The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-01-16

place one patrOn1zeS Tor his senatorial
meal. SO Is he served as per orders.
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Spokane people figure in two sets
of doubles who can be seen about
the capitol and on the streets of
Olympia these days. and considerable
fun has emanated from the facts that
there is strong physical resemblance
between Dent" Crow and Major
Brown, Governor Meads private sec
rotary, and between Marvin Arnold,
one of Spokane's third house." and
Senator BILLY" Potts of Seattle.
Secretary Browns reputation with
himself and others came near being
ruined last week. He was spoken to
quite kindly by several of the legis-
latOrs and other officials regarding
his personal appearance giving evil
dence of a night among the cups.
Brown worried. He talked the mat
ter over with himself and suggested
that some enemy was in town. The
story grew apace and the secretary
grew into the belief that many really
considered that he was low down in
the moral scale. They were earnest
in their little lectures on probity. In
anguish he took one of his intimates
into his confidence and wanted to
know what it was all about. The
only solace he received was: "Crow,
l know, did not take a single drink
that night"
In the first days of the session it
was not infrequent for someone to
approach Arnold and open conversa-
ton with him on some topic con-
nected with Seattle, usually prefacing
the remark with the inappropriate
title, Senator" But Arnold got real
mad when someone put a candidate
for page up to solicit the senator's"
support for a job. Not the least
point of resemblance lay in the boy
ish features under a cowboy hat.
|, Senator Potts put away his hat the
other day and Arnold trotted out a
golf cap, and now the pages and
doorkeepers are free from anxiety
when either of the smooth faced
Legislators" approach.
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very annoying defect is revealed
in the acoustics of both the new
, senate and house chambers. In the
former the difficulty is with the audi
, bility with which the ventilating fans
operate, and they are not run during
the sessions. thus interfering with
change of air in the room. In the
; house chamber the construction is
such that reverberations result. 1t
is the larger room of the two and
it Is probable that wires will have
to be strung over the heads of the
members from gallery to gallery. The
speaker is hardly able to hear the
words of members seated In certain
parts of the chamber.
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To old timers about the capitol 1t
presence of f. c. Macdonald of Spo-
kane in the governors suite of Of
fees. where he has taken up the
duties OF advising the chief execu-
; tive on legal matters during the ses-
sion of the Legislature. Mr.. Mae
onal1 spent seven years in Olympia,
as private secretary to Governors
Ferry and McGraw, and he is in no
way out of place at the old desk he
occupied in the '90s. 1t was because
of his familiarity with executive
routine that Attorney General Atkin-
son assigned the Spokane attorney to
the special duties he is now per-
forming,
l.. o. Meigs, who in years gone by
was familiar to Spokaneites as a
young newspaper man, is reading
clerk of the house of representatives:
and thereby hangs tale of sage
brush politics from Yakima. where
Mr.. Meigs has been located since he
deserted the typewriter and pencil
Tor summonses and briefs and mo-
lions in court. Melgs ran for CITY
attorney at the recent city election
of North Yakima on the ticket which
was not favored by some of the pow
ers which rule republican movements
in the sage brush city of sunshine
and irrigation. So good an assistant
reading clerk had Meigs made at the
last session of the legislature that
number of old timers solicited him
to become reading clerk at this ses-
sion. Sage brush politics stepped in
to punish the young man for off color
In municipal politics, and 1t seemed
for time that Meigs was relegated
to his old position. But a change
from the original slate has been made,
and the silver voice which has
charmed Yakima Methodist church.
goers from the choir loft now does
duty in entertaining the legislator in
the south wing of the state capitol.
SO infrequent have been the meet
ings OF the state electors that much
interest was aroused among the men
lettering about the corridors OF the
capitol when II became known that
Messrs. Cosgrove. Bassett, Munson,
Crow and Nash took up their official
business of casting the vote of the
Evergreen state for Theodore Roose-
welt and Charles Warren Fairbanks.
Spokane was much in evidence In that
little gathering in the study of Chief
Justice Wallace Mount, himself a
Spokane man, who administered the
oath. Mr.. Nash was president and
Mr.. Crow was secretary OF the body,