Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-02-25

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veto or the reductions that may re-
suit nor has any one attempted to
reconcile the increase of nearly $2,-
100000 with the governors state
ments both before and since election.
l am inclined to think that whatever
he does will be done with those
statements foremost in his mind.
The appropriation bill does not in
clude the $4,OOO,OOO for the indus
trial insurance commission-a matter
of red tape because that amount Is
to be paid in in premiums but can
not be expended without legislative
authOrization-nor any money for
roads. Both the senate and the
house have passed 1R mill levy
for road construction and the house
has passed another 21a mill levy that
the senate will act on soon, so the
total for highways during the next
two years promises to be close to
$S,000,O00 unless Governor Lister
blocks it, as he probably will. In
any event it will be in the neighbor-
hood of $5,000,000, so the present
legislature bids fair to appropriate
about $19,OOO,OOO for the next two
years, $15,O0O,OO0 no matter what
happens, the additional amounts de-
pending upon how much strength the
Republicans can muster to override
the governors expected vetoes.
The re-apportionment bill, however.
served as the piece de resistance for
the hottest fight of the session 30
far. Back and forth the opposing
factions fought, the city against the
small county and the small county
won so far as the House is concern
ed What the little brothers of the
gods in the senate will do, only the
gods know, though the city deleSa-
tions, particularly King and Pieree.
are boasting that the COW counties
will "get all that's comm to EN-
before the little brothers get through.
Fighing back and forth Wednesday
afternoon, until the air became more
or less red, King and Pierce coun-
ties tried to shape things their own
sweet way-the way the committee
had amended the original bill-A1t
the supplementary amendments a.
fered by the representatives Of tAA
COW counties were sustained each n
it's turn.
The funniest thing about the three
days fight-for It did not end until
Friday noon-was to see the stall
warts of the Taylor machine and
even the Speaker himself, leading
the COW counties fight, said stalwarts
being Sims and McArdle, who usually
wiggle when the machine pulls the
string, while the Progressives, the
"bitter enemies Of the standpatters"
fought valiantly alongside Jimmy
Davis and the others of the old re-
gime. Murphine it was who attempt
ed to filibuster the measure when the
third fight started Thursday after
noon and Murphine is one of the sew
eral floor leaders for the Bull Moos-
ers-but I am getting little ahead
of my story.
When the COW counties got through
with the re-apportionment bill We'd
nesday afternoon they had tackled Kit
sap county on to the city of Seattle
to comprise the First district and
had added Clarke and Skamania
counties to the new Third district in
spite of the frantic efforts Of Jimmy
Davis and the Bull Moosers in the
Pierce county delegation. These
"scoundrelly" deeds aroused the ire
of the solons from King and Pierce
counties, the former because Kitsap
had been framed along with some
others into the Second district, and
the latter because the Tacomans fig-
ured they could control the district
as they have in the past If they could
get rid of Clarke and Skamania.
So the King and Pierce county
aggregations, after mastering enough
strength over night and morning,
started in the first thing Thursday
afternoon to force the postponement
Of the bill until the following Wed.
nesday afternoon when it was 20
have been a special order of business.
and in fact succeeded. But later IN