The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1911-03-03

/ recommendation that the bill repealed
law forbidding the Salvation Army
from soliciting aims.
"Wets" Trade for Support.
Leaders of the wet forces in the
House announced that they had sue
ceeded in getting the names of Al
ouse members signed to an agreement
to defeat the Senate county option
bill and that they expect to get the
remaining eight members by a sys-
TEN Of trades on bills now pending
before the bill received from the Son
ate.
Pierce county members are among
those who are holding out and it is
bitterly stated that the representa-
tives who have been shy and coy in
the Irritation with the vets have
asked for rather heavy political ia
vors to positively pile off the water
wagon. One trade that is being made
is on the consolidation of the Orting
Soldiers Home with that of the Vet
Grams Home at Port Orchard. The
defeat of the proposed consolidation
is the bait that is being hung out to
some of the Pierce county men,.
Cascade Tunnel Proposed.
Resolutions introduced in both
houses of the Legislature, to the eff
feet that the lawmakers of the state
should place their approval upon
project for tunneling the Cascades,
have stirred a buzz of comment in the
capitol Noteworthy in the discussion
of the project which would involve an
outlay of at least SSO,O0O,O0O is heard
the remark that Seattle will have to
do something to compete with Port
lands trade-getting water grade.
Portland's advantage in holding the
business of the Inland Empire, and
more especially Spokane, has been the
cause of no little worry to Seattle and
the Sound city is anxious to overcome
this advantage at any cost.
Cow County Apportionment Bill.
The reapportionment bill decided
upon by the Representatives of the
COW counties was introduced in the
House by McArdle of Jefferson. He
claimed that he had sufficient pledges
in both branches of the Legislature to
ipcuro lie Doccapa intact
The new arrangement increases the
House membership to SO, or within
one o. the constitutional majority. The
Senate membership is placed at A,
within five of the constitutional limit.
Kittitas county, which has shared a
senator with Chelan, gets a senator
to itself and Chelan is attached to
Grant county. Yakima gets two SEN
ators. In thu House Spokane gets
another representative and Yakima
gets a representative. This arrange
ment leaves an extra representative
which will go to Pend Oreille county
if the Appleman bill passes the Sen
ate.
Pierce and King counties get no in
crease by the new arrangement, but
Mr. McArdle stated that in the alb
sence of information about Pierce, he
had completed the bill with the ex-
pectation of changing the Pierce ap-
portionment on the floor of the
House.
Continue War On Moose.
Adjustment of capital punishment
in the state, which was indefinitely
postponed in House and Senate early
in the session, will be brought up
again Representative E, P. Goss of
King, introducer of the House bill
ending the death penalty, will pro-
pose a measure which will prohibit
the death penalty when one is con-
victed of a capital crime on circum-
stantial evidence. The bill has the
hearty support of Harve H. Phipps,
who led the fight against the Goss bill
in the House, and it is believed that a
majority of the House will accept the
measure. Senator Hutchinson of Spo-
kane has introduced a new bill in the
Senate providing that no person be
condemned to death on circumstantial
evidence.
At War On Land Commissioner
The war against Land Commission
er E. w. Ross will open in the
House early in the week. Already
the land commissioners forces are
working on the House members,
pleading win them not to follow the
Senate's lead and take the power to
manage the state lands away from
Mr. Ross. The lobby is led by the
employees in the clerical department
of the land offices. many of whom fear
they would be invited to kiss their
jobs farewell if Ross power is
divided.
May Build Temple of Justice.
Olympia is watching with breath
less interest the fate of a bill intro