The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1909-06-19

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sion to bare 80 minutes, or the governor may be
forced to roll up his shirt sleeves and fight against
bill providing for the elimination of two members
OF the state board of control and tax and railroad
commissions. Chronicle
l favor Commute session" Palmer is quoted
I as saying when the house convenes for bust
ness | will introduce bill which, in substance
will read: The Office of state insurance commits
sioner is hereby abolished and declaring an
emergency. When this has been disposed of,
another bill will be introduced which will provide
that the duties heretofore devoving upon the state
insurance commissioner shall be handled by the
office of the state auditor. This will entail no
great burden on the auditor, for he now has under
him board of state public accountants whose
duty it is to examine the books of the insurance
companies. If these bills meet with the favor of
both houses, as l have no doubt they will, COM
mttee will be appointed to wait upon Governor Hay
and ask him to approve them If the executive ex-
ercises his prerogative of the veto bill will be
introduced providing that two members each of
the board of control, tax commission and railroad
commission will lose their official heads The pos
slble loss Of this political pap may cause the gov
ernor to hesitate before he vetoes those other
bills. This last bill will be fathered that this
state may be reimbursed for the expense to which
1t will be put by the governors action in calling
the extra session and making it unnecessarily
long. In New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania
and other OF the larger eastern states the duties of
each of such Offices are performed by one man,
assisted by deputies. By eliminating these six
high salaried officials the state will be saved
$780, 900 year."
The Home Telephone Company of Spokane is in
stalling "girlless" system, all phone connec-
tions being made automatically Some day, when
this system becomes general-and it is approach
ing that stage-the telephone renter will not have
the opportunity to vent his displeasure upon the
girl operators at the exchange for the girls will be
somewhere else, and the Chinaman who will keep
the dust and cobwebs out of the exchange room
VIII not have the chance to learn thenside history
of the American public
1t has been decided that no more pictures shall
be printed in the congressional record. Consider
ing the actions of the present body of national
law makers, nobody should be particularly desir-
Gus of leaving to posterity the photographs of the
summer boarders in Washington who are drawing
pay from the government to work for other in
terests. And congress may also have had some
such idea in mind
Beginning on July next there will be another
complete change in the blanks to be used by land
office officials, u. S. commissioners and all other
persons authorized by law to hear final homestead
proofs. For several years the men at the head of
the interior department have been making every
effort to stamp out the practice, all too common in
the west in the early days. of allowing applicants
to homestead lands to obtain title without comply
ing with the laws
The settler will be required to give the exact
dates and reasons for each absence He must
state the number of acres cultivated, kind and
amount of crop harvested each year; total number
of acres cleared and under cultivation at time of
offering proof. In the matter of improvements
the settler must describe in detail the amount
kind and total value. If settler has lived up to
homestead laws and demonstrated the fact that he
has tried to make home for himself and family
he will have no trouble in answering the questions
It is time for congress to wake up to the facts
Either the consumers of this country are going to
get what they demand, genuine revision down.
ward, with raw materials on the free list, and
without any administrative jokers' or any 20 per
cent maximum trickery, or there is going to be the
dickens to pay two years and four years hence in
the republican party Failure to comply with the
demands of the rank and file will split the
party wide open These are not threats. They
are plain statement of popular feeling as ex-
pressed in this state by individuals and as revealed
in the columns of the press of the country from
one end to the other.-St Paul Pioneer Press
(Rep.)
The Great Northern railway has filed with
the secretary of state certificate that its directors
had nassed q resolution ordering construction and