The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-04-20
THE STATE PRESS.

Klickitat Lender: ave are opposed to IN extra
session Of the Legislature except on certain con-
ditions, and believe as whole that it would b
more detrimental than beneficial to the state at
large. We are in favor of an extra session, pro-
vided each legislator viii bind himself to vote
for and submit to the people a. amendments
to the constitution, the following: To reduce
the number Of supreme judges from i've to
three and to reduce their salaries from 5000 .
year 70 5000 To reduce the salaries Of superior
judges from 5000 year TO $500 To reduce
the salary of the governor from A,ooo year to
5000 To abolish the ONCE OF ieutenant-gov-
ernor. To reduce the salary Of the secretary of
state from s., 500 year to 81 500 To reduce the
salary Of the state treasurer from 5000 year
to $3.50. To reduce the salary of the state
auditor from 3 coo year to 81 500 or abolish the
ONCE altogether. To reduce the salary OF the
attorney general from 5000 year to 81 800. To
reduce the salary of the superintendent of pub
lie instructions from s, 500 year to q, 5oo''
Walla walla Union: sIf assurance could be
given that Governor Ferry would retain his
health and faculties during an extra session;
that the Republican majority would develop
enough brains to devise and enact measures to
carry out the pledges Of their party; that it
would enact proper railroad legislation; that 1t
would provide for the selection and preserva-
ton OF the lands granted to the state; that it
would repeal the bill providing an agent to
look after state matters at Washington City, .
place which viii give the incumbent $4,000
year for assisting the senators and congressman
from this state In the performance Of their
duties; that IL would provide for amending the
constitution by taking from that instrument the
provision allowing the governor ten days after
the close of Q session in which to exercise the
veto power; that 1t would repeal the geological
survey steal of $4,000 and do many similar
things, an extra session would be good thing
Otherwise. otherwise"
Spokane Revier: s.Some day the pen of genius
viii transfgure with the glowing colors of
romance the stern realism of the earliest coloni1
alton of the Pacific Northwest The popping of
this remote wilderness was 80 interviewer with
the FIRE and ardor Of youth, 30 tinged with
touching pathos and so fraught with weighty
achievement that only the skilIful touch of
literary inspiration is needed to found IN en-
drely original school in American fiction. But
this movement can only be launched by q
writer who has learned to love the land of his
birth or adoption, and who has caught the rich,
full spirit OF the motives that sent innumerable
white caravans across the broad deserts then
separating the outskirts Of civilization from the
shores of the Pacific"
The AstorioB: "Washington has . state goolo-
g1st. He gets salary OF 500 month, but he
managed to have the Olympia Legislature appro-
pirate $5 100 cold cash for the expenses and
yeys and working and publishing maps, ETC., for
the next two years. The state geologist appears
to be an old Nevada man. That survey busi-
ness 10 worth 100000 if rightly worked. WASH
tngton's lieutenant governor is an old Nevada
man, too, and is quite well acquainted with
Story county, the Geiger grade and razor blade
lodges"