Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-03-11
Legislative Combine Against Treasury Fails to
Carry Point Against Governor
Who Is on the Job
STRENUOUS Time LAST WEEK AT OLYMPIA
| legislative CabaI Is Defeated in ATTEMPT to Put
Governor Lister in a Hole and CinCh
the Taxpayers of State


had been elected on platforms o;
economy and he proposed to use his
influence to obtain economy, demOral
lied their forces so badly that COL
sternation reigned in their camps. He
started them on the run and Repres-
entative McArdle sang the swan sorE
of the machine in the house in til.
afternoon when in his air of injured
innocence he asserted he was fight
hopeless fight.
Immediately after the noon recess
of the senate the machine endeavoress
to reorganize it's forces and so dras-
tic was their extremity that for some
time they proposed to force an az
journment sine die of both houses.
On this basis they attempted to line
up their followers, but after two
hours of hard effort they were fore
! ed to give it up. The senate ha'!
recessed until l o'clock and after
waiting three-quarters of an hour for
the republicans to show up, the demo
cratic and bull moose senators, know
ing the program of adjournment sine
die, forced an adjournment until Mon
day morning. In the house Speaker
| Taylor, assuming the role of auto
crat of the house and explaining
what he had told the governor we
would do, made the organization"
reply.
Governor Is Praised
Pandemonium reigned around the
legislative halls and on the streets
and in the hotels of Olympia last Sat
urday and is not yet subsided. What
is perhaps the most surprising fea-
ture of it is the practically univer-
sal approval of the governors stand
strengthened by reports received
from all portions of the state that his
position is being generally endorsed.
Olympia is not particularly friendly
to the republican machine leaders at
present, for there happen to be taa-
payers in Olympia, too, and though
the big majority of them are repnb-
licans, praise of Governor Lister is
the only note to be heard. They nd
mire-as all the people of the state
appear to do-for his courage in fac-
ing the machine and Ito use a It'll.
slang) telling it where to head In a..
Local interest was attached par.
nj tr h1 Inn -
before-Friday night-when the ma-
chine leaders exerted every subter-
fuge to present the road approprfa-
ton bill. The discourtesy and in
suit to which they submitted Mrs.
Lister was too much for the Cover.
nor and. breaking away from his
typewriter messages, and into his
fighting togs, he declared vehemently:
An attempt is now being made,
by some of the members of the legis-
lature,'' said the governor, ito con-
vince themselves that on account OF
living in a residence provided by the
state governor must be ready at al,
times of the day or night to receive
messages or members of the legisA-
ture into that residence.
Ready to Move
II want to say that If this condi-
tion does exist and a governor can
not know he is entitled to the rights
of privacy for at least a few hours
l stand ready to say that the state
residence ought to be closed and
governor allowed to move to some,
home where he would have the rights
Of every private citizen of protecting
it against invasion by anyone"
In vetoing the compromise road
levy bill the governor said:
II have held this bill for five DAYS
and have endeavored to secure all
information possible that would as-
sist me in reaching the proper decis-
ion,' he said, facing the senators and
representatives in the crowded cham
Der. "The legislative session has now
reached point where it becomes
possible to figure on the probahl.
appropriations for the session. I fnd
that bills have already passed both
houses OF the legislature making ap.