The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-01-20
CAPITAL CITY
GOSSIP
Special to The Herald.

into history it is possible Only to
chronicle the statement at the head
OF this column. True. the bill eor
legislative expenses in the sun of
$4,000 has been passed but thai was
only the happening of the expected.
Not a bill originated in the housc.
The committees were not completed
and the attempt of any ambitious
member to get his little bill in out of
the wet was followed by prompt ad-
journment. In one or two eases the
adjournment was charged up to the
speaker or acting speaker by those
whose legislative aspirations were
thus cut off at the pockets.
While some half hundred bills
were introduced in the senate none
of them came within mile of be-
coming a law. Enough, however,
was done in that body to show that
it contains, as it did two years ago,
"a band of insurgents" Whether
they will be able to do business or
rather prevent it. which is their OBJ
ject, remains to be seen. Certain II
is that their lineup is not all they
wish for after raising an issue on
hurrying the Potts bill for additional
King county judges they very grace
fully sde-stepped when it came to a
showdown.
SO far the most active bodies of
lobbyists are the suffragists and
these opposed to local option. Oppo-
nents of the anti-race track gambling
n htt
their wires, being in conformity to
latest municipal regulations, under
ground.
Senators Booth and Bryan have
carried their personal controversy
into print and it is regretted by some
that their attempt to settle il by a
hand-to-hand encounter was frus-
trated by misguided if well-meanine
friends. Some of the language they
are using is more destructive of a
proper reverence for their high sta.
ton than rought and tumble fight
would have been. The writer sug.
gests that they be brought together
for 20-round bout gate receipts tc
go to the Italian earthquake sufferers
or Washington taxpayers. winner to
say nothing further and loser to keep
still henceforth.
Howard Cosgrove, son of the gov
ernor-elect, in now full-nedged
major, the acknowledgement having
invested him with the military title
due the governors private secretary,
which position he assumed upon the
resignation of Major Frank Dallam.
bill is in PREPARATION for the
peaceful slumber of hotel guests
carrying with it the safety of the
travelling public. 1t also carries a
hotel examiner at $4,000 per annum
and deputy for each congressional
district at 500 per month, to be paid
by an examination fee of from SIS to
SO 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
Seattle, Tacoma or Orting the supply
OF pie will be augmented by the
resignation of appOintive officers
whose terms have not expired. Al
ready Davis of the board of control
has been replaced by Lorton and
lightning 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
overcome BY the consideration of spe-
cial measures of interest to sea coast
and SOundcoast cities like the pro-
posal to not only restore the custom
setting aside certain funds from tide
land sales to harbor Improvement
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 legisla-
tionsi the attempt to get his bill.
dead or alive, named as a senate bill
by Introducing the custom of print
ing duplicate bills but once being met
by the organization of the house anti
race track gambling association with
President Hanson in the chair.
The governors message was one
of the long ones and covered the
ground in detail Its striking points
were the strong local option senti-
ment expressed, including ac-
quescence in and encouragement, for
reform legislation along so-called
moral lines, allegiance to the direct
primary principle tempered by sug-
gestion of amendment along still
more partisan lines and an utter 81
lence regarding progressive legisla
ton along equal suffrage, referendum
and similar lines
The legislature has done well in
the passage of joint memorials to
congress. notably the protest against
the abolition of the tariff on lumber
and demand for the passage of a
rivers and harbors bill. Next to do
ing your own work in thorough
manner is proof that you know just
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