The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-01-30
TROUBLED MEMBERS.
Scott Resigns His Committee
Clerkship.
THE PRINTING BILL PASSED.
Strong Language Used Over ne ssase
Printer Measure-Conmitsss Clerks
80 Go 10 work.
The PRINTING BILL PASSED.

EKnnter AS4s0ro-C0mm1tSeSC CheRke
10 Go 70 work
OLYMPIA, Jan. 29-The Doodle investiga-
ton Is dead, but its ghost walked through
the House today and stirred up again al
the acrimonious debates OF yesterday.
The committee on roads and highways
made an attempt to summariy dismiss n.
s. Scott, the reporter. as its clerk. All the
committee bat one signed the report re-
questing bis discharge. Scott had. IN the
meantime sent in bis resignation
TO speaker Feighan. The dispute was
as TO whether or not Scott should ee
allowed to resign The vote was n yeas on
the former proposition and 36 nays. Scotts
resignation was then unanimously ac-
cepted.
But SCOTS troubles were not to end here.
Cook. whose name was so prominently
mentioned in connection with the alleged
antl-boodle society. offered another resoin-
ton expeling Scott from the floor OF the
House. McReavy, the Mason county par
Humanitarian, proposed an amendment
10 include the correspondent oI
the Posr-INTELLIGEScKR McReavy's cause
OF grievance was statement In the PosT-
IxTELlIsEScER of Monday. January n.
charging himself and Stevenson. both
Democrats, with an attempt to foist the
responsibility OF corporation legislation
upon this legislature. The committee on
harbors and navigable waters having de-
cided to report favorably On Rotch's bill.
giving corporations control Of Q certain
class OF steamers for logging purposes
McReavy Is chairman OF the
committee on harbors and nayigabie
waters and he denounced the article as
false from first to last. The result OF the
choleric members attempt was prompt
ana practically unanimous postponement
OF the entire matter, Cook and one or two
other members who did not wish TO see the
original motion killed. only voting nay.
The article TO which McReavy took ex-
ctptions was true in its essential particu-
lars The committee on harbors and nav
igable streams had decided TO report the
bill in question favorably. but Rotch with
drew 1t. Stevenson then gave notice OF
his intention TO introduce
similar bill, and he fulfilled his
promise last Monday by offering precisely
the same bill. The measure is of the most
pronounced corporation stripe, in that IL
gives corporations control Of the unnaviga-
bic streams OF the state and power to exact
tolls from loggers who do not belong to the
association. Ii il Q measure radically
wrong in principle and of bad public
policy. The recommendation OF the
committee was not made because Rotch
withdrew the bill It would have been the
duty Of McRsavy. as chairman OF the CON-
mittee, to offer the report TO the House.
McReavy denies all knowledge of the bill
or its contents. It is safe to say. then,
that the chairman Of no other House COM
nsittee has 50 signally neglected his duties
as not TO be aware Of the action Of his COM
mittee on any subject so important as
this.
McReavy's motion was possibly intended
as a joke, and il Is to be regretted the
House was so lamentably wanting in sense
OF. humor as not to properly appreciate
it. but it was not peaceful jest. 1t was
disreputable attempt to shove the cores
pondent of the Posr-isTELIIeKEcER into
the dirty pool Of scandal and faisehood
that the anti-boodle reporters have been
wsliowing in for weeks.
Sharp's bin is intended to make reason
able charges by those ir-igating companies
which are opening UP the arid lands OF the
state. Ii places the matter of regulation
OF charges in the hands of county commits
sioners TO be made upon application OF the
person using or proposing to use wafer
from bitches.
Clarks absurd bill to compel all news
paper correspondents, contributors. editor
TAI writer's, etc, and SO on, to sign their
names 20 ali articles. was unanimously
killed by indefinite postponement today.
The principal change In the new bill au-
thorizing raiiroad companies to own. dis
pose Of, sell or negotiate stock in irrigating
companies is that the operation of the bill
is confined 70 arid lands
Fosters House bill gives county commits
sioners power to sell oyster lands at the
rate OF $i.25 per acre. No purchaser can
secure more than 100 acres. Application
for purchase must be made TO the county
auditor. There is no provision as to prior
right OF purchase.
HANDLES bill fixes tare on bale of hops
at five pounds; standard weight of bale at
baling cloth. weight from twenty-four TO
thirty ounces per yard.
The purpose of Preston's joint Senate
memorial, asking an appropriation of si0o-
90 Tor the establishment OF the glacier
system" of irrigation is thus elegantly ex-
pressed:
BY this system the waters are turned
from the beds OF the streams near their
sources in the mountains daring the win
ter months and frozen. aud are thss safely
stored. To be gradually dissipated by the
summer heat. supplying the springs. and
by the gradual waste causing a full fo~ TO
the stream during the summer months for
agricultural and manufacturing uses"
senator Wilson, who has a bill for the
location OF . normal school at Ellenshurg.
has decided 70 withdraw the present hsii
and put IN an omnibus bill concerning
the subject IL shall provide for
location of four schools, one at Lysiesl, one
al Cheney one AZ Eslsnsburg. and the
fourth at Chehalis. The bsli viii ineorpor-
ale the Offers os the people OF Chsney
and whaicom, for which bills have passed
the houSe. with the offers OF the people OF
Ellsnsbarg and presumably OF Chehalis.
The 100 go acre grant bT congress i 20 he
divided amongst the different schools.
IL Il rgmored tcnieht hat Representative
Cook. Of Clarke. who efefes the resolution
today TO exTel Repor eg Scotf. whieh reso.
hst5aa the House tabled viii resign Ms