The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-01-19
HE WILL NOT SIGN SIGN
The Governor Objects 10 the
Seat Bill.
An Use onT CONVICTION.
Exposure Of the Tacoma Real Estate
Trap for Yakima TndiaHs-commit-
tee on Tide Lands

OLYMPIA, Jan. Ex-Governor Ferry viii
send bis nrst veto message TO the legIsla-
sure 90 Monday. II win be on :. B. 40. 81,
bs Hughes, 70 require employers to furnish
seats 20 female employees By the pro-
visions Of the bib shs certificate Of any
physician that an employer has in any
case yiolated the provisions Of the set shall
be prima facie evidence Of his guilt. This,
Governor Ferry holds, Is in direct conflict
with the right Of every person accused Of
crime 20 be deemed innocent I'll proven
guilty.
The governor has no objection TO other
bills passed 50 far IS known.
The feature OF Friday : session in the SEN
ate was the very lively debate over the me.
mortal asking congress 20 throw open the
Puyallup reservation. Drum explained
that the passage Of the memorial was de-
sired By the people OF Tacoma and Indians
alike. and that nov vas the
proper time for tho Indians % sell
lands when they could realize on them so
richly. The senate read . petition by the
Indians dated last August. asking the leg
isietnre 20 pass such memorial as that
nos pending. II desired, any number Of
Indians could be brought here 10 testify TO
their desire n person. Then Whalley,
who the other day launched out against
the pirates who were trying 10 swindle the
Indians out of their land, renewed his crit
icism, aud charged that this memorial bad
its basis only in self-interest. He declared
that the passage Of the memorial would be
the worst thing that could happen. Whal-
ley went on at some length in this vein.
The most effective part Of his argument
was the production OF sample document
by means OF which certain Tacoma real
estate sharks are endeavoring 70 get the
lands OF the reservation Indians.
The document was bond, the imme-
diate intent of which Is puxxling. II is an
unrecorded deed from Tacoma real estate
man 10 Joe Frederick, an indian, in which
the real estate tnsn sells the Indian twenty
acres Of his own land. Ii seems that the
real estate man had secured lease from
the Indian for the same land, which, by
act of congress. can be leased for two years.
Then the real estate man in turn makes to
the Indian this deed. giving him possession
OF the land for two years for 81. At the
end OF two years he agrees 10 sell
the land 10 the Indian for $500. In other
words. he leases the land of the
Indian and then turns around and sells
him his own land. The Indian has paid
no money 10 the grantor and the object of
the bond is evidently 20 secure possession
OF the land at the end OF two years, or the
$500. At any rate, the document is prime
facie evidence OF fraud. and illustrates the
method resorted 70 strip the Indians Of
their heritage by INSCRIPTIONS swindlers.
The tide land committee have hired the
steamer Washington for their jannt around
the Sound They start for Gray's harbor
at 1890 Sunday morning. The MEM
bers Of tue committee are; Senate-Aus-
tin, Landes, Snow. Luce, Van Houten,
Kneeland. wooding. House. Browne OF
Pierce. Candy. Allen. Painter. Kuhn. Stew
enson. Geoghegan, OIiphant, Hutchinson
sharpe. Spencer. The committee will
board the Washington Monday, going TO
Grayis harbor by the regular routes Of
trave.