The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-12
Washington Senators Quite
Able to Care for This State.
THE CUSTOMS DISTRICT CHANGE
A Wool Manufacturer Makes a
Speech for the Springer Bill.
Ray and Meredith Emulate Sullivan
and Mitchell - Import of British
Sheep May Be Forbidden-The New
Mexico Statehood Bill.

WASHINGTON CRY, March 1l.-rSpecial. I
Monday has been agreed upon as the
time when the bill which recently passed
the Senate and which Senator Squire has
entered motion to reconsider, shall be
taken up and discussed. This bill pro-
poses to take slice off the Puget sound
collection district and attach it TO the
Oregon collection district, and it Is
claimed to be for the benefit of the public
service along the Columbia river. The
bill would have been discussed TODAY had
not Senator Allen been unavoidably de-
tanned from the Senate, and at his request
1t was laid over so that he may give his
views upon it.
Senator Squire said to the Posr-IyrE1I1.
eENcER correspondent that he wanted the
matter thoroughly discussed. The fact is
that Senator Dolph, who is moving in
this matter, has been very brusque. if not
discourteous, to the Washington senators
all through. He has as yet failed to ex-
plain the necessity for passing
the bill, and yet he tells the
Washington senators that they are
childish in wanting the matter
reconsidered, and IN claiming that the COL
lection district should remain the same as
1t Is now, Senator Squire says that he does
not propose having a slice of Washington
state cut off without knowing the reason
why it should be done, and so far Senator
Dolph has not explained it in satisfac-
tory manner, and says that the fact that
the treasury department recommends it is
all that is satisfactory and should not be
questioned.
Senator Squire has been in the treasury
department and has ascertained that the
department cares very little about it, lie
also says that there is no trouble in a
matter of this kind where no opposition
develops, to get favorable recommended
ton from an official of the government if
the senator goes and asks for it and says
that it ought to be done. The probabii-
ties are that is the way that
the Oregon senator secured the favorable
recommendation from the acting secretary
OF the treasury on the pending bill.
Senator Squire also remarked that the
Oregon senators have been here so many
years, and have secured so many good
committee assignments by right of pres
tige and long service, that they are in
positions of power that will take the
Washington senators some time to
acquire, but that he, for one, did not
propose to be run over and trampled
upon, simply because his state is
new in the Union, and has not
been able to acquire that position in the
Senate which the older state, and one
which has continued its senators in office
for so many years, has secured. If it can
be shown that it will be benefit to his
state as well as to Oregon to have
this part of the Puget sound district taken
away and added to the Oregon district, he
is willing to concede the point; but he also
thinks that two years ago a bill organiz-
ing the Puget sound collection district
upon state lines was passed and thor
oughly discussed, and nobody raised the
point that the southern portion of it
should remain with the Oregon district, as
it had heretofore.
Senator Allen is in perfect accord
with his colleague, and there is no doubt
that he will present some facts which will
convince the Senate that there is no neces-
sity for passing this bill. The senator
does not often enter a contest without be-
ing sure of his point, and so far has been
able to hold his own against anv of the
older senators IN contest where the rights
of his state are concerned. Senator Squire
does not propose to lose any temper. and
thinks that the matter may be discussed
in judiclons manner, but he evidently
does not relish a statement made by the
Oregon senator that he is childish when
he wants this matter thoroughly consid-
cred before it is passed.