Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-02-03

OLYMPIA, Wash, Feb. 2-(Special
to the Aberdeen Herald) people
have a sneaking notion of what is
liable to happen when the business
end of match is placed in just a
position to can Of gunpOwder or
some other equally alarming substance
and, politically speaking, couple of
individuals formerly attached to the
payrolls of Washington had a some
what similar experience since last
wrote, said officials being one Hamil
ton Higday, self-appointed savior of
all concerned in anything, and Mike
Carrigan, Hays political boy Friday
The swift decapitation of the official
heads of these two quondam public
servants injected the one bit of
eXcitment in a most humdrum week
of routine legislative business, bright
ened only by the House investigation
into Seattle tidelands and harbor
changes. Said investigation, also, fail
ed to develop the fireworks expected
in some quarters and ended in a rec
Ommendation from the committee that
the attorney general be instructed to
bring ties. suit as to whether the
owners of the harbor lands have fully
complied with the law in such matters
as the docks and bridges constructed
and the public service commission be
directed to investigate the harbor
changes, which the committee de-
clares excessive.
What Happened to Mike.
But, returning to what happened to
Mike, whose acquaintanceship with his
office and the affairs of the tax COM
mission during the last six months had
become SO remote that Mike had for
gotten whether the state ever levied
any taxes, his prompt removal illus
trated very forcibly to certain class
of Republican politicians still inhabit-
ing Washington that Governor Lister
would stand for no monkey business
from them. No condolences are brok-
en-, l guess, when l say the governor
considered the insinuations contained
in Higday's letter of resignation di-
rect insult and the discourtesy of pub
fishing the letter in Seattle news
papers day before it reached the gov
ernor doubtless conveyed the impress
sion that Mr.. Higday was anxious to
leave, a wish in which the Governor
accorded most heartily.
tics and appointed a Republican to fill
out Carrigan's uneXpired term-his
first official appointment since his sell
ection of his secretary and the state
printer-he not only surprised these
same republicans but he demonstrated
in a fOrceful way to the legislature and
the people of Washington that fitness,
ability and experience are to be the
primary considerations in all his ap-
pointments
Just who will succeed Higday is
very much to be guessed at, as the
governor is still pursuing his noncom-
initial attitude toward this as we'll as
all his other appointments and it is
doubtful anything will be done until
after the legislature. John w. Troy,
of Seattle. brother of Senator Dave
Troy, chairman of the Senate appro-
priations committee, himself secretary
of the Democratic state central CON-
mittee, and p. M. Troy. of Olympia,
state committeeman, himself secre-
tary of the Democratic state central
committee, made an active canvass
last week and appears to be fairly well
satisfied with the outlook. Meanwhile
the two remaining members of the in
dustrial insurance commission Chair
man C. A. Pratt, and j. H. Wallace,
are looking after it's affairs Pratt's
resignation, effective May l, has al
ready been accepted, while Wallace's
has been placed in the governors
hands with no specifications as to,
dates.
Solons Are Busy Men.
Singularly. a remarkable amount of
work is being transacted by this legis-
lature, and the solons themselves have
been by no means quiet as to the
duties demanded of them. Doubtless
not a few of them anticipated more
or less of a vacation and gay social