Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-08-18
Washlngton Standard
OILY NPIa, WASH.
EElNAY EVENING, AUG, Is. 1893.
DOES an Emergency Exist?

Does an Emergency Exist?
" q meeting 81 the Emergency ,
Board takes place next Mouiay il
must. II course. he assumed that there
i some ground for such action. ami
that the public interest will suffer un-
- 'h,-- 4cntl,m"n assemble and
d,c,are that this extraordinary APP
p,iAnce shall be employed to afford
relief
Il j. expected that about $4,000
Nil hc required TO tide over the public
service until the Legislature meets
again.
The objects for which relief are de-
manded are to lengthcn out the
Worlds Fair appropriation, to provide
salaries FOR the State Land Commits
sion, for which the Legislature failed
10 make an appropriation, to revive
the appropriation for the Cheney nor
NAL school, measure which was We
tocd 10y the Governor, for relief OF the
Agricultural College a, Pullman, one
OF its officers having bagged" Sl1 900,
and (here comes the main objecD to
provide for additional clerical aid in
several of the State Offices.
With regard to the Worlds Fair APP
preparation, we think it is the opinion
OF nine-tenths of our taxpayers that
quite enough money has been frittered
away in paying men like Thomas II.
Cavanaugh 5000 per month to air his
prop,riions about the hotel rotundas.
The Land Commission will receive its
pay when the Legislature meets quite
as speedily as If its claim receives the
support of the emergency board, and
the only object OF action by the board
can be to provide for the issue OF GER
tificates to be hawked about, at GO or
10 cents on thu dollar, and which will
result in the state ultimately paying
that discount. No greater need exists
for the Normal School now than at
the time the Governor gave his rea-
sons for the veto, and in fact they ap.
ply with greater force now when what
was simply financial depression has
assumed the form of panic. 1t
seems, likewise, that the true policy
would be to make the recalcitrant re-
gent Of the Agricultural College dis.
gorge State funds, even though it
might weaken the financial standing
OF the bank he is holding up, rather
than to pledge the credit of the State
in deprecated scrip rs an alternative.
In the line of clerical aid, it is said
that a majority of the board Git con-
sists of the Governor, the Secretary,
and the Treasurer) and several other
State officers are in such distress that
this unusual method OF forcing an ad-
ditional appropriation is to be EN-
ployed.
1t will be remembered that the
Governor magnanimously reduced the
appropriation for clerk hire in his Of
fee, but it was probably with this al
tentative in view, should the demands
of party followers require additional
stalls at the crib. Then Secretary
Price is in great need of another CLERK
to help him check up the State Print
er's accounts and in auditing the same,
and it is pathetically stated that it
sometimes takes up three hours of Mr..
Prices time in signing bills of the
State Printer! 1t may be that the
State printing is a bonanza, or it may
be that Mr.. Price is very slow at fig
ures, but as he has for clerk a stock
holder of the State Printing Co., who
is an expert in all that appertains to
printers charges, it is difficult to see
what another clerk is required for I'M
less to make easier times all around.
In the Auditors Office, an additional
clerk has been employed to keep up
the work that should be done by at
least one officer who has done nothing
since June but draw his salary. The
Treasurer, it is reported. has no ak to
grind, and does not support the plan
proposed for raising the wind"
The STANDARD has this admonition
for the board. 1t is not too late to con-
slider the matter from the safe vantage
ground. 1t is no time for extrava
gance. The people are feeling the
grinding heel of oppression from thos'
who have riveted the chains of deb
upon their limbs, as they never felt i
before, and We assure the board tina
full note will be taken OF their actor
on this matter.
What the people have right to de
mand is that every public officer shall
render an equivalent for the salar
paid him, and that as faithful servic
shall be rendered by those who sue
their pap through an official quill a
by those who stand behind the count
er or at the counting-desk of the me-
phork or 10