The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-19

next general election, but il shall be the
governors duty TO appoint commission
immediately after the adoption of the bill,
10 serve until their successors are elected.
The governor is clothed with the power 10
remove any member or members OF the
commission at any time for cause. The
salary of the commissioners is liked at
5000 year each. They have the night TO
employ clerk and stenographer, and have
the hiking of their salaries. The commits
sion is to regulate the action of railroad
companies. and have the right 10 demand
an examination of any railroads affairs at
any time il deems il necessary. All rail-
roads and common carriers in the state
are required by this bin 10 make q full
statement of their affairs to the commits
81 on once year.
Hutchinson of Lincoln, and Fellows of
Spokane, have taken the lead in the move
ment against railroads. The former has
introduced a variety of bills intended to
correct almost every sort of railroad abuse,
and the latter has a bill 10 fix freights and
fares. BY Fellows bill fares are hxed at
maximum of 3 cents per mile, while
freights are divided into four general and
six special classes. Rates in the special
classes are nxed in the bill, while the gen
eral classes are left to the railroad commits
sion. The special classes are as follows:
the first ten miles, S Tor the second and = ior
each additional ten.
B-Liyestock-Rates,S 81, 1915.
Cline, salt, stueco and concentrates per
hundred, cents for the first ten miles, = for the
Second, y OF cent for each additional ten
miles.
miles, cents; second, cent, and each addi-
tional ten miles, y cent.
-Lumber-Rates per carload, first ten miles,
S.; second, 81: additional, 81.
load first ten mile, 81; second, 81; additional, 70
cents.
The bill is modelled after the Potter law
of Wisconsin, said to be one of the best
and most effective in the United States. 1t
viii be seen that the rates are fixed In ten
mile sections, with a rate decreasing after
the first ten miles till the third, when it is
uniform.
Speaking Of his alleged disability to hold
Office in the Senate, Senator Drum the
other day said:
The constitution. by its provisions, vacates the
seat OF any member who, after his election, ac
cepts any "cisil or military office under the
United states or any other power. The Office
OF commissioner OF the Worries fair is q compi-
mentary position / do not represent the United
states in binding way: that is. have no au-
thority 10 represent and bind the government
hy my actions do not think the constitution,
in its prohibition against accepting Offices under
mine.
Senator Drum thinks, also, that Barlow
of Pierce cannot be unseated. He consid-
ers that the duties of such municipal and
state offices as he holds do not conflict
under the constitution.
The state has derived no revenue from
the provision of the law of 1855, which re-
quires cities TO turn over to the state 10
of hatr
licenses. Nor will they comply unless
compelled by decision of the supreme
court in cases now pending. Senator
Frink has introduced bill TO repeal the 10
per cent. provision, and, outside of incor-
porated cities. to turn over 45 per cent. of
the revenue to the school fund and % per
cent. to the general fund.
Chairman c. III. Warner, of the tide land
commission, speaking of the necessity of
amendment of the tide land law, says:
The trouble with the present law is that the
appraisement OF the local appraisers is final I'M
less there is contest by private parties in inter-
est. For instance. suppose certain appraise
ment is too low. There will be no appeal. The
state has not the POWER to lit, and OF course
the individual applying for the survey will not
J have talked with members OF the legislature
who were here last session. and they say that
the error crept in and was overlooked. The de-
sign IS 10 make such amendment that ii the
appraisement is too low or too high Ii can be r.
vised by the state board. We will probably
offer bill covering the point. In other re-
spects the law Will work very we'll
We can consider now only applications for
purchase Of tide lands outside OF incorporated
cities. We have ordered estimates of surveys in
a great many cases. Under the law we must
wait until the haTbor line commission has made
locations OF aarbor rims before we can make sur
veys or attempt 10 dispose OF lands before such
cities or for two miles on either side. For that
reason II IS important, and we are anxious, that
the commission complete its work as soon as
possible
In the published list of Senate standing
committees, the following was omitted:
State Tide Lands Parkinson, Hyde, Edens,
MeCsrty. Hastings, Eshelman.
Speaker Shaw's appointments of House
committees were judiciously and wisely
made. lie eudeavored to place every men,
Der upon -four committees, though he was
compelled in some instances TO give but
three. The more important chairmanships
were given out as follows: Agriculture,
Arrasmith, a Whitman county farmer:
agricultural college and school of science,
Morse, member from Island county, of
sound sense and impartial Judgment, not
TO be lnluenced by the contentious of
Eastern Washington districts over the To-
cation OF the college; appropriations, Meg
Ter, successful business man, of expert
ence In legislative matters; corporations
other than municipal and railroad. Tyler
OF Pierce county, well versed in affairs of
corporations; enrolled bills. Kennedy, a
careful and conscientious member who
will see that the work is well done; har-
hors and navlgable waters, WATSON, of
Jefferson, county interested in the sub
lecti judiciary, Frater, a weil-known Sno-
homish county lawyer; municipal corpora
tons, Miller, of Whatcom. member of the
Falrhaven council; public revenue and
taxation, Port Townsend man of affairs
and legislator of experience: railroads
Ready, an EllenSburg lawyer; school lands,
Anderson, OF Mason, a capitalist and rail-
road and timber man; state university and
normal schools, Meany, graduate OF the
state university; state lands. Goldman, a
lawyer; tide lands Yancy, of Seattle. who
is acquainted with the subject; water
water rights and irrigation, Flummerfelt.
of Franklin, vitality interested in irriga-
ton schemes; ways and means and claims,
candy who is thoroughly familiar with
legislative procedure.
Representative Davis of Kittitas having
died, the governor will issue a proclama-
ton calling Especial election, which shall
take place within not less than ten DAYS
after such publication. The member
elected can take his seat immediately.
Last year there was vacancy in the Pierce
county delegation, caused by a member
who resigned after the senatorial contest.
Judge Elwood Evans was elected in his
stead.
State Printer White has a large force of
printers, pressmen and binders employed
turning oul reports of state officers. bills
and such other printed matter as is re-.
Quired az this time. His facilities are first
al a SCI ,s