The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1899-01-28
EDITORIAL NOTES.


in the hands of the senate. Its friends
seem slow to force vote o: the propo-
sition to ratify or reject it.
A sensible act of the legislature
would be to place all district attorneys
on a salary. The old fee system is
worn out and is productive of no good.
Eagan, the tool, the boon companion
in incompetency, and the bosom friend
of Aiger, must go; but it is unfair to
throw him out and so long as the chief
ncomp etnet is retained at the head CT
the war department. However it may
improve the service some to get one
blackguard out.
1t would be as just to give the
Grande Ronde sugar beet farmers a
bounty on their beets as it would be
to give the Ashland college SIS, 600 for
its support as normal school.
Neither, however, has just claim up
on the people of Oregon to be made
burdens to the taxpayers.
The Salem Journal is after the legis-
lature with sharp stick for not per-
forming its duties in regard to the
state treasury. 1t charges that hun
dreds OF thousands of public money
have laid idly in the treasury, at least
reports SO showed. while the state has
paid large sums for interest on unpaid
warrants.
Any member of the legislature who
carries state property away from the
capitol building at the close, of this
session should be branded as -.
and made amendable to the law. They
should be made to realize that q public
Office is not private snap, and that it
is as much OF crime to carry away
waste-baskets, ink-stands, etc., from
the state house as it would be to enter
a store and carry off merchandise.
In the next congress there will be
only 28 democrats, all but six of whom
come from the Southern states. Hav-
ing q majority in the house, and all
but 26 members in the senate, the re-
publican administration will be backed
up by purely republican congress,
and must be held responsible for any
and all legislation that may be enact
ed.
What is AL. Holman going to do
with bis charges Of corruption in the
secretary of states Office, under The
administration of Kincaid, now that
the senate committee appointed to in
vestigate the Office has reported that |
it was ''found all right?" He will
probably insist that the committee
was 'whitewashed."
There is little likelihood that any
of the new counties that are proposed I
to be carved out of Wasco, Gillian,
Crook and Grant counties will
at this session of the legis-
lature. There are too many candidates
for county seats, and each will defeat
the new county scheme rather than
zee its competitor succeed.
The senate committee to investigate
he Loewenberg contract at the state
reported there is due the
tate $39, $3.50, and recommended the
acceptance OF s32, 500 in settlement
hereof, which recommendation was
,dopted by the senate. II the state
,ets $32, 500 out of Loewenberg it is
nore than anybody eyer expected.
One day last week G. T. Myers, one
+ the Multnomah county representa-
ives, and good republican, by the
'ay, got resolution through the I
ouse donating the supreme court re-
orts, session laws and history Of the Z
'regon Indian wars, to each member q
| the legislature, but there was such t
commotion raised that the house was d
reed to rescind the order. This set f
books would have cost $500 each, +
I'd to have supplied the 80 members c
ould have been an expense of S22, 500 &
ION the state. This is only q sample &
some of the Economical" legisla- S
On attempted by our reform legisla- fs
re. There will be day OF reckoning cl
the arst Monday In JHne, 100. p