Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-02-03
Hamilton tlioday Is DiSCOurteouS, and Mike
Carrigan Neg|eCtS His DutieS-App0intS
Republican to Succeed CdrriQdn
S0L0NS ARE BREAKING RECORD FOR WORK
Burning Midnight Juice in Committee Rooms
RedppOrtiOnment of State Is the Big
FiQht of the Session
(By Eagle Freshwate Editor the Washington sandad)

time for 40 or so of the 60 days of the
session, but they are being so badly
disappointed and so persistently rush
ed with one committee meeting after
another that they know not where to
turn. Several times during the last
week the lights in the committee
rooms were to be seen burning some
time after midnight and little pre-
ambulation around the building dis
closed the fact that the committee
Gov. Lister Sets Pace.
When one starts out to account for
such a remarkable state of affairs he
is sort of up against it. l say re-
markable because as a newspaper man
l covered" the legislatures of two
other states and saw no such industry
as this until the last few days of the
session. l might conjecture that q
certain individual whose office is ON
the second floor front of the capitol
is largely responsible and be not far
wrong, for the manner in which he
has enlisted the support of the Re-
publican leaders of both Houses to his
program of economy, efficiency and
despatch is one of the striking polite
al occurrences of the session.
Most of the solons' attention this
last week was given over to routine
matters and minor legislative changes,
listening to arguments in committee
meetings for and against pending
measures and attracting to the drudg-
cry of the session. For as the legis-
lative mill grinds on and bill after bill
is poured into the hopper until the
remarkable number of 303 bills have
been reached in the House and 225 in
the Senate, many touching on the self
same subject. we are witnessing the
laborious sitting out process that tries
mems patience with it's tediOsity.
The week saw the narrowing down
of the state re-districting fight be-
tween King county and the COW coun-
ties, somewhat earlier in the session
than had been anticipated. Hiding
behind loud yowls as to constitutional
procedure, the King county delegation
in the House declare their measure
is the only legal one, when as a mat
ter of fact the constitutional form has
never been followed in so radical q
manner before as they propose.
The King county plan provides for
SO representatives and A senators and
follows county lines closely, giving
King six more representatives and two
more senators, Spokane county two
more in each house, Yakima county
one more senator and two more rep.
resentatives, and cutting down the
representation of some of the smaller
counties. Clallam and jefferson, Gar
field and Asotin, Franklin and Benton,
Klickitat and Skamania, Wahkiakum
and Pacific, Island and San Juan coun-
ties, each now having single repres-
entatives, are consolidated. The 9TH
State Printing Probe.
This week promises to be much the
same. though the investigation which
the Senate will bring into the state
printing office Tuesday may develop
a little more than passing interest.
Monday afternoon is to be devoted to
memorial exercises for the late Sem
ator John l.. Wilson,. Tuesday after
noon the House resumes it's consider
alton of the tidelands matter and the
two Investigations doubtless will be
the high points of the week.
The probe into the state printing
plant has been brewing for the last
four or six years and, though demo-
crat is chairman of the Senate COM
mittee and a democrat holds the plum
the best in the state-I imagine real
business is meant this time, for the
house has directed a similar investi-
cation and promises to see it through
if the Senate lies down. There is a
feeling abroad that the state printer
makes entirely too much money and
Mr.. Boardman and his accounts will
be called before the senate committee
to ascertain just how much he did de-
rive out of his four years incumbency
of the office.