Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-02-05
STATE CAPITOL GOSSIP

OLYMPIA, Feb. 2--The Bolivian min
lister has returned. He has not resumed
active management of Senator Aliens
campaign aud probably will not. When
he eft here he told number of men,
bers that he was to depart directly for
Bolivia, but il transpires that he merely
went to Seattle, possibly to ques-
tion the headline writer of the Unintelli-
gencer regarding the unfortunate con-
tretempts to which the HERALD so clev-
erly referred in a recent issue. The
Allen leaders are now willing to admit
that there is a possibility that their
candidate can neither be elected nor
appointed. Instead of asserting as they
did week ago that Allen would surely
be elected they content themselves
with saying that Turner cannot and
shall not be elected An attempt was
made recently to break the Turner
phalanX but il was unsuccessful be-
cause the honorable senator to whom
the proposition was made refused to be-
tray the man whom he was supporting.
Senator Frank Richards, of Whateom
is the man to whom the proposition
was made. A duly accredited agent of
the Allen crowd approached Senator
Richards and informed him that he
could control a certain mum Der of votes
and if Senator Richards could handle
majority of the Spokane delegation,
there was no doubt that the next Uni
ted states senator from Washington
would be Frank Richards. The latter
Is an even tempered gentleman but on
this occasion he was mad. He deliber-
ated whether it would be better to kick
the Allen agent out of the room or
adopt the more polite plan of learning
what new scheme was on foot. He de-
ternlined to follow the latter method
and listened quietly until the Allen
agent had finished. He saw that there
was possibility Of his being able to
make a successful fight, but visions of
the senatorial tOga did not dim his eyes
70 bis duty and he replied that if he
Were certain that lie could be elected
be would still vote for Turner. He had
come there to support Turner and he
would support him to the end. When
the man who had made the overtures
to Richards returned to Allen head
quarters and related the result of his
visit, it was unanimously decided that
they had mistaken their man aud that
something must be done to counteract
the effect, accordingly the Allen papers
throughout the state were instructed to
say that Turner himself had announ-
ced that he was willing to throw his
strength TO Richards if "A sufficient
number of votes could be obtained
from the other side. This phase of the
story was q chapter from the book of
political fiction that the Bolivian min.
lister has constantly at hand.
All but three of Turner's supporters
have signed an agreement to support
him to the end. Greenburg, of Spo-
kane, Ludden, of Spokane, and
Mooredem did not sign the agreement,
but it is declared that they will con-
tinue to vote for Turner until they are
sure that his cause is hopeless and
they are not convinced of that by any
means.
There are numerous railroad bills
before the house. Anderson, of Whit
man, has one. The WATSON bill has
passed the house and now Hoole, of
Clallam, introduces a bill for the APP
pOintment of a railroad commission.
Many of the members argue that such
bodies are always expensive and that
they accomplish but little. They cite
the fact that California aud Oregon are
both DESTROYS Of doing away with their
railway commission and stat. they
will oppose any measure to appoint a
commission.
The bill introduced to secure an an.
preparation for building a state capitol
l. approved by many Of the members
The present capitol resembles a graded
school building and j. not eOmmodiou.
enough 10 accommodate its occupants
The only objection that has been urged
j. that tie bill creates too many ex
peuaive Offices and there will he NOR,
money paid to the commissioners thar
there viii BE- 70 tie architects anC
builders. II il probable that this feat
IRE u the bin will be modified befor,
fhe bill berufnes law.
eluits recently Governor McGraw re
cpsved a petition from the 5eattl,
Chamher u Commerce, prDtestinG
suaiusf allowing a couple n advertis
ing sskirs from covering the walls o
the Washington state building at tns
Warfdfs Far with advertisements. In
soule manner. only known % thos'
,snueerued in the deal, these two met
we're granted the uuneard ~ privilege
81 controlling the advertisements sns
nave recently notified the chambers o
e0u1nerce ~ several cities in this stat
fisaf their city would not be on tn
map unless q certain sum, usually 81
e,xarflifaut snB0uut was forthcoming
The rvfIy 6akirs seemed 70 have over
1raehed shemaeivse and ie b probabl'