Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-10-27

The state has selected .... acres, S2,2l2
Against this warrants have been issued
amounting to the sum Of %ll9, S9o.90.
For state normal schools, to We
selected ......... .....acrcs, 10000 |
The state has selected 49,. acres, S., 1888 |
Against which warrants have been
issued amounting 10 9,995.04.
For state capitol buildings, to be
selected .......... 49,. acres, lo- ,uOO
The state has selected " acres, 1900
Against which warrants have been
issued amounting to sos, 474.73.
For state university, designated
in act ............,.... acres, 46,OSO
Against which warrants have been is
sued amounting to %225, 10000.
For scientific school, ... acres, 900
The state has selected ... acres. 81 ,427
The only reason this was not mortgag-
ed was because the law providing for the
building OF Il scientific school and the
niortgaging OF these lands was declared
unconstitutional by our supreme court.
The total grant OF land to the state
from the L. 5. gov rnment was 66S, $50
acres. The total warrant Indebtedness
against this land amounts to the sum OF
$685. %. The interest on these war
rants, which draw Sper cent, is annually
$4,000. The accumulated interest on
these warrants, which have run on an
average for abont / years, amounts to
about 5000, goo, being total indebted
ness Of nearly 100000.
The above figures are taken from the
last republican auditors report, page 5l2.
In January, 1890, the first legislature
really representing the people met at
Olympia to undo the evils of four pre-
ceeding ssions. That they did not ac-
compish all is no; to be wondered at. In
the upper house were Il lumber Of hold
over senator's, members of the old gang
who "stood together" TO this branch
OF the legislature were directed all efforts
of the booders to defeat measures con-
sidered inimical to, what they deemed,
their vested rights always certain of aid
from the republican contingent, and in
this branch many measures intended to
tighten the burdens OF the people met an
untimcly end. This legislature, how
ever, established the fact that the state
could be governed more cheaply than it
had been heretofore. The session cost
$4,000 less than its predecessor, and it
appropriated f909,75 less money. 1t
had done nothing more than to pass the
present revenue law the state would have
been repaid for its expenditu G, 1t is
conceded to be one OF the best revenue
laws on the statute books of any state in
the Union; it compels the prompt pay
ment of taxes by economical methods
and placed the state and counties in po-
sition to pay operating expenses in cash
as well as requiring provision to be made
Tor the payment of outstanding indebted.
ness. 1t has raised the credit of the state
and various counties until today warrants
are commanding Il premium, where they
were peing hawked about from 10 to 40
per cent. discount. This legislature abol.
ished multitude OF commissions that
were sucking the life blood from the
people; commissions whose most absorb
ing duties were the collection OF the sal
rta in f,,r hf
was attended to with commendable
piomptitude. 1t effected q saving of
over $500 year by Tie abolition OF
the tide land funG, and saved the farmers
of eastern Washington over $4OO, 900 dur
ing the past wheat season by the railroad
rate law, although that law was badly
mutilated by the paid attorneys OF the
railroad company in the senate. 1t at
tempted to further relieve the more hum
BILE taxpayers by increasing the amount
exempt from taxation, in the full knowl-
being eXempt-in wavs too well known
to require repetition herein many times
the sum fixed for the relief Of the large
class whose holdings are too modest for
concealmcnt, following a precedent that
had obtained, without question, for more
than forty years. But, this measure, the
Justice of which is admitted by nearly
every state in the Union, was declared
unconstitutional, in a suit brought, mark
you, by LOAN and MORTGAGE COMPANY
OF Spokane. This constitutional defect
the fusion party promises to remedy by a