The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1909-11-06

Tacoma has taken the initiative in the commits
sion form of government in the northwest. The
commission charter is pattern after the three
commission cities, DesMones Galveston and Col
orado Springs, taking the best of each This form
OF government consists of board of five men each
at the head of department, doing away with the
elaborate political machinery in city government,
and reads doom to the CRATER.
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A Washington, D. c., paper claims that 81
which is two-thirds of the 46 states of the Union
have adopted through their legislatures resolu-
tons calling on congress to authorize convention
at which the national constitution shall be amended
The resolutions have been adopted from time to
time since 1895, and now many people are adding
to the other vitally important issues for the COM
ing session the question of this constitutional con-
vention it being claimed that inevitably there will
be demand on congress to obey the states command
and authorize the convention. Florida, Mississippi
and South Carolina, it is believed will adopt reso-
lutions the coming winter making "a out of 46
states on record for the convention.
Opponents of popular election of senators already
are on hand with legal objections; one is that the
calls by the states are not exactly in the same
FORM and that some of the states calls are for OBJ
jects differing from those stated in others.
Still another theme of discussion is whether or
not national convention could consider proposed
amendments other than those explicitly named in the
call for it. AS usual there are as many opinions as
there are lawyers. 1t is impossible at this time to
determine accurately what is the weight of legal
authority on that point, although it seems to be
that the convention could consider any amendment
whatever, just as the congress called by the presi-
dent to take up specific subject may enact what
ever laws it chooses to enact.
There is to be shortly new IL cent stamp, on ac-
count of the raising of the registry rate, but re-
ports vary to whose face will be honored there
on. Early dispatches from Washington declared
that Henry Clay would be favored obviously
confusion in the mind of some correspondent, be-
cause of the old stamps of 1872. Then we heard
that the new stamps would show Washington, in
common with the rest of the set Now comes still
another newspaper report that Martha Washing
ton will be honored, in Difference to the 'Woman's
Movement" Was Martha suffragette or
.suffragist?
The stade old Wilbur Register is fighting for
local optonunder the hypocritica pretense that it
is supporting temperance measure. It is doing
nothing of the kind. The law never was intended
as temperance measure. 1t is simply free
whisky law of the most disreputable character.
Local option does not prohibit, does it purport
to prohibit the sale or delivery of Intoxicating
liquors. The people do not vote on that question
under its provisions. They simply vote on the
question of whether there may or may not be
licensed saloons in the community, and all the
authorities who have passed upon the question
have so decided 1t is good law for the club
house or drug store we admit, but as a temperance
measure it is snare and deusion. Harlnda
Sentinel
The census bureau of the United States has re-
Gently issued it's report concerning the various
religious bodies of the United States which show
that in spite of what some of the more religious
have stated in their apparent fear that this country
was becoming entirely ungody, the religious de-
nominations are very numerous, wealthy and
powerful branch of our present day civilization.
In the first place, the census shows that the
number of people in the United States citizens or
aliens-who belong to some religious organization
is 49, 1885, 445or little more than onethird of the
present population. These people, through their
participation in such organizations are part owners
in property used for purposes of worship exclusive
ly which is valued at ST. 257 575 867 and this vaua-
tion does not in any way include the enormous
holdings of certain denominations, which are used
for income producing rather than for strictly re-
ligi0us purposes.
The figures compiled by the census bureau have
been elaboratey segregated and the strength of the
different sects, as shown by these figures, makes
most Interesting readinp They show in the first