The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-09

The Attorney General Charges
PrOcrastinatiOn.
NH. sHEpARD,s BLUNT DENIAL


The barber line commission met yesterday
morning and considered tie proposed line sub
United By the Chamber Of Commerce COMMITTEES.
IN the afternoon the commission went ont on .
rug at high tide 70 examine the proposed haxbor
line and waterway.
Colonel Prosser stated Afterwards that the
three members Of the commission who were In
the city-himself, Colonel A. n. GarTetson and
Ex-Governor Sempae-sre favorable to the pro-
posal OF the Chamber Of Commerce 70 widen the
Waterway to loo feet; abutH he said, eve could
not cut into the island, a. the Chambers map
shows II to do. We could make 1t loo feet wide
until 1t reaches the meauder line OF the island.
and should then have to follow the channel of
the river The reason why we made the water
way 20 feet wide u that the engineers thought
tnaf the water from the river and the dow OF the
ude would keep channel Of that width secured
out, while the tendency would be for Ioo0-foot
channel to ill up with silk brought down b. the
river, while the stream, spread over 20 much
more space, would be less liable to clear out
such deposifa
W. c. Jones, the attorney general, ives in the
c1v Yesterday looking after the appeal OF the
naroor line suits to the supreme court To
fosTINTELIIGEyC1R reporter he said: II have
sent the transcript of the proceedings in the
superior court to the supreme court, but the
plainfifs have not Jet filed their answer briefs.
have already, at their attorneys request, con-
scented to three extensions OF time and they now
write me that they have not yet he'd time 70
prepare the briefs, and l have reached the con-
clusion that under the rules they are not re-
CURED TO file the briefs ct this time and that
could take what steps saw ht In the premises.
lshali on Aondsy ask the supreme court 70 set
tnc cases for hearing without waiting for the
piaintins' attorneys any longer. While the de-
cision in the Yesler case was not made to apply
to the other cases, they al involve the same
points and suppose that the court viii make
it, decision in the one case apply to all
Colonel W. +. Proser, chairman Of the harbor
line commission, said: ut IL not only an out
rage, but crime. to have interests of such mag
months since the case w.. heard BY Judge
Liehtenberg, and we have bad time to adjudi-
cate on these points, not only In the superior
but In the supreme court These people
have made repeated promises to fle their briefs
in answer, but have failed 70 do 30, though they
have experienced an anxiety to have the matter
settled. This delay ties up not only Seattle, but
every point in the state, several of which have
applied to have the harbor line located. At
almost every point in the state the people are
awaiting the sale of the tide lands on which to
locate enterprises, but they can do nothing TIL
they secure title from the state
Thomas r. Shepard, Of counsel for the
plaintiffs in the suits said In reply to Mr.. Jones'
statement: "Mr Jones statement il incorrect
The fact II that early In the winter, under mis-
apprehension q to the supreme court rules. we
secured from Mr.. Jones stipulation allowing
us an extension OF time We afterward found
that the supreme court rules gave NJ even more
time than we had asked for by stipulation. The
statement that the time for fling our answer
briefs was three times extended by stipulation
Is untrue. The fling Of the briefs has been de-
layed by the importance Of the suits and by
pressure Of business. We are getting them
through the printer hands with the utmost