Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-03
NO DECISIVE ANSWER YET
Governor Ferry Says Nothing Regard
ing an Extra Session

| OLYMPIA, May "a talk with Governor
Ferry can scarcely be called an interview.
| When once his excelency becomes inter
ested in you, he takes the lead in the con-
| versation, touching topic after topic with
astonishing rapidity and leaving his in
| terviewer to follow him as best he can,
without an opportunity OF taking many
notes. 1t annOys the chief executive II
| you do not give him undivided attention,
or II you interrupt his flow OF thought
with irrelevant questions. He has been
greatly benefited by his visit to Califor-
MIA and, II he has changed at all, II has
been percepCibly for the better. His eyes
look bright and clear and the expression
OF his face Is candid and independent as
ever In word Governor Ferry has
taken an almost permanent lease on life,
| II such a thought can be considered.
In conversation with your correspond
ent this morning he deplOred the possible
necessity OF being compelled to call to-
! gether an extra session OF the legislature,
but he stated unequivOcally that he
would do so If after consultation with the
! different heads OF the several depart
ments IL was found necessary for the
benefit OF the state. He reiterated that
1t would take him fully ten days In which
TO mprehensvely review the situation
] but by that time he would carenlIy eX-
anime the different bills vetoed by the
acting governor, and also would look inO
the question relating TO granted and in
demnity lands. Opinion is becoming
strong at the capital that he will call an
| extra session.
Both Treasurer Lindsey and State
! Printer White favor the extra session, If
the tangle concerning the granted lands
can be unraveled. The first named as an
official does not like 10 comment upon the
| several appropriations made by the late
! legislature for the benefit Of the public,
! but he makes no bones In saying that
were he private citizen he might pos
| sibly kick
Governor Ferry had another long con-
versatiOn with Auditor Reed this morn
! ing. This time the taking OF the
census In the several counties by the
| county assessors occupied the attention
OF the officials. The constitution pro-
vides that the census shall be taken every
iive years. Under the code Of 1851 pro-
visions were made for the taking Of the
| census every odd numbered year 1t Is
estimated that were the census TO be
taken this year under the old law II
would cost the state about g. 900 for the
necessary blanks, aud each OF the cOun-
! Ties several thousand dollars apiece
Governor Ferry considers the old law
| practically obsolete and authorized
Auditor Reed to notify the several county
assessors that they need take no censu,
! this year.
1t Is rumOrcd about the capital this
morning that Governor Ferry, after a
conference with the several state officers.
! Will send Attorney General Jones Ia
! Washington TO get the rules and rcgula-
tlons referring 10 state lands as provident
In section 10 of the granting act. There
Is IA great deal OF gossip here as to why
our delegation in congress had not done
TINS more than a year ago. After dill
gent search by pour representative he
cannot mud that any state officer or any
Land officer la the state has received
any instructions regarding this very i'm
bOrtant preliminary step leading TO III,
slaLe making hcr -rIncIInns.