Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-04-26
No Special Rates for Uncle Sam.

No Special Rates for Uncle Sam.
While is is easy for any order of
men, or civic organization, to secure
a reduction of railroad or steamboat
fare, whenever excursion parties are
formed, it seems strange that this
privilege is not accorded Uncle Sam,
in moving his troops. A short time
ago the government asked rates on
the Union Pacific for shipment of
soldiers from the Department of Mis-
souri,, en- route for the Philippines,
when 10 and behold! the answers
were returned that they would be
carried only at regular and full rates.
AS there were 600 men, 500 horses
and large amount of equipment to
be handled, it seems strange that our
respected relative, who is the best of
pay, should have been given this curt
answer, but it is no more so than the
well-known fact that the Postal De-
partment is required to pay fifteen
times as much for the same transpor-
tation that is given express compa-
MES. The only logical solution of
this anomaly is that the express
companies bring to bear all the
schemes of the lobby to I" Rob Peter
and pay Paul." as the adage goes,
Peter being the patient, plundered
victim, and Paul the express compa-
MES and railroads, the greedy, gorged
and glutted cormorants whose very
existence and opportunity to graft
has been established by beneficent,
easy-going government.
A FEDERAL PRECEDENT. "A late is
sue of the St. Louis Republic, in not
ing the appointment of Mrs. Mary A.
Quackinbos. of New York, as the
first special U. S. District Attorney
in the history of this government,
says that it was more in the nature
of q recognition of traditional SYM
pathy for the under-dog than an
acknowledgment of the principle of
women's political equality. Yet the
friends of that movement will find
some distinctive satisfaction in this
Federal dependence upon Mrs. Quack-
enbos's legal abilities in the Govern
ment's prosecution of colonized peon-
age as Mrs. Quackenbos claims to
have discovered in Southern labor
camps. The new special counsel
first acted in the capacity of o private
detective and visited the turpentine
camps, where she had learned foreign
laborers were being spirited and then
placed in slavish subsection. On the
strength of her report the legal de-
partment of the Government decided
to take extreme measures and now
has employed her to push them in
the courts.
YOUNGEST NOTARY A GIRL.-Indi-
ana has the youngest Notary Public
in this, and probably any other coun-
try, in Miss Jessie Johnson, who is
only IA years of age, and as she has
filed the position now about two
years, she was only twelve when ap-
pointed. At the time of her applica-
ton, the matter was carefully consid-
cred, on account of her tender years,
but as there was no age limit and she
had a splendid education and pos
sessed o good character, the only two
qualifications in that State, the ap-
pointment was made by Gov. Hanley.
She is employed in the Office of a
prominent attorney, as stenographer
and typist. She is quiet and unas-
Stunning, and familiar with legal docu-
ments of all kinds.
WELL DONE, CLERK FIELDs.-The
County Clerk of Multnomah county,
F., Oregon, last week refused to issue a
marriage license to NJ. Kamoria, a
Jap merchant" of San Francisco,
to marry an American girl. Both
the Jap and the girl declined to give
her name, after the refusal, and it
was presumed that an effort to obtain
a permit will be made in some other
part of the State. 1t is hoped that
no officer or minister will be found
who will either authorize or perform
a ceremony that is from all points Of
view such hollow mockery of a sa.
cred rite. Another opportunity for
Roosevelt's big stick to come in play.
We have no right to deny Japan priv.
|ileges accorded favored nations"
i MRS. Sarah Miles Hanna, aged
eighty-twO years, the only woman or
whom the I. o. o. F. had ever con
ferred the degree of Chivalry, died in
, Kansas City, on the 9th inst, of par
alysis. She was the widow of Con
gresham Philip K. Hanna, of Hi
nois and cousin of Gen. Nelson A.
Miles.
The Great Northern, Northern
Pacific and Butte, Anaconda and Pa
cific Railway companies, have agreed
to issue 3,OOO-mile interchangeable
ticket, at the rate of 81 cents mile,
good in all States west of Minnesota.