The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-01-22

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still henceforth.
Howard Cosgrove, son of the gov
ernor-elect, is now full fedged major,
the acknowledgement having invested
him with the military title due the
governors private secretary which po-
sition he assumed upon the resignation
OF Major Frank Dallam.
A bill is in preparation for the
peaceful slumber Of hotel guests carry
ing with it the safety Of the travelling
public. It also carries a hotel exam
liner at $4,000 per annum and dep
uty for each congressional district at
800 per month, to be paid by an ex-
animation fee Of from SIS to $40 per
hotel. You will, of course reimburse
this fund when you step up to the
gentleman with an Alaska diamond in
his shirt 'front.'
Though, according to Governor
Mead there will be no change at
Steilacoom or Orting the supply Of
pie" will be augmented by the res
ignation of appointive officers whose
terms have not expired. Already Davis
of the board Of control has been relieved
by Lorton, and tightening is believed
to be lowering about the head Of Matt
H. Piles, brother of the senator.
With warmer weather the western
members are getting back into trim
and the start the east-siders got in the
distribution Of patronage is being over
come by the consideration of special
measures of interest to sea-coast and
Sound coast cities like the proposal to
not only restore the custom setting
aside certain funds from tide land sales
to harbor improvements, but to pay
back the sums spent from this fund
for other purposes while the custom
was in allegiance.
Ole Hanson is still the big noise
in anti-race track gambling legislation.
The attempt to get his bill, dead or
alive, named as a senate bill by intro
ducing the custom Of printing dupli-
cate bills but once being met by the
organization of the house anti-race
track gambling association with Presi-
dent Hanson in the chair.
The governors message was one of
the long ones and covered ground in
detail. Its striking points were the
strong local option sentiment ex
pressed, including acquiescence in and
encouragement for, reform legislation
along so-called moral lines, allegiance
to the direct primary principle tenn
pered by suggestion of amendment
along still more partisan lines and an
utter silence regarding progressive
legislation along equal suffrage, refer
endum and similar lines.
The Legislature has done we'll in the
passage of joint memorials to congress,
notably the protest against the abo-
lition Of the tariff on lumber and de-
mand for the passage of river and har-
Dor bills. Next to doing your own
work in a thorough manner is proof
that you know just how che other fell
low should do his. 1t is not of record
that congress ever paid the slightest at
tention to a legislative memorial but
it is harmless and pleasing system by
which state Legislators show their con-
stitutents that they stand exactly right
on matters over which they have not
the slightest jurisdiction and is ex-
pected and desired to go long way
toward excusing any trifing delin-
quency along the lines Of their regular
work.
While the "Insurgent senators, the
hope of the opponents of race track
and liquor legislation, have manifestly
failed in securing just the organization
they wish ii is too early for friends of
local option and anti-pool selling to
rejoice. What the obsructers lack in
numbers they make up in determi-
nation and for ways peculiar" they
have John Chinaman looking like a
statute of Justice, scales, blindfold and
all. If they cannot prevent the pas
sage Of, to them, obnoxious measures
then look out for "jokers." The end
is the thing to the race track and
liquor interests, the means are only an