The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-01-31
SNAPSHOTS AT SOLONS
HON. THE LEGISLATURE WORKS
THE DEADLOCK.
What Little Pitcher Saw aui Heard
from Her Desk in the
House.

III uTdWlHS uIle pTliCely Scifdiy " Po |
a day in the service of the state. and !
my time is fully occupied in watching
our dignified brothers drawn Up in |
battle array to prevent the election of
AN U. S. senator.
The committees have all been ap-
pointed and their clerks selected. but
although more than one-third of the
session is gone the committees have
done nothing because it takes all the
time of each member to see that no
other members vote shall count any
thing toward the election of a senator.
My admiration for the astounding
fortitude with which our tired brothers
grasp and discharge their mighty in
tellectual duties each day actually
knows no bounds, and l am sure would
be shared by everyone who might wit
sess their daily sessions.
Each session is opened by prayer,
and as the minister implores the assist
a4nce of the Giver of all good to inter
pose his daily assistance the tired
feeling which overspreads the coun-
tanande of the average member
shows that he is fully conscious of
being able to cope with the situation
without invoking the aid Of any for
eign power. The true American citi-
zen is nothing If not Independent, and
especially if he is an Oregon legislator,
he patriotically resents any infringe
ment on the time-honored principles
Of the Monroe doctrine.
The first thing Of an exciting nature
that occurs each day is when a meas
ure of some Importance comes UP and
if the author of it dicovers that a sim
gle member Is absent, he Immediately
=
officer is directed to lock the door, the
roll is called, and the sergeant alarms
ordered to proceed to the committee
room where II. B. 1O4 is being con-
sidered and bring forth the delinquent
statesman. However, before the Of
| fcer gets out of the Goor the gentle
| man who made the motion at once
| moves that further proceedings un-
| der the call of the house be dispensed
| with" which motion always carries
unanimously and the great work of
| law-n making goes ON again with accel-
Grated Slowness. Just why ga call of
| the house. is always dispensed with
before the object of it has been ait
tanned, seems strange to lady clerk,
| but we know it is wise or our poor,
| tired brothers wouldn't do it.
Too much cannot be said in praise
of our esteen:ed speaker of the house
who takes eIury means of making it
easy for the new members. Every
/ time he puts a motion to the house he
tells each member how to vote.
There are so many new members that
this of course seems to him to be nee
| eSsary. If the member from Marion
moves that the rules be suspended,
the speaker at once says: '"The gen.
tleman from Marion moves that the
rules be suspended; those who are in
| favor of the motion will say aye as
your names are called, and those op-
posed will answer no. This makes
it easy for the country members who
otherwise wouldn't know how to vote.
| Ordinarily if member is in favor ot
a measure he knows enough to vote
| say' without being told so by the
speaker, and that officer would only
have to say: '"The clerk will call the
roll On suspension of the rules" But
there are SO many new members this
session who might favor a measure
and still vote ''no'' unless told by the
speaker that the way to kill a propo-
| sition is to vote against it. that the
affable presiding officer deems ii
proper to look after all these details
There are those who have always
thought the Lane delegation could not
rise above the back Alley of ward
politics, but some incidents Of this Ses-
sion have shown that even the hor.
ticuItural shades of Hood river do not
furnish more cunning Coon than the
ever green slopes Of the Siuslaw; be.
sides this the Lane county delegation
contains the only member of the
house of whom it can be said that he
is Moorhead than anything else.
| 10 mo hof tho 10 ~
corrupt methods in the senatorial con.
test must be unfounded, because the
delegations from every county in the
state are absolutely without Price
excepting that of Umatilla and there
is Hope for it as long as the gentle.
man from Malheur comes to it's res.
cue.
There are those who think the gen.
tleman from Baker is too Young tc
accomplish anything, but when he
unites his forces with the Burleigt
gentleman from Wallowa his point is
always carried if an alliance with the
member from Washington can be af.
fected because it makes triumviratt
that the Gates Of hell cannot prevail
against.
| notice one good-looking member
from Multnomah who sometimes talks
During one of his oratorical displays
he was Huston the verge Of going
down for good-in fact was getting az
black as Cole, and was shouting
Hofer help because he had burned his
Bridges behind him, when the senator
from Malheur appeared, proclaimed
himself King, and with the assistance
of the senator from Jackson got a
good Holt and jerked him higher than
a Keyt. This was all Dunn in the
presence of the Butler who said he
was Informed that the gentleman from
Lincoln was decidedly opposed to such
DAILY occurrences. This brought the
gentleman from klamath and Lake to
his feet, but his voice was so low that
I couldn't tell whether he was talking
pro or Conn, the speaker, however,
seconded the motion, and everybody
said: tThe Moores the pity"
/ While there are many things that
puzzles a little girl like me, I am
enjoying the session hugely, and de
vote all my time between meals ad-
miring the great display Of intellect
that occurs every day. don't see
how these over-wOrked men can en-
dure such a mental strain "an for
three dollars day. but of course
with them 1t is patriotism first and
/ Imercenary considerations afterwards.
think the men are so nice to sacri-
flee SO much for the good of the state.
LADY CLERK.