The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-03-10
THE SENATOR MUST TRY AGAIN

THE SENATOR MUST TRY AGAIN.
Whether the communication, in last
evenings Times-IMountdineer is intended
as Justification of Senator Hilton, or a
covert attack upon A. G.. johnson, and
Senator Watkins other "clerk of COM
us good deal of sailor, many years
ago, in Portland who hired horse from
livery man, and after he was saddled
jumped astride with his face to the tail.
The stable keeper demonstrated, but the
sailor only answered. "Young man you
don't know what direction / am going"
Mr.. johnson is abundantly able to take
care of himself and we hope he may do
80, but the CHRONICLE has few words
to say about the tother clerk
1t is little singular that, notwith-
standing all that we have written on the
record of Senator Hilton, during the last
legislature, he should single out this one
solitary paragraph for attack. We say
che" for the letter we are commenting
on was either written by the senator or
written ut his dictation. Were all the
other charges-solne of them gravely i'm
peaching his very manhood, true, and this
only false? 1t would, indeed seem so,
for the senator is not slow to appear in
print in his own defense, when he has
anything to defend. A few days ago, we
clipped from the columns of the Fossil
Journal and published in the CHRONICLE,
a few lines reflecting OH the Gillian
county Representatives for not making
an effort to have bill passed to fix the
wages of the stock inspector. which the
people of that county considered to high.
We, of course supposed the charge was
true. In the next copy of the Journal
there was letter by Senator Hilton ex-
planning that, a bill, introduced by him,
to effect the end desired by the people
of Gillian, had actually passed both
houses and was now a law.
Assuming the letter to be true, we
promptly made amends in the CHRoNI-
Gle of last evening, in the following
words
Senator Hilton has written to the Fos-
s1l Journal, i'll answer to charges made
In that paper that the representatives
from Gillian county would find it hard
to explain their action in regard to a
bill for the regulation of the salary of
the Gillian county stock inspector. The
senator explains that he introduced a
bill, which has become a law, which
provides that the county court of Gill
liam county may regulate the salary
themselves.
This is our answer to the charges of
complete unfairness in this, as well as
in other criticisms of our delegation" ,"
wrote line concerning the record of our
representatives, that we did not then,
and do not now believe to be true,
and when we discovered that the
charges of the Fossil Journal were
without foundation we promptly pub
lished correction. We go further: if
In any essential manner, we have said
one word about the record of our repre-
sentatives that is not as true as it is true
that the heavens are stretched above the
earth, the columns of the CHRONICLE
are at their service, and we are more than
ready to make reparation. 1t is said,
1.-THE editor of the CHRONICLE knows, or
should know, better than almost anyone
else, whether the bill was enrolled and
sent to the Governor. The editor of
the CHRONICLE did not know, and it was
none of his business to know ANYTHING
ABOUT any bill, except such as were plac-
ed in his hand for enrolment and Sena-
tor Hilton knows this as well as any one.
1t was the business of the chief clerk
alone, and as many as from ten to TWEEN
ty sub-clerks were at one time OF another
employed
The apologist OF Senator Hilton really
must try again.