Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-03-19
W'ashin9tun Standard
OIX NPIt. WASH.
EElRAI HEiIM. MARCH 10, 1884,
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~Ht-r"nlnltt'r. 81 citizens Wa Az
I"'.At"i H'-t"nl4! /" represent TIA,
people tei"r' the Executive "i tia,
Stat. with reference t. tn" capitol Til
WHOSE ftt'. i h;,l l".cn reported, VA
hAnciu, "u an even balance The i'll
lowing Gentlemen were chosen: jam
\. IA!.ht, pr. Mitchell. Ja>. Dough
cr'y, b. VI. Price, Judge Aver, Geo
THOMPSON, John Byrne, F. G.. Dcming
Dr.. o-trand,r. T. J. Miller. John Nil
Ter Murphy, J. OBJ. >cohcy, J. c. Rath
bum, |. c. Ellis, \. II. Chambers.
Last evening at 80, the committc,
called Al the office Of the exccutiy,
and Were granted an opportunity t.
enter protest against objections that
had been made t. the bill.
ipv. Rogers read letter from some.
body, Whose name was not stated, pro.
testing against approval OF the act
from every conceivable standpoint
1t was filled with the mi>statements
and sophistry that has assailcd this
measure from its incipicncy, and its
assertions were in the main so false
and its conclusions so unreasonable as
to cause Il smile even in consideration
of so grave 4 matter. 1t is hardly
probable that the Governor will RELY
very much upon its logic for support
Of adverse action, should he decide to
draw his pen through this important
bill.
The first objection urged by the ex-
ecutivc was based upon doubt that
the bill had passed the House, the
adoption Of the report of the confer
ence committee receiving one vote
less than the constitutional" major.
ity required on final passage" of an
act. This was met by Mr.. Haight, the
spokesman of the committee, by refer
ence to ruling of the Supreme Court
OF this State as to what constitutes a
valid act under precisely the same
conditions-the enrolled bill being
held valid notwithstanding amend
ments made by report of a committee
of conference. He then quoted from
an Arkansas decision under consti.
tuition similar to our own, in which
it was held that the final vote" was
not affected by subsequent action to
perfect the bill. He likewise referred
to New York and Indiana reports in
support of that contention, and stated
the obvious fact that our own State
Supreme tribunal could be required,
by a test case, to pass upon that and
other points of doubt, if the bill was
allowed to become q law.
The Governor seemed to think that
guaranty of interest on warrants
might, in some way, make the State
responsible for their principal, but Mr.
Haight in a few words so plainly
showed the legal principle involved
that it must have settled that doubt
He alluded, in support OF his state.
ment of the legal proposition, to the
guaranty of railroad bonds by the gen.
eral government, where no claim has
ever been made, even by Plutocrats,'
that the guaranty applied to payment
OF the principal of the bonds.
An objection of the executive was O
beliefthat the act does not provide ade-
quate means for completion of the
building. While he had no doubt
that the 4 per cent guaranty would
afford market for one-half the cost
of the State building, that after that
expenditure it would still be in an un.
completed condition, Notwithstanding
the act authorized cost of $4,000
This opened up an expression of opin'
ion of several of the committee as to
the probable cost of the building
shorne of about all of its architectural
ornamentation and some useful &C.
cessories that may, in a pinch, be dis.
pensed with. Here, too, a radical diff.
ference seemed to exist between the
executive and the committee. The
Governor was apparently averse to any
action that would not complete the
building for sum that could be read
lily secured under the act, and he
seemed to be very fearful that the con-
tractor would be given too much power
in deciding the costs of proposed de-
auctions from the original plan by
changes and omission of inessentials.
The committee called His Excel.
lency's attention to the fact that after
life had been given to the bill by ap-
proval, that it would die still-born
without it maintained executive sane
ton; that the whole matter would re-
main under his direction and control,
and all the people asked was fair
chance for life of an embryo which by
long labor and mutual concession they
have become to regard as their own.
The committee left the executive
presence at $50 without the slightest
intimation of what the result will be-
and so far, their hopes and fears are
typifed, in more ways than mere sus.
pension between heaven and earth, by
Mohammed's coffin, which cannot un.
der any circumstances be regarded as
avery cheerful object of contempla.
ton.