The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-09-21
SEATTLE NEATLY
SNOBS LAW MAKERS
California Legislative Delegation
on Trip to Fair Ignored
by Northern Officials
Intense Jealousy of Everything
Californian Displayed in
Exposition City

Is there a governor in the state of
Washington? Is there a legislative
body? And by all the powers of pro-
priety and decorum. is there mayor
in the city of Seattle?
These are the questions which 1e
California Legislators who have just
returned from the Alaska Yukon-Pa-
cific exposition are asking one another.
They are not sore particularly; they
are not disgruntled overmuch; but they
most decidedly are disguised with the
peculiar quality which takes the place
of Official courtesy in the northern
state
During all the days which the iegis-
lative delegation spend in Seattle they
had no word, no card, no greeting OF
any kind from any official of the city
of Seattle or the state of Washington.
No civic body took cognizance of their
presence. For all they know there
are no city or state officials in Wash
fngton and there are no civic bodies In
Seattle.
STATE PAID EXPENSES
The last legislature appointed rep
resentatives of both houses to visit the
Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition ana
appropriated $4,000 TO pay their ex-
penses. The delegation arrived IN
Seattle on September z and started TOT
home on September To- They All hao
a good time, but as far as official WEI
come was concerned it was the chill
Hest nine days they ever experienced.
The delegation consisted OF Senators
Martfnelli. Wright, Curtin, Willis,
Hurd. Kennedy and Hare. and Assem-
hlyn1en Schmitt Stanton, Transue,
Perine McManus, Hewitt Pulclfer'
Leeds and Melrose. When these leg
islators stopped over for couple OF
hours in Portland they were met oy
the leaders of the chamber OF com
merce, who whirled them off in auto
mobiles for a tour of the city and 9TH
erwise made them feel welcome ana al
home. The law makers left Portland
and proceeded to Seattle with hearty
good will toward Portland and livery
expectations as TO Seattle.
When they arrived in Seattle Frank
Virgins. who has charge of the Call-
fornia building at the fair, received
them at the depot and took them In
automobiles to the New Washington
hotel when they visited the fair for
the first time on Admission day the Cal
ifornia building was decorated and they
were HOSPITALITY entertained-at the
California building
But that was all. For the rest of
their stay they were left to their own
devices. No official took notice of their
presence in the city. No representative
man of Seattle thought of calling
around TO say that the city appreciated
The compliment of visit from a dele
CATION of California legislators.
sNUBBING Is THOROUGH
Il don't know whether it was care
lessness or whether il was a slam at
California and San Francisco" said Mil
ton L. Schmitt in discussing the mat
ter Yesterday Certainly we all thought
that we had been thoroughly snubbed.
.aOn all sides We saw evidences OF a
most intense jealousy of California
Why YOU never see any news about
California in the Seattle papers unless
it is Of a derogatory kind In publish
ing the itinerary of President Taft the
Seattle papers jumped him from their
own city to the grand canyon. There
is nothing to show that he will ever
enter California or stop for couple of
days around the bay.
'On China day at the fair there were
banners for the Chinese at the en-
trance to the fair grounds, and there
were similar decorations down town.
But for California day nothing of the
kind If we had been Chinese we would
have been courteously received and
made to feel that they were glad we
had came