is sent out all over
the country every day. and people who
perhaps had faint and very vague ideas of
the nature and development and resources
Of the far-away territories are familiar
with them now that they are states
There 10 something uncanny about the
word territory" anyway. 1t suggests In
dams and buffalo. and is on the very face
of the returns . standing advertisement
that the section OF country so labeled is un-
able to take care of itself. 1t is different
with . state. More men and more money
will 60 TO Seattle and Tacoma. now that
Washington Is Q state, than would have
gone there while il was territory.
The rivers and harbors committee Is not
likely to allow all the appropriations which
would be of real and immediate value to
the state of Washington. IL looks Is If this
were emphatically true. The appropriations
will be but little increased over those of
last year. il indeed they are 50 great.
There were appropriated by the last con-
gress for the Chehalis river $4,000, for the
Cowlits 1000, and for the Skagit, Stilla-
guamish, Nootsak. snohomish and Sno-
qualmie SIS. 900. total of $40, 900. The en-
gineer's estimates tor this year are: For
the Chehalss, 5000; for the Cowiitx. g, 900;
and for the others $4,000. Large cuts viii
be made by the committee in the estimates
of the engineers, and il the amounts foot
UP total o. large as the last congress gave.
Washington rivers viii fare better than the
streams in many states II is said that the
committee will cut the engineers estimates
80 per cent. though that Is IN unofficial
statement
Senator Allen has record OF attendance
at the Senate chamber this session which is
equalled by few il any senator's He has
been present every day but one, an urgent
business matter having taken him to New
YORK during single session.
Superintendent Porter, OF the census
bureau, Is very strict in his Interpretation
OF the clause In the census act which gives
him authority 10 allow extra clerk hire 10
supervisors. He SAYS he can do this only
in very rare cases and only where IL is
plainly shown that an extra allowance is
an absolute necessity. The supervisors VIII
not find the job . money-making one.
They have on their hands an immense
amount OF work, and particularly is this
the case IN those sections OF the coun-
try where the development within
the last ten years has been
greatest. This viii be the case in the state
OF Washington. In the older states the
previous supervisors have left as a record
much of the work that the supervisors in
new states will hare To do. The districts
OF the snamerators in the old states viii
not vary 90 essentially from those ten years
ago. In new states the entire districts viii
have TO be remodeled. This viii necessiiate
visit TO the important cities, unless he
unusually familiar with the ward and
township lines. Much OF the work which
inc supervisors in the old states will be
able 10 do IN their oftces. can be done IN
new states only by personal inspection OF
the country TO be covered. II viii be hard
10 impress on the census bureau the exact
situation, and IL Is ioabtial Il Superintend-
ent Porter grants the additional allowance
10. inspectors in the state Of Washington
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